Chapter 2: The Small Town
Chapter 2
SKYLAR LEWIS MARSHAL
I woke up next morning as the ray of sunshine reflected on my face.
My body was begging for more sleep but my tummy roared in hunger.
Hence, tummy won.
'Hehehe'
I glanced on the clock by the bedside table and it was already noon.
'gosh'
I slept like a log.
So I took a shower before going down.
"How was your sleep, Sky?" Sarah asked as soon as I was treading down the stairs.
"Don't you have work?" I asked instead of answering.
"I took a leave of absence today."
"I plan to take you around the town."
I smiled.
I could tell the excitement and pride lingering in her voice.
'Hmmmm'
The town of Verona.
It seems like I knew the town in the back of my head even if I've never been here before.
I was sixteen when Sarah started to work for me. We really did not get along the first month—
'Cause I was a bitch.
Ah no—
I'm a free spirited person that got to do everything I want in my life.
The unconditional support of my father took a huge part in that and has molded the person that I am today.
And Sarah was the one who lasted the longest of all the personal assistant I've ever had. We'll she's more on something like a manager though.
She was different, kind and she has tamed me in ways she doesn't know.
Though she really can't do anything about my life of fornication—,
Yeah, again I was a bitch.
My life was more on fooling around and sleeping around at such young age—,
… but I do appreciate Sarah's nagging and rebuking in the last three years.
She may not able to control me on that aspect: my fooling around, but she has tamed me in the other aspect of my life…
…that all the rebukes, instructions, corrections and heartfelt advices reached the deepest part of me but I am too prideful to acknowledge it nor to admit it.
I think if I do, I'm showing vulnerability in which— that's the last thing I want anyone to see in me.
Then one night, I don't know, I just felt empty all of a sudden.
'Till I found myself thinking—
Just what really matters in this life…
I've never had a mother to look up to. I never had that chance. She died when I was seventh month old.
My father was twenty one at that time and—
'Wow'
... he raised me up alone as a single dad.
'Salute to my father'
'Salute to the single Dads'
And with Sarah, she has become a really important family to me: a big sister as I don't have one but she has that line drawn as an employee and an employer should have… in which I can't really cross even if how hard I tried.
'Tsk'
Even so, Sarah and I got along after some time.
She has this love and passion everytime we talk of her hometown, Verona. That I think I have learned to love the place from her tales.
Hence, when it got to the point that I was reevaluating my life; that I suddenly got tired and unfulfilled; unhappy and lost.
With all the right timing in the world, my cousin, Andy visited me and suggested an idea that got me here now.
To live simply…
… away from the chaos, noise and fake people.
That's how she quote it.
Well, I fairly knew my cousin, I even called her ridiculous for moving outside the city and live like someone who doesn't have money when we have tons of it.
Yet, here I am now, embracing her idea… even living with it.
'gosh'
So I think I can also be called ridiculous now but this isn't so bad.
I'm feeling positive with this.
'Hehehe'
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So after our lunch, Sarah drove me around the town.
She took me where the nearest grocery store, bookstore, park , their little gymnasium, the only college in town—
'gosh'
It was really just a small town. There isn't even a mall, or a bar nor a high rise building like those in the city.
Looking back on my trip: riding that public utility bus, I could only see towering mountains in the way, acres of rice field, rivers and lakes— evergreen fields.
Am I going to be an hermit now?
A smile curved at my lips and I giggled a little on the car seat.
This is really new to me.
So, I'm now looking forward to roam around this small town in the coming days.
'Hehehe'
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