AN- Okay, I promise this is better than the last chapter.
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Sky sang the last note before pressing stop and putting the tape into a sealed envelope for mailing.
"That was amazing" Serena smiled
"Yeah, this'll definitely help the coffee shop Sky" Boyd said
"Thanks guys, I wanted this charity single to help the community but by the looks of things that's going to mean paying Karl and Izzy's bail rather than helping rebuild the store" Sky laughed
"I reckon you can leave the bail to Paul Robinson" Serena laughed
"I was joking anyway, there is no way I'd get Izzy out of jail" Sky said with mock seriousness
"She is my aunt you know, she means well" Boyd made a lame attempt to stick up for his aunt
"She and Karl killed Gus Boyd, do you really think murder is something to be forgiven" Sky's tone was serious
"Do you really think it was them" Boyd's reply was equally serious
"I don't know if we'll ever find out" Sky said
Sky's lunch was interrupted by a knock at the door
"Hello" she looked curiously at the two men in suits who stood at her door
"Hi, We're from Perfection Talent Agency, you sent us a tape"
"That's right" Sky said wondering why they hadn't just called
"We want to sign you for a three album deal, starting by releasing your charity song with our cut going towards your cause"
"That's amazing" Sky tried to sound calm, this deal seemed too good to be true
One of the men's shirt pockets started vibrating and he removed his mobile and began to talk, Sky listened intently to his side of the conversation.
"Hello" "yes, I'm there right now" "No, she's gorgeous, she's perfect" "I've offered her the deal, trust me we want this one, Sky Mangel is gonna be big"
Sky looked around her, at her home, it had been almost six years since she left Erinsborough and this still didn't feel like home. Sky stared at her walls, at one of her Warhol's and her eyes drifted to her cabinet, full of awards, she stood up, dragging her sheet with her and covered the cabinet so they were no longer visible, she picked up her mail off the smooth marble bench top where a personal assistant had left it for her flicking through the invites and piling up the various magazines she sat at her desk and leafed through them, throwing them to the ground when they all showed her face, smiling back from the cover.
Sky crumbled to the ground and, after six years, she allowed herself to remember Ramsey St., to remember the school, Lassiter's, Harold, but most of all she let herself remember Boyd. She didn't know how she could have so much yet need so much more, Sky realised she would hand over every cent to see him again, to watch him smile at her, to feel his arms around her. She would never do any of those things, by now he would probably be married or have forgotten her, it was that thought that brought a stream of silent tears down her face, her hand reached for the tiny bottle of pills.
Boyd walked casually along the street, passing a newsagency he turned his head away despite the fact that this was his destination, it was an instinct instilled in him after she left, he hated to see her picture everywhere, it wasn't the real her, the interviews, the photo's they were never of the Sky he had known. At first he had been sad because she had sold out, because she had given up herself for fame but later an even worse thought occurred to him, maybe she had just changed, maybe he didn't know Sky Mangel any more.
Boyd went to get the milk at the back of the store and saw a pile of old magazines that hadn't been sold. "Sky's debut film earns Oscar win" "Ms. Mangel to marry Hollywood great" "Hot, Happy and Having fun: Why Sky Mangel is on top of the world" "ARIA records broken by Sky Mangel" The titles jumped out at him and he returned to the front of the store when he got there he turned his head away from the magazine racks, instead looking to the newspapers 'unless she's running for president that should be safe' Boyd assured himself looking at the paper the heading suddenly hit him "Australian Hollywood sweetheart dead before 25" he shook his head and looked to the magazines "Sky Mangel dies of overdose in Beverly Hills mansion"
Boyd dropped the milk and ran from the store, he ran and ran and ran finally collapsing on the road, he recognized where he was, it was near the public pool. This wasn't happening, he sobbed into his hands coughing and crying until he passed out shaking with grief.
The next morning he woke up, but he didn't open his eyes, he remembered her, her smile, her laugh as well as her frown and her voice until eventually he slowly opened his eyes, determined never to think of Sky Mangel again, and that's when it hit him, everything was different, the world would never look the same to him
It was then that Boyd Hoyland looked out at a world without Sky and knew that there was nothing there for him.
The official statement said that it was simply extreme exhaustion and dehydration that had killed him, but those who knew him would always maintain that Boyd had died of a broken heart.
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Yeah, it's all angst from here on out…I was just thinking how funny it is that in chapter one I made Serena a threat to Boyd and Sky, When I wrote that particular bit halfway through 2004 Serena had been nothing but nice, At the end of last year she secretly hooked up with Boyd for a while making my story strangely ironic and poignant as well as being very perceptive of me!
Explanation-Seriously, tell me if you don't need these…. At the beginning of this year Sky and Boyd were accused of murder and accomplice to murder respectively and Karl was helping Izzy make a charity single to help rebuild the coffee shop despite her horrible singing voice, I reversed the roles of those two Ramsay St. couples so Sky was the singer and Izzy and Karl were the murderers. It works on a few levels because where Boyd was proven innocent I believe they would've been hastier to convict Izzy and Karl, Stephanie Macintosh who plays Sky is also a talented singer in real life. (P.S-Natalie Bassingwaithe who acts Izzy is also a good singer, she acted being a bad one for the show, Natalie will be appearing in Australia soon as Sandy in Grease the stage show production)
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