Star-Crossed

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE.

SKY

The sun was fully up now.

I didn't wake up because I didn't sleep.

My eyes were trying to close but every time I did, I saw everything that happened last night.

Heartbreak was not like they show in movies. It felt like your heart was actually physically broken.

Not only did I know that it was all my fault that we were over, the words that he spat at me were going to be engraved in my mind forever.

I could never forget them. I could never forget how he harshly grabbed my face and my arm. I could never forget his cold eyes looking at me with such anger and disgust.

"Can you take that fucking stick out of your ass for once and have a drink?"

"Shut up, Sky. You talk too fucking much, just shut up."

"I don't want you. Leave."

"The only thing I'll miss is fucking you whenever I want."

I knew we were way more than that, but what if he really meant that? What if those 'I love you's and 'I need you's were just lies he told me to get in my pants.

The white rose that Alexander had picked out for me on the hotel rooftop became the only thing I could see.

It was already dying, as if it was visually signifying that when he picked out the perfect rose for me, we were perfect, but now we were dying just like the rose.

My bedroom door opened and behind it was my mother. She was still in her pyjamas and her natural messy hair was out.

"Good morning, baby." She greeted me, but her smile was unable to break through my dark soul.

She saw it in my face and walked closer to me. "What's wrong?"

"Alex found out. We're over." I began to cry once more.

"Aw, Sky." My mother said before sitting down on the bed in front of me. She opened up her motherly arms for me and I let myself get enveloped in her warmth. "What happened?"

"He read it in my diary." I cried on her shoulder.

"Sky, I told you you should've told him earlier." She lectured me, but kept caressing my back.

"I know."

"What am I gonna do?" I sobbed.

"What do you mean?"

"I want to go to Virginia with him. . ." I confessed.

She pulled me away and looked at me straight in the eyes. "Sky, you can't do that."

"Mama, I need him and he needs me." I informed her.

She wiped my tears. "Sky, I know you two love each other but I will not let you give everything up for him."

"I want to give everything up! I'd rather be with him than anything else."

"Sky, you got accepted to a really good university. You can't give that up." She shook her head.

I looked down, thinking about how crazy it sounded to give up my life to live it with him. My life was nothing without him. He saved me from a really bad place and I wanted to live every second with him.

"I'm not saying that you two won't work out, but what if you go to Virginia with him and it doesn't work out? You're going to come back here? Instead of fulfilling your own dreams?"

I sobbed some more. "I don't know, mama."

"Whatever decision you choose, make sure that it is better for you in the long run." She told me.

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ALEXANDER

When I woke up, there was an excruciating pain all over my body.

I got up from the dirty rock I fell asleep on and cracked all of the bones I could.

It was so fucking bright outside. Too fucking bright.

My mind was blank. I couldn't even remember why I was here and what brought me here.

I walked out of the forest and looked down at my bloody shirt. "The fuck."

My truck was parked outside of the forest, so I got in and started to drive. The more I drove, the more the memories came back.

Prom. Sky's diary. My father's death. Getting arrested. Driving to the forest while drinking a bottle of vodka. Sky coming to the forest and fighting with her.

Sky. Skyler fucking Williams.

I remembered the anger I felt inside when I saw her after I found out that she betrayed me. The way her beautiful face saddened because of my awful words.

I remembered her saying that she would come with me to Virginia and me telling her to leave, because I knew that she didn't want to come.

It took me the whole car ride to my house to realize that the awful feeling I felt inside wasn't just the hangover, but the fact that my heart was fucking broken because of her.

I entered my home and went straight for the kitchen for some water. My mother was sitting down  in front of Layla, on the brink of tears.

Layla was just drawing in her book, completely unaware of the depth of the conversation they were about to have.

"Layla, something happened to Steven." She went around the point, and talked to her sweetly.

"Daddy?" Layla questioned looking up from her drawing book.

My vision became blurry, and I was confused before I realized they were tears. I wiped them off with my arm quickly before running up the stairs.

Everything was hitting me hardertoday. I was hurt, angry and I only wanted one thing.

Her.

I wanted Sky with me so badly that it hurt. I wanted to hug her, kiss her and let out all of my emotions to her, but I couldn't do that because she was gone.

She wasn't physically gone yet, but she was still gone.

"Fuck!" I groaned loudly, not able to keep that anger in.

I punched a hole into my wall but my anger was still eating me up alive, so I punched a few more.

The pain helped me cope with the anger.

I looked down and my bloody fist. "Fuck."

I grabbed my towel and got into the shower to drown in my thoughts. The warm water was falling down my body as I placed my hands on the wall in front of me.

Her beautiful plump lips, her big sparkly brown eyes, her messy curls that made her look like a lion, her calming voice and her sweet peach smell stole every thought in my mind.

I tried, I tried my hardest to shut Sky out of my mind but I came to the conclusion that that was impossible.