Unnatural blue II A. KNIGHT

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░▒▓█▓▒░ Skylar wakes early, up before Ryan is awake. She makes breakfast for him, trying to figure out how she's going to explain the situation to him. This probably won't go well and she's not ready for the coming conversation. She stiffens up when she hears Ryan's quick, quiet footsteps heading her way. "Morning, mommy," he greets tiredly, sitting at his favorite spot at the table. "Where's Awsie? He sleeps over when he comes with you to pick me up." Skylar blinks back tears, not wanting to show that she's upset. She's just holding it together for Ryan. She doesn't want him to see her cry, knowing that will only make it worse for him. She thought she got all her crying out on the phone with Christy last night. "Awsten went home last night," Skylar tells Ryan, keeping her voice steady. She starts to continue but Ryan speaks before she can. "Is he gonna come over? I wanna play with him again! He's real' fun," Ryan begins rambling, "he's good at, like, every game! And he sings! Did you know he sings? His voice is nice; I bet he'll sing a love song for you one day!" "That's not gonna be happening, honey," Skylar replies, "Awsten isn't coming back. We broke up." "No," Ryan denies, shaking his head. "It...you love him! And he's nice! Why would you break up? No!" "It just didn't work out—" Skylar starts off only to be interrupted. "Why not!?! He wasn't mean or bad like Eddie was! He was 'posed to stay! It's not fair," Ryan seems close to tears, clearly unhappy with this whole thing. "What'd he do?" "It wasn't his fault—" Skylar tries to say, only to have Ryan cut on again. "Then it was yours?" Ryan question s with a frown. "It wasn't anyone's fault. Some things just happen—" Skylar attempts to explain but, yet again, gets cut off. "No," Ryan snaps, "no! You left him! Why'd you do that, mommy! He was good! You left for no reason! I hate you!" "Ryan," Skylar exclaims in shock, unable to say anything more before he runs off to the room, slamming the door behind him. Normally, Skylar would tell him not to slam the door and try to explain things but she's far too upset to really do anything right now. Unable to stop herself, the tears pick back up again. She stands there at the kitchen counter, crying as quietly as she can manage so that Ryan doesn't hear. ●☆●☆●☆●☆● "This fucking sucks," Awsten groans to Jawn. His face is stained with tears from crying all night and then again in the morning when he woke up and remembered that his relationship is over. For a few blissful seconds, he'd forgotten and went to call Skylar to tell her good morning. He almost called before he remembered and found himself in tears again. "I hate this! Everything about this fucking sucks!" "I know," Jawn replies sympathetically, "but it'll hurt less eventually, okay? It's bad right now but it won't always be so bad." "I don't know," Awsten mumbles, "it's never been so bad before, like in any other break up. If you hadn't come over, I'd probably wouldn't have gotten outta bed at all. I just wanna lay there and not move, like, ever again. It just hurts." "That's 'cause you love her." ░▒▓█▓▒░