Once In a Lifetime

*Louis POV*
*Flashback*

"Louis, I need to tell you something." Kara says to me with tears streaming down her face. I cant stand seeing her like this anymore, I feel like I haven't seen her truly smile in weeks.

"Love whats wrong? I thought everything was taken care of like you had wanted?" I ask her. I can't stop myself from emphasizing the 'like you wanted,' I didn't want any of this.

"I'm leaving." She says simply, but the tears are still flooding from her crystal blue eyes.

"Kara, no babe we can work through this! Please don't end this Kara it was a mistake we'll move on from it. We'll be okay I promise." I plead with her. I can't believe she really wants to end our relationship over this.

"No Louis, you don't understand. My mom found out, she is sending me to live with my dad." She explains to me. In that moment I can feel my heart splitting.

"But he lives in Chicago... Why is it so important that you leave?" I ask, I'm so confused.

"She wants me to spend time away from you, she thinks being with you is unhealthy for me." She says through the tears. "I'm leaving tonight." The last part is a blow to my heart.

"Did you just find out?" I ask, I have no idea what to do right now. I just can't believe the girl I'm in love with is leaving.

"I found out two days ago. I didn't want to hurt you anymore than I had to." She says as I stand there dumbfounded.

"Goodbye Louis." And with that, Kara Costigan, the girl I've loved since I was sixteen, is gone.

*End of Flashback*

"Mate...Mate! Snap out of it!" I hear someone yell. I look over at them, it's Niall.

"Sorry Niall, I just got lost in my thoughts again I guess." I explain, hoping he wont continue with the subject.

"No, I know that face. You're thinking about her again, aren't you?" He prods in his thick irish accent.

This isn't really the conversation I want to have in an airport, but the words begin to fumble out of my mouth/

"I've been trying so hard to forget her mate, to move on. I just can't. I was so in love with her, and she just left and I never heard from her again. I didn't even get an address or a new phone number from her. I still miss her." I begin to vent to Niall, I feel like a broken record as I say this. They all know I still think about her, but I almost don't even care.

"Louis, it's been four years mate, every time we go home you hope she's in Doncaster. Every time we're in the states, no matter what city we're in, you hope she's there. It just isn't healthy anymore." He tries to tell me with as much sympathy as he can. I know he's right, but I don't want to hear it.

"Well its almost Christmas and my birthday so that should take my mind off of it, I'm just seeing my family anyway." I try to reassure him of my intentions going back home, but really, I'm trying to even make my self believe it.

We get on the plane to start our journeys home for the holidays. Deep down, I find my self once again wishing she would come back home.

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