“You better watch out, I might just take you up on that!” Gary laughed.

After tying my new board onto the top of our car Gary lifted me off my feet to give me a huge hug and told me, “You know the number to ‘The Shack’, anytime you need to, just call collect alright?”

My eyes were filled with tears as I said goodbye to him and a handful of my other friends that had come to see us off. I was half hoping that Jenny would have come, but I wasn’t surprised that she didn’t. Jenny doesn’t usually do what people expect her to do.

As we drove away my friends stood in the middle of the street waving until we were out of sight. When I couldn’t see them anymore I turned around in the backseat, buckled myself in, and began to cry silently.