The Teenage Reality l.h

35. Sarah's secret

Rena stopped tweeting me which was good because I didn't need anymore bullshits from her. However, Luke texted me the other day and I was surprised at how needy he was in the text whilst on twitter he swept me off like dirt.

I guess his reputation matters more, how ignorant.

Luke: Sky, I'm sorry.

Luke: Please don't ignore me, I need to talk to you.

Though I never answered, but both Bryana and Jaylen told me to text him back but I just couldn't. I still felt betrayed and worthless because of him.

If we had a clean break up I would've been fine, but we didn't. Hell we didn't even told each other that we're breaking up, we just assumed.

I haven't been doing much lately to be honest, we don't have school anymore and we're given a break for dance. So I haven't done much in Australia other than hanging out with my friends and staying at home.

I couldn't go back to Los Angeles and stay with my older brother Austin because I still need to find out what my HSC results are.

Fingers crossed for my HSC.

My birthday is coming up and today I am about to get my driver's license and see if I passed my last test. I wasn't that nervous because to be fully honest I'm not a terrible driver, let's just hope my instructor thinks so as well.

"Well Skyla you're the only one who passed parallel parking in the first attempt, so because of that congratulations" My instructor gave me a bright smile. "All in all you're all set to have an official driver's license" he winked playfully, of course.

"Great, thank you so much!" I exclaimed. "You just have to sign here and right here" he pointed at the blank spaces provided for my signature.

I signed all the sheets of paper and finally my instructor handed me, my own laminated driver's license along with some sheets of paper showing that I excelled in my driver's test.

"Thank you" I thanked the instructor.

"No problem" He said lastly before I left the building proudly smiling at everyone who passed by me, earning weird looks from some people.

I got out of the building and walked to my dad's car, dad happened to come along with me for my driver's test result. He's going to be so proud of me.

I opened the car door and the first thing dad asked was "Did you passed?" Dad asked anxiously. "Dad, I'm offended by your tone of voice" I placed hand on my chest playfully.

"And yes I did passed" I squealed and handed him the papers and my driver's licenses.

"Congratulations baby" Dad gave me a big hug, I accepted his embrace without a doubt. "Now you can drive by yourself and leave me and your brother alone" Dad fist pumped the air.

"Don't be too happy papa, you still have 2 children who can't drive yet" I smirked.

"Actually you'll be driving them around, so ha ha" Dad laughed at me, my mouth gaped open.

"Aiden can drive by himself" I scoffed. I don't want to drive Aiden around everyday, that kid is basically out of the house 24/7. He gets invited to all these parties, including the senior parties and I'm not going to drive him to those parties.

"Not Sarah though, she has football (soccer) practice today and I'd like you to supervise her today" Dad told me.

I was fine with it, it wouldn't be as bad as driving Aiden around.

I hope.

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"Sky, I don't like this song" I groaned for the hundredth time. "Sarah, I don't have any frozen songs" I told her nicely.

"What about Taylor Swift?" She asked. "Fine, open the compartment over there" I pointed towards the compartment where I kept all of my CD albums.

She found an old album by Taylor Swift called fearless and decided to play that. Finally, she stopped whining on about how annoying all of my songs are.

Which they are not, I have amazing taste in music.

"Did you break up with Luke?" Out of nowhere Sarah asked that. I haven't told her anything about me and Luke not being together anymore, so someone else must have told her.

"Mum told you?" I asked her, she shook her head no.

"Aiden?" I asked her, but she denied it.

"Austin? Dad?" She kept shaking her head no.

"Then who told you then?" I asked her confused.

If it wasn't any of my family then I'm not sure who told her, it couldn't be her friends from school? Do 7 year olds gossip nowadays? I seriously hope not.

"Luke told me" She said casually, I have never been more shocked in my entire life. "What?" I pressed on the break abruptly at the red light.

"H-how? W-why? What?" I asked her. "He called the house phone today when you went to the driving school thingy" She explained.

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Sarah's pov (flashback)

I was sitting in front of the television watching my favorite show, spongebob until the house phone started ringing throughout the house.

"Sarah pick it up please" Mum said.

I got down from the couch and ran to get the phone. "Hello?" I answered. "Hi, um who's this?" The man in the phone asked. "Who's this?" I asked back not wanting to say my name since mum said I shouldn't give my name to strangers.

"Luke, Luke Hemmings" The man with the name Luke said. "Hi" I said cheerfully.

"I'm guessing this is Sarah" he assumed and I told him that he was correct, he chuckled a little bit before changing his tone of voice to a serious tone.

"Is your sister home?" He asked. "Nope"

"Can you tell your sister to call me later tonight, please" Luke said. I nodded and said yes but as a 7 year old I was very curious, so I asked why.

"Because-" he sighed. "Because your sister hates me and because I did something really bad and someone else made me do really bad shi-I meant shenanigans" I giggled when he was about to swear.

"Hey don't swear" I told him. "Sorry, anyways I really need to explain to your sister but she wouldn't let me do that, could you tell her to talk to me please?" He begged, he seemed very desperate and I felt very bad for him.

"Sky is so mean, why wouldn't she forgive you?" Luke just gave me what seemed like a sarcastic chuckle. "I did something really really really bad"

"If you did something that bad then you should tell her in real life instead of then phone, so that she will listen" I told him remembering what Sky told me when I had a fight with my best friend Amelia, she said that if you really really really want to apologize you need to say it in real life because that is what makes apologizing more meaningful.

"You mean I should explain to her face to face?" He questioned. "Mhmm"

He didn't speak for awhile. "You're right I can't believe a seven year old knows better than me, forget what I just said earlier and can I tell you a secret?" Luke whispered in the phone. "Yes, I'm very good with secrets"

"Good, I'm going to get your sister back"

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"What did he say?" I said in a bitter voice. "He said, he wanted to tell you that he's very sorry" Sarah said casually and shrugged.

Pathetic, out of all the possible ways of apologizing he had to apologize by laboring my sister? What an asshole.

"Did he say anything else?" I raised my eyes at her. "Um, nope" Sarah shook her head.

See, a total pathetic asshole.