By the time I woke up, the sun was shining brightly through my window. Hm, I must have forgotten to close my curtains, I thought to myself and rolled over to my bedside table and grabbed my phone. I looked at the screen to find about 8 new text messages, an email, and 3 missed calls, 2 from Uncle Q and one from my mom. The messages basically all said the same thing. Don't leave, stay, or you want to meet up for lunch? From my grandma and mom of course. I sent them a quick response saying sure, and I'll meet them at 1 over at Squealers. My favorite barbeque place. I hopped out of bed and quickly got ready. I threw on my typical outfit. A pair of nice denim jeans and a short sleeved v neck tee shirt with my boots. I topped off the look with my long hair in a ponytail and a few swipes of mascara across my eyelashes. I grabbed my newly bought Coach purse and slung it across my body and went downstairs to see Tris and Trent lounging on the couch watching TV.

"Hey.." I said quietly as I broke the silence. Tris turned and looked at me and turned away.. She must still be upset, but them again, could I really blame her? I sighed, I needed to talk to her. I looked at Trent and he looked back and nodded at me.

"Hey." He said, "Come over here and sit with us. I wanna talk about this." He motioned over to the loveseat and I rolled my eyes and came over.

"What is there to talk about?" I said as I sat down. "I'm leaving tomorrow morning, My flight is at noon. Its all done and settled, now if you don't mind. I have to get to lunch with mom and grandma." I snapped as I stood back up, grabbed my hoodie and walked out of the house to my car. I didn't want to talk about anything, I didn't want to see the hurt looks on their faces anymore.

I pulled out of the gravel driveway and onto the mountain road, it took me about 30 minutes to get to the restaurant, and it was my last day so I took my time to get there. I just took in all of the scenery, blasted my radio and rolled all of my windows in the car down and breathed in the mountain air.

By the time I got to Squealers it was about 1:15 and mom and grandma were already there. I walked into the restaurant and found them sitting at a table in the corner. I walked over and sat down with them, ordered and we just all talked. My grandma looked so upset and my mom looked.. "Meh." At least she knew it was good for me to leave. No one else seemed to understand that I was doing it for a good reason, not to hurt them on purpose. I explained everything to the both of them, from the skype call to the plane and where I'm staying. Our food was quickly brought out and eaten, I then invited mom and told grandma and her to invite the rest of the family over tonight for dinner. Grandma agreed that that would be a great idea, so mom therefore went along with it. Once that was done I called Tris and Trent to tell them that the family will be over tonight for dinner, and ran to the store. By the time I got home the house was cleaner than I ever thought it would be. I set the groceries in the kitchen and put them in their rightful spots, and left to pack.

I walked up the stairs and into my room and saw Cheyenne and Jackson laying on my bed. They knew what was going on, and seeing them just laying there staring at me upset me. I walked over and sat on my bed to pet them.

"Its okay babies, I'll be back. I'll come back and see you. I promise." I said softly as I pet them. I've had them since they were puppies, they were my best friends and basically my kids. It was going to be harder to leave than I thought.

"Take them with you." I heard a soft voice behind me. I turned and saw Tris standing at the door, "They've always been more of your dogs than anyone else's. Plus you need a little part of home to go with you. So take them." She was tearing up as she said that. I looked at my dogs and smiled, I had to take them. It wouldn't be right to up and leave them when they already don't know whats going on.

"Tris.. Thank you.." I smiled as she came into my room and hugged me. She broke down crying and made me cry with her. We just laid there for a few minutes like that before I checked the time and persuaded her to help me pack. It was about 3:00 and everyone was going to be coming over around 7 so we needed to get stuff done. It took about 2 hours to pack everything in my room including the dog stuff. Everything was just empty. I quickly snapped out of it and realized what time it was, I had to call Kaner and see if I could bring the dogs with me and then get downstairs and get ready for dinner, it already smelled like Trent had started it, but I wouldn't mind helping to finish it.

Notes

Sorry its so short and hasn't been up dated for a while, I've been super busy with prom and band lately, I'll be sure to update whenever I have time, and have something MUCH better than this. Anywho, thanks for reading! :)