Goodbye

Sometimes goodbye is the only way to move on. I learned that the hard way. 1

The bell rang signaling the end of summer and the beginning on a new school year, junior year. I was eager to know if I had any classes with my boyfriend, Jake. Over the summer I had been in Hawaii with my Aunt helping her with her restaurant. Into the second month he stopped calling every night and the texts came less and less. I walked into my advisory and sat down. With the last name Wind my schedule would be at the bottom. 2

I was handed my schedule right before the bell rang. I looked at my first class, Geometry in class room C-5. I walked down the stairs and to the class. I sat in the back row, and watched the people come in. the last person to enter was Misty my best friend. I waved at her and she made her way to the back row and took the empty seat next to me.3

"Ok so what’s going on with Jake? He stopped calling me and texting me?"4

Misty looked at me and looked away. 5

"Umm Cristy there’s something you should know Jake's... Jake well..."6

Her eyes moved to a girl just coming into class. She was tall and twiggy, with dirty blond hair hanging down to her shoulders. I turned to Misty. 7

"What about her do I need to know?"8

"Well her and Jake... well they're kinda together"9

I looked at Misty like she had grown a new head. 10

"What about me? Did he just forget about me?"11

I got up and walked out of the room purposely bumping into the girl. I walked with tears blurring my eyes into an empty class room. How long I sat I don't remember, but when kids started running down the hall I finally noticed the time, 1:30.12

I stood on the second story of the school looking down into the cafeteria. I saw the blond and Jake together she was sitting on his lap and they where feeding each other food. Jake and I never did that. The whole year we had gone out, he told me he loved me and that he would never break my heart.13

And yet there he is with another girl, without even officially breaking up with me. For two days I wondered around in that state of mind, I questioned were our relationship had started to go wrong. In the end I decided it didn't matter. He had gone on and so will I. 14

The next day at lunch I again stood on the second story overlooking the cafeteria like I had done for three days. Although this day I pulled out my phone and called Jake's cell. I watched him pull it out of his pocket and look at it, then set the girl whose name ended up being Kristy, off his lap. He walked a bit away and answered the phone.15

"Cristy where are you? I heard that you've been back since the first day of school but I haven’t seen you."16

I watched his face as he said this, so worried and his eyes constantly sweeping over and over the cafeteria looking for me.17

"Hello Jake, I’m fine thank you for asking, and my summer was fun. You haven't seen me because I haven't wanted you to. You know what’s funny Jake, for the past three days I've been wondering when our relationship started going downhill. I wondered if I had said something wrong or if you had. But then I remembered something. The one who stopped calling, the one who stopped texting, and the one who moved on without a word was you. And it makes me laugh that who you moved on to has the same name as me but just with a K. Does she have an Aunt in Hawaii too? Well never mind because I don't care. I guess what I mean to say is you've moved on and so shall I. So all I have to say is goodbye."18

With that I hung up my phone and walked down stairs and into the cafeteria, I bought a salad and sat down with my friends and listened to their stories about summer. And not once did I look around to see Jake. For I truly meant goodbye.19