Season 5 Ep. 1 - Night Shining White
Chapter one - Bay
Bay still couldn't believe the news; her parents were getting a divorce.
How could they?!
Her mother hadn't even sounded like herself on the phone. Cool and unattached.
"Listen, Bay. I just wanted to let you know, your dad and I have decided it's best if we go our separate ways."
What a ridiculous way to say it, Bay thought angrily. Best for whom she wondered. Not for her, not for her siblings, and certainly not for her parents. They needed each other. They all needed each other.
Bay looked over to Daphne who was leaning against the plane window sleeping.
How could she sleep right now? They needed this time to devise a plan to get J & K back together.
Daphne hadn't even seemed upset by the news. "They always get back together." Daphne had said trying to comfort her.
"Because we are usually there to remind them how great they are together!" Bay had reminded her.
Still she had to practically beg her sister to put her life in China on hold and run back to Kansas City to make sure their parents didn't split apart permanently.
At least her brother Toby had seemed to agree with her. "I will need to rearrange a couple of things here but I'll be there as soon as I can."
Why did they all move half way around the world at the same time Bay thought with a surge of guilt, for the millionth time?
The girls had gone to China for a summer trip but they were still there ten months later. Meanwhile Toby, his girlfriend Lily, and their newborn had moved to England to be closer to her family.
Bay couldn't wait to get off this plane. She felt like a jumpy jittery mess and being confined to her seat wasn't helping.
She strummed on her armrest trying to release some of her nervous energy.
A tan hand reached over and gently touched hers.
Bay looked over to Rex.
His beautiful almond shaped eyes tried to reassure her. "We're almost there."
"You call three more hours almost there?" Bay retorted sharply. "Sorry." She said lamely. There was no reason to bite his head off he was only trying to make her feel better.
Rex took her hand in his.
Bay gave him a grateful squeeze.
Bay loved his hands; they were so strong yet so gentle, like the rest of him.
Bay tried to push that thought out of her head. This was no time to be lusting after Rex.
When she had told him that she had to go back home and why, he had offered to go with.
This had taken her by surprise. They had only been dating six months and neither had seemed to be in any rush to put a label on it.
Bay still wasn't even sure how she felt about their relationship. She had left some things undone back home.
Maybe that was part of the reason she had so quickly agreed to his offer. She wasn't ready to deal with anything other then her parent's separation right now.
Rex had wasted no time in calling up the tattoo shop they both worked at and telling them he would also need to take a leave of absence.
The owner was less than thrilled with two of her most popular artists taking off for an unknown amount of time. However she didn't want to lose them so she had been nice enough to offer to hold their spots for a month.
A month was that even enough time to pull off this parent trap scheme of hers? Even if it was enough time did Bay even want to go back to China? There was a lot she had been missing about KC, and most of them were people.