Hi, I'm Skye, I've got long and wavy brown hair, and as my father frequently told me as a child; my eyes are blue like deep lagoons, just like my mothers. He said the crystals in my eyes reflect a thousand stars and the y shine so bright like your soul the moon reflects this beauty shining through them. Which I will admit is the opposite of my colleagues where I work. I work for SCIENCE, a huge company in America, who aim to create a better human race by using science, and that is all anyone knows. I work a level below management where most tasks bypass me and go straight to the lower orders and Management. It felt more like Administration work rather than a Second Manager post, so I obviously do not get much work come my way. I'm not complaining though, I get paid a lot for doing nothing and not talking about my work too others (much). I do however have some concerns over some of my colleagues; they do not seem to be completely, human. (Especially Wolfgang)
Wolfgang is tall and he has a dark soul. He has the shiniest, palest wolf-like eyes that could pierce a thousand hearts, and more. His hair is cut in a short style and is silver, and his voice; deep and booming that can shake a building with one word (and you always know when he's coming). This man knows the business inside and out. He could kill without a thought, the only thing he hates more than losing is me at the moment. I don't know his role in SCIENCE yet, but I guess its important. That has (again) bypassed me.
I am the luckiest girl alive right now though, despite all that. I have someone so special and wonderful in my life that almost nothing else matters, just this person and I. This person is Jesse, my drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, with his shiny mousey hair, beautiful blue eyes, soft skin, a great body and a smile that makes me melt every time I see it. When I look at him, I see everything great. He's wonderful and I can't find the right words to tell him and I wish that I knew the words to say.
This all began when Jesse and I moved into our new house. We had to move because work demanded that we do. They needed me to head up the new Department of Science in California (DoSC), (which means I get to manage the department so I don't miss out on anything new). Jesse and I had now moved all of our limited possessions in small boxes into the house and had sorted through everything we owned; placing them in various places around the house. This was now ours; we've entered the new world away from everything that had happened previous. After all, we'd gone through a lot to date and thought this was the best move, to get away. We knew our feelings were strong and there was nothing standing in the way of us anymore. We were free.
We settled into the new house quickly and into our new way of living with each other always around. It was one of the best things we've done. We'd just had dinner and we were standing in the kitchen of our new house washing our dishes by hand, with me washing and Jesse drying them as we did we were laughing and messing around with the bubbles we'd created in the sink from washing up. We heard the phone ring and Jesse dried his hands and went to answer it. While he was gone I finished the dishes and stacked them neatly in the cupboard and stood up looking out of the window over the sink.
I picked up the cloth by the sink and began drying the counter around the sink. As I did Jesse came back in the room dressed in his military uniform, he looked shocked. He looked at me and said "work just called, there's a tornado warning across this area and surrounding areas. They want me to go and help evacuate the areas and move people to safe locations. They said the most at risk are the other areas so I've got to go to those first, I'll be back soon" I looked into his eyes worried and he took me into his arms and kissed me hard on the lips and let me go. "If one comes while I'm gone, get into the cellar and hide in there"
"Okay" I said, letting him go.
As time went by the skies got darker and I gathered the most important items in the house and took them down into the cellar. I sat in the living room watching the skies turn when the doorbell went. I got up slowly and answered the door hesitatingly. "I forgot my key" I heard the man at the door say. As I opened the door relief came over me when I heard Jesse's soothing voice and say Jesse stood at the door unhurt. I threw my arms around him holding him tight. He came into the house and went upstairs to get changed, while I went in to the kitchen to grab a drink. I took a glass out of the wall-hanger and went to the sink and filled my glass with cold water. I took a mouthful of my cool glass of water and put the cup down on the counter, while watching the skies. I looked out of the window that was overlooking the garden, which Jesse and I need to put a lot of work into to make it look alive and fully grown, instead of its old and dark appearance.
I stood in silence as Jesse came up behind me and slowly put his arms around my waist and held me tightly to him while he kissed my neck softly and I lay my head back on his shoulder. "It's getting dark outside" I said. "It looks very different today"
"It's just a storm, the tornado threat has passed now, and that's why I'm back here now" Jesse assured me. We stood inside the kitchen watching the sky change and transform into what looked like a dark shadow lurking over the state. I could see the clouds swirling in the sky and getting closer to the ground. That's when I realised what was happening. Something was forming in the distance from the sky, with a tornado warning (that was believed to have passed); it could only be that one thing. As it formed in the distance, Jesse and I watched it touch down.
When it did, we felt the ground shudder underneath us as the pressure shook the ground. We waited a moment to see where the tornado was going to go. We saw it start towards us. I looked at Jesse panic-stricken. "C'mon" Jesse said quickly but calmly to me. He grabbed my hand as we ran into our cellar through the heavy wooden hatch in the living room under the large mat we had covering it. We turned the lights on the in cellar so we could find somewhere to hideout in there. As he searched I closed the hatch door quickly and hurried down the steps into Jesse's arms in the corner of the cellar.
The lights flickered out in the cellar and Jesse and I were submerged into total darkness while we waited it was silent and nothing moved, until we could hear the rumbling tornado getting closer and closer to us. Jesse held me tighter as he and I were both terrified. The rumbling got so loud and we could hear our house and surrounding houses being ripped off their foundations like cardboard cut-outs in a doll house. The tornado ripped the cellar hatch right of its hinges and we watched as it ripped through the tornado breaking into each separate piece of wood that it began as. The air whipped around Jesse and I forcefully and began to separate us.
Jesse held me as tight as he could to stop me being taken away from him by the tornado. His strong grip was no match for the ferocity of the tornado and his grip began to slip and in the moment before I was seized from him he and I locked eyes "I'll be okay, I promise. I love you" I shouted slightly panicked, but I never showed how scared I truly was.
"I love you too Skye" He replied, shouting back to me over the noise of the tornado.. The tornado got its way with me and took me from his strong hold. As it did I hit the entrance to the cellar hard and was knocked out. My fate is now up to the tornado.