Almost Lover

01

"Goodbye Lucas. It was nice knowing you." I whispered to my self still watching him walk down my drive way.

I shut the door and slid my back down it. One single tear slid down my face. And then another. And another and pretty soon I was in a puddle of my own tears sobbing. My mother ran to see what was wrong with me. "Skylar, honey, what happened?" She whispered to me pulling me into her arms.

I cried harder to where I started screaming.

1 year later~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Sky!" Jay yelled and jumped on me when I opened the door. "Mum wants to see us. She said she has a big announcement." She said after getting off of me and brushing herself off.

"But leaving this apartment." I whined. She chuckles and rolled her eyes at me. "Come on lazy ass." She said dragging me out the door.

Skipping car ride••••••••••••••••

We pulled into the drive way of my mums house and hopped out of the equinox. I followed Jay to the door and she opened it and walked in. Mum greeted us at the door and lead us to the living room. "Okay, to the announcement. You know the man I have been seeing?" She asked us and we both nodded our heads. She held out her left hand and on her ring finger was a sparkling diamond.

"No way." I said. She smiled. "Yes way! I'm getting married!" She squealed. I smiled at her. "We are having an engagement party tonight but you don't need to dress up. It's casual. You can meet bill's daughter and son."

"Sounds wonderful mum." Jay said. I'm glad it's casual I don't like wearing dresses unlike Jay who has to for her job. She works as a clothing designer for Torrid. As what I do for a living is, I am a writer for MSN. Which means I do all of those reports.

"I need to get ready. Will you girls help me choose my outfit?" Mum asked us. "I would love too mum but I have a meeting I need to get to. So Skylar, help mother." She said walking out the front door. I followed mum into her room and found her searching through her closet. "First of all mum. What look are you going for?"

"Hmm," she started tapping her face "sexy, but still mature." She said smiling wide. "Okay." I walked into her closet and pulled a red dress off the hook and handed it to her. "Heels or flats?" I asked her.

"Heels. But my short ones. I'll be walking a lot." I pulled her black pumps off of the shoe rack and handed them to her. She smiled and walked into the bathroom to change. After about two minutes she walked out. "You look beautiful mum. I feel so underdressed for the occasion." I said smiling. She chuckled, "you look fine. It's not like you have to go around greeting hundreds of people. We should probably get going. The party is at his house."

••••••••a boring car ride later••••••••••

We pulled into the drive way of a huge mansion. It was so beautiful. "Did you tell jay where it was?" I asked mum getting out of the car. "Yes. I texted her the address. Now come on I want you to meet his kids!"

She grabbed my hand and dragged me to the door. She let go of my hand to knock. In a few seconds the door swung open to a happy smiling Bill. "Hello girls. Please enter!" He said smiling. Mum stepped and kissed bill. I quietly slipped in behind her and looked at the area around me. It was breathtaking. I giant chandelier hung above the entry way. And a beautiful stair case leading to the many floors in this house. "Your house is beautiful sir." I said to him.

"Thank you, but, call me Bill. Grant is in the kitchen setting up some of the decoration. Why don't you introduce yourself." He said pointing in the direction of what I assumed to be the kitchen. I walked in that direction and into the kitchen to see a boy about 13 in the kitchen leaning over the table. "Hello soon to be step brother. My name is Skylar." I said to him. He jumped and turned around smiling. "Hello soon to be step sister my name is Grant. I like your taste in football."

I looked down at my shirt then to his and smiled. "Hell yeah." I said giggling. I sat on one of the bar stools and watched him do his thing. "Don't you have a sister?" I asked him.

"Yeah. Ana. She went to pick up her boyfriend." He said fixing the fruit tray on the table. "Cool." Boyfriend, huh?

•••••••••••••two hours later•••••••••••••••

People started arriving about an hour later. There was people everywhere. I did know a few people here so I mingled a little bit. I ran into Jay and her husband about twenty minutes ago. I sat on the stairs for a little bit until mom came up to me and told me to go find Ana. So here I was, searching the house for Ana. Even though I didn't know what she looked like. I was also looking for grant to see if he had seen her. I found Grant talking to a boy in the kitchen. The boy had curly light brown hair and looked to be about 6 foot. I walked up to the two of them and poked Grant. He turned towards me and smiled. "Hey Sky! What did ya need?" He asked. The other guy with him was smirking at me but I brushed it off and continued to talk to Grant.

"Have you seen your sister? My mother wants me to meet her still." I asked him. "Nope haven't seen her. What about you Ashton?"

"I think I saw her outside on the patio." Ashton said smiling.

"Thank you." I said and walked towards the patio. I had seen Bill out there so I walked up to him. "Hey Bill, have you seen your daughter?" I asked him. "Yeah she's by the pool." He smiled. "Thank you." I said and walked towards the pool. I saw a girl about my age sitting at the pool with her feet in. I walked up and sat next to her. She noticed my presence and looked over at me smiling. "You must be Ana?" I asked. She nodded still smiling. "And you must be Skylar. It's a pleasure to meet you." She said holding out her hand.

I took it into mine shaking it. "If you sit here with me long enough you can

meet my boyfriend." She said swaying her feet back and forth in the water. "Okay." So I stayed seated next to her. After a few minutes I felt a presence behind us. She must have too because she looked up. "You always did like the Raiders." This boy who I never imagined to see again.