"Sierra! Wait Sierra!" I didn't want to talk to him, not after he walked into the school with her in his arms. Shauna Dinton wasn't a bad girl, quite the opposite actually, she was an amazing student and sweet to everyone. That's why there was this burning in my chest, because it wasn't just any girl in his arms. But a girl who looked perfect with him, who was perfectly suited for him.

"Sierra, please just listen to me!" I didn't want to talk to him, school was over and I just wanted to go home. See my cute little blue parrotlet Letty, and ignore the burning feeling in my chest.

"Please!" His hand wrapped around my arm stopping me in my fleeing tracks I turned facing him seeing that his face was red and tears were welling up in his eyes. "You need to fly Sierra and you can't do that with me."

"What does that even mean!" I yelled back closing my eyes hoping that if I did that he would just go away. But life wasn't that easy, he wasn't just some hallucination that I could close my eyes and make him go away. He was real and this pain was real, the pain of being rejected by the one you... care for.

He stood up straight letting go of my wrist and moving I could feel the distance he was putting between us, I had no choice in the matter as he drifted away from me. Drifting away where I could not reach him, at least not the way I wanted to, an ocean between us even though it was really only a few feet.

"You have an amazing future ahead of you Sierra Luisa Day Da Ruiz." He held his mouth open for a second as if he was going to add more but instead he just smiled softly at me before walking away.

I knew a piece of my heart was walking away with him as he left me, I wondered if he left a piece of his with me. I didn't know exactly what he meant when he said that, but I was going to do everything that I could to figure it out. Whatever this future of mine that he sees, I will find it and prove to him that he can be there to.

"You seem very busy daughter of mine, should I tell Mr. Heron that we will meet with him another day?" My mother stood in the doorway watching me carefully with a disapproving face.

"Of course not Ms. Ruiz, I am fully prepared and was just waiting for the meeting to begin." I rose from my chair following my mother, I couldn't help but wonder if this was the bright future Michael had been talking about. The future that he had spoke to me about when I was only fifteen years old, just a little freshman in high school.

"Now then have you made a decision regarding Mr. Heron's product?" My mother asked me as we walked, I knew she was trying to see if I was going to accept Mr. Heron's proposal or not. This was one of her stupid little tests to see if I could truly run the company that father and her had created.

"Of course I have moth- Ms. Ruiz." I replied stiffly stumbling over my words for a moment, I wonder what father thinks of us as he watches us from heaven? Would he be proud of the woman that I've become, or does he see a future that I don't just like Michael does.

The meeting past by quickly after I informed Mr. Heron that we would be unable to help him in his quest with glow in the dark cosmetics. I told him however that I would contact someone that I thought would love his product, a company that specialized in makeup for teens and parties. Since Sousa Day Cosmetics was mainly forces towards those 18 and up, mother always found it repulsing that twelve year olds had started wearing makeup nowadays.

"You did well in the meeting daughter." My mother replied giving me a tight lipped smile in reward for my good work, I smiled gently back at her trying not to laugh at her mannerisms.

It's been a long time since my mother truly was free with her emotions, now they were under every lock and key in existence. Ever since we had lost father she's been like this, present physically but emotionally she was never around. I wondered if God knew what he was putting my mother through when he decided that my father's time was up.

"I will see you tomorrow my daughter." My mother walked off after giving me the same goodbye that she had ever since I had joined the company.

"I'll see you tomorrow mother." I mumbled under my breath knowing that she was too far away now to hear me, two pieces of my heart had left me the day that my father died. Sometimes I think that mother wished that she had died that day to, as far as I am convinced I think she did in every sense except for the true one.

As I walked out of the Sousa Day Cosmetics headquarters my phone began to ring in my pocket, impeccable timing as usual Noah. The rain that had been only sprinkling began to pick up as I finally answered my phone just as someone barreled past me. My phone went flying onto the ground landing face down and I already knew that it was going to be cracked.

"Watch where your going fucker!" I yelled at them before looking up towards the sky saying a silent sorry to the Lord and an equally silent question to why today of all days it had to be raining. I picked up my now cracked phone, I could hear the frantic voice of Noah trying to get me to answer.

