Chapter One:Moving Far From Home
It was Monday and Skyler Wilde had just finished packing up the last
of her daughter Emily's things for the movers to take out that
night.
She was making the long move from El Paso,Texas to
Detroit,Michigan to live with her three elder sisters and her niece
who had moved there three years prior when an old childhood home
surfaced in their grandfathers will.
When they had arrived in Detroit they discovered that the house was very old,allot bigger than the will had stated and was in need of some major re- pair's.
The house as her sister Korin had told her in a recent phone call had four floors: The first floor was the living room,dining room,and kitchen.The second floor had three bedrooms and one full size bath.The third floor had four bedrooms and a half bath.And finally the fourth floor was the attic.
The only reason Korin had explained how big the house was in the
first place was so that when she asked Sky to move in with her kids
she could not retort by saying there wouldn't possibly be enough
room.
When the conversation was nearing an end and it was clearly set
that Skyler would be promptly moving her and her children down there
she asked her sister one final question."The neighborhood isn't a bad
one is it?"asked Sky."Well there was a shooting four years back at
the house across the street but that's been about it so it's not that
bad."replied Korin.
Sky smirked slightly at how her sister had just down
played a shooting like it wasn't such a bad thing.
Sky said goodbye to her sister,hung up and went to bed.
Over the next three weeks she spent most of her time packing up
most of their belongings and deciding what they would take with them
and what they would leave in storage in the basement of the grand old
country house her and her sisters had grown up in.
Finally it was their last night in El Paso and she had just closed up Emily's Pink Tinker bell suitcase and was lugging it downstairs to put it by the front door before she got the kids ready for bed.Once they where all fed and bathed she tucked the children in one by one from youngest to oldest.
Emily and Treyla had wanted to be read a bedtime story so she
told them their favorite which turned out to be Peter Pan because that
was the one she always told them so it was fresh in her head.When
Skyler was about half through the story the girls had fallen asleep
quietly she pulled the covers over each of them and kissed them
goodnight.
When she went to turn out the light Emily spoke out to
Sky."Mommy will we like it in Detroit?"Thinking about it for a minute
she answered."Of course we will sweetie now go to sleep."Closing the
door she headed for her room to read some before going to bed.
It was 6 o'clock in the morning when Emily and her little sister
Treyla came bounding into Sky's room and started bouncing around on
the bed waking her out of a deep dreamless sleep.
Looking over at the clock she almost cursed it was now 6:01am and they had to be to the airport by 7:30am sharp to catch there flight.
Jumping out of bed she quickly got dressed and made the kids breakfast to which they had to eat in a hurry while she went and grabbed Jayden and got him dressed when she was finished she got the girls dressed,loaded up the car with there suitcases and called the movers to make sure they were in route.
Checking the house to make sure she hadn't forgot anything she
made sure they had all used the bathroom before they piled into her
beat up Chevy and taking one last good look at the house she was
raised in pulled out of the drive and headed for the airport.
Some three hours or so later she was holding Jayden and balancing
carrion's while ushering her girls off the plane and into the waiting
arms of their aunt's.Sairena and Kitta had come to pick them up.
Once they had there suitcases they all piled into the brand new minivan
Korin had picked up the day before for just this occasion.When they
finally got to the house it was late afternoon almost evening Korin
was waiting outside when they pulled up she hugged Skyler as she
exited the vehicle then helped get the kids inside.
As they where pulling the suitcases from the van three guys where coming out of the house across the street and waved at them."Whose that?"asked Sky.
"Those are our neighbors the Mercers."Kit said as she waved back
then headed up the walk taking a few cases with her.This left Sky
outside alone she grabbed a couple suitcase's and her duffel-bag and
headed up the walk just as she felt a pair of eyes on her.Glancing
back she noticed one of the guys looking at her.
He was kinda short,well built and had slicked back hair and he was smiling at her.
Nodding she continued up the walk and into the house.
Later that night after they unpacked and had all ate dinner and
the kids where tucked into bed.The four sisters sat around the
fireplace and shot the shit for a few hours before retiring to
bed.
Skyler had set her alarm for 8 in the morning as that's when the
movers would be arriving and she wanted to make sure that she was up
to greet them and show them where to put stuff.