This was it, this was the decision we were planning at. Cleo and I were going to elope. The idea never crossed my mind, but in the moment it felt like the best option.
But we wanted to do this smart, so who figured the best time was after we finished our last year of high school life and got all our qualifications to make a life on our own together. We planned everything to the single detail. We were going to leave straight after the night of graduation when everyone was all hyped up and wouldn't notice us leaving. We'd use my car and cross the border to be free to be together. So until that time came we kept on saving up money, playing it cool around the people we knew. We pretended to have broken up with each other just to throw the heat off us, and communicated to each other via secret messages.