Skylars POV
He smiles at me and my heart flips, his brown eyes seem to make me rooted to the spot and my little hands reach out shakily to touch the top of his head.
We stare for just a split moment into each other's eyes.
But the moment was broken when my swing came down first, followed by his and my head swivels back forwards as I launch myself into the air and land with a small grunt. I take off running, already knowing he would be chasing me as we do this every time one of us jumps off the swings before the other.
We are best friends, we live right next to each other and our parents are best friends as well that's how we became such good friends. We completely hated each other at first, he was mean and teased me a lot and I was a little crybaby at just the age of three. We were complete opposites, but now both of us at the age of eleven are completely inseparable.
Many other little kids ran around, screaming and playing but he and I just chased each other. We poke fun at each other and our favorite thing to do is swing together. But this time, he didn't chase me all the way like he normally does.
This time he stopped short of the slide we always loop around and go back and I was concerned, a knot started to form in my stomach as I walked painfully slow back to him. I could see the teachers starting to gather students and some ran to the teachers but he nor I paid attention to them.
I swallowed a lump forming in my throat and it just stayed there but more pronounced, as tears started forming in my eyes, not knowing what was wrong, I thought I had done something somehow to make him mad since he didn't finish running with me, he never did that.
"What is wrong Kade?" I ask in a whiny voice, already ready to sob.
I didn't want him mad at me, I never want him mad at me.
Kade looked at his feet and wouldn't meet my eyes and I looked around nervously at this point most of the kids on the playground had dispersed and some teachers were going around and rounding up the stragglers still being defiant.
"Kade Bennet, you either tell me or-" I was about to demand him to tell me or we had to go because the teachers were going to be coming our way soon, but I was stopped mid-sentence.
I was stopped mid-sentence by Kade's lips on my own, his face pressed up against mine and last his hot breath fanned across my face.
My eyes opened wide, shocked.
I look at Kade to see his eyes closed and my brain ran at the fastest speed possible. Kade is kissing me, I realize and the shock wore off as my own eyes close after a second's hesitation.
This was a very awkward kiss, no doubt and I had no idea how to really kiss, but I had seen my mom kiss my dad many times. So I just lean into Kade, mush my lips together with his and dangle my arms loosely to my sides not really sure what to do with them.
I was lost in my head for a moment until I heard the teachers yell for us, we were probably the last two unaccounted for. The spell broke as we both sprang from each other, and I looked at Kade, staring wide-eyed and my heart beating so fast.
Realization dawn on me as we walk back inside, both completely stone-cold silent, both wide-eyed and afraid to look at each other, we went the rest of the day not talking, and even sat on different seats on the bus.
Everybody looks at us funny, as we have never sat apart since our mothers forced us to be in the same room when we were younger but I said nothing and stared out the bus window, until it got to our stop and we got off the bus silently.
I want to burst out smiling, because as my best friend, I have had a small crush on him, for as long as I can remember, but then, on the other hand, I want to cry because now there is a rift between us, and neither one of us know how to talk about it.
It was so out of Kade's character to be this way towards me, I know what it is to like someone and kiss someone. It means you have special feelings for someone, or as my mother has explained to me, and what I have seen with my own eyes. But with all these thoughts running through my head one sentence kept coming back and I could no longer ignore it.
As I walk up my porch steps to look at Kade one last time before entering my house was:
′Kade just stole my first kiss.′
As the front door slammed open, I ran inside my house to find my mother bawling her eyes out, and my father yelling at her, but as soon as both saw me they froze.
"What is wrong?" I asked them, very scared.
They both looked like they had seen a ghost.
"Honey..." My mother was the first to break the silence.
Her honey-blonde hair hung low down her chest and her bright eccentric dark brown eyes shined with unhindered sadness, "Sweetie?" She asks.
I tilt my head to the side just as she kneels down beside me on the floor, so she was eye level with me and she leans forwards to grip my small hands in her big ones.
"Yes, mommy?"
"Honey, we have to go." She says.
My eyebrows come together, "Where are we going? Will we be back to get ice cream at Shirle-" I go to ask but get cut off by my father.
"Babygirl, we have to leave Cherrysville, but that's okay, we found a place in Willowstowns that seems just as perfect-"
"What about my stuff? What about Teddy? What about Kade?" I suddenly ask, backing away with tears welling in my eyes as I take each shuddering breath.
I was old enough to know what leaving a town to go to another town meant, but why?
Teddy was the teddy bear my parents gave me at birth, and I always needed him to sleep with every night, I always need him. My things, my clothes, my toothbrush, my princess books, all the things I still had were all in my room.
Why were we leaving? Would we ever come back? Could Kade come with us?
Kade.
The kiss.
I have to talk to him.
"We'll get you more things as you get older Skye." My mother says.
"Can I tell Kade, and say goodbye to him?" I ask hopeful but my father straightens his back up and my mother stands up and grabs my hand already leading me out the front door.
"No time for that sweetheart. We gotta go now." My mom says as she brings me to the backseat and she opens the door, leaving no room for me to interrupt or ask any more questions.
I get into the back of the car and buckle up and look across the street to Kade's house to see Kade, standing in his bedroom window.
"Did, Ep-"
"No, he doesn't know. Don't worry love, we got this." My father said but I paid no mind as to what they were saying.
"I just don't want them to find us. We've gone this long and I can't believ-" My mother starts but ends up getting emotional and her voice heavily thickens with emotion as she lets a few tears well and cascades down her cheeks.
"Don't think like that baby. We'll protect her, we always will." My father responds
I was mostly concentrating on Kade and watching his hand as he waves to me, his dark eyes from this far away looked sad but held a certain warmth I have felt on my own face.
The car backs out of the light grey concrete driveway and sped off leaving Kade as a speeding spec flying in the opposite direction and I am left with my overwhelming thoughts of the day and the events of the day right now.
I am leaving Cherrysville and I don't know if I'll ever be back.