Sadly Forbidden

Chapter 2

"Sierra! Wait Sierra!" I didn't want to talk to him, not after he walked into the school with her in his arms. Shauna Dinton wasn't a bad girl, quite the opposite actually, she was an amazing student and sweet to everyone. That's why there was this burning in my chest, because it wasn't just any girl in his arms. But a girl who looked perfect with him, who was perfectly suited for him.

"Sierra, please just listen to me!" I didn't want to talk to him, school was over and I just wanted to go home. See my cute little blue parrotlet Letty, and ignore the burning feeling in my chest.

"Please!" His hand wrapped around my arm stopping me in my fleeing tracks I turned facing him seeing that his face was red and tears were welling up in his eyes. "You need to fly Sierra and you can't do that with me."

"What does that even mean!" I yelled back closing my eyes hoping that if I did that he would just go away. But life wasn't that easy, he wasn't just some hallucination that I could close my eyes and make him go away. He was real and this pain was real, the pain of being rejected by the one you... care for.

He stood up straight letting go of my wrist and moving I could feel the distance he was putting between us, I had no choice in the matter as he drifted away from me. Drifting away where I could not reach him, at least not the way I wanted to, an ocean between us even though it was really only a few feet.

"You have an amazing future ahead of you Sierra Luisa Day Da Ruiz." He held his mouth open for a second as if he was going to add more but instead he just smiled softly at me before walking away.

I knew a piece of my heart was walking away with him as he left me, I wondered if he left a piece of his with me. I didn't know exactly what he meant when he said that, but I was going to do everything that I could to figure it out. Whatever this future of mine that he sees, I will find it and prove to him that he can be there to.

"You seem very busy daughter of mine, should I tell Mr. Heron that we will meet with him another day?" My mother stood in the doorway watching me carefully with a disapproving face.

"Of course not Ms. Ruiz, I am fully prepared and was just waiting for the meeting to begin." I rose from my chair following my mother, I couldn't help but wonder if this was the bright future Michael had been talking about. The future that he had spoke to me about when I was only fifteen years old, just a little freshman in high school.

"Now then have you made a decision regarding Mr. Heron's product?" My mother asked me as we walked, I knew she was trying to see if I was going to accept Mr. Heron's proposal or not. This was one of her stupid little tests to see if I could truly run the company that father and her had created.

"Of course I have moth- Ms. Ruiz." I replied stiffly stumbling over my words for a moment, I wonder what father thinks of us as he watches us from heaven? Would he be proud of the woman that I've become, or does he see a future that I don't just like Michael does.

The meeting past by quickly after I informed Mr. Heron that we would be unable to help him in his quest with glow in the dark cosmetics. I told him however that I would contact someone that I thought would love his product, a company that specialized in makeup for teens and parties. Since Sousa Day Cosmetics was mainly forces towards those 18 and up, mother always found it repulsing that twelve year olds had started wearing makeup nowadays.

"You did well in the meeting daughter." My mother replied giving me a tight lipped smile in reward for my good work, I smiled gently back at her trying not to laugh at her mannerisms.

It's been a long time since my mother truly was free with her emotions, now they were under every lock and key in existence. Ever since we had lost father she's been like this, present physically but emotionally she was never around. I wondered if God knew what he was putting my mother through when he decided that my father's time was up.