by Keya Jay
My Dearest Aaron,
Only 5 days until your reborn, all hope hasn’t been torn. Only 5 days before what it once was becomes what it always has been. Your destiny my dear is written in stone, etched with in each of your bones. You are the destiny; I waited for oh so breathlessly. Now the time has come, what was can no longer be undone. Be patient my dear for you will become the bearer of this news, where as I will only become, from this moment forward, whatever you so choose.
Aaron stared at the email, again another one that made no sense to him. The woman has made Aaron believe that he has lost his memory but he’s not entirely sure that that is 100% truth. He’s sure that he might not remember everything but there are some things he does for a fact remember. He remembers Sidney and Ciana and Karen, Hank, Richard, Ryder, and Nathaniel he even remembers Eric. He remember some of their Whisperer of Night battles and his trips to the hospital, usually concerning Sidney and whatever dumb things her friends had gotten her into. He remembers Hank being his best friend, and though they don’t talk much now he remembers the times he spent with Karen both the nice and the ugly. But for the life of him he can’t seem to remember Ciana’s email. He’s tried everything but nothing has worked. The woman had basically taken every other internet privileges away from him by having them children protected which means passwords and the whole nine yards, but she didn’t think he’d do much with the emails because of his memory loss and sadly she was correct in thinking so. But Hank refused to give up.
Skylar Royce
Skylar hadn’t seen or heard from Ryder in the last three days, her Uncle Ethan had called to tell her that Hank had quit and had given him some bullshit excuse stating that he had gotten another job offer in Arizona, which had to have been some kind of joke. Skylar was in and out of the house more than what was usual, she just couldn’t help it her addiction was getting that much stronger, and harder for her to control.
Skylar hasn’t stepped foot into her mother’s room after she had come home, she didn’t want to see it all empty and the dog also decided that he didn’t want to go back in either. Skylar had to go shopping because she realized that she was no better than Mr. Wallace and that she should be taking better care of that dog if she was going to keep it, so she bought him every dog toy she saw not even sure if he’d even play with them and she bought a variety of dog food. She stayed in the house most of the day and went in and out of her dark room to get absolutely nowhere in the case but something that Ryder had said was bothering her, he asked her who had taken the pictures and she hadn’t bothered to question it herself. Who did take those pictures and if they took the pictures did they happen to see what happened to the wisps and where they were being taken? If so then why didn’t Brooke tell her that part?
Speaking of Brooke she was currently in Skylar’s house eating almost everything that was in her fridge.
“I think you should get out, you look down,” Brooke said as she chumped down about three slices of pizza.
“I don’t want to get out, I think if anything I should stay in,” Skylar mumbled.
“May I ask what’s got you so down in the dumps?” she asked as she came to join Skylar on the couch. Skylar never told Brooke about her and Ryder’ fight, she didn’t even tell her that her mother was dead, usually she would because Brooke’s like her sister but for some reason she thought it would be safer to just keep it to herself. “It’s not your little boy-toy is it?” she asked as she frowned. Where once Brooke was drooling all over Ryder now she just hates his guts, it was a kind of sudden change but Skylar just thought that it was because Ryder scared her.
“No Brooke it’s not that.”
“Then what is it, I haven’t seen you this down since your dad died,” she said unknowingly making Skylar all the more sad. “How about I make you a proposal?” she asked excitedly.
“You can go right on ahead but I’m telling you this right now I probably won’t be interested,” Skylar said unenthusiastically.
“We’ll see,” she said as she got up to throw away her scarps. “Ok,” she said clapping her hands excitedly. “Me and Casper are going to a party and—”
“I’m already not interested,” Skylar cut in.
“Hold on hear me out?!” she wined. “Now I have to start all over,” she said dramatically. “Like I was saying, there’s this party that me and Casper are going to and…” she said dramatically pausing. “My insiders tell me that Ryder will be there too,” she finished with a knowing smile. Skylar tried to make it seem as though she still wasn’t interested but she failed miserably, but before she could get too excited she had to know if it was for real. A party didn’t really seem like Ryder’s thing. Yea well kidnapping and killing didn’t either and yet you were quick to blame him for that, she reminded herself sorely.
