ValleyVille

Skylar

Skylars POV
Im walking out of school hand in hand with Zoe. "Can I walk you home?" I ask. "My dad insisted on picking me up. Now that mom is gone he's like a new person. He has more energy and he wants to spend so much time together to make up for what he lost" she says. "Oh, thats ok. I get it. I do actually need to ask you something though" I say. On que her dad pulled up. "Hey Zoe! Oh hi Skylar! You ready to go?" He asks. He's definitely more energetic than the last time I saw him. "Hi Ryan. Bye Zoe" I say. "Hey" she grabbed my hand again after I let go. "What did you wanna ask me?" She asks. I looked at her dad and then at her. "Forget about it, its nothing" I say trying to leave again. "Sky" she ran in front of me. "Call me later, ok?" She says. I nod even though I know I wont. I saw Kamila waving me over to go. "I gotta go. Bye" I say.

"You think they stopped fighting?" Kamila asks. "I doubt it. Hey was mom here this morning? I didnt see her when I left to meet Zoe before school" I say. "No she wasn't" Jasmine says. "Maybe she had the morning shift again" Dominic says. "Didnt she stop taking those?" I ask. "Yeah she did. I remember her complaining about them all the time" Reo says. "When is she not complaining about work?" Kamila says. We got home. "Mom?" Jasmine asked. We all looked around but nothing. "Where is she?" Dominic asks. "I can track her" Phoenix says. "Why are you obsessed with tracking everyone you know?" I ask. "Its fun. Helps with my separation anxiety. Plus I like to see the looks on your faces when you find out that I know exactly how many times youve snuck out and exactly where you went each time" he says. We all looked at each other and then him. "Ok stalker, wheres mom?" Reo asks. "She is..." he paused while I assumed his phone was loading. He looked at his phone confused. "Um... shes at the hotel" he says. "What?!" We said. "Oh no" Jasmine says. "What? Whyd you say that? I dont like it when you say that. Its never good" I say. "No shit. When has 'oh no' ever been good in the history of the world?" Jasmine says. "Can you just tell us what that was for?" Dominic asks. "Mom broke up with shane-" she says. "YES! Sorry, continue" Reo says. "So if shes at the hotel, she's probably with Harley. Do you think that they...?" She stopped before finishing. "Oh my god. They wouldn't get back together right?" Kamila asks. "Theres no way, they hated each other. We all saw it" Dominic says. "Unless they took our advice and talked it out" Phoenix says. We all paused. "Oh no" we all say. "Would it really be such a bad thing? To have both of our real parents back?" I ask. They paused. "I hope they havent been fighting all day" Phoenix says.

Zoe called me later on. I stepped out of my room to get some privacy.

"Hey" i say
"You never called" She says
"I was going too" I lie
"Whats going on with you baby? You've been really weird. Is everything ok?" She asks. I hesitated
"Its not really something Id like to talk about over the phone" I say
"Ill try and free up some time for you" she says
"I really miss spending time with you" I say
"I miss you too" she says
"I love you" i say
"I love you too. Bye" she says
"Bye" i say.

I took a deep breath. I heard the door close and turned around to see mom staring at me. "Are you ok?" She asks. "Yeah Im fine. Where have you been?" I ask. "Doing what my kids told me to do. Whats wrong Skylar?" She asks. "Nothings wrong. I just want Zoe to meet Harley before she has to leave, but I barely get to see her anymore after everything thats happened with her parents" I say. "Shes not leaving anytime soon. You have time" she says. "But I dont have time with Zoe. I guess I miss protecting her. I used to be the only thing she had but now, Im not sure if I even have her" I say. "Shes always gonna need you to protect her Skylar. How do you think she would feel if she wasnt in that situation and you were spending a bunch of time with Harley?" She asks. "The same way I feel now" I say. "Exactly. She wants to make up for lost time. You should understand that because you need to make up for lost time too" she says. I nod. "I just miss her" I say looking down. "I know. I get it" she says. Something caught my eye. "Um mom? Your fly is open" I say. She looked down and zipped it up. "Shit" she says. I looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "No, get your head out of the gutter right now. We did not" she says. "You were gone for a while mom" I say. "We didnt have sex! We were catching up" she says. "If thats what you wanna call it" I say. "Shut up. We didnt!" She says. "Yeah ok." I say going back to my room.

Harleys POV
I got a text from Nova the day after she left. "Our kids think we fucked" she says. I laughed. I heard a knock at my door. I opened it. "Hey... Skylar?" I ask. "Wow, you dont remember my name?" She asks coming in. "I mean, your mom had three sets of twins. We each named one" I say. She smiled. "Do you remember the others?" She asked. "I know all of your names. In my defense, I haven't seen your faces since you were infants. Cut me some slack" I say. "So what are our names?" She asks. "Jasmine, Skylar, Kamila, Dominic, Reo, and Phoenix. Im not that stupid" I say. She smiled. "You were right. Im Skylar" she says. "What are you doing here?" I ask. "Making up for lost time" she says. "Im glad that one of you wants to" I say. "We all do. We're just nervous. The others may not remember you but Jasmine and I can at least recognize you" she says. "Jasmine didnt seem to happy to see me" I say. "Shes protective. Shes been helping mom with money since we dont have much of it. She just wants to know why you left" she says. "I cant tell her that unfortunately" I say. "Why?" She asks. "I promised your mom" I say. "When you two hung out yesterday. What did you do?" She asks. I laughed. "I can tell you we did not have sex. We were just catching up" I say. "Damn" she says. "You're disappointed?" I ask. "We kinda want you two back together. Now that Shane is gone, the door is open for you" she says. "I have to admit. I never really got over her but she wont take me back. Theres no way" I say. She pouted. "What do you do for a living?" She asks changing the subject. "Im a hair stylist" I say. She looked intrigued. "Can you dye my hair?" She asks. "Like... all of it?" I ask. "No, just a strip. Like yours" she says. "Yeah I can. I just hope your mom wont kill me. Come on" I say. She smiled and followed me to the bathroom.