Take Me Home
Chapter eight
One months latter
"Hey Em, sorry I'm late hope she wasn't to much trouble," Paul said walking into the Uley house hold. Emily was in the kitchen finishing up cooking dinner.
"Anytime, she's never any trouble. Sam's outback with the kids. Did you want to stay for dinner?" Emily asked as Paul walked to the back door.
"Nah we're all good, thanks tho." Paul found Sam sitting on the back steps of the house holding Ben and watching Tyler and Sky kick around a soccer ball on the wet grass.
"How was work?" Sam asked Paul as he sat down on the steps next to him.
"Don't even ask," Paul says running a hand through his short hair.
"That good?"
"It couldn't have been any worse if the house had fallen down on top of me. That remodel is over tho so at least now I don't have to drive back to Forks everyday," Paul mussed.
"Got any more jobs lined up?"
"No, but something will turn up. I dropped some cards off at the realestate agents in Forks on my way home. They said a few people have been moving to town recently, maybe they will want a new kitchen or need something fixing."
"Good idea." There was a few moments of silence before Emily called out that dinner was ready.
"Come on Sky, time to go home," Paul said standing up.
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Sky picked at her slice of pizza in silence. Paul watched her as he finished his third slice bothered that she hadn't even taken a bight yet.
"You feeling okay?" He asked a little worried.
She nodded, not looking up from her food.
Paul didn't know what to do to help her open up, she was like it with everyone. Emily said she would grow out of it, that Sky was a bright girl and he had nothing to worry about. But Paul couldn't help but worry.
"Anything bothering you?" He asked trying to get a few more words out of her.
She shook her head and offered a small shrug.
"You know you can talk to me, right?"
Sky looked up at Paul for a moment with a pondering look in her eyes. He know she wanted to say something but after a moment she just shock her head.
"Hey I was thinking, we should paint your room. It's pretty dark in there. What do you think? We could go to the hardware store in Forks and you can pick out any colour paint you want."
Sky nodded her head slowly seeming to like the idea. She lifted the pizza up and took a small bight. Paul smiled.
"Great. We can go first thing in the morning. We could even stop by the dinner in Forks and get breakfast, they make amazing pancakes. Would you like that?"
Sky nodded her head once more and took another small bight of food. What Paul wouldn't give to know what the girl was thinking, he hated the silence. But he didn't want to push her. Time, he just needed to give her some more time.
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The next morning Paul was shocked to find Sky dressed and ready to go when he stumbled still half asleep from his bedroom. She normally stayed in her room until he called her out for breakfast. She ware a light blue shirt, pink jacket, red pants and green shoes, nothing matched but as long as she liked it Paul wasn't going to complain. He get ready quickly, putting on a white shirt and the cleanest pair of genes he could fine in his room. He was starting to fall behind on the washing again and was running out of clean smelling clothes.
He would worry about that latter though, he wanted to get moving before Sky changed her mind. It was lightly raining outside, not enough to make either of them run to the truck. Sky climb up into the truck without help and Paul strapped her into her booster seat.
They drove in silence to Forks. There was little traffic on the road and Forks was very quiet as well. The parking lot for the hardware store only had three other vehicles in it when Paul pulled up and turned off his truck. It had stoped raining and Sky was out of her seat before Paul could offer to help her with the buckles.
He made her hold his hand as the pair crossed the parking lot, even though there was no other cars driving about, she didn't protest. Paul led Sky tot he back of the hardware store where they kept the paints. Sky starred at the wall of colours in wonder.
"Pick any one you want," Paul said letting go of her hand.
Sky stepped closer to the wall, looking at all the bright colours with wide eyes. First her hand hesitated over a bright yellow, then a light pink, followed by a baby blue. Paul released this was going to take a while.
"I've got to get a few things for work, will you be okay here for a minute?"
Sky nodded looking at a teal paint swatch.
"Okay, just call out if you need me, I'll just be the next ile over. Okay?"
