Come a Little Closer ((Completed))

Chapter 31

Piper, Jai, Jaxson, and me. That is how we seated on the plane. We were lucky enough to be seated next a row of chairs that were unoccupided. I sat to myself. I lifted up the arm rest and was able to lay across the seats, with my head pressed to the windows. I was suprised the flight attendant didn't yell at me. We are 24,000 feet in the air and I highly doubt what I was doing was safe. But I guess it was.

Jaxson hasn't said one word to any of us. Until Jai and Piper were asleep. Then he sat by me, placing my legs across his lap.

"I'm sorry." He tells me.

I shrug. His acting like a jerk, was the last thing on my mind.

"Have you ever been to L.A.?" I asked killing the awful silence that pierced my ears.

"I'm from right outside L.A." He told me. "My brother lives there now. I'm hoping to make amends while we are here."

I smiled. "I hope this will bring Layla and I together."

"Rory, I know we haven't known each other long, but when we get to L.A. I am begging you to try not hating me."

I sat up pulling my legs to my chest and off his lap. "Why would I hate you?" I asked.

"I'm just saying. If anything happens please know that I do care about you, and I'm sorry."

"Jaxson.." I say but he gets up and walks to a few empty seats behind me.

I close my eyes and try to think of why he is acting so weird, and what that cryptic message was all about. I think about this until I'm alseep.

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Once we land it's just about 12:00am. Piper drops the guys off at the hotel then drives me home.

"Aurora it is going to be hard so, so hard to see her like that. I need you to be strong. I have a feeling your mom will be affected by this a little to much."

I nod and grab my bags from the back before getting out.

It feels odd being here after not being here for so long.

I look at the house and I see Greg, Blake, and knife. Making my sore feel nothing but pain. Then Max pops into my head. What will he think when he sees home? Will he be mean? What should I expect? Then I remember I am home for one reason and one reason only. My sister.

I snap back into reality then walk up the drive way and into the house dropping my bags in the door way. The house is black and the only sound I hear is from my footsteps as I walk up to Layla's room.

I don't knock. I just walk in. She opens her tear filled eyes and sits up as I walk across her cold room.

"You don't need to get up." I tell her amd crawl under her blankets. I look at her and she instantly breaks into tears.

I hug her tightly. She doesn't have to say anything and I don't have to say anything. Any awful thought we had before is gone. All I feel when I hug her is love, and compassion as I hug my baby sister and try to make her feel better.

I only wish I could. But how do you take the pain away from someone who just lost her baby?

"I love you." She tells me.

I nod and look at her. "I love you so much."

She looks down at her hands. I can tell she has something to say.

"I've been an afwul sister..and I feel, I feel like I deserve this...I feel like I'm being put through the same hurt as I put--"

"No.." I say cutting her off. "A baby and a boyfriend are two different things. This has nothing to do with us and nothing to do with what you did, don't ever for a second believe that this is your fault."