"I'm fine Noah, someone just bumped into me and made me drop my phone." I replied as I dusted off my jacket where that f-fudger bumped into me, this was one of my favorite raincoats.

"Don't worry me like that Sierra! I thought something happened to you!" I had to hold my phone away from my ear a bit so the kid didn't burst my ear drums. Noah was always a bit of a worry wart when it came to me, he was like... a puppy.

"Sorry Noah, but don't worry I'm just heading home to spend some quality time with Loot and Lite." A smile came over my face as when mentioning my two pet birds, they were both male cockatiels.

"You and your birds Sierra, I've never met anyone who loves birds like you do." I could hear the smile in Noah's voice as we chatted, he was such a good kid.

"My birds are good listeners plus they have the same taste in music as me!" I retorted getting a few weird looks from people who passed by me, I rolled my eyes not caring what they thought of me. My precious birds were true gifts from God, I don't care if other people don't fully appreciate the majesty of His creation.

"Maybe I should add one into a book, wanna be a chara-" He began but I already knew where this conversation was going, he had tried to convince me multiple times.

"No way kid, I'm not just some character for you to stick me into a book no matter how good of an author you are." I replied making sure he knew that I didn't want to be a character in his books, then I would be no better than a puppet.

"Stop calling me a kid Sierra, I'm only a year and a half younger than you! Besides its not like I'm already made any books about you guys." He mumbled something about the 'sadly series' but I couldn't really hear what he was saying.

" You'll always be a kid to me, Noah. Unless you can go back and time and change our birthdays." We both laughed as he exclaimed that, that sounded like a good book idea and that he may use it.

"Hey now if you use that then you have to give me some credit." We both laughed him promising that he would dedicate the book to me if he ever actually wrote it. We talked all the way to my apartment building and finally hung up when I got to my door.

"Bye Sierra, same time tomorrow?" He asked and still I could hear the smile on his face, we had been calling each other at the same time every other day since the day I started at Sousa Day Cosmetics. I had called him after work crying about how the job was so hard and that my mother had treated me so poorly. He was the one who pushed me to continue on this path of mine, now every other day we just check on each other. Even if we only talk for a minute or two, its our way of saying 'I care about you and I'm here.'

"Loot, Lite I'm home my babies!" I threw my keys onto the kitchen counter after locking my doors, I let my two babies out of the cage and they flew all around me.

"That's my babies, such good boys you are." I cooed at them petting the top of their little heads, Loot was a Lutino Cockatiel while Lite was a Yellow Pearl Cockatiel. After Letty died two years ago I decided to get Loot, I couldn't bare to not have a bird in my life. Then a couple of months later I ended up getting Lite, Loot seemed so sad whenever I left to go to work.

At first the two hadn't gotten along very well, Loot was determined to make sure Lite knew that he was top dog and in charge. But Lite didn't seem to understand why this other bird was attacking him all the time.

"Loot you can't attack Lite you silly goose, he's your new brother." It was a rocky start between the two, Loot was used to being the top dog around the house.

But eventually Loot realized that Lite had no aspirations of taking his alpha position in the household. The two have been best friends ever since, they had separate cages for when I wasn't home but when I was they were free to roam around my apartment. I had set up multiple little areas for the two to play in when they weren't flying around the kitchen or living room.

Loot sat on my shoulder while Lite perched on my head, I took the two over to the kitchen to give them their dinner for the night. I always made sure to feed them before I had my dinner, otherwise they would peck me and try to steal my meal. Or Loot would poop on my dinner for pure spite the little twerp.

The rest of my night was fairly normal, have dinner then work on paperwork for Sousa Day Cosmetics. Then Emily would call me and would rant about how Auburn had bit her foot again this morning for moving the covers on the bed. I pulled up my covers while both my birds slept peacefully in their cages, ready for yet another normal day.

Just day after the day always the same, was this the future you saw me in Michael? A future where everyday I find that I'm still missing one piece of my heart that I can never get back.

"You have an amazing future ahead of you Sierra Luisa Day Da Ruiz." I couldn't help but wonder, what he more he was going to say before he stopped himself, as I fell into a mediocre sleep.

Oh my gosh I finally got another chapter up everyone! I hope you guys enjoy it, I put my heart and soul into it. I hope you enjoy her two little birds Loot and Lite.