Open My Eyes

Chapter 6- Nickname Crisis

Aubrey's P.O.V
"Wake up."

"Wakey wakey."

"Aubrey sweetheart time to get up."

"Ouch man come on."

"She's my girlfriend bro, quit talking to her like that."

"Dude she's so hot though how can I not be attracted to her?"

I start to move around then sleeply respond to the fighting guys, "Shut the freak up guys."

"She's alive," says Mason.

"Of course she's alive, you idiot, she would never leave me," Blair retorts.

"Mason? Blair?" I ask.

They respond at the same time, "Yes beautiful?"

"Come here for a second," then I sit up waiting for them to come closer. When they stop infront of me I put my hands on their heads and push them together. Which causes them to yell out in pain. "Now shut up and quit with the sweet talk, got it?"

"Yes, we both get it," cries Mason.

"Good, now where is Jase?"

"Right here sunshine," he smiles cutely. But I am no longer happy I'm to the point of tears.

I get out of the truck and run to mine. I call over my shoulder that I need space for a little bit. I hear all the guys yelling bjt I don't look back, I can't look back. I get in my truck and rush out of the driveway. I keep driving until I see a sign. It reads 'Kentucky Lake next right'. So I do the only thing I think that is logical is too turn right. It leads me down the twisty road. After 10 minutes of driving I finally start to see the water sparkling under the moon light. I back my truck up to the water, I reach in the back and grab an old blanket. I hop out of my truck and go to the bed of the truck, pull the tailgate down, climb on in and throw the blanket down.

I don't know how long I have been staring at the sky, but I know it has been awhile. My lucky star my mom and I picked out on my 10th birthday is where all my focus has been since I got here. I know she looks down and watches over me and the family, but it still pains me to think about her. The way we always spend anytime we had outsidw kicking a soccer ball around, or her teaching me to shoot my first gun, let my first arrow fly into a target. The way she would always, always call me sunshine. I was the last one she talked to before she was gone. The last words she ever said, she said to me. I start cry out, "Why, why her? Why not me? Why, just why her? W-Why w-why w-why," I just continue to sob.

"Who was she?" I look over and see Blair and Mason.

"W-W-What are y-you do-doing h-here?" I stutter.

"We followed you here. We wanted to make sure you were okay, I mean you just up and left. What was that all about?" Blair questions.

By now I have dried all the tears that kept running down my cheeks, "I'm fine just leave me alone please. I need time to think."

They both come walking along closer to me. They then sit down each on either side of me, Mason on my left, and Blair on my right. They wrap their arms around me. I lean into the hug and let the tears falls down my face. I just let go of all my emotions. We all stay hugging for a while then I pull back. "Guys I really appreciate this," I wipe my tears aways, "It was 6 years ago," I start.

"Aubrey you don't have too," Blair states.

"Yeah, you guys need to know. 6 years ago my mom was having these reoccurring migraines. We didn't think anything of it, but then she started puking up blood, and she got really disorientated, she kept falling. So my dad took her to the hospital. They said that she had 3 tumors pushing against her brain. Which was causing her to have the migraines. They told us it was too late to do anything. Then on my 11th birthday we were talking, she told me it was time. Time for her leave. I questioned it at first until I realized what she meant. I started crying non-stop," I stop to catch my breath I was about to start ctying again. "You want to know what the last words she ever said were, I feel so selfish I was the only one there when she left us. She told me 'you have to be brave now. You take care of your brother and sister for me. Your dad too. You always made my day. You are my sunshine, forever. I love you sunshine, be brave for me.' Then she died, right there in front of me on my birthday," a single tear feel down my face.