Choose - Season 1 - Episode 70

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Choose - Season 1 - Episode 70

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Today’s the day. The day Michael moves to America. This past week has completely flown by. I still can’t fathom that Michael and Cora are moving all the way to Pennsylvania, and in less than four months, so will I. It was hard at first to make the decision of staying in Sydney or moving out to America with my brother, but as each day goes on, I feel better and better about moving there.

“I really am sorry I won’t be here for your graduation.” Michael apologizes to me for the thousandth time this week.
“Mikey, it’s okay. Honestly. Luke, Cal, Ash and dad will all be here.” I tell him.
I wasn’t totally okay with the fact that Michael would be missing my graduation, but I understand that flights aren’t cheap, and he can’t miss days college for days at a time.
“Luke’s been surprisingly understanding about this whole move to America thing.” Michael says.

“He has no right not to be. He’s the one choosing to go to England with Liz. I understand why he’s going and all, but I just hate that I won’t be with him everyday.” I say.

“You’re not having second thoughts about going with me right? Like, I know you wanted to go with Luke and everything but he said he didn’t think that was best and I just-”
“No, of course i’m not having second thoughts. Yeah, I wanted to go with Luke but honestly, I don’t think I could move to England when only he’ll be there for me. At least when I move to America I know you and Cora will be there, and i’ll have a place to live, and college. I know I can have those things in England too but, Luke’s right. If we ever broke up, i’d be alone there.”
Michael laughs. “Do you really think you two are ever going to really break up? Sure you guys are going to fight but, I don’t think you’ll ever really break up for good.”
He’s right. I honestly don’t think Luke and I will ever break up for good. But Luke has his mind set on me not going to England with him. He’s so scared of me resenting him for making me move across the world but, doesn’t he get by now that I could never resent him? Doesn’t he understand that it’s my choice if I want to go with him or not?
“You’re right. But still, i’m moving to America and that’s final.”
Just then Michael’s phone beeps. He grabs it off the bed and checks it.

“That’s Cora. She says we should leave for the airport now.” Michael says.
Cora, Luke, Calum and Ashton had spent the night at our place last night. We wanted to all be together one last time before Michael and Cora moved for good. They were all still over, but they wanted to give Michael and I some time alone.

“You’re still coming to the airport right?” Michael asks.
I nod my head. “Yes, of course.”
Michael grabs his suitcase and wheels it out into the kitchen, I follow suit.
“You ready to go?” Cora asks.
“Yeah.” Michael nods.
“To the airport then.” Calum says in a deep voice, causing us all to laugh.
Everyone walks out of the door and into the elevator, but Luke stops me.
“We’ll be there in a minute.” Luke says to the rest of the group.
They nod as the elevator doors close, leaving Luke and I in the hallway.
“What?” I ask.
“Are you okay?” He asks.
“Mhm, fine.” I say.
I keep trying to remind myself that i’ll see Michael in four months, but a part of me feels like I never will…….. “You sure?”
I shrug my shoulders. “I kinda hate that he won’t be here for my graduation, but i’m just going to have to get over it. But you’ll be there, which is more than enough for me.” I smile.


He takes my hand in his and we get inside the elevator.

“I love you.” Luke says.
“I love you.” I respond.
Once we make it to the bottom floor, we get out of the elevator and go outside to the car.
The ride to the airport is oddly loud. I had expected it to be fairly quiet since everyone is sad about Cora and Michael moving, but instead everyone was reminiscing about the good times they’ve shared throughout the years.
We finally arrive at the airport after around forty-five minutes. We get out of the car and Michael and Luke get the bags out of the back of the car. We all walk inside and sit down in the waiting area. Michael brings his and Cora’s bags to the conveyer belt and then returns to sit with us.
“Do you guys remember that time that Luke got really drunk and poured milk all over Ashton when he was sleeping?” Calum laughs.

“That s--t wasn’t funny! My bed was so sticky.” Ashton complains.
“Just like it always is.” Michael jokes, causing everyone to burst out into laughter.
“F--k off bro!” Ashton laughs, shoving Michael’s arm.
“Do you guys remember that time we had that huge science project due but we forgot our books at school so we had to go back? But when we went back, the school was already closed for the night, so we hopped the fence and tried to open the door but the alarm went off!” Ashton laughs.

“Yeah! And then the police came and arrested us all. They didn’t believe we were there to actually get homework.” Calum chuckles.
“No way! You guys never told me you got arrested!” I say to Luke and Michael.
“Mum had to come bail me out. She didn’t believe we were getting homework either. To this day, only us four know the real reason we were there. Everyone we tell the story to just thinks we were trying to do something rebellious.” Michael says as he puts air quotes on ‘rebellious’.
“Well you and I didn’t exactly have the best track record.” Luke laughs.
I laugh too, surprisingly. I’ve learned to get past everything that Luke and Michael used to do. Looking back at it now, I don’t know why I got so mad at Luke to begin with, it’s not like I even knew him then.
“May, do you remember that time when we were little kids and we brought mud into the house and made mud pies in my room?” Michael asks.

