Remembrance

"DANGIT!" I yelled as my player was eaten by the pixilated dinosaur on the screen.

"Calm down, Skylar." Ray laughed as something dragged him away.

"Sorry." I laughed and sat back on his couch, placing my comtroler on the coffee table first.

"So, Ray, when is Gerard going to get here?" My aunt asked. I sighed, not feeling like drawing too much anymore.

"I'll call him quickly, one second." He said, standing and leaving the room.

"Mommy, I'm not feeling well." I sighed. I had an ache in my lungs that I had never felt before and my bones felt like toothpicks, willing to break from the pressure and pain in them any second now.

"I'm sorry, what wrong." She sat beside me where Ray was.

"It hurts to breath a little and my bones hurt." I sighed. Laying back more.

"Well, you have been a little paler then usual today. Hm, how about we head back tomorrow and see the doctor?" She suggested, feeling my forehead.

"No! I mean- no thank you, Ray is really nice and fun. I would like to stay for the month!!! I'm fine, I'm fine." I jumped up and pretended to dance absurdly , making my aunt and mom laugh. Ray walked in and since I was standing in front of the door, he knocked me over. I landed on my right side, but just laughed and stood up.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" He picked me up under my arms and lifted me into the air.

"It's okay! It's okay!" I laughed, hugging him.

"Okay, good." He smiled. He put me down and sat on the couch. I sat on his lap and he laughed as I snuggled into his chest. "Well, Gerard is coming in from New York, so it might be like 10 minutes?"

"Sounds great." My mom said, being overly nice as usual.

"So, what's wrong with Sky?" He asked, smoothing down my hair like my dad used to.

"She says she's not feeling well, and is a little pale. She said she'd be fine though, because she doesn't want to leave you." My aunt explained. He looked down at me concerned. It had been a few days since we first arrived and Ray had already grown a liking to me. I smiled at him af batted my eyelashes.

"Take a picture it'll last longer." I recited from a movie somewhere. They all laughed at me and Gerard walked in on the fun party.

"What's so funny?" He smiled as he closed the door.

"Skylar." Ray explained through his laughter. Gerard came and sat on the love seat beside the couch.

"So your the one and only amazing Skylar?" He asked, smiling at me like all adults did with little kids. Fake.

"Yep." I said, smiling the most fake smile I could. "And me being so 'amazing' you don't need to be fake around me like other kids. Be yourself, please."

Everyone was astonished by what I just said, looking at me with wide eyes and Gerard with a real smile. Excpept for mom, who was playing on her phone. "Good manners, babe." She said, still in her zombified state the phone puts her in. I rolled my eyes at her and hopped off of Ray's lap and sat beside Gerard on the love seat.

"So, if you came here just to see this 'amazing-ness' I have and not really me, which I understand, I would love to demonstrate it for you." I smiled.

"W-Well, I-I guess?" Gerard stuttered, still not used to my little kid cheekiness and use of air quotes. I scurried off the couch and over to where I put my art stuff an got a few of my favourite colours and a paper.

"Now Gerarard, or however you say your name, sorry, what would you like?" I asked, still frustrated with my little mouth not being able to say what I wanted it to.

"Um... Anything." He smiled.

I thought for a second. "Cartoon, comic book, or realistic?"

"Comic book would be cool." He said, standing up and coming over to where I had stationed myself on the coffee table.

I thought for a second Before my hands went to work, sliding the pencil easily across the page and starting to form something. I didn't really know who, I just saw an image and drew it. When I was about halfway through I stopped and looked at it. It was an outline of some kind of super hero chick I had thought of before. I looked up at Gerard who looked to be in deep concentration. "Hey Gerarard."

"Yes?" He laughed.

"I think you need a nickname." I looked back to the paper and began to colour in the rough sketch to make it look better.

"Hm, I guess since you can't say my name you should pick something you can say." He said.

"Okay." I said. I finished colouring in her blue hair, making sure to make it look like it was kind of shining. "How about Gee?"

"That sounds great." He said. I could hear the smile on his lips, but didn't look up, not wanting to lose my concentration. Soon she had her nice suit on and her mask coloured in. Once I finished I looked at it for a second before turning to Gee, who was closer then I thought.

