Taking Chances✔

~20.0~

They won't tell you, but I will. That's why we're different. I will hurt you with the truth, but they will kill you with the lies. 

~Unknown

Taylor's P.O.V

We were 3 days in. 

3 days until I was going to be whisked off to a private jet and taken away from the place I call home. 

Was I happy to be going to England to do the very thing I love?

Yes, of course, I was. 

I have never been there before and marking that off my bucket list and fulfilling my dreams at the same time was like a successful equation for nerds. My only doubt came from the actual act of leaving home. 

I didn't want to do it. 

It was always something here that made the strings get stronger. It was like pulling on an elastic. No matter how far it stretches it always bounces back. 

My family was here. My heart was here. 

My mother was here. 

I haven't visited her grave site for 4 years. I haven't talked to her in 4 years. 

I wanted to tell her how my life was finally heading in the right direction after stumbling in the dark like a drunk. I was finally making it somewhere; becoming somebody, all because of her. 

All her motivating words were like a chanting mantra in my head. Every day I woke up it was the first thing I thought of. The last thing I mumbled in my sleep. 

She was pushing me to do better and she wasn't even here to see it all. 

I wish she was here.

I wish she could see that I wasn't the disruptive Taylor she left behind. That I was finally becoming what she raised me to be. 

I wish she was here to fix this mess between me and Tammy as well. 

It seemed as if it was never going to come to a head. It was never going to end or be fixed. I can see it in Dad's eyes. 

He was tired. 

I knew he wanted us to resolve it and because of his stress, I wanted it too. I want to fix this for his sake. I didn't want to lose another parent because of my hard-headed being. 

Tammy, not so much. 

She didn't care. She was hurt and she did her endeavor best to make sure that her hurt was seen. No matter how much we tried to turn a blind eye. 

"Dude, you have to believe that the whole Bahamas is probably a Laker nation. I swear it's like a default religion" TJ shouted across to Ky. 

"But there are so many other teams out there. I doubt they are all just Lakers" Ky shouted back. They made it seems as if they weren't sitting beside one another in lounge chairs. 

"Yeah they're some others that have other teams, but we are more on Lakers' side than anything else" Dakodan butted in, sitting down at the foot of my chair. 

We were all lounging in my backyard. We originally were going to play a fair game of basketball. Girls against boys with Dakodan being on the girl team-which he fought tooth and nail not to be--but we all got distracted.

Ky mentioned being a Celtic fan and chaos broke out from there. Everyone just had to prove that his choice was poorly chosen and why he needs to switch to the 'better' team.