Nina's POV:
"You ready?" Blake asks as we are on the drive to his house that was about an hour or two away.
"Yes." I say confidently taking a deep breathe in.
"I'm not going to be like your last boyfriend and say that you'll be fine because our will be amazingly wonderful." Blake places his hand on my shoulder.
"Mmmmhmm." I say Blake opens the door with his mom immediately there.
"Hi!" She enthusiastically says loudly.
Gee she nearly startled me, we all know where Clarissa got her huge bottles of joy from.
"Hi Mrs. Trabbita, I'mâ"
"Nina! Nina! I've heard so much about you!"
"Mom." Blake says sternly.
"Okay okay, come on in and make yourself comfortable! I'm going to work more on the dinner." She says returning to the kitchen.
"Sorry about her, she's very loud." Blake laughs.
"It's totally alright, my best friend back home is just like this." I say thinking about Luciana and how much I'm missing her.
"We can go up to my room for a little bit if you want." Blake says looking around awkwardly.
"Your such a child." I laugh as he chases me up the stairs picking me up by the legs and springing me onto his bed and he shuts the door behind him jumping on me.
"Jesus take me now this bed is so comfortable" I stretch around until it's broken by Blake tickling me.
"Stopppp!" I laugh and I laugh so much I just start full out crying.
"What's the magic word?" Blake smiles.
"Oh my Jesus please!" I start fighting back on him. He then let's go as I take a deep breath. I then look at him with a scowling look as he crawls over to me from behind giving me a big bear hug as we lay down next to each other. It's like we are just star-gazing into each others eyes for what seems like hours until it gets interrupted.
*ring ring*
"Sorry I'll just be one sec." I tell Blake as I get up and go to the door frame around the bathroom connecting to Blake's room.
Huh it's Luciana. "Hey Luc, what's up? I feel like we haven't talked in forever. What's up? Wait I already said that, wait okay I'll let you talk."
"Nina?" I hear a voice that isn't Luciana's.
"Sofia? Is that you? How are you!" I say smiling. Sofia is Luciana's mom.
"Yes hunny it's me. I'm doing that well linda, I have some concerning news." Sofia said.
"What is it? It's nothing that bad is it?" I asked confused. I then hear a sob from the other side of the phone. "Sofia? What's wrong." I say concerned as I go into the bathroom and shut the door as I see Blake head rise as I do so.
"Luci...ana." Sofia says and starts to cry more.
"What is it? Is something wrong with her!?"
"Sh-she was walking home from a f-friends house a-a-and."
"What is it? Sofia."
"When she was in a taxi on the way home and there... was a very bad accident."
"What are you trying to saying."
"Luciana is... dead."
There was absolute silence then I hung up.
I walked out of the bathroom blankly then drop my phone on the carpet, fall to my knees and scream. Blake gets up just like that to hold me but I did not want to be held.
"Take me home."
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"Are you going to talk? At all? Tell me what's wrong! Where in the hell am I even bringing you." Blake frustratedly drives up on to the highway.
"Airplane." I mutter.
There was silence the rest of the way. I then get out of the car and of course Blake follows to help me with my bags since we were at his house for thanksgiving break.
"What the fuck is going on! What fucking happened!"
I start walking away into the airport but Blake aggressively grabs my shoulder turning me around. "Tell me now Nina now!" Blake yells. I've never seen him this angry before ever so why not, why don't I just tell him!
I push him away and scream, "MY BEST FRIEND FUCKING DIED!"
I then aggressively grab my luggage and head into the airport. I then run to the closest bathroom and lock the door and look at myself in the mirror. I see a tear drop from my eyes. "Weak." I mutter to myself.
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"Nina! Come here." Sofia stands at the gate with Felipe and I run up to them hugging them saying nothing else. We all drive all the way back and I guess I am...home.
"The funeral will be in a few hours sweetheart." Sofia says. "Oh! And this is for you, I think she'd want you to have this."
I was a locket, a very beautiful one. I open it as my eyes water up.
This was when I was leaving to go to LA a few months back. I remember when she dyed her hair blonde and straighten it. Yeah, that wasn't for her thank god she went back to brown and her curls.
"Thank you." I hug both of them. As I walk into my house. Of course no one is there so I just go up to my old room you could say because I lived with Luciana's family and never really came here at all.
I slowly walking into the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror looking at my hair all the way down to my waist. I then look at a pair of scissors on the counter and pick them up. Aside them I see some black hair dye then look at myself in the mirror.