Our Ever After?

Moving On

Skyler

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BEEP BEEP BEEP!! Blindly smacking around for phone, to decline whoever is calling me.
"Sky!! SKY! Omg finally you haven't been answering your phone all morning!! I was like five seconds away from buying a plane ticket!" He starts yelling the second I accidentally answer my phone.
"I couldn't ever tell overseas with a shitty satellite phone that you've were always yelling but my poor ears are suffering now!" I yell back.
"Well I never knew how grumpy you are in the morning!!" He argues, still not telling me why he called.
"Oh! Yeah, I wanted to know when you're coming home, cause I'm soooo bored and I know how much you didn't want to go home!" He starts rambling about things we could do when I get back. Tuning him out I get out my old laptop, that I used in high school. I start figuring out when the next open flight out of here is,
"Do you think you guys could pick me up at nine tonight?" I ask, completely cutting him off about getting our nails done somewhere nice.
"WHAT?!?!? I thought you said at least a few days!!!! GABE!! CAN WE PLEASE PICK SKYLER UP AT THE AIRPORT TONIGHT?????" He screams, barely pulling the phone away.
"Sky? Why are you coming home so soon? Are you okay?" Gabe asks, apparently taking the phone John. I knew Gabe saw I was leaving something out when I told them about my past. That dead family wouldn't cause as much anxiety as I had about coming back.
"I just realized there is nothing left for me here. So, this says I get in at 8:30 so by nine I should be ready to picked up can you?" I say not giving anything away in my voice, still feeling shaken up about the flashback.
"Yeah, we can see you tonight then." With that he hangs up, not giving John a chance to continue his ramble about nails.
I quickly buy the ticket and get my ass in gear to make it to the airport in the next hour, not risking it here any longer. I don't even use my crutches, due to the hurry I'm in. I may have just spent the last six years away but the thought of seeing him again sends me fleeing. I had been hoping I could sneak in, get what I wanted and get the hell out without anyone noticing me.
I hadn't bothered to unpack, so all I have to do I shower and find a few things from my teen years I wanted. I already made plans to ship my motorcycle out, so all I need is a few things from my closet and my laptop.
Right on time, I'm heading out the door, I can see a few neighbors poking their heads out, obviously waiting for me to come out. They must have not expected it to be me, probably expecting someone I paid to open the house up. After I get everything loaded in the car, I just stand here for a second. Looking around, all my favorite memories playing, trying to ride a bike, me and my mom having a lemonade stand, my grandma knitting on the front porch while I am playing in the sprinkler. I met the eyes of a few people and the second I do, they all rush back inside. Knowing how wrong they were to let what happened to me go on as long as it did. As I'm putting my crutches in the back seat of the rental car, someone taps me on the shoulder. When I turn around, I'm shocked to see it's my mom's best friend, who was basically my aunt, that moved away shortly before my grandma died.
"Sky! What the hell happened to you!!" She asks, hugging me tighter then someone I haven't seen in 9 years is expected to.
"Umm just caught some shrapnel and a bullet." I whisper, enjoying being hugged after so long. Pulling away so she can see my face, "what do you mean just caught some shrapnel and you got shot!!" She almost screams, so all the neighbors that were hovering around heard.
"I joined the Marines, on my last tour a mission went bad. It was just a through and through gunshot wound on my shoulder and my knee got slightly crushed by shrapnel from an exploding car." I tell her, not really wanting to look her in the eye.
"Well I'm so happy you're okay honey. I'm sorry about how things went down after your mom died. I always meant to visit you..." I cut her off saying " I wouldn't have let you visit." I say, before turning to get in the car.
"Wait! Sky, are you leaving already?" Carly asks.
"Carly, look I've really missed you but not this town. So, here is my number, maybe we can meet up somewhere else after I get settled?" I tell her, giving her another hug before I get in the car and drive away from this place for the last time.
I don't even look back, even though I know Carly is waving goodbye to me. I just need to leave this town in my rear-view mirror and never look back again.
As much as I love Carly and she'll always be family to me. She is still like everyone else they either left me or let me get abused, I just can't have that in my life anymore. I quickly get to the airport, after spending most of the drive in a daze of putting all of that behind me. It doesn't take me long to return the car and get through security since my flight isn't for another two hours I pull out of my laptop to see what I've missed online.
After an hour or so of surfing the web, I find myself staring at an empty search box, trying to remember my reasons for not wanting a sugar daddy. Ten long minutes, I just stare at it until I cave and typing in www.seekingasugar.com.
Planning to just look around, mmm can't look without signing up, I guess it couldn't hurt to get an idea what it's like, right?
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