Saving Skyler

Viva La Vida

I closed my umbrella and let the rain soak me . The cool water droplets refreshed my skin . " So you have an umbrella but instead you choose to stand in the rain " Matthew said standing next to me. " Its calming to me. Its peaceful . just stand in the rain and don't speak ." I said and so we stood in the rain getting soaked , not speaking at all. Matthew slipped his arm around my waist while I lightly side hugged him. I Looked up at Matthew and he looked down at me , I nuzzled my head into his chest and he kissed the top of my head. " Oh my gosh that's going to get a bunch of likes in tumble " I heard Karlee say. I turned around and gave her the look to tell her to please leave and she understood instantly. " I love you so much Skyler " Matthew said looking me in the eyes. I smiled " I love you too Matthew" I said while we held each other. We stayed outside a little bit longer but decided to go inside .

Once we got inside I grabbed his phone and started running down the hallway way and into the living room. I hid behind the couch but he found me and picked my up and started tickling we. I burst into laughter and he continued to tickle me " F-f-fine Here's y-your P-phone " I said handing him his phone. " That's Better" he said taking his phone and kissing my cheek then leaving the room. " I know you creepy little stalkers were recording us." I said facing my friends with a smirk on my face. We were all trying to hold in our laughter. I looked at the clock and saw its almost ten. " Do you guys wanna spend the night? " I asked them . Suddenly they all screamed " YASS!!" in sync. It scared me so much I dropped my phone and I hit the wall behind me. I started to mutter curse words at them under my breath. I picked up my phone then yelled " I'm gonna film some video's so don't effing bother me" and ran upstairs. I set up the lights and camera and put my keyboard in front of me. I turned on my camera and said " So I've have been getting a bunch of requests for the past few weeks to sing a song I wrote . So this one is called smother." I began sing and play my keyboard. Once I finished I said " so thumbs up this video if you liked it or you can thumbs up this video if you didn't like it . Comment down below what you want me to do in my next video. Oh a don't forget to subscribe and follow my social media accounts I'll have the links down below. And that's about it good bye my lovelies ." I said then turned off my camera and began to edit my video. I heard a knock on my door and yelled " Come in " . And in walked all of my friends with shocked expressions. " Have you written any other songs?" Carter asked and I nodded . " Then start playing women" Reese yelled with her eyes so wide it was a bit creepy. I began playing my next which was called sober. And as I hit the falsetto the boys eyes grew even wider. Once I finished sober I changed the key board setting. The next song was called Pretty Hurts. it is actually a really emotional song because the song was about people like me who always felt they weren't pretty and the things people go through to try to change. I felt tears brimming my eyes as I reached the middle of the song. I sang the last few notes and felt tears run down my cheeks. I looked up to see Reese , Karlee , Janie , Alexa , and Micky crying . And the boys had tears brimming their eyes . " okay next song " I said wiping my tears . The song was called The Writer and I wrote it for Matthew but no one needs to know that . This song also made me emotional. once I finished it I looked at Matthew and he smiled. " I have two more songs but you guys probably don't want to hear them" I said but they all yelled at me to play them. And I just smiled to myself. Then next song was called I Am Not A Man . I hit every falsetto perfectly which I was very proud of. And the last song was called Aftertaste , it was about Issac , Yet it wasn't . Once i finished I told them about a duet I was working on.

" Dang , Skyler . Pretty Hurts really got to me . You write really emotional songs." Micky said still crying.

" I base my songs off of real life experiences . So when a person listens to my songs I want them to understand , relate , realize , and if possible see the event through their eyes. The songs are based off what goes on in my head when something happens." I said honestly . " Btw If you guys are going to be in my room be quiet because I'm editing my video. " the just nodded their heads . I finished editing ten minutes later and had them all watch it to make sure it was okay while I went downstairs to get some water. I walked upstairs to see everyone on crying , even the boys. " What Happened , Are you guys okay? " I said panicking . Then they showed me what they were looking at . It was my video to my song elastic heart. I had written elastic heart and got it recorded professionally . Then I got it on CD and danced to it for fun.

