Saying Goodbye (What the World Doesn't Know) by Martel Mahima

Author:Martel, Mahima [Martel, Mahima]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: SuperJenius Publications
Published: 2013-09-22T21:00:00+00:00

Lonely Girl

It was a beautiful, sunny morning in September when Alex headed back to England. The plane lifted off from New York’s newly named John F. Kennedy International Airport and circled the city until it reached its proper flight elevation and leveled out. As Alex sat looking out the window, watching the city get progressively smaller below him, a knot formed in his stomach. Somewhere down there, amongst the masses of metal structures and countless streets, he had left his heart. It was the last thing he had intended to happen when he first came to America. He had certainly expected to break a few hearts by the end of the tour but never imagined his own heart would be broken.

Alex didn’t want to go home; he didn’t want to be in the band. At that very moment he didn’t want to exist at all. He couldn’t believe that leaving a girl could make him feel so empty. Frankie was the only one he had met who truly understood him. And he had meant it when he told her he felt like he was losing his very best friend. In actuality he was.

Meanwhile, at the same time Alex’s plane was taking off, Frankie was driving her mother’s silver 1963 Cadillac De Ville out to Rockaway Beach. She parked the car, slipped off her sneakers, and walked out to the shore.

The beach was sparsely dotted with various walks of life. Besides the sandpipers and seagulls, there were a few elderly couples walking hand-in-hand, the occasional beachcomber strolling along the sand, and a number of stationary individuals who appeared to be searching for answers to questions in their minds by staring pensively at the waves. Frankie felt that she could relate to these most of all—here she was, twenty years old, feeling melancholy, and already sensed that she had lost her soul mate.

She raised her hand above her eyes and strained to see if she could find Alex’s plane in the sky. When she saw no trace of any plane, she stepped a few yards away from the waves and sat down in the sand, resting her chin on her knees. She thought of how much she and Alex had in common—both of them were teenaged performers, who loved to swim and eat heartily, and shared a wry sense of humor along with an independent, rebellious streak. She never knew she would meet a boy so much like her who lived so far away. She couldn’t help thinking that while she had been living here, going to school, attending dances, taking ballet lessons, and working, Alex had been growing up at the exact same time on the other side of the Atlantic. She wondered how their lives would have been different had they grown up together or lived in the same town and dated as students.

Questions like these plagued Frankie’s mind as she leaned back, placing her hands in the sand.

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