The Missing And The Found

#15

recap 

"Hey shy" I saw her face more clearly when she stepped into the light 

"MOM?" 

END RECAP.

"I know it was a strange way for me to get you here, but I had to get you here without your father knowing where you were and who you were with or talking to." I was baffled and at a loss for words why would my mother do something like this I mean I heard them that night I went to say goodnight I cried my eyes out jake had to come to comfort me. 

"Why didn't you just ask me out to lunch for a girl's day? Why did you do it in a creepy stalker way, mom?"

"because of your father that's a little too suspicious knowing you and I are not close. Besides if I were to ask you to go to dinner with me would you have or would you have made an excuse to not go?" 

"Nevermind that okay, what do you want?" I asked a little irritated with her. she stood there and just looked at me I sighed turned around and walked towards the door. then she yelled. 

"SKYLAR IS ALIVE!" I stopped in my tracks and the anger rushed through my body my heart was pounding and I could feel my face turning red and the heat coming off of my face. 

"NO, she's not alive I called dad and he even said she was gone, how could you? try to give me false hope like that you knew how close me and sky were and you have to go and tell me lies like this you were so worried about dad finding out that you were doing this well guess what. you just convinced me to tell him sky is long gone and that is that now im trying move on from mourning my sister and be happy like she would want me to do if you want to be miserable and lie to yourself then sat behind and do it but don't drag  dad , Jackson and I into it  okay I am so done listening to your lies and playing your games." with that I  walked out of the house and got in my car and drove home.

I pulled in the driveway and noticed my dad was home I walked in the front door and yelled.

"I'm home." I heard a reply from the kitchen.so I walked into the kitchen to find the boys eating and my dad doing the dishes. 

"Hey, guys why don't you go sit on the couch and eat and watch a movie I need to talk to dad." they both grabbed their food and walked out of the kitchen and into the living room my dad turned around after shutting the water off and sat down on one of the stoles on the island and he looked at me. so I sat down next to him pulled out my phone and let him read the messages from the beginning.  

"Who was it?" was the first thing to come out of his mouth.

"Your wife" was all I said and he looked at me and said  

"It's true" I looked at him with shock with the words he said I could feel the tears run down my face I struggled to speak up so it came out as a whisper 

"What?" he looked away from me like he couldn't sit her tell me this like it was hard for him. He let a sigh and turned to look at me.

"Pal this is going to be hard to hear but Skylar might not be dead she could be anywhere the casket was empty after looking for so long we decided you need to be at rest with this you drove yourself crazy staying up late texting her number calling crying missing so much school we had to let it go in hopes you would be okay without her it killed me to see you breaking down every day over her not coming home. Your mother wanted to tell you the truth but I didn't want you to break down again when you would cry i was there to help you through it Jackson was only really little so he didn't really understand what happened but your mother threw herself into work didn't come home till late and then she was gone very early in the morning I had to pick up the pieces and put them back together and I didn't want you to be hurt or to feel like that anymore." He explained and walked over to the fridge and pulled out a beer and opened it. 

"When I called and asked you willingly lied to me?"

"No Shiloh It was not willingly lying to you was hard probably the hardest thing I had to do in a long time." I nodded my head and replied with

"I want the key." He looked at me 

"Are you sure pal last time you went in there you refused to come out" 

"Yeah I'm sure" he pulled out his keys and pulled off a little silver key off of the key ring and placed it in my hand.

"hey pal?" he said as I  was about to walk away i stopped to turn to look at him.

"Yeah dad" I replied not sure i wanted to know what else he had to say being a little bit upset with him hiding this from me all these years she wasn't just my sister she was my best friend we did everything together and he lied to me 

"Are you mad? If your mad please understand my reason for hiding this from you i did it so you could have some sort of release you were holding onto her and we couldn't find her we looked everywhere shy and you were so angry with your mom because she promised she would find her but when she didn't you blamed her and then as you went on with your life you started to open up more you stopped missing school started playing sports handing out with your friends you and Jake got together you were so happy and that's all we ever wanted was for you to stop worrying and to be a teenager." I walk over and sit down next to him.

"No I'm not mad. I'm hurt you lied to me about something I'm still trying to move past shes my sister and my best friend she was always there when i needed someone to be, no I am not mad." I got up and walked up the stairs past my bedroom down the other end of the hall to Skylar's door I stopped to look at the purple letters  that spelled out Sky. I let out a deep breath i didn't realize I was holding in,I held the key up to the  doorknob and pushed the key in and turned it I pushed to door open and walked in to her room nothing was different it was all the same her bed was made and her close were hung in her closet with not a single wrinkle to be seen on them. 

I walked over to her desk where her computer sat nicely placed in the center all her paper work and books organised  i open the desk drawer and pull out her diary opening it up to the last page written hoping their would be something that gave away where she could be. Anything that could answer my questions. 

Like why she disappeared, where she could be, was she taken, who would have taken her. 

I don't know but i want answers and i want them now.

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Hey your girls back with a new chapter sorry for taking so long :) thanks -Mack.