by Keya Jay
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Skylar woke with a head splitting head ache, she literally wanted to rip out all of her hair, stick her hand through her skull and make it STOP! Skylar tried to get to her knees so that she could look around but the moment she managed to get one foot beneath her a well-placed foot pushed her right back down.
“Shit!” she said as her leg was crushed beneath her body. “What the hell,” she said as she craned her neck to see Brooke hovering above.
“What the fuck are you doing here Skylar?” she asked.
“Brooke get the hell off of me!” Skylar said as she thrashed beneath Brooke’s foot.
“I’m stronger than you Skylar, I’m stronger than you all you can’t beat me,” she said in a voice that sounded nothing like the Brooke she knew.
“Brooke no one is trying to beat you I’m just trying to get to my fucking feet if you’d just get the hell off of me,” Skylar said as she continued to thrash beneath Brooke’s foot.
“No going to happen,” she said.
“Why the hell are you doing this?” Skylar asked as she gave up on thrashing so she could collect more energy while at the same time keeping Brooke talking.
“You know why?” Brooke said.
“If I knew why I wouldn’t have asked the damn question,” Skylar said.
“You and everyone else on this shit whole of a planet think you’re all better than me,” she spat.
“Honey I’m pretty sure not everyone on this so call shit whole of a planet even knows you,” Skylar responded.
“Yall think yall are smarter than me to,” Brooke said as she applied more pressure to Skylar’s back. “Yall though I wouldn’t find out,” she said adding even more pressure. Skylar’s breaths turned into wheezes as she tried to force air through her lungs.
“Wouldn’t find out what?” Skylar asked painfully, forcing the words through the pain Brooke was causing.
“You all were probably all laughing at me, thinking look at the little lost girl, so clueless but I’m not so clueless anymore.”
“Brooke I really don’t see the point of holding a conversation with you if you don’t plan on making any kind of sense anytime soon,” Skylar said the moment Brooke had eased her foot a bit.
“You especially thought you were smarter and faster than me. Stronger and better than me,’ she said with every word adding more and more pressure until Skylar looked like a little smushed bug under Brooke’s foot. “You flaunted your perfect little father and your perfect little mother in my face knowing that I would never find out that my father was alive all of this time; knowing that I wouldn’t find out that my own mother was a filthy, cheating, slut!” Brooke laughed a humorless laugh. “Then when your father died he was still as perfect as he was alive but when your mother got sick you took away the pleasure of seeing her not so perfect anymore, you banned me from seeing her you denied me access every time I asked but you didn’t want me to know that your family wasn’t so perfect all along.”
“Brooke you’re the only one who thought my family was perfect so how is that my fault?” Skylar wheezed.
“It was your fault! Your mother was the only one who was ever nice to me and treated me like someone important and you treated her like SHIT!” That last push from Brooke’s foot was hard enough to literally crack Skylar’s back in half. Skylar had enough of this shit, she snaked her arm behind her back and wrapped her fingers around Brooke’s ankle, she could feel Brooke’s hand before it had actually touched her and she pulled her foot with all of the strength she had until Brooke was lying beside her on the ground. Skylar sucked in a lung full of much needed breath before struggling to get to her feet.
“My mother never liked you she only felt bad for you, you should hear the things she says about you when you’re not around,” Skylar said as she kicked Brooke in the side.
“I CAN’T believe you, you were supposed to be my best friend,” she said as she tried to crawl away from Skylar’s foot.
“YOU CAN’T BELIEVE ME?!” Skyla asked shocked. “Brooke you kidnapped and killed your own fucking kind and for what because you were made that my family wasn’t perfect that makes no got damn sense.” Skylar spit the words as she watched Brooke get to her feet.
“I don’t care about your perfect little family it’s not even about that,” she said back as she charged at her. Skylar easily side stepped her and closed lined her making her fall to the floor on her back.
“Then what the hell is it about?” Skylar asked as she moved out of Brooke’s reach.
“You were so ungrateful, you had a family that loved you and you treated them like shit.”
“You’re no better; you still have a fuckin mother. So what people leave get over it people leave me every fuckin day as a matter a fact I couldn’t even get my father’s attention most of the time it was like he had already died before he actually did! It was all about work to him I mines well have been better off without a father and my mother…” Skylar stopped knowing that her mother did nothing to her, her mother was always trying to help Skylar but Skylar never let her she never wanted her she wanted her father and so she mistreated her mother and she knew it was too let for apologies but yet she gave them anyways hoping that her mother would forgive, and Skylar hated the fact that she waited until her mother died to realize how much she actually loved her and needed her.
