Foreign Love

Farewell Party

"Ok, Paige enough with the suspense already, tell me where are we going?" I ask rather irritated.

It's my last day at home today, 'till I leave for America tomorrow. To be truly honest I'm really excited to be going away from home for a whole month. I can finally breathe, literally. With a dad like mine you need permission to even breathe. I mean I'm already eighteen, it's like cut me some slack!

"I already told you, Tia, since it's your last day before you abandon us and go to America, for a WHOLE month, I want to spend as much time as possible with my best friend! Is that so wrong?" she says in her I'm-hurt-you-don't-want-to spend-time-with-your-best-friend voice.

There she goes again with the whole emotional blackmail thing. To be truly honest she had to practically beg me to go out with her today. I mean don't get me wrong I do want to spend time with her, she is my best friend after all, but I had a different idea, I wanted to gather all my close friends and family and just chill at home.

But Paige being Paige decided we go out, and to God knows where!

"Alright, alright, no need to get all touchy! I'll be a good girl and wait until we reach our destination!" I sigh.

"That a girl!" she smirks triumphantly

I roll my eyes at her, I really don't know how we are actually best friends, she's the complete opposite of me, I mean she was a cheerleader back at school, she was popular and has guys drooling over her. Paige really is gorgeous, she has long dark brown hair that falls into natural waves reaching almost her elbow, soft chocolate brown eyes, she has flawless skin, that's just a little tanned, she has a figure that only models on magazine covers have, and she has the perfect height for a girl at 5' 8. I really do see why guys literally drool over her.

Then you get me who was much of a nerd and loner at school, boy am I glad schools over! I have long black wavy hair, the only thing I actually like about myself, I have dark brown eyes, and am really tan, not the perfect tan like Paige but like Indian tan, I guess that is because I am half Indian. I am pretty short at just 5'5 and am normal in weight. So yeah I am your normal eighteen year old girl.

I know it's weird that the nerd and cheerleader are best friends, I guess that's why Paige is my best friend, it's because she doesn't care what people think of her, to her I was her friend even before she even learnt her ABC's and that's all that matters to her, not some 'social scale' at school, as she puts it.

"We're here!" Paige shouts and pulls me out of my thoughts.

"Huh?" I say clearly startled out of my thoughts.

"Really, the mall? You drove for an hour to go to the mall? When we could've just driven fifteen minutes and gone to the local mall! I can only expect this from you Paige!" I said through a sarcastic chuckle

"Yeah, well this is a new mall, it just opened last week, and I thought we could check it out! Now stop whining and get your lazy ass out! We've got lots to do!" she said with a wink

I just rolled my eyes and asked, "Ok, so where do we start?"

After about three hours of shopping and an hour and a half to have lunch, Paige finally agreed it was time to leave. I couldn't believe it was already four thirty, time just seemed to fly by, making me remember that it was just a matter of hours before I would be on a plane off to the USA. I could feel the butterflies in my stomach out of excitement.

I still remember how much of convincing it took my dad for me to take this foreign exchange programme, It took my mom, brother, sister, my gramps, and I, even my uncle Sinha had to do his bit of convincing, until my dad finally gave in.