Storm's POV

"Cmon Storm" Josh says to me as we walked to a table. We were watching Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and suddenly got the craving for ice cream. So of course we went to go get ice cream.

"This is very good" I say taking another bite of my ice cream.

"What does it taste like?" He asks me. They had a mystery flavour so I decided to try it. I take a scoop of it and bring it to his mouth. He eats it and makes a thinking face.

"Hmm, it tastes like apple and mango" he says.

"It tasted more like cotton candy to me. But you could be right" I say and take a bite.

"Man, summer is really over. School starts next week" he says eating his ice cream. He got vanilla.

"Yea, I know. These past few months were fun" I say to him. I still haven't told him that I'm leaving.

"I'm so glad I met you. You're one of the best things to ever happen to me" he says smiling at me. I look down blushing.

"I feel the same way. You make me very happy" I tell him closing my eyes as I felt the tears come to the bridge of my eyes. The thought of ending what we have, hurts.

"We might be busy with school but I know we'll still have time for each other. Imagine, you coming to my games. Cheering for me and wearing my jersey. You'd look so beautiful in it" he rambles on and I just smile at him. Trying so hard to not let these tears fall.

As I listened to him. I feel one fall and I quickly wipe it. He looks at me and stops talking.

"You ok?" He asks and holds my hand. I bite my lip as they start to fall like a waterfall. I cover my face with my other hand so he doesn't see me cry. Tell him Storm....

"Babe. Hey hey hey, what's wrong?" He asks and sits beside me. You have to tell him Storm!

"Josh, I haven't been honest with you" I say and wipe my face. I look down because I couldn't say this looking him in the eyes.

"I'm leaving" I mumble out.

"Huh?" He says.

"I'm leaving" I say a bit louder.

"What?" He says.

"I'm leaving!" I say loudly causing some heads to turn in our direction. I look at him to see him staring at me.

"Are you serious?" He asks. I can't even tell how he's feeling due to how his tone changed. It was unreadable.

"Yes" I say and look down.

"When do you leave?" He asks lowly.

"In 3 days" I say and he snaps his head at me.

"3 days??? Are you freaking kidding me Storm!" He yelled. I looked around and got up dragging him behind me. We walked out and to the car taking a seat inside. I didn't want us to draw anymore attention to us.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know how to tell you" I say now starting to cry more.

"After everything, you're really leaving?" He asks.

"I can't stay Josh. Even if I really wanted to" I say to him.

"How about you ask your mom?" he suggests and I shake my head.

"She wouldn't allow me" I sighed and covered my face with my arm.

"Even if you asked?" He says.

"I have to go back Josh. I'm sorry" I say looking at him. I can see the hurt and pain all over his face. His eyes got glossy so he turned his head. He's gonna cry...

"You're just gonna leave me like that" he says turning back to me. A tear falls from his eye causing my heart to break.

"Do you think I want to?" I ask him.

"Clearly. You're not even trying to stay. I bet you were gonna tell me you were leaving the day of" he says and I stay silent. I sadly was. He shakes his head at me and dryly laughs.

"Wow. All of this. Everything we did, just wasted" he says as tears fall from his eyes.

"Nothing was wasted. Josh you knew I wasn't staying from the beginning" I tell him.

"After everything I would think you'd try to stay. You are surrounded by people who love you and make you happy. You wanna throw it all away just to go back to your sad life. Why would you wanna put yourself in that kind of place again?" He asks and the tears fall faster as I realized I'd be leaving everything and everyone I met this summer. What he said was true, I have to go back to the lonely life I once had a few months ago.

"Josh it's not that easy" I say to him.

"No it is, you're just making it hard for yourself Storm. Do you even care about us? About me?" He says in frustration.

"Of course I do Josh. I love you" I say to him.

"So then stay. If you love me, then stay" he says with his voice cracking. I look down and play with my nails as I sniffled.

"I can't" I say wiping my nose. He shakes his head and hits the wheel causing me to flinch. He leans down on the wheel crying. I look away as tears start to fall again. This hurts so much.

"So this is it?" He says lightly. Hearing his voice crack brought an aching feeling in my chest. I hated that I was the reason to his current pain. I'm sorry Josh.

"It doesn't have to be" I say continuing to play with my nails.

"I can't do long distance Storm" he says and I nod biting my lip as tears threatened to fall again.

"So you're just gonna throw away our relationship like that?" I ask him. He leans back and gives me a look.

"I'm throwing away our relationship? You're leaving me!" He yelled at me.

"It's not my choice" I yelled back.

"It is your choice Storm. It's in the palm of your hand. You have the choice to pick which path you wanna take. I can't make it for you but I will let you realize which does what. The first path is this, you staying here with Star, Heaven, Luzzy, attending school here, and being with me. In the other path, you go back home, lose Star, lose Heaven, lose Luzzy, and...you lose me" he says. I sighed and shook my head. I can't believe this. Why does it have to be so hard.

"Josh...." I say slowly, now sobbing. He leans over and wraps me up into his arms and cries with me. This hurt, it hurt a lot. To leave everything, to leave everyone I love. But everyone had to go a different path. And so did I. Even though I didn't want to, I had to. I wish I could stay, especially with Josh. But sadly I couldn't.

I slightly pulled away and looked at him. I wiped his face with my thumbs and he did the same to me. I lean closer and kiss him. The kiss was a bit salty due to us crying but it didn't matter. I kissed him deeply making sure to remember how it felt to kiss him. I'm gonna miss this. Everything about him, from the thick curls on his head to the tip of his toes. I pulled away and leaned my forehead on his. His hand rested on the back of my neck massaging it with his thumb.

"I love you so much Storm" he says.

"I love you more Josh" I tell him. We sat there in silence. No words exchanged. The only sound you could hear was us breathing.

Josh pulled away and turned the car on. I sat back and folded my arms as he drove. The ride was quiet and no eye contact was made. Once he arrived Star's house he turned the car off. We sat there not saying anything.

"What happens to us Storm?" He asks letting out a sigh resting his head on his hand.

"You said you don't do long distance so..." I say. We both know that neither of us wanted to hear the end of that sentence. Cause after it's said, the outcome will be a downfall.

"So that's it" he says and I nod. I wanted to cry my eyes out so badly.

"Bye Josh" I say turning away so he doesn't see my face.

"Bye Storm" he says, his voice cracking again. I open the door and get out the car I walk towards the door and open it then close it, not looking back. I lean against the door as all the tears fell freely without me trying to hold them back. I sobbed and tilted my head back. I looked and seen my auntie, Heaven, and Star looking at me. They all get up and engulfed me into a big hug as I cried in there arms.

"Sweety what's wrong?" My auntie asks.

"It's over guys, me and Josh. It's over" I say and continue to cry. Star and Heaven share a look then hug me tighter. I wish things didn't have to be this way.

Josh's POV

As I arrived back at Caleb's place. I slammed the door and threw my keys against the wall.

"Woah what's wrong with you?" Patrick asks, causing Caleb to look at me as well. They both stand up and walk towards me.

"It's over, she's leaving. She's leaving me" I say in anger. Patrick walks closer and I start to punch his chest letting out all my emotions.

"Why! Why! Why does she have to leave me!" I shouted until I broke down completely. Patrick wraps his arms around me as I cried against his chest. Caleb comes closer also joining the hug.

"It's ok bro, let it out" Caleb says rubbing my back.

The best thing to ever happen to me, is being taken away from me. Storm...don't leave me....