Chapter 20 – Going To Australia WOOPIE! not (Jacquie’s POV)

“Hey Jacquie, oh my god we are going to Australia” My mum squeals to me.
“Whatever” I reply waking up fully.
“By the way why are you here? I thought you were gonna stay over your friends” she asks me.
“Oh I came over to get something and fell asleep I guess, I better go over and say bye and stuff,” I say.
“Okay” mum says and then skips out my room.
“Idiot” I say under my breath.
I get changed into some clothes and apply some make-up.

I walk out of the house and start walking to Matt’s. I go to knock on the door but the door opens before I could.
“Hey” Ray says quietly.
“Hey” I say going inside “Everyone sleeping?”
“Yeah” he says.
I walk over to my bag and pick it up.
I hug Ray.
“See ya I will miss you so much” I say.
“Aren’t you gonna say bye to everyone?” he ask me.
“No, I don’t think I’m gonna be able to” I reply.
“It would mean so much to them,” he says.
“I know but everyone would be awake and I certainly don’t wanna talk to Gerard at the moment” I say.
Ray pulls out the hug.
“Jacquie” he says to me.
“Don’t,” I say back to him.
“HEY EVERYONE JACQUIE’S HERE” he yells.
“I hate you so much right now,” I say to him.
“I know,” he says with a smirk.
Everyone slowly comes into room still rather sleepy.
“I’m gonna miss you” Frankie says. He hugs me.
“I’m gonna miss you too Frankie” I say hugging him back.
“See ya Jacs” Matt says giving me a quick hug.
“Promise to email?” Mikey asks.
“Yes Mikey” I say.
“Well I’m gonna miss ya too” Mikey says.
“Me too” I say almost in tears. I normally didn’t care if I was leaving anywhere but this was different I had heaps of friends here.
Paula and Lucy hug me at the same time. They were practically like sisters now well kinda.
“OH MY GOD I don’t want you to leave” Lucy says.
“OH MY GOD If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have a boyfriend, I’m so gonna miss you” Paula says.
“I’m gonna miss you guys too” I say.
Gerard enters the room from the bathroom. My heart skips a beat and the room goes silent. He looked in a bad state. His eyes were red and so were his cheeks.
Ray taps me on my shoulder.
“I told him when he woke up and he went in the bathroom and I couldn’t get him out,” Ray says to me quietly.
“Okay everyone Bye” I say and quickly take my bag and go to the door to leave. I walk out but I’m not alone Gerard has followed me.

I run to the house and go inside and lock the door.
“Jacquie, I’m real sorry,” he yells.
“Go away, I don’t wanna talk to you,” I yell to him.
I run to my room and pack the last of my stuff listening to Gerard’s calls for me to talk to him and let him in. He finally stops. I start crying but I stop myself. I walk to the mirror and fix up my make up. My phone rings. I look at it (calling: Gerard). I hang it up. And then a couple of minutes later I get a txt. (Déjà vu much).

I take my stuff out to the car and put it in the boot.
“So Kerrie’s keeping our car?” I ask mum.
“Yeah Mark’s buying me a new car in Australia” she says with a little giggle.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mum so happy in my life. I guess it was a good thing… I hope it was.
Jimmy and Kerrie come out of the house and get into the car.
“Why are they coming?” I ask
“Someone needs to drive it back silly” mum replies.
I get into the front seat. And so does mum, Mum starts the engine and puts her seatbelt on and so do I. She drives it off the driveway and down the road. We go past Matt’s and my friends are there. They wave to me but Matt runs up to the car. Mum stops. I open the door and Matt gives me my board.
“Thanks Matt, I nearly forgot” I say.
“Okay see ya,” he says.
I look at my friends and realize Gerard isn’t there.
“Where’s Gerard?” I ask.
“I dunno we saw him go home and that’s it” he replies.
“Okay see ya Matt, Tell everyone bye for me” I say to him.
“Okay bye” he says.
I close the door and pass the skateboard to Jimmy. I wind the window down and wave to everyone.
Mum drives off.

Airport…
We arrive and I get out and look around and stretch my legs and take my luggage out of the back and get my skateboard and shove it inside my bag. Mum does the same and we go inside. We go though customs.
“Jacquie” I hear some yell.
I turn around and see Gerard.
“Oh my god did you come all this way to see me?” I ask.
“Yeah” he says running to me “I love you and I’m so sorry Jacquie I truly am”.
“Oh Gerard” I say and hug him “I could never be mad at you, it’s so hard to be”
“I love you so much” he says.
I kiss him straight on the lips. This time it felt more loving.
He pulls out and smiles at me.
“Why did you stop?” I teased him.
He kissed me put this time he frenched me.
“Whoa get a room,” Jimmy says.
I stop and glare at him. Jimmy backs off a bit. I French Gerard back.
“Honey we gotta go” my mum says to me. But I continue kissing him. He pulls out again.
“So you love me?” he asks.
“Hell yes” I say and kiss him.
“I’ll call you whenever I can and txt you and email you” he says.
“Same” I say and kiss him.
“Bye” he says.
I start crying.
“Bye” I say. He hugs me tightly. And I feel a tear run my neck. Oh my god he was crying too.
“Aww gee I don’t wanna go,” I say.
“Don’t worry I promise I will see you as soon as possible” he says.
I hug him tighter.
“Bye” I say.
“Bye” he says.
We let go and my mum and me walk over to the plane. I begin to cry again . I stop and run back to Gerard and hug him.
“I’m gonna miss you so much” I say.
“Me too” he says.
I kiss him one last time and join up with my mum, I wave and walk onto the plane, I sit with my mum, She tries to calm me down.
“Jacquie it’s alright okay we are only on the plane for a couple of hours” she says thinking I’m upset about being on the plane.
“It’s not about the fucken plane it’s the fact I just left the guy I love in America and I’m not gonna see him for a long time” I say to her.
“Oh that guy you kissed?” she asks.
“Yes” I say happily cause she noticed.
“That guy is like a total freak you can do better,” she says to me.
My jaw drops.
“You b...., get the hell away from me” I say to her.
“Honey, it’s true I mean come on he’s like a loser and you are … nice,” she says.
“You have never said I am pretty, let me rephrase you can’t say I’m pretty cause you hate having a goth for a daughter” I say really pissed off. I ignore whatever she says to me for the rest of the flight and just look out the window.