Babysitting Skylynn Grier

Chapter Thirteen

*Sarah's POV*

It's about 6:23AM when I feel the sunlight creep through the open cracks between the curtains. I get up, packing my things, and quietly do my morning routine. I zip up my jacket and open the door, I glance back at the two people I care about the most and then close the door. I walk to the far end of the motel before I sit on the curb taking deep breaths.

I never break promises. But I had to break this one.

Nash and I got into an argument about how I worry too much and that I can't constantly be a mother hen to Izzy. But I yelled at him and told him the hard truth. She doesn't have a mother anymore. And she doesn't have a father.

"No child should have to experience what she is experiencing right now. Nash, she needs to have people she can depend upon right now. And all she has at the moment, the only fucking thing she has at the moment, is us." I angrily rolled over avoiding all eye contact.

"And that's why we need to stay together. She loves you just as much as she loves me. She looks up to you. I'm sorry that I told you that you shouldn't mother her. That's what she needs. I was out of line for doing that. Just promise me that you won't leave."

I cross my fingers huffing out a sigh and mutter that I promise I won't leave.

I snap back into reality when my phone starts to vibrate. I look down to see a Unknown on my screen. I answer my phone and wait for someone on the other line to start talking.

"I'm sorry baby," his voice slow and steady. Still deep and demanding. Controlling.

And terrifying.

"Baby? I know you can hear me. Say something."

Chills run up my spine and my hands become clammy as they shake uncontrollably.

I can feel eyes on me from behind. I hold my breath hoping that I'm just imagining it. I keep blinking, maybe it's just some messed up nightmare and none of this is happening. Maybe it'll all go away.

But the more I blink the more I know for sure that I am not dreaming. But I'm still in this horrid nightmare. I look at the screen and close my eyes, hoping, praying, that when I hit the end call button, nothing bad happens.

Taking a deep breath I press down hard on the red dot, ending the call.

I feel that the eyes of the person who'd been watching me has squatted down, and is now breathing down my neck.

Silent tears roll down my face and onto my legs and phone that is tightly held in my hand.

"Sarah-"

I jump to my feet and turn around. Then seeing who it is, I hug them as if my life depended on it.

And honestly, it might.

I start to sob into his welcoming arms. Trying to tell him everything but it probably just sounds like a bunch of nonsense.

"Sarah, baby, what's wrong?" He asks while pulling away from the hug to look me in the eyes. "What happened? Are you-"

I grab his face and start to kiss him all over.

"Nash, I'm so sorry. I am so, so sorry. I'm so selfish. I'm sorry. Please, please, please forgive me." I beg.

"Sh, it's okay. Shh, you'll be alright princess. I'm here." Nash's large hands go to the back of my head, bringing me close to him as he steps forward. "Let's get back inside okay?" I nod my head furiously trying to breathe normally. He grabs my suitcases from the curb and we walk back to the room in silence.

"Mommy..." Is the first thing that I hear as I walk through the door. Izzy is tossing around in her sleep, grabbing the air for something. Nash quietly speed walks to her bed and coos calming words to her. I smile weakly before walking to the bathroom and washing my face.

In a hushed voice Nash tells me to come back to bed. I nod and did as he said, but only for a brief moment before I got up and took Izzy out of her bed and put her in ours. Nash spoons me from behind, wrapping both me and the child I have come to love protectively and securely.

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A/N: I'm like hey what's up hello
Saw I wasn't updating,
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