"Gee?" I liked his eyes. A lot. I would have to draw them later.

"Yeah?" He asked, still looking astonished. His face was only a few centimetres away and it kind of worried me because I was only little and didn't want mommy to be mean if I kissed him.

"Can you write something for me?" I offered him a dark blue pencil I had used for her hair. He took it and sat beside me at the coffee table, probably happy to move from his uncomfortable crouching position.

"You still can't write?" He asked, looking as me.

"Nope." I replied, popping the p.

"Okay, well, what would you like me to write?" He looked back down at the paper.

"Could you write 'The Rumour' under her feet?" I pointed to where to write it. He wrote something that I hoped would be what I wanted, but would never really know I guess.

"May I pick it up?" He asked, putting the pencil down.

"Of course, silly. Why couldn't you?" I laughed.

"I-I don't know." He shook his head before picking up the drawing. "Wow. I just can't believe this."

"Sorry." I said, looking to the ground.

"No, don't be sorry. This is amazing." He laughed. I perked up and looked at my own drawing over his shoulder.

"You can have it." I smiled.

"Thank you!" He pulled me over his shoulder and into a hug. I laughed and kissed his cheek. He laughed too and then I stood up and jumped into Ray's lap. I hugged him and didn't let go. I didn't want to say anything, but drawing that made my arm really sore.

"Are you okay?" Gerard asked, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"I-I'm fine." I fake smiled at him.

"No your not, what's wrong? " he picked me up from Ray's lap after putting down my drawing. I clung to his neck and burried my head in his neck. He patted my back and I winced in pain.

"My bones are sore. I'll be fine, though." I sighed. After he had patted my back it hurt so bad that I had begun to cry a bit. I just hoped no one would notice.

I pulle away from Gerard's hug and rubbed my eyes. He still had his arm under my bum, holding me up. "Well, I think you might be a little tired." My aunt said, pulling me from Gerard's arms. I writhed under her touch and dropped to the ground, slamming my head on the carpeted floor. I ran back to Ray and burried my face in his hair so they couldn't see me cry.

"Really?!" My mom screamed at my aunt. "You dropped her?!"

"I didn't mean to! I was only trying to bring her into a room she could sleep in." My aunt said, putting up a fake show that she was actually apologetic towards me. My Ajnt and mom started to yell louder and louder at each other, completely ignoring the fact that I might have permenantly brain damage. I shook my head and tried to shake the pain that was growing into a headache away.

"Are you okay, Skylar?" Ray asked. I felt him stand up from the couch.

"N-No." I said quietly. Soon we were in the kitchen and I was sitting on the island as Gerard and Ray rushed around, looking for something.

"Ray! You have no fucking ice?!" Gerard asked.

"Sorry! Give her frozen peas or something!" Ray said, looking in his linen closet. Gerard grabbed a bag of frozen corn and put it on the back of my head. I wrapped my little arms around his torso and pulle him into a hug, letting him keep the ice there.

"Wh-What is Ray looking for?" I asked after a second.

"This." Ray said. I pulled away from Gerard's chest and saw he had a sucker. I smiled at him and took the sucker.

"Now Skylar. We have to look through your hair and make sure your not bleeding. Okay?" Gerard asked. I just nodde my hea and tried to wipe my eyes. I felt them move all my hair up and around to try and see through it. Eventually they put it all down and smiled.

"I don't see any blood! Yeah!" Ray said, throwing his arms in the air dramatically and smiling. I looked at him with the most disapproving look a little kid can muster.

"Stop. This isn't Barney, honey." I said before putting my sucker back in my mouth. Gerard covered his mouth to try and shush his giggle and Ray just crossed his arms over his chest.

"Well, excuse me." He said, trying to hide his smile. I smiled at him and he smiled too and we hugged before my mom burst in.

"Me and Skylar are leaving for the hotel. You have my number if you want to see her again that's fine, but my sister is planning on staying away from us for a little bit. We'll still be in Jersey till the end of the month." She said quickly, picking me up and carrying me away.

"No!" I yelled, reaching my arms out for Ray and throwing my sucker on the ground, letting it shatter.

Ray at and Gerard looked at me with sad expressions as they let my mom drag me out of Ray's apartment and to the car where we drove to out hotel in complete silence.

Notes

So yep.