I Promise (Explicit Version)

It was about ten at night when I finally decided to go to bed. "I'm going to sleep. It's late and I need to get to work early-ish tomorrow," I said, hugging Robert and Darren.

I was reading before bed when I saw Darren outside of my room. "What's up?" I asked him.

"Worried. About Sophia and Juls. You know, I don't know if they're okay," he said. I patted the bed next to me.

"Come on. You can call them. It's only about noon or eleven there," I pointed out.

"You're right," Darren sighed, heading off towards his room. After he left, I quietly closed the door and scrolled through my multiple Starkid playlists. After fighting with myself for a bit, I finally decided on Starship.

The next morning, I groaned loudly as my alarm went off. It was still dark outside, but I had to get to work. I had some coffee before leaving a note on the counter. Work flew by until the end of my shift. When I finally got the courage to talk to my boss, I went over to her office and knocked on the door. "Come in!" She chirped. I entered and sat down across from her. "Luna! I heard you found your biological brother. That's pretty cool."

"Thanks. So, why I came here is part of that reason. So, he lives in America and we've decided that we want to be together, because we have lost about twenty years. What I'm asking is, would there be a way to work from there? I love working this job and proofreading. I don't want my major move to impact that too much," I said. My boss shuffled a few papers until she found a folder that she wanted. She sighed as she opened it and shuffled through the paper.

"Well, I could pull some strings, but you wouldn't be getting articles from that day, only poetry and contest ads and such," she said.

"I can work with that," I responded earnestly.

"Good. Over the next week, I can get it figured out. When are you moving?"

"In a week," I responded.

"Good," she said as we shook hands. I left work that day and returned home.

Over the next week, I packed up all of my things. It would be weird not living with my bestie. Luckily, we decided on a Google™ Hangout schedule. Also, Darren made an agreement with some of his friends that I would move in with them over the course of the new musical. At last, I had to say goodbye. I had been dreading this moment my entire life. "This is it, then," I said, tears pricking at the back of my eyes.

"This won't ever be the final goodbye. I don't want to see you go," Robert began.

"But it's not fore-ever," I choked out.

"Not forever. Even if it was, you know that I would never let it get me down."

"Because you're the part of me that makes me better, wherever I go."

"I will try not to cry, but no one needs to say goodbye," we said, tears going down each of our cheeks. I hugged him close as he rested his head on the top of mine.

"Call me when you get there and tell me everything," he said. I nodded tearfully. I finally left to go to the airport with Darren. It wasn't my first time in an airport. When we finally got into the plane, the realization hit me. I was leaving the only place I really felt at home. I stayed reticent and drifted off to sleep, Days of Summer echoing through my head.

"Wake up," someone said. I groaned and stretched. "You were almost at ten hours," Darren said.

"Thank you," I said.

"And we're about to land," he said. We sat in silence the rest of the flight. After a while, we arrived at Darren's house. I was shocked. It was only noon and I was ready to sleep another nine hours.