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Bring Me To Life
I moved into my room at my Uncle Wes's mansion, I finished unpacking and set up the room. It was going to be different; this mansion was only going to house, me, my Uncle Wes, my Aunt Jen, and his butler, Phillips. It will definitely be quiet and I will look forward to the lack of noise. There was a knock on the door and I looked up, come in, I called. Hey kiddo, my Uncle Wes said to me, you done packing? Pretty much, I reply. Then I've got something to show you. I got up and followed my uncle he told me to close my eyes as we reached a door at the end of the hall, I did as I was told and Wes led me into the room. Open your eyes, he said. I complied and I found myself in the middle of a bright and sunny music room. What is this? It's a music room silly, its for you to write your songs. But I don't write songs anymore Uncle Wes. My uncle just looked at me with a shine in his eye before saying, this room is yours Syd, and maybe you will write again, I'll be in my office if you need anything. The room is amazing, it is bright and Sunny with a state of the art recording studio, and beautiful baby grand and a guitar. But what thrilled me the most was the music sheets that read lyrics and music by Sydney Drew.
My Uncle Wes is my mother's half brother. Uncle Wes is the former Time Force Red Ranger and my Aunt Jen, his wife, is the former or current Pink Time Force Ranger, that is a confusing story. They don't have any children yet as my Aunt Jen says, so in the mean time they get to spoil me. I walk over to the piano and sit down, my fingers grazing the ivory keys.
How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I have become so numb, without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
It is my first day of teaching today at the Silver Guardian training facility. Uncle Wes's co-commander and best friend Eric Myers introduces me to the cadets. Listen up people he barks, this is Lieutenant Sydney Drew, she will be instructing you in criminal profiling, treat her with respect and dignity otherwise you will answer to me. Thank you Commander Myers, I say. I straiten my charcoal colored power suit blazer with light pink blouse and say, welcome to criminal profiling, as Silver Guardians, it is crucial that you all pass this course. Now how many of you know what criminal profiling is?
As I pack my brief case to go at the end of the day my cell rings and I answer it. Hello? Oh hey Sky, how are you? Teaching is good I like it. I'm in Silver Hills living at my Uncle Wes's house. Yes where we had the BBQ all those years ago. Um okay, eight o'clock sounds good, I'll see you then. I hang up, exhale, and walk out of the classroom. Hey, teach how did your first day go? I hear my uncle's voice call; I turn and wait for him to catch up. It was good, I say. Do you mind if we have some company tonight? Miss Sydney the recluse wanting company? My Uncle teases with a raised eyebrow, of course kiddo, you ready to go home?
Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
Sky comes to visit around eight and I am still wearing the clothes that I taught in. He kisses me on the cheek when I let him in, I had to race Phillips to the door to open it, for such an old man he moves fast. Hey, I say come on in. I lead Sky into the parlor where Wes and Jen are. Sky these are my Aunt Jen and Uncle Wes Collins. Aunt Jen, Uncle Wes this is Lieutenant Commander Sky Tate, my partner and one of my best friends at SPD. Your Mark Tate's son aren't you, my Uncle Wes says. No he's not says Jen, this is Kendrix's nephew. Actually I'm Kyle Tate's son, says Sky, he went to prep school with you sir and was the first red ranger of SPD. I knew you looked familiar, is one of your relatives also a ranger. My mom is a Corbett and both of her brother Mike and Leo served as power rangers. At least I had the ranger team right, Jen says. We'll be upstairs, I say and lead Sky upstairs to my sanctuary as I call my music room.
This house is huge, Sky tells me. I nod as he say you look a lot better. I feel a lot better I say. We stand there not saying anything just looking at each other. This is my music room, I say. Are you back to writing? He asks. On and off, I say it is my uncle's idea. I've missed you these past three weeks, Sky says. Really? Really, Syd. I give him a genuine smile. And he pulls me into a hug, I inhale is sent, it smells, everything just seems so right.
Frozen inside without your touch without your love
Darling only you are the life among the dead
I walk Sky out to his car. Thank you for coming I say. He smiles and then as if on impulse I kiss him on the lips hard. Then I run back into the house and hide in my room leaving him dumbfounded and breathless. Sydney? My Aunt Jen appears in my room. Are you okay? Yes, no, I don't know I tell her. It is Sky isn't it, she asks. I look at her blankly, she smiles and says that everything is going to be all right. My mind is on whirlwind speed. I flop onto my bed and grab my cell and dial Z's number, Sam answers. Can I talk to your mom? Mom's out but Bridge is home. He'll do I say. Hey Syd what's up, comes Bridge's voice. Is everything is all right you are broadcasting so many signals and you are miles away. I don't know, I haven't felt like this in who knows how long, five years at least, I hear myself saying. I can hear Bridge laugh on the other end. Oh, Syd is all that he says. Thanks Bridge, I say and then hang up. I run to my music room and sit down at the piano.
all this time i can't believe i couldn't see
kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
i've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
got to open my eyes to everything
without a thought without a voice without a soul
I'm happier than I've been in along time, Sky visits frequently in the evenings and sometimes picks me up when I am done teaching. We go out to dinner, go long walks on the beach, or just spend a quite evening at the house watching movies with my Aunt and Uncle. It has been five months since I have left SPD, and now since the mission I am beginning to feel like a more mature version of my old self. I've been writing more music, it is really just my thoughts and feeling like a musical diary. My working for Silver Guardians is much more relaxing than at SPD, its funny how the work is so similar and yet it is different and so much more relaxing, no Grumm, no evil monsters, knock on wood. I can sleep uninterrupted at night. And I have Sky.
don't let me die here
there must be something more
bring me to life
I'm sitting on my bed wearing sweatpants and a tank top from sparing with my uncle, that took a lot of coaxing from my aunt for me to join in, I was a little out of practice, but I got back into it quickly, it felt amazing. Without warning Sky enters my room and pins me on the bed with a kiss. Sky, I say in surprise. Hi, he says shyly before kissing me again. Something hard presses into my thigh, What's in your pocket? He sits up, fishes a box out of his pocket, and hands it to me. Open it he says. I open the box to find a beautiful ring, it is a pink teardrop cut diamond with two small aquamarine colored diamonds on either side set on a 24-karot gold band. It's beautiful, I say. Marry me, says Sky. Oh my god. I kiss Sky, and whisper yes. My heart is soaring and I feel so alive.
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