She nodded again not fazed about being left alone with the colourful wall.
"Okay," Paul said giving the girl a quick pat on the shoulder before leaving her alone. Paul went to grab a few things he would need for painting Sky's room.
He found the items he was looking for quickly, knowing this place better then the back of his hand. He turned down an ile to go back to get a few things he know he was running low on but stoped in his tracks as he saw her. Dressed in yet another long brightly coloured floor length skirt, unlike anything he'd seen the local girls wear. It was bright yellow with little white dots all over it, she wore a black jacket and her hair was hanging freely down her back. Addison, Quil's older sister. She was with one of the stores employees looking at the wall of tarps.
"Well what's the difference?" Addison asked looking between two tarp packets in her hands. "They are both the same size?"
"I'm not sure," the male employee said scratching his head.
"The grey one is three times as strong as the blue one, if your trying to keep all weather off what your covering the grey one is what you need the blue one won't hold off more then a light rain." Paul said. Addison looked over her should in surprise and smiled.
"Thanks," she smiled putting the blue tarp back and grabbing a dozen grey tarps, pushing them into the employees arms. "I'll take those please."
"Sure thing," the employee said turning towards the cash register, trying not to drop anything.
"What are you covering, half of Forks?"
"Something like that," she said with a shrug.
"I didn't think you would be back in town so soon."
"Well I had such a warm welcome last time I couldn't wait to get back," Addison said with sarcasm as she went to pay for the tarps, Paul followed.
"Does Quil know you're back in town?" Paul asked.
"I dropped by his house and he pretended not to be home so yeah, he knows," Addison shrugged as she payed for her items.
"Sounds like my family, but usually I'm the one hiding," Paul smiled cheekily.
"Speaking of family, where's that girl of yours?" Addison asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Paint section, trying to pick a colour for her room."
"Really? Paints are a lot funner then tarps," Addison said walking towards the back of the shop, Paul followed.
"Would you like to know my favourite thing about paints?" Addison asked kneeling next to the small girl. Sky was shocked to see the older woman, she remembered her and her brightly coloured clothes from a few weeks earlier.
Sky nodded weakly.
"The names... pick one," Addison said waving to the wall of paint samples. Sky slowly reached out and pointed to one of the pink cards. Addison picked the card up and read the fine print at the bottom. "Icing, yum." Sky pointed to another card, a bright yellow. "Twining Everyday, that's a strange one. I don't know who names all these colours but I think most of them are hungry when they name them." Addison picked out three different shades of green and read the names. "Grape, seaweed, apple tree. See what I mean..." Sky nodded. "So what are you painting miss Sky?"
Sky was hesitant, she looked at her shoes few a few seconds before responding. "My... New room."
"Really, that's exciting. Have you picked a colour?" Sky shook her head no.
"To many choices?"
Sky shrugged.
"How about you try this," Addison said leaning closer to Sky and whispering in the small girls ear. "Close your eyes, count to three and a half, then point at the colour that first comes to mind." Sky looked sceptical but closed her eyes. Addison stood back up with a small smile.
"Three and a half?" Paul asked.
"Just something my dad use to say," Addison shrugged and watched as Sky opened her eyes and her arm shot out at the coloured wall. Addison smiled pulling the card that Sky was pointing at off the wall. She held the card against her skirt and smiled wider. "I like it," Addison smiled as she handed the bright yellow card back to Sky. "Well I best be off, it was nice seeing you two again."
"Hey Addison, I don't know what's going on between you and Quil, but I'm glad you're sticking around town," Paul said.
"It takes a lot more then a few bad words to get rid of me," Addison smiled. "Bye Sky," she offer the girl a small wave before leaving.
"Happiness." Paul looked down at Sky to see she was ready the name of the paint colour.
AN: I don't have much to say on this chapter, i have zero ideas for the next chapter sorry if it takes a while to update, please leave a review it helps me a lot when writing.