Voices; l.h.

Chapter nine

Runaway, runaway from everything with me.

Luke's words kept on playing over and over again in Sky's head. Of course she wished he would ask her and of course she wanted to, but something is telling her not to leave. The thought of running away with Luke was amazing, but actually doing it was terrifying. Where would they go, where could they go?

"I-I can't." Sky said.

Sky could tell Luke was somewhat hurt by her answer. She could see it all over his face.

"I want to, but it's not right." She added quickly.

Luke knew it wasn't right, but with Sky sometimes he couldn't tell the difference from right and wrong. He just wanted to be with her, that's all he wanted.

"Are you just going to go and possibly get killed by that maniac of a doctor?" Luke questioned. "I don't know what I'm going to do, but I know running away from my problems aren't going to solve them. I wish I could just get up and leave, but I can't, I can't leave not yet." Sky admitted. "So that's how all of this is going to end? You're just going to leave me and go through with their stupid plan?"

Luke was upset. He wanted Sky to be with him. He didn't want to lose her again. He didn't mean to come off mean and bitter but that's how it came out. He could see Sky was hurt by his words, by the way he was talking to her.

See Sky, do you see what you do to people?

You're pathetic Sky, you really are.

Sky could feel herself getting weaker and weaker by the second. She wasn't sure what it was. She wasn't sure if it was the voices or her own body giving up on her. Maybe it was a little of both.

"Sky, are you okay?" Luke asked with concern. "I need to go." She said racing off.

Sky made her way to the bathroom and slid down against the wall and cried. She hasn't ever felt this way before and it was bothering her. She wasn't sure what was bothering her, there was so much on her mind.

"Sky? Are you okay?" She heard someone say knocking on the door.

"I'm fine." She managed to say.

Sky pulled herself together and walked out of the restroom trying to control the tears that blinded her.

"Hey, I'm sorry I didn't mean anything I said before." Luke said with guilt. "I'm fine." She said walking back to the table where her new friends waited patiently. "No you're not." Luke said. "You can't be fine with all these things that are happening to you it's impossible to be fine with it all." He added. "Well I just learned how to deal with it and not make everyone I meet feel sorry for me. I don't need your pity so you can just leave because everyone always ends up leaving."

Sky didn't want everyone she met to feel sorry for her and look at her as if she was some helpless little girl that needed their pity because she was more than that and Luke saw that. To Luke she was one of the strongest people he has met and he felt lucky to know her even if it was just for a short period of time.

"That's the thing Sky, I'm not everyone else. I know you, I know the real you. I love you Sky and whether you want to admit it or not I know you love me too."

Sky knew she had feelings for Luke and that scared her a lot. Everything she has ever come to love has vanished right before her eyes and she didn't want to go through it again. She just reminded herself about her past and how she wasn't good enough to deserve a guy like Luke.

Would you ever forgive yourself if something happened to lover boy?

That's what scared sky the most. She didn't want anything to happen. She couldn't live with herself if something were to happen.

"That's it Luke, you think you know the real me but you don't." she said walking away.

Sky didn't like the fact she had to keep pushing Luke away, but it was for his own good. She couldn't have anything happening to him. It wasn't Emily and Jason she was afraid of it was Doctor Fritzen. She knew he could target anyone of her knew friends and she didn't want that happening. He would do anything to keep his secret safe even if that meant take another life.

"You okay?" Jessie asked with a concerned look. "I'm fine. Can we just get out of here?" She asked in a low pitched voice. "Uh, yeah sure." Sam said grabbing his keys giving Jessie a look just getting a shrug in return.

Sky wished it was easy. She wished she had met Luke in a better time in her life and maybe just maybe they could be together. But of course her life wasn't a fairytale and she didn't get a fairy godmother to grant her ever wish. She wanted to be someone else someone who had their life together unlike her. But of course she's Sky a runaway mental patient.

Sky watched as Sam and Jessie smiled holding each other's hand walking back to the car. She wanted that. She wanted to be happy with someone. She wanted to be happy with Luke.

"I guess this is it." Sky said under her breath getting into the car.