I Made a Promise

Chapter 12

-same night as Chapter 11 ended-
~Skylar's POV~
We've been home for about an hour now. We all ate.
We were all just talking.
"So... guys, how's school?" I asked my siblings.
"Good. We don't have school for the rest of the week." Maxx said.

"How come?" I asked.
"Teacher planning things. We were originally gonna have half days, but then they just changed it to no days. So we're off now." Maxx explained.
"Oh ok. That's cool then." I said.

Maxx looked at Daniel.
"What did you find in my sister?" He asked him.
"Maxx-" I said, but Daniel stopped me.
He chuckled.

"No, no it's fine..." Daniel laughed.
"I just saw your sister at the coffee shop she works at.. and I knew I wanted to be with her the second I saw her. Her eyes... her hair... her smile... everything about her just made me more and more... attracted to her." He smiled at me.

I smiled back at him.
"You're so sweet." I said.
"Sky, how long are you staying here?" Scarlett asked me.
"We leave the day after tomorrow." I explained to them.

All of a sudden the front door opened.
"Hey Maxx, Scarlett. You guys packed?" I heard a familiar voice.
I went out and saw Jaxson there.

He was so surprised to see me there.
"Oh my god..." He said.
I smiled and hugged him.
"Hi... I've missed you..." I hugged him.

"Hey... when did you get here?" He asked me.
"Flew in this morning." I said.
"Well... I'm here to pick up Maxx and Scarlett. They're staying over with Kenzie and I for the night. But if you want them to stay-" He was saying, but I stopped him.

"No it's fine. If they want to go, they can go." I said.
We went into the Kitchen.
"Shoot, I forgot that we were going over to your place." Maxx said.
Jaxson laughed.
"Come on guys, go and pack." Jaxson told them.

They went upstairs.
"Uh, Jaxson, this is my boyfriend, Daniel. Daniel, this is my uncle, Jaxson." I introduced them.
"Hey, how are you?" Jaxson shook Daniel's hand.

They talked for only about 5 minutes before Maxx and Scarlett came back down.
"Bye you guys." I hugged them.
After they left, Daniel and I were alone.

"So.. this is the house you grew up in?" He asked me.
"Yea basically, I also lived this other house, but I moved when I was 3, so I don't remember too much about that house." I explained.
He nodded his head.

"Come on, I wanna show you something.." I told him.
He followed me and we went to my old bedroom.
"Your parents kept this the same ever since you moved out?" He asked me.
"Yea I guess so..." I said.

It was now almost 8pm. We were exhausted from all the traveling and it's currently almost 10pm our time.
"Where are we gonna sleep?" He asked me.
"Well... we can just sleep here." I laughed, showing him the room.

He laughed too.
"Yea.. dumb question." He laughed.
He looked at a photo on one of my dressers.
"This is a cute photo." He smiled.

I looked at the photo. It was me and Cameron, I think we were 3 in the photo, and we were in front of truck 81 with firefighter helmets and little firefighter and paramedic teddy bears that Kylie gave us.

I smiled at the photo.
"My god, we were so little in this..." I said. I noticed I still had the teddy bear. It was on the dresser.
Daniel had his hand on my shoulder.
I grabbed the teddy bear and looked at both it and the photo.

I smiled at both of them, but tears were falling down my face as sadness overwhelmed me.
"I miss him so much..." I whispered.
Daniel pulled me in and rubbed my back as I cried on his shoulder.

"I miss him so much..." I repeated.
"It's ok... I know you do..." he told me, stroking the back of my hair.
I was now crying a ton to the point where I was now coughing and everything was getting blurry.