I’ll Reach For You

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 28

What I Wanted
“Skylar.”

“Hmm?” I am too tired to talk, why does she have to wake me so early sometimes? I reach out for her in the bed in blind, but I can’t find her.

“You need to wake up; it’s already two in the middle of the day.” I shake my head. I am so tired and it was a long day yesterday. Last time I looked at the watch, it was almost three.

“Come on, Sky. I have been waiting for you since nine.” That early. She has only slept for like six hours. She takes my hand and try to drag me, but I pull her down to me.

“Sky!” I wrap my arms around her so she won’t leave. Her hair is wet. I breathe her in, she smells so good. I lean down and put my lips on the side of her neck, and kiss her there.

“You smell good.” I mumble against her skin.

“Sky-” she stops talking as I kiss her one more time on the neck.

“And taste good.” She chuckles and I open up my eyes to see the most beautiful girl in the whole world. She looks at me with smiling eyes, and there is nothing more I want than to kiss her. I cup her face and move her closer to me, her lips inches from mine. I can feel her beating heart on my skin and it beats so fast. I am not going to force her; I will wait until she is ready to take that step. She takes me by the wrists and pin my hands down in the pillow. Our eyes stuck on each other, her blue gorgeous as always.

“Can you please get out of bed now, and come with me?” She begs with that soft voice, that just have to make my heart melt all the time.

“Where are we going?” I ask.

“Your dad wants to talk to us.”

“Why?” I ask, usually when he wants to talk, it is something serious. She hesitates to answer.

“Umm… he wants to talk about last night.” Oh no. What if he saw us outside the house and heard us. He may know about us, what if he is angry and is going to throw her out. I can’t lose her now, there is so much things we haven’t even done yet and I want to do those. Just like everyone else.

It may take time, but I will wait for Hunter. I want to hold her hand everywhere we walk; I want to kiss her every time I want to. I want to tell her I love her every day, and before we fall asleep. I want to hear her say it, when she is ready. I know it is hard and difficult for her to take this big step. I can see that she is unsure what to do and that she is too hard on herself. I wish she wasn’t, I like her just the way she is. She looks at me with her amazing eyes, with a small crooked smile on her face. Making it harder to stop myself from kissing her. She is so irresistible. I want to hold her face and kiss her cheek. But my hands are pinned down by hers.

“You know I love you, right?” I ask. Her eyes shifts from mine and down to the pillow beside me. She clenches her teeth, meaning she is uncomfortable. Her eyes went from a smile to sadness.

“Hunter?” She looks at me with the same sad expression. She lets my hands go.

“I-I…” Hunt stops. She looks so lost between words that I am not sure if she can tell anyone. I lean up to hold her face.

“Hunter,” I kiss her forehead.

“You don’t need to say anything.” I mumble against her skin.

“I just want you to know that. You are perfect just the way you are. I know you love me; I can see it in the way you look at me. And I know that open up is difficult for you, but you are trying so hard Hunter. That is one of the million reasons I love you.”

“SKYLAR MASON, GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THE BED, NOW!” Hunter moves and fall down on the floor. I burst out in laughter. Dad yelled from downstairs and he sounds impatient.

“You okay?” Hunter nods and stand up.

“Come on, your dad is very angry.” She says and take my hand. I get out of the bed, standing next to Hunter in my pajamas, T-shirt and shorts. Hunter starts to walk with my hand in hers.

“Oh no.” I drag her by the hand and she falls into my arms.

“Skylar.” I kiss her on the temple and then her cheek. I hear her chuckle and then she put her hands on my waist and push me back.

“We need to go before Luke comes up.” I nod.

“Okay, fine.” I kiss her fast on the cheek and run.

“Dammit Skylar.” I hear behind me. I run down the stairs, finding dad with his arms crossed. The smile on my face fades quickly. Hunter comes behind me and we both walk over and sit down on the couch.

“Where the hell did you two go last night?” He looks and sounds angry. I turn to Hunter her leg is shaking. I put my hand on her knee to stop it. She makes the whole couch vibrate.

“We went out for a drive.” It is like his eyes are nailed on me, and it makes me shrink.

“A drive?” I nod.

“Late in the evening, you could at least have told us. I heard you two driving and I waited for you to come back, but it got really late so I fell asleep. You two made me worried.”

“I’m sorry.” I say. Hunter sits next to me, in total quiet looking down at the floor. I don’t blame her for being silent, it was all my fault. I made her come with me even though she didn’t want to. I begged her and she gave in. Maybe I shouldn’t have done it, but look at where we are now, I finally got to tell her what I feel. I can tell her every day that I love her. Dad sigh and I look back at him. He looks calmer.

“You two are grounded for a week, starting today and give me the car key.” I nod and stand up to go to my room. Before, I would have argued with him about it, yelled even. But there is just something that tells me that there is no need to do it. I walk back down with the key, and hand it over to dad, who looks skeptical.

“Do you have another key?” I shake my head.

“No, why?” He looks as confused as I feel.

“Because about now you would have stepped up the stairs screaming and slammed the bedroom door.” I snort. Yes, I would have done that, and I can see all of the times that I have done it. I shrug.

“I don’t have anything to fight for,” I look at Hunter, who sits on the couch. Staring at me the same way she always does, but it never seems to get old. Her perfect blue eyes and the cute, small smile. I look back at dad, how still looks confused by my calm behavior. I smile to him.

“I have already got what I wanted.”