IT WAS ALWAYS YOU(complete)

UNMASKING

The sun was slowly setting and I just in my truck looking at it. My thoughts were interrupted when a knock on the window caused me to look up. Staring back at me were green eyes attached to the same man I saw poke Carter at the funeral. I blinked to see if I was dreaming when green eye said "Ma'am, are you okay?" I nodded my head without saying anything. Green eye stood there and said "Are you okay? You've been sitting there for hours. The security guard told us to check on you." I looked at the man and then rolled my window down and asked him, "Is it okay if I stay for a few more minutes?"  He looked at me and said "Ma'am, you don't look okay. Are you sure your good?" I looked at the man and nodded my head and then he said "You can stay but please make sure your okay. If you know your not okay to drive just call a cab or let us and Melissa can drive you home. Deal?" I thought about it for a few seconds and then I asked him "Who's Melissa?" Green eye looked at me and said "She's the head security working the night shift, and she's the one who called in about you when she saw your truck came in and you never left." I told him thanks and I will let them know if I needed help. He said "Have a good evening and take care" He turned around and thats when I notice that he was wearing a security guard uniform. 

*Jakes POV*

When Melissa called in that a truck was seen in the beach parking lot for more than 2 hours, I called in and said that I'll check it out. I walked to the parking lot and a familiar Ram 1500 black truck was sitting there parked  in the middle parking of the lot. I walked over to the car and knocked on the driver side window. The driver looked at me and damn, she was a beautiful thing. I'm married, I know but when I see beauty I know. The driver looked like she had been crying for hours, I asked if she was okay and she says yes. After making sure that she was okay I walked back to our office. When I knew she couldn't see me, I turn back around and look at the truck, thats when it struck me why the truck looked familiar, it was the same truck that was in front of us the day we went with Cameron and Carter to the Miller Hotel for our meeting with Manager Kim. I looked at the truck again then went towards the office. Cameron popped his head in the office and asked if I was okay. I nodded my head and asked him " you remember that truck that was in front of us the day we had the meeting with Manager Kim?" he nodded his head and said " what about it?" I told him " It's sitting in the parking lot and let me tell you, the driver is beautiful, sad though cause she looks heartbroken. She looks like she's been crying for days." cameron just looked at me and said " is she okay?" I nodded my head and then I told him " she looks so familiar but I can't put my finger on where I've seen her before." Before Cameron can say anything, a loud beep caused us to stand up and go the door. The truck was about to pass the office and when the beautiful driver saw me walk out she rolled her window  and said "thank you for the words of comforting. I'm leaving now." Cameron and I looked at the girl. When she rolled the window and leaned out and thats when it hit me, she looked exactly like the girl in the picture that Carter has hanging on the wall in his office except she has grown ever more beautiful and looked more full and mature than the girl in the picture. The girl rolled her window back up and honked one last time and drove away.

*Camerons POV*

When Jake asked me if I remembered the truck, I nodded and asked him " what about it?" He then told me that it was parked in the lot and that the driver of the truck was beautiful. We stood up when a loud beep sounded from outside, we walked out to see the truck in the driveway and the driver leaning out. I was surprised when the driver looked at us and said she was leaving. I looked at the driver and I was taken back by her beauty. She was beautiful with green eyes that can pierce through and see your soul and that hair, her bright orange hair brought out the sharp green in her eyes and they reminded me of somebody that I've seen before but can't put my finger on where I've seen her before. When she left, Jake turned around and said, "thats her". I looked at him and thats when it clicked that he meant that the girl we just saw was the same girl whose picture was hanging on Carters wall in his office.  I told him to not tell Carter yet until we were sure that it was really her. We stood there and I thought back to when we were deployed with Carter and how he looked at the picture of the girl who he said was the one that got away. I remember that every night Carter would look at the picture and sadness takes him over and Jake and I would leave him to his thoughts. I remembered when Carter was shot and we were about to ship off, Carter had lost a lot of blood and he was drifting in and out, I remember that he kept saying her name, and then I reached over to the chest pocket of his vest and took out the picture then gave it to him and told him " If you wanna see her again, you fight boy. You stay alive." I put the picture in his hand and I guess he must've heard me because he gripped the picture as if his life depended on it. When we reached the hospital were we would be taken I grabbed the doctor who was pulling Carter and told him not to take the picture he was holding away. The doctor nodded his head and repeated what I said to the other doctors and they nodded. I passed out from the pain and later learned that Carter had survived surgery and was still holding on to the picture. I snapped out of my thoughts and went in the office with Jake leading.

*Liyana POV*

I dried my eyes and waited a few seconds then started my truck and headed home. I stopped by the security office and honked, a few seconds later the security who had knocked on my window came out followed by another security. I told the security who knocked on my window that I'm leaving and I noticed that the security in the back was looking at me. I waved and then drove away thinking that I would like to sleep with the twins tonight. I drove away thinking that I needed to make plans for the hotel and the twins.