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Red Skys and Royal CardsShutting the door to my room I went straight to my phone and checked it for messages. Nothing. Tossing the stupid device onto my bed I groaned and the events that just occurred ran through my head once again.
No one calls me Red. And defiantly never have they called me Red Sky.
Everything about that meeting with those six boys just doesn’t feel right. I’m missing something and I can’t figure out what it is. Their voices triggered something in me, something familiar but I can’t place just what exactly it was. I can’t place why they seem so familiar yet not at the same time.
Their actions and the way they carry themselves are not like any one I know or can remember. The way they look doesn’t trigger anything either. But the sound of their voices has a tone to it that brings back memories I can’t grasp.
Whatever stupid thoughts I had when I first heard that deep voice were all cast aside. The way my named slipped from his tongue had the same lyrical quality that my father has when he speaks my name. Maybe that was all this was, just that way of saying my name that triggered this reaction.
“I’m over thinking all of this. It’s probably nothing.” I reassured myself as I made my way to my bathroom to clean up. I feel a little gross after the match, but it was nothing compared to when I was finished with training with the boys downstairs.
Pulling a pair of cotton shorts and an oversized hoodie I left my wet hair to dry as I made my way back to my room. Once I opened the bathroom door the ringing of my cell phone filled the air. Dropping the towel in my hand I rushed to my bed and searched for the electronic device in the mess of sheets.
Without looking at the caller ID I answered the phone with a silent sigh, “Hello?”
The other line was silent for a moment, the line buzzed and cracked before a voice flowed through the receiver. “Hey Cuz!”
Sitting on my bed a scrunched my eyebrows in confusion. “Who is this?” I asked.
I heard a chuckle from the other end of the line before the reply came. “It’s Zelo. Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten about me already?”
Oh . Zelo! He actually called! I’ve gone momentarily speechless. I actually didn’t think my cousins would call me. Sure my parents gave them my cell number but I didn’t expect them to call me. It’s been so long since I’ve heard from them that I could barely recognize his voice, I’ve started to forget what they sounded like since they vanished seven years ago when I was only eleven.
Seven years without them and suddenly I’m getting a phone call from them. They have finally showed up in my life again after I thought they might really be gone forever. I’m not sure exactly what to feel right now other than pure shock.
“Hey Sky? You still there?” Zelo asked after I must have gone silent for too long.
“Uh, yeah, I’m here.” I hesitantly replied to him.
“I’ve missed you Sky, we all have. We’re sorry we just vanished that day we said we would come see you, but we didn’t have a choice.” Zelo told me, the emotion clear in his tone as it came through the receiver. “If we could have contacted you we would have, but our parents wouldn’t let us. They packed us up and moved us so quickly it took the three of us a few days to realize that we weren’t going to be able to see you again.”
I couldn’t stop when my mind began to wander back to that day when I realized they were gone, they day they vanished from my life.
I sat out on my porch, waiting for the three boys that meant the most to me in the world. The three idiots I grew up with and would protect me from anything. The boys that were there for me whenever I needed them.
And today I needed them more than ever. I needed the reassurance that they wouldn’t leave me, and that they were there to make me smile when it seemed as if the world wanted me to cry.
My classmates only tolerated me because it would mean they would get to see my cousins when they came to visit me during breaks. But none of them liked me for much more. They got close to me so they had a chance of getting closer to my family. I was well aware of this, I knew they only wanted the attention of my cousins and were using me to get it.
Yet it wasn’t going to work. My classmates were never going to get the attention of my cousins, no matter what they did or how much they stuck to me, they were never going to been seen as anything more than an annoyance to my cousins.
When we were together they would occasionally complain about how annoying my classmates were. They knew I wasn’t friends with most of them, which only made them distaste them all the more. People acting fake was something all four of us couldn’t really stand.
Today was not all that very fun. My classmates overheard my cousins tell me they would see me after school and hang out. That I would get to spend more time with them away from the prying eyes of the school and just have fun.
The girls in my class did not like that. They were jealous that I got to spend time with my own family while they wouldn’t pay any mind to the rest of them. I for one don’t understand this but I don’t understand the minds of most people as it is.
Harsh words were tossed in my direction
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