LTTA-Leave It To Love

Summer had passed and it was time for Dalila to leave for Michigan. Her parents, Bryce, and her had went last weekend to get her dorm situated and have a look around. Now, she was almost ready to head to Michigan by herself. For the first time in her life, she was going to be on her own. The freedom was more scary than it was anything else. She had already said goodbye to her parents, hugging them for nearly ten minutes with tears in everyone’s eyes, but now she was headed to Bryce’s house. Her fingers were gripping the steering wheel, her knuckles were white. They had been dreading this day since she sent in all her paper work. She pulled into his drive-way where he and his parents were sitting. Getting out of the car was hard, she wasn’t sure her legs would allow her to walk.

“Oh” Mrs. Centry cried as Dalila walked over to them. “I’m going to miss you so much dear”

“Me too Mrs. Centry. Me too” she sniffled. They hugged and his parents went in. Bryce’s father grabbed his shoulder and gave it a tug. She knew it was hard for Bry.

“God this sucks” he mumbled as he grabbed her hand and walked her to her car. D had a hard lump in her throat, she was trying so hard not to cry in front of him. He grabbed her hips, pulled her close to him and rest his head on her shoulder. He looked so miserable and there was nothing she could do to prevent this hurt in him, she was the one causing it.

“I know” she croaked out. He raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot… He was going to cry… Dalila closed her eyes and shook her head. He cupped her face and kissed her softly.

“I love you Bryce.”

It was the first time she had told him, it was all she could say. The tears began pouring down her face as she threw herself into his arms. They stood there for ten minutes, both crying holding each other. Finally Bryce backed up, brushed away her tears and kissed her again.

“You should get going love, it’s a long drive a head of you.” She nodded, she knew she should of left but it was harder than she had anticipated. “I’m going to miss you like crazy…”

“I’m going to miss you too…” she whispered. Bryce opened her door and she slid in. He leaned in and kissed her forehead. “I love you sweetheart.”

“I love you too…” she started the car, Bryce stepped away and watched as she drove off.


It had been three weeks since Dalila left, the first week the only thing Bryce did was talk to D on the phone and lay in bed. The second week all he did was talk to D on the phone and mope around the house. This week though he thought of an awesome plan. He would get a job, any job he could find and save as much as possible to move to Michigan. It would be a surprise to Dalila he decided. He glanced at the clock, she would be calling soon and after that he would go and look for a job. The phone rang and Bryce answered it on the first ring.

“Hello beautiful!” he sighed.

“Hey sexy. I miss you.”

“I miss you too.”

They talked about everything but mostly about what they would do in November when she came home for Thanksgiving. Saying “I love you” was no longer an issue. They talked right up until she had to go into class and it usually took about five minutes to actually hang up. D’s roommate, Violet, often made gagging noises in the background.

“Ok baby, I really have to go.” she giggled. “I love you and I miss you. I’ll call you tonight after my classes. Miss you soooo much.”

“Allll right.” Bry groaned. “I love and miss you more.”

When they hung up Bryce flung his phone on the bed and went to shower and get dressed. He applied every where he could think of even the fast food places. It didn’t matter because it was all for Dalila. Now he just had to wait until someone called him back, and he hoped someone would do it soon.





Dalila was in between classes and missing Bryce so bad she could taste it. She wanted to call him but he told her he’d be busy all afternoon. She flung herself onto her bed and sighed deeply. Just then a pillow hit her in the arm.

“What?” she turned to look at Violet.

“You know what mopey!”

“I can’t help it, it’s hard!”

“You’re not trying to help it D. All you do is sit here and think about him.” she complained.

“What am I supposed to do?” Dalila pouted.

“I don’t know… Have FUN!” Vi joked. “You left to live life but you haven’t done anything but school work.” D sighed, she knew Violet was right.

“Fine.” taking a deep breath. “I’ll go out with you tonight after class and after I call Bryce…” Violet smiled a very smug smile across her pretty face.

“It’s about damn time!”

“It’s only been three weeks…”

“That’s a long time in college time.” she laughed.




When Bryce’s phone rang that evening he expected it to be Dalila, even though it was early, but to his surprise it was his friend, Gavin, from high school.

“Hey man.”

“What’s up dude? Been a minute since we talked.”

“Heck yeah. I’m good. Looking for a job at the moment. How about you?”

“I’m good. Working for my uncle, basically I just sit on my ass and he pays me.” he chuckled. “We need to chill man.”

