Chapter 54

Gillian walked into the room; she shard with her soon to be sister. She watched as Helena tried to slow her breathing as she pretended to be asleep. She pulled her leather jacket off and dropped it on the floor. She crawled carefully on the bed. She stuck her finger in her mouth and twirled it around slowly. She quickly stuck it in Helena’s exposed ear and then braced herself for the attack.

“What the bloody hell was that for?” Helena asked loudly as she pushed Gillian away from her.

“You weren’t asleep.” Gillian said.

“So that isn’t the point. What do you want?” Helena demanded.

“Don’t you want to know what happened?” Gillian asked.

“No, I’m staying out of it from now on.” Helena said.

“I’m sorry I snapped at you earlier. You were only trying to help, but I was hurting and I was mad at the world.” Gillian said.

“Okay.” Helena said and pulled the covers over her head.

“You mean you really don’t want to know.” Gillian said pulling the covers back.

“Not really, no.” She said.

“I guess I’ll let you get back to sleep then.” Gillian said getting off the bed. She crossed to the bathroom and closed the door.

Helena now wide awake and with her curiosity getting the better of her, she huffed and kicked the covers off of her. She sat and waited for Gillian to reappear.

“What are you doing up? I thought you wanted to sleep.” Gillian said with a little attitude. Helena smiled.

“Get over here and tell me everything. I want to know all the details.” She said. Elated Gillian jumped on the bed and began to tell Helena the whole story.

“I think Mom is going to change her mind about letting me stay with you and Skylar when I start classes at CU.” Gillian said.

“No she won’t she just needs time to calm down and get used to the idea. She’s probably feeling the early stages of empty nest syndrome. Mum went through the same thing. When she sent Henry and I off to school after Father died. She’ll come around you’ll see.” Helena said.