“I rather have had my father physically around then not have him at all but no he chose another family over me! And you were the one always complaining over your life and your perfect parents, always looking for some kind of sympathy!” she said as she charged once again toward Skylar catching her off guard and knocking her to the ground. Skylar tried to push Brooke off of her but Brooke was relentless, she threw punches but only about two of them landed before Skylar flung her off of her and into midair before she smacked the floor with a heavy bang.
“Well I guess you’ll be happy to know that I no longer have a parent who cares about me or who is even around to do so and neither do you,” Skylar growled as she watched Brooke struggle to get to her feet. “Sympathy wasn’t what I was looking for I was looking for a friend who I thought would understand.”
“Oh I understand you were hand delivered everything you were so fuckin spoiled you never saw the effort people had put in for you I always wondered how you could be so dumb!” she said as she wiped the trickle of blood from the side of her mouth.
“Brooke this has nothing to do with me or your misplaced jealousy this is about Aaron and the fact that he abandoned you and not your mother. Of course the knowledge of that hurt you but you refused to show it because you wanted to portray yourself as the strong one when all along you were hurting even more than I was. But what I don’t get is what did you think you would get out of torturing and kidnapping your own father? Are you forcing him to be with you because that’s no better than him abandoning you because either way he.does.not.want.you,” she said slowly. “No matter what you do he will never want you.” Brooke didn’t even bother charging at her instead she pulled a gun from behind her back and pointed it at Skylar. Skylar could not deny her shock.
“You stupid bitch!” Brooke said as she eyed Skylar through her thick haze of anger. “Do you know what I was doing down here all of this time?” she asked. “I wasn’t torturing my “father” I’ll tell you that instead I was taking the one thing he loved more than anyone—his precious title. He will be free by tomorrow I have given him countless chances to make a decision before then to stay with me or to go back to them,” she said the word them as if it disgusted her. “If he chose them then his precious title would then belong to me and he could fight me for it if he so chooses to be I guarantee he won’t win. See I’ve been busy and by tomorrow during the blue moon I will be the strongest Whisperer as of late and I will make it my personal mission to destroy who ever I deem unworthy—that means you,’ she added as if it weren’t already clear.
“What if something happens to you before then?” Skylar
asked as she watched Aaron approach from the shadows to stand directly behind Brooke.
“Nothing will happen to me so don’t hold your breath waiting for something.”
“What if your very own father decided to kill you before tomorrow?”
“Impossible he’s—”
“Right behind you,” he cut her off. Brooke was beyond shocked as she turned to face a very pissed Aaron. Skylar took her chance at that moment to charge at Brooke. She got the girl on the ground and stomped on her armed hand until the gun slipped loose. She bent down and retrieved the gun before backing up.
“It’s only fair,” she said shrugging her shoulders. “Your father’s not armed and so you shouldn’t be either,” she explained. “So if you want to fight him now’s your chance.”
“I’m not going to fight you Brooke,” Aaron said as he watched Brooke get to her feet and take her stance.
“And why the hell not don’t pretend you care about me now I won’t believe you,” she said as she cried silently out of fear. Skylar could smell Brooke’s fear it was suffocating strong.
“I’m not going to pretend anything,” her father said. “First of though I want it to be known that I never abandoned you, I lost you in a custody fight it was not my choice to leave you and second I want to say that it wasn’t your mother’s fault either we were kids and she didn’t want me to have you she wanted you all to herself or not at all and I wasn’t about to let that happen,” he explained.
Skylar could see Ethan and Ava behind Aaron and so Skylar maneuvered away from the two and walked toward her aunt and uncle. “Where the hell have you two been? Y’all smell like…bleach and chloroform.”
“Well that would be because we were locked into a cleaning closet,” Ava answered.
“We tried our hardest to get here but not even a whisperer can escape a locked room,” Ethan said. “Is everything fine with you?”
“Yup, just a couple of bruises but they’ll heal,” she said with a shrug of her shoulders.
“Ready to make the arrest?” Ava asked Ethan.
“As ready as you are,” he said as he walked toward the no longer discussing pair. Brooke was in tears hugging her father as Ethan came up behind her and placed her hands behind her back.
“Wow, I don’t even want to know what went down here,” Ava commented.
“Nothing like every other ending there was a waste of time filled with pointless talking and then a fight that honestly didn’t have to go down then heart felt reunion ending in as you can see an arrest,” Skylar said summing up everything that Ava had missed.
“Shit our cases really need to end differently,” Ava said as she turned to leave the little cave they were in.
“Amen to that,” Skylar mumbled.