" Why are you guys crying though?" I said confused.
" It was so beautiful and emotional ." Janie cried out.

we hung out in my room then everyone went to a bedroom and passed out . I grabbed my pen and notebook then ran downstairs in to the basement.

My adoption mom had actually got a recording studio built in the basement for me and got me a piano and a few guitars.

I went over to the piano and worked on the melody and the flow of the tune .Then I went over the lyrics and made sure they worked well with the toon. I walked over to the control board and turned on the switches for recording . Then I went into recording room moved the speaker and pressed the countdown to recording. I heard the door to the basement open and feet pound down the stairs .I played the notes on the piano and sang the lyrics. ( song is above but pretend Skyler wrote it) This was the only song I had never showed to anyone. Oh , God and now they know about my recording room. And even worse they could hear me sing because the speaker blared when someone was recording. Once I was done I walked out of the recording room knowing my friends were hiding but I ignored it . I went over to the computer and control and blasted the music . I messed with the bass, treble , echo , falsetto drag , I finally perfected it then saved it. I had totally forgotten about my friends hiding I the room and went into the recording room. And I started to freestyle rap which I'm actually great at . I rapped about friends , haters , family , my thoughts , anything that came to mind . Heck I even rapped about Matthew.
Heres's my rap about my vicious paradise , and it's terrible

"Dark and lonely in this vicious paradise
I used to love this cold dark place ,
But now its written across this space that this place made me die slowly , I thought I was happy being lonely, cuts on my hips and deception on my lips.
I love somebody , now I feel their love all on me
And I know its my fault , that I let it go this far
I took a trip ten thousand miles under the ground , And now I'm stuck here trying to get out.
I wanna go home , I just can't be alone
I've got some secrets causing tension,
so overwhelming ,
I see the world in twenty five vicious dimensions
I've seen evil drowning out perfection,
blood boil over tension.
I hate the fight in the world so I brought the battle home.
And now I'm a long way gone saying so long ,
Buy I still have cuts on my hips and deception on lips
I screech and it hits , hard like twenty million fists
So thanks for all the hits ."
I ended my recording and saved it .

then I started to record again
" Give me 25 to life , if being fly is a crime
Yeah I'm lying I don't want to go
No where but the sky ,
feeling high as I wanna so
come and take a ride
on the alumni honor roll
But I can make it go low
drop it boo , drop it to the floor,
I know you want some but I
just walked out the effing door"

I walked into the switch and turned up down the speaker volume still not remembering my friends could hear me. I walked back into the recording room and sat down at the piano. And began to play the piano and sing my song " Yours ". I knew I sang it earlier but I wanted to re-record. But this time when I sang I got emotional . I began to cry and I couldn't finish the last four verses of the song . I ran out of the studio , out of the basement , I ran out of the house. I stopped in the drive way and hopped into my car and drove. There's one thing I forgot to tell you, I had sister. Had , though ,she died of cancer when she was sixteen. And I don't know why but the song made me think of her and I couldn't take it. I finally arrived at the grave yard and I ran to her stone .I sat down and told her everything. After about an hour of venting I got up and headed back home.

Once I got back everyone was sitting on the couch stressing out. I walked down stairs . I turned up the speaker volume to its highest point. I ran into the recording room and sat at the piano and began to play Viva La Vida , it was my sisters favorite song . Everyone came downstairs and stared at me . I played and sang that song like my life depended on it. And I could feel her there , she was next to me smiling and singing. Once I was done I left the recording room " Uh , how long have you guys been here " I said nervously . " we saw you earlier Skyler , What happened? " Alexa asked . " Why are you guys even down here . What did you see?!" I said angry . " Skyler chill , you're getting more angry than you need to be" Josh said.

I said " I need a break I'll explain in the morning " and walked up to my room . Right before I could close the door Matthew slipped in. He locked the door and sat next to me on my bed I told him everything. He put me under the blankets turned of my lights and laid next to me with his hand on my waist. I fell into a deep dreamless sleep.