“Oh yeah! Mum didn’t talk to us for like, a whole week!” I laugh at the memory.
“Or do you remember that time at school when Pete Jamison was hitting on you and being disgusting so I punched him in the face!” Michael doubles over in laughter.
“No way! Michael punched a kid?” Luke asks, clearly shocked that Michael had done that.

“He broke two of his knuckles!” I add on, laughing myself.
Everyone breaks out into laughter.
Just then, the intercom comes on.
“Flight 306 to Pennsylvania is now boarding. Please make your way to the gate.” The lady says.

“Well, that’s us.” Michael says, slowing standing up.
“I guess this is it guys.” Cora says.
“I’ll miss you, man.” Ashton says as he hugs Michael……. “Me too, Ash.” Michael says.

“Cora, make sure to keep him in check.” Ashton says as he hugs Cora.
“Oh don’t worry, I will.” Cora laughs.
“I’ll see you at Christmas?” Calum says to Michael.

“You guys better.” Michael says as he hugs Calum.
It must be hard for Michael to say goodbye to his best friends. I hate to think about how this is going to be me in just a few months.
“Bro, I don’t even know how to say bye to you.” Michael says to Luke.
“We’ve been through a lot of s--t together, man. But I wouldn’t have chosen anyone else to spend my teenage years with.” Luke says.

Michael embraces Luke in a hug, and the sight makes me want to tear up. The force they use when embracing each other shows all the emotions they’re feeling. They pull away from the hug and look at each other.
“Brothers.” Michael says with his fist out.
“Always, bro.” Luke says as he hits his fist to Michael’s.

Luke turns to Cora. “Well, we’ve had quite a ride ourselves, haven’t we?” He laughs.
“You could say that.” She laughs.
“I’ll miss you, Cor.” He says as he gives her a quick hug.

Cora turns to me. “You’ve got one of the good ones, don’t let him go.”
“Believe me, I won’t.” I smile as I nudge Luke playfully with my hip.
She extends her arms out and I walk into her hug. Cora has quickly become my best friend, and I hate the fact that i’m saying goodbye to her, even if it’s just for four months.
We pull away from our hug and I see her wipe her eyes, as do I.
“I’m sorry about everything that happened with Brooke. If it didn’t, she would have been here too to say bye to you.” I say to Cora.

“I’m glad she isn’t. No one treats my friends like that and gets away with it.” Cora smiles.

“I’m really glad you’ll be with us in four months.” She says.

I smile. “Me too.” I say, actually meaning it.
That leaves Michael and I to say our goodbyes.
“We’ll uh- we’ll be over there.” Luke says as him and the rest of them walk away, giving Michael and I some privacy.
“How do you say goodbye to your only brother?” I practically whisper.
“I’ll see you in four months.”
I nod. “I know, but it’ll feel like a lifetime.”
“Well, we spent years living apart, so what’s four months?” Michael says, trying to be optimistic.

“I guess you’re right.” I say.
“I’ll never back down on those words, you know that right?” Michael asks.
“What words?”
“The words I said to you years ago, and the words I say to you all the time. That’s it’s you and I through everything. I mean it, May. It’s always going to be us two. No matter where we go in our lives. You’re my family.” Michael says. I can almost hear a faint sob forming in the back of his throat.
“I love you, Mikey.” I say as embrace him in a hug, sniffling into his chest.
“I love you, too.” He says to me as he rubs my back.

“This is the last call to board flight 306 to Pennsylvania. Please make your way to the gate.” The intercom says, ruining our almost perfect brother-sister moment.
We pull away from the hug and look at each other.

“I’ll see you soon?” I say.
“I’ll see you soon.” Michael confirms.
I nod as I quickly turn to walk over to Luke. I don’t think I could physically do this goodbye any longer. Another minute and i’ll turn into a sobbing mess.
“You better go.” I tell Cora.
She nods as she says goodbye to us all once again before walking over to Michael.
Michael waves slowly to us and we all wave back. Him and Cora turn around and begin to walk over to the gate. He stops and turns back around to face us. He waves again, but this time I can tell the wave is meant for just me. I wave back to him until he turns around and walks over to the gate, eventually out of sight.

“You okay?” Luke asks, rubbing my shoulder with the the hand thats draped around me.
I nod.

“You’ll see him soon.” Luke reminds me.
“I know, it’s just going to be weird being without him for four months.” I say.
“Come on, let’s go home.” Luke says as he takes my hand in his and all four of us walk out of the airport.

How am I possibly going to go through this whole thing again in four months with Luke?
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