“Defiantly.” Bryce agreed.

“What you up to tonight?”

“Actually just waiting on Dalila to call.” he stated with a half laugh.

“That’s right she’s in Michigan or something, right?”

“Yeah.”

“I gotta ask ya something man…” Gavin said more slowly.

“Ok”

“Would you mind if I dated Sarah?”

“Heck no man. She’s all yours.” he chuckled.

“Sweet sweet. Get a hold of me when you want to hang out.”

He hung up the phone and laid back on his pillow. He was almost dozing off when the phone rang again, this time he knew it was Dalila. They talked for about half an hour before D told him she had to go.

“Go?” he asked confused.

“Yeah. I told Vi that I’d go out with her tonight. She’s sick of seeing me mope around the dorm.” she laughed.

“Oh. Ok then. Have fun my love. I’ll be missing you.”

“I miss you too. But just think a month and a half until I see you again.”

“Yeah, seems like forever though. I love you.”

“I love you too.” Hanging up with him early made her miss him just that much more. Violet must have been able to see it on her face, she started dancing around the room being goofy.

“Come on! Get up! Let’s gooooo!!”

“Where are we going anyways? Neither of us are twenty-one.”

Violet grabbed her hand, pulling her off the bed. She spun Dalila around then ran to get her make-up bag and pushed it towards her.

“What?” Dalila asked with a blank expression.

“What do you mean “what”? Put some on”

“Yeah… about that… I don’t use it.”

Violet groaned and sat D back on the bed, digging through the bag. She pulled out a black pencil, a lipstick tube, and a compact with either blush or eye shadow, she couldn’t tell which. She was very glad she stopped pulling things out though, make-up was not something she was really into.

“This” Violet began, holding the black pencil “is a girls best friend. The eye liner goes with any occasion.” She went on to explain lip stick, eye shadow, the use of plucking, which fell on deaf ears, and foundation. By the time Vi finished with her, she had on black eye liner, light pink lip gloss, and purple and blue eye shadow. “Oh and we’re going to Necto. It’s pretty close so we can just walk!”

As soon as they opened the door, music flooded their ears and immediately Vi started dancing and winking at guys. Dalila wished she was back in the dorm, talking to Bryce. There was a decent amount of people there but not too many to make it hard to walk through. D found a table to sit down at while Violet danced with some guy she just spotted. She pulled out her phone to text Bryce.

“Vi took me 2 a niteclub 2 loud & I wish I was w/u instead.” When her phone vibrated with his reply she clutched the phone.

“or I was there w/u miss u baby xoxox”

Just then Vi came over to the table with a guy a few inches taller than her. They both sat at the table laughing and smiling.

“D, this is Steve.” she winked. “He really wanted to meet you.”

“Mmm” she replied. He held out his hand for her, being polite she gave it a gentle shake then dropped it.

“You thirsty?” he asked both of the girls.

“Yeah! I’ll take a beer beamed Violet.

“Just water for me” Steve walked to the bar and Violet leaned in.

“I asked him for a dance and he said he’d seen us walk in together and wanted to meet you.”

“Did you tell him I have a boyfriend?”

“Details my friend, details!”

Dalila groaned and sat back in her chair with crossed arms. How could she… she thought, looking at Vi then changed her mind. How could he choose ME over HER? Violet was the epitome of beautiful. She was slim, long curly brown hair, bright green eyes, and about 5’6”. Dalila saw no reason for Steve to not be attracted to her, unless it was a cruel joke. Yup, that’s what it is.

“I’m going to head back to the dorm Vi.” As soon as she stoop up Steve was back with their drinks.

“Leaving so soon?”

“Yeah, I have class in the morning.” Steve looked at his watch.

“It’s only 10:30 and we have the same first class of the day at noon. Not sure if you’ve noticed but we have a lot of the same classes.”

“I’m anti-social” she sighed.

“Can I walk back to the dorms with you?”

“Sure” she mumbled. They walked in silence for half of it.

“Not much of a talker, huh?”

“Nope.” she sighed, wishing she hadn’t gone out.

“I like that in a woman.” he said slyly.

“I have a boyfriend.”

“That’s all right.” Dalila grunted, stopped walking and glared at him. “Sorry! That’s not what I meant. I mean that fine, you just seem like a cool person to know.”

“Ok.” she nodded and kept walking. “Thanks for walking with me. I’ll see you in class.”