-Alex POV
I made up my mind and decided to follow Skyler.
Skyler went to the bus stop while I followed him.
We both went on the bus, Skyler sat in the front seat while I sat in the back.
After about 15 minutes Skyler got up from his seat and shot a glance at me.
Our eyes met and I nodded lightly and got up from my seat.
We kept walking for about 20 minutes and stopped in front of a graveyard. A huge graveyard.
He looked up at the entrance of the yard and walked right in.
(Huh? Am I supposed to follow him to the yard or should I just wait here..?)
I went into the yard and found him sitting between two graves, one on each side. I couldn't see what he was doing but it seemed like he was crying.
He looked so innocent just like a lost kid.
He mumbled something as he got up and wiped his tears with his sleeves.
I couldn't make up what he said as he was too far away
He started to make his way towards the exit. He locked eyes with mine again, addressing me to follow him.
I did as his eyes ordered and walked out behind him.
We walked for another 15 minutes and reached a place with many bushes.
Skyler went to the side of the bushes and went in from a little hidden opening between the bushes.
(Where the hell is he going...)
I closed my eyes while going through the little hidden place to avoid any eye damage but when I opened them up, a beautiful scenery approached my eyes.
It was a cliff with a full view of the sea. No one was there except us. It seemed like Skyler was the only one who knew about this place.
"You can speak now," Skyler said as he sighed.
"huh? oh umm okay?"
The view of the cliff was so beautiful; the river was huge, as blue as the sky, the birds were chirping, the clouds were marvelous and the white dandelions with the lush green grass added so much beauty.
"You see," Skyler said "my mom and dad used to bring me here a lot. My mom used to tell me this place used to make my dad calm whenever he was feeling bad or had a bad day"
(Why is he telling me this?)
"You see Alex …to me this cliff is full of beautiful memories. No one knows about this place except for me, now you too" Skyler said while turning around, his hair flowing with the wind.
(If this place is so special for him, why did he take me? here is he trying to)
"One day I'll jump off this cliff." He said with a calm tone.
"HUH, WHAT??" I replied in a shocked tone, of course, I was shocked why would he say that and so naturally on top of that?
"You heard me right I want someone else to take care of this place for me once I'm gone" he replied smiling and turning around towards the other side.
In a rush, I ran towards him and grabbed him by his shoulders making him look my way.
"Skyler !! why would you even say that is something wrong ??" I asked him worriedly.
I've always been caring toward people…. Even those who did me wrong. If I find them in a mess it's just natural for me to try and clean it up for them, even if it has nothing to do with me.
Skyler looked at me with a little shocked expression and then started to chuckle.
"I'm kidding silly! Of course, I won't do that do I look that depressed?"
This was probably the first time I saw him laughing, I was shocked but could feel the heat rising to my face.
His smiling face was so beautiful that one could look at it for hours without getting tired of it.
"Why would you even joke about that!" I said embarrassed, my face flushed up.
"I didn't know you would actually fall for it," He said chuckling and whipping a tear from his eye.
Looking at him I felt heat rising to my cheeks.
(Shit am I blushing!?)
I quickly let go of him and turned my face to the side.
(I hope he didn't see that.)
Skyler looked at me confused. Then walked toward the edge of the cliff and sat down.
"You said that my parents would be ashamed of me right?" he said with his voice still calm.
I looked up to see his way.
"Well they are too dead to feel ashamed of me anyways"
(dead? Oh God...)
A feeling of guilt rushed inside me.
I have never really experienced losing parents as I don't even remember them, to begin with, but there were some of the other children in the orphanage who went through the pain of losing their parents, and honestly hearing their stories it was obvious that they were in pain cause of those memories.
I walked closer and sat next to him.
"I'm so sorry..." I said in a low voice.
"No need to be sorry …they are living a good life in heaven …well at least my mum is I don't know about my dad ... But I'm sure they are having a better life up there than I will ever have down here"
he smiled as he continued.
"I wonder why people feel sorry for the dead …I mean they are happy now, they are resting in peace, at least most of them are. This world isn't much of a great place anyway am I right"
"Skyler...I...are you okay-" I turned around to look at him
But as I looked his way, he looked at mine. Our faces were so close all of a sudden that it made me stop mid-sentence.
He looked me in the eyes with a faint smile…his smile looked so sad and for once instead of the usual dead look, I could see emotions dwell in his eyes.
"Who knows maybe I am, maybe I am not" he replied smiling while tilting his head.
The look he gave, made a sense of pity make its way into my heart.
And without thinking much, I hugged him.
Hugging him was supposed to feel weird since every encounter we had, always ended up in a huge fight or him ignoring me…come to think of it, it always started with a fight.
But it wasn't awkward at all. It felt so natural.
Skyler flinched a little. I could tell he was trying to hold himself back from hugging me.
"I know I have no right to say this to you, after all, I have said to you the other day, but I'm here if you need me," I said hugging him tighter.
He looked at me and smiled warmly.
After a minute, I let go of him, of course, I was flustered.
(What the fuck was I thinking hugging him so tightly!?)
"yeah...so ..um...right..." I knew my face was flushing up so I looked the other way.
"You know, this is the only place where no one keeps an eye on me," Skyler said sitting straight.
"Eye on you?"
"Yeah...my aunt is a little sensitive about me so she sends different guys each time to keep an eye on me"
"Why would she do that"
"I don't know I guess this is her way of showing her love for me, she wants to give me alone time whenever I visit my parents like today and I just sneak out here from time to time. That's the reason why I don't let anyone close to me. She gets...umm worried"
"Then..why did you bring me here?"
"I don't know …maybe you're special?"
"s…special?" I felt the heat rising on my face again as I said that.
"Wow you get red so easily"
"Shut up I'm just tired of walking !"
"haha sure big boy"
We talked for hours. He told me about his family…what happened to his mom and what his dad did …he told me how much he adored his aunty for being with him and how thankful he is of her for taking him in.
We talked till the sun was no longer in our sight. Time seemed to fly by so fast when I was with him. He seemed to be enjoying it too.
At the end of our meeting, we decided this was going to be our spot, where we would hang out on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays every week.
This encounter also made me get rid of the little doubt I had of him doing anything with his former boyfriend's murder.