Chapter 2: Don't Leave Me

                                    

                                          
Chapter 2: Don't Leave Me
                          
~14 Years Later~
                          
"James is here!" Kevin calls out. I drop my drum sticks and run downstairs.
                          
"James!" I go up to him and we do our special handshake.
                          
"Lib-bay!" He gives me a hug.
                          
"You ready for horse riding?" I say.
                          
"Yes. Let's go!"
                          
"Let me go grab my boots." I run upstairs to get my boots and come back down as fast as I can. James and I go out to the stable and prepare our horses. I was riding Julie while James was riding his horse Mario. Weird name I know.
                          
"You ready?" James asks.
                          
"Yep." I reply, popping the 'p'. We ride around the paddocks jump the jumps we had made. "Let's go to the base!" I call out to James and he nods. The base was a place that we had found when we were younger. No one else knows about it thank goodness. It was an old shed in the middle of nowhere that we had totally tricked out. We tie the horses up outside and go inside. 
                          
"So how's life since I last saw you?" James asks. 
                          
"Pretty good. I'm still trying to understand that I don't have to wake up every morning and get ready for school." We had graduated the other month. "How about you?"
                          
"Well life is actually amazing at the moment. I'm in a band! And you know how I guessed stared on iCarly? Of course you do." James laughs at his on stupidity. "Well the band is also a Nickelodeon show and they want me to star in it. Naturally I said yes." He keeps talking about how he is so excited and how this could be the start if something big. "But now I don't know if I should have said yes or not." 
                          
"Why?" I ask. 
                          
"Because you need me here. I can't leave you behind." 
                          
"James, don't let me hold you back from your dreams. You have wanted to act and sing for ages." Part of me wanted to say that he should say no. James was all I had. He is my only friend. He knows all of my secrets, like how I have never kissed I guy before or anything and stuff like that. He even talks about girls with me and I would talk about guys with him. He is my best friend. I don't know what I will become without him. 
                          
"This is why you're my BFF." He says doing a girly voice. 
                          
"That is not why you're my BFF." I laugh at him. It was dark outside so we ride back to the house. James leaves shortly afterwards. I skip on dinner and go up to my room. From what I have learnt from TV and movies, this would be when the mother would come up the stairs and see if the daughter was ok, but no. My mother died giving birth to Kevin. I pull out my scrapbook of James and I and continue to glue pictures in it. Well technically it was going to be a scrapbook of my life but since James has been in most major events of my life it became a scrapbook of our friendship. He doesn't know about it though. I got I bed early, my head filled with many thoughts. 
                          
~At the airport~
                          
"I'm going to miss you James." I mumble into his chest with my arms tightly wrapped around him. 
                          
"I'm going to miss you to Libby." He rests his chin on the top of my head. The speaker calls out his flight.
                          
"I guess this is it."
                          
"Hey, we're still gonna text, and Skype. And I'll make sure to give you a shout out on twitter every now and then." I laugh at James. "Bye Libby." James walks towards the gates.
                          
"Bye James." I wave at him and watch as the plane leaves the airport. On the verge of tears I walk outside and walk straight into someone. "I'm so sorry." I say, my voice cracking. 
                          
"It's fine. Are you ok?" I look up to meet eyes with one of my old class mates, Sean I think. "Hey, I know you. We went to school together. Elizabeth, right?"
                          
"Libby." I correct. "You're Sean?"
                          
"Yup. Are you ok?" He asks again. 
                          
"Yeah, my best friend just left for L.A. so I'm a little upset but I'll be fine."
                          
"We'll that sucks." It's silent for a while before he speaks up. "Anyway, I've gotta pick up my grandmother but we should hang out sometime."
                          
"Totally. You want my number?" I ask, my dad told me I should think about making some more friends. Sean nods and I give him my number and we part ways. I go home and collapse on my bed, letting the tears flow. 
                          
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A/N: Ok, I've decided that I'm going to update this fan fiction then my other, and then this one so I can complete both of them :) That made no sense to me haha :P
                          
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please vote and comment :D
                          
~Melody~