Chapter 229

I wouldn't say that was asking this question because of the fact that Oakley was around us enough, or because we did not enjoy her company. She is simply the best sometimes and even if she can be mischevious sometimes, you can end up getting really really used to her without even having noticed this. I'm asking it because they are sometimes that I catch her staring at her laptop, looking at some place or some picture and wearing a reminiscent look in her eyes.

She would be wearing this nostalgic look that let me know that she missed wherever she was looking at. She missed where ever it was she was looking at or she missed whoever she was looking at, either way she definitely misses this place and I wonder exactly how much she likes living with us when she has such a deep love for some other place.

I'm not asking it out of jealousy or anger, I'm simply asking this because I am a little bit surprised. I do not want her to seem like she was compelling herself to stay with us while she could be off in another place, all the while I knew, and then I would do nothing about it. I don't want her to stay here because she thinks it is a way for her to escape whatever she isn't trying to face.

"I love it here enough, you guys are simply the best people ever, you are so accommodating and so nice and I wonder exactly how I had been lucky enough to get friends like you".

"But I've seen you smiling at your laptop one time too many, is there someone else that you would rather be with or somewhere else you would love to be at this point?".

She looks at me like she's surprised I had even noticed that and I smile. After all that is my job as a friend, to notice what she doesn't want me to notice and to bring it out into the limelight.

"Am I to give an honest answer?" she asks a little bit hesitant and I nod my head into my new smoothie 

"A very honest answer, we have all agreed to this, we are all going to be honest here aren't we?" I asked Scott and he nods his head hesitantly.

I'm guessing that i better rope him in at this point.

"There is somewhere else that i would rather be but I do not want to go there" she says. I nod my head knowingly because it is exactly what I suspected.

"This guy who broke up with you is there isn't he?" I ask and she nods her head 

"It is a summer resort at hovian, a summer resort his parents own but yet I had so much fun there, I wish I could go back there once more and see the beautiful cherry blossoms. We had planned to go there this summer break but yet I don't think that is going to happen anymore".

A little bit of a silence ensues in between her final words and we both look at my brother.

"Alrighty then, your turn".