“Who are these insiders?” Skylar asked.
“Uh, uh, uh, you know I can’t tell you that,” she said as if she was shocked Skylar had even asked such a silly question.
“Riiight,” she drawled out. “I’m really starting to hate this confidentiality thing everyone got going on here. I’m really sick of hearing that excuse,” she said as if her job didn’t require her to say the same thing.
“Well this world has a right to its secrets,” she said causing Skylar to raise a brow at her. “What?” she asked confused.
“You’re usually the first person to agree with me about this confidentiality non-sense and now you’re all for it?”
“Well that was before…” she said not entirely finishing her sentence.
“Before what? Are you hiding something from me Brooke because we never used to keep secrets?” Skylar said thinking back to Brooke being Aaron’s daughter. Technically that was a secret to no one but her because she was the only one who has yet to find out about that but still it counted.
“How can you even say that? You keep secrets all of the time!” Brooke said.
“Yes but that’s because I have no choice and they’re not the secrets I’m talking about Brooke. I mean secrets between us; we’re best friends we’re supposed to tell each other everything!”
“Well I never said I had secrets you did, I just said that my opinion on confidentiality has changed that’s all.”
“What about your mom? You used to come to me pissed that she would never tell you anything pertaining to the work she does.”
“Well that’s different,” she said simply.
“How the hell so?”
“Because Sky I want to be a psychiatrist and so I think it’s only fair that my mother tell me something so I know what it is I will be dealing with. See? Different.”
“Yea, right, you just like being nosy.”
“Ok yea and that too but her stories be soooo interesting,” she said theatrically.
“But I thought she didn’t tell you about them?” Skylar said confused.
“Well she doesn’t but…” she said as she chewed on her bottom lip.
“Oh my gosh Brooke, what did you do?!” she said encouraging her to finish. Skylar had to agree problems were interesting as long as they weren’t your own.
“I went through some of her old cases I thought they’d be harmless you know?” she said shrugging her shoulders. “But when Mr. Henderson had somehow found out, he made her keep them in her office,” she said sticking her bottom lip out as if that saddened her.
“How does your mom even know Hank?” Skylar asked.
“You mean besides the fact the he’s her new boss?” she asked.
“Yes, besides that.”
“Well then I don't know but she did mention being his psychiatrist once upon a time.”
“Hank? Hank's psychiatrist? Are you sure?”
“Yup, but she wasn't all that sure, she just said that he reminded her a lot of a kid she used to talk to, but she could have sworn his name was something else. So in other words she doesn't really know and 9 times out of 10 it's not Hank.” Skylar was almost positive that it was or at least a
high chance that it could be.
“Brooke remember when you said that there was no way we'd be able to get into your mother's cases because of the confidentiality thing and all of that? Well since you’re not really against confidentiality when it comes to your mother I think today we should try and find a way.”
“How? Did you not hear me say that Hank made her start keeping the files in her office? Unless you plan on going there then that will kind of be impossible.”
“That’s exactly what we are going to do Brooke.”
“What?! Are you crazy?! If my mom finds out she as kill me for sure.”
“Look my boss just informed me that Hank is moving to Arizona because of a new job offer so now would be the perfect time, we might not find another so let’s not waste it!”
“Oh God you’re crazy. What do we plan on doing once we find the cases?” she asked.
“Oh I don’t know, read them,” Skylar said sarcastically.
“Ok but can we at least go to the party first,” Brooke wined. Skylar sighed not really wanting to go anymore even if Ryder was going to be there, which she still doubted.
“Fine,” she agrees reluctantly. “But don’t expect me to look any better than this,” she said gesturing toward her sweat pants and cami.
“Whatever,” Brooke said rolling her eyes. “But if you ever expect to keep you little boy-toy in your clutches you’re gonna have to put forth some effort here.” Skylar just rolled her eyes as she got up to go upstairs, she looked over her shoulder and said to Brooke, “What makes you so sure I don’t already have him in my clutches.”
“Because if you did you wouldn’t be home alone on a Saturday,” she said before she passed her up on the stairs. “Now, let’s see what you got in that closet of yours.”