She walked hurriedly, quickening her pace to get them further away from the police questioning the junkie stopped outside her house. Seb moving to Bone Hill had surprised her. Her childhood crush, the older guy who she couldn’t help staring at at family events. Normally, she was turned off completely by the rich kids who hung around her parents friends. But Seb had always been a dream for her.
“I’m great,” she said, forcing a smile, her voice a little shaky. She hid it well, though. “No, it’s okay. I definitely like it,” she said, unable to hide her flirting. There was nothing about Saskia that was subtle. She had come a long way form the young girl Seb used to know her as. She was taller, her tongue sharper, legs longer.
“Just… Needed a walk. My apartment is so stuffy. Plus, you never know when it will lead to running into an incredibly handsome young man,” she teased him, knocking him with her elbow. “How are you adjusting to small town life? Are you bored out of your mind yet? I swear I’m gonna start picking fights with random people on the street just to entertain myself.”
Sebastian matched the pace of the girl as they walked away from the police. The entire scene made him slightly anxious so was happy to be able to get away from it. The further away they got, the more comfortable he felt. “Glad that you’re good!” he smiled as they walked down the street together. He noticed that she was flirting slightly, but put it down to the comfortableness of a long friendship.
Looking at Saskia now, Seb would not have been able to tell it was the same girl that he had grown up with. She had changed, but in fairness, so had he. I guess everyone changed when the grew up, leaving the innocence of childhood behind for the regrets that mount up in adult life. People who say that they have no regrets in life are either a saint or lying, usually the latter; they just don’t like to admit the atrocities that they have performed because it makes it feel too real.
Sebastian was the kind of person that liked to feel everything. Pain, love, lust, heartbreak, sadness, happiness. He believed that the way to fulfilling the empty void that every possessed was to fill it with feeling, whatever that may be. Don’t try and shut things out. It was important to embrace every aspect of their feeble human existence. Maybe this was the reason he cried and sad films and films with dogs in them.
“I know what you mean about needing to get out, sitting in all day drives me mad.” He added, it was the truth. He couldn’t understand how some people could spend all day in couped up in the four walls of their homes. It didn’t make sense to him. He needed fresh air and sunlight, also, with the amount of junk food he seemed to consume, he also needed the gym.
At her next question, he thought back to his time in Bone Hill, he could not deny it was extraordinarily ordinary. Day-to-day life was monotonous. “I have to say- it’s quite nice to be bored, instead of having the pressure of attending function after function.” He nodded as he knew that Saskia would understand completely what he was on about. “Then again- sometimes I miss the drama, as long as I wasn’t involved in it, I found it pretty amusing.” The eye of his mind wondered through a sea of memories, taking him back to his time in New York.
“Do you remember that event we were both at, where that crazy blonde lady who was new money decided to act as though she had been brought up like us and decided to serve red wine- then went ballistic when someone spilled a drop on the carpet. I thought her head was going to explode.” It was nice to have someone to talk to about his life before, even though he hated the majority of it, it was the way he was brought up. Having Saskia to provide judgment-free nostalgia was one comfort that came with Bone Hill, some days he didn’t know how he would cope without it.
As they carried on walking, he turned to her and suggested that they go out for the day, get away. “Why don’t we just go for a meal or something, get some food or have a day out and get away. I’m not busy today, are you?” he questioned, he wouldn’t be offended if she were, It would be nice to spend some time with her as they hadn’t in so long. “Lunch is on me, of course.” He reassured her. He knew that she was fully capable of paying for herself, he was sure she had a sizeable trust fund just as he did, it was more courtesy.
“I don’t think we should take a town car, it might cause attention and end up in a newspaper. I haven’t appeared in a newspaper for 15 months, I looked the other day. It’s like i deserve a sobriety chip or something.” he jested. “I’ll even let you drive my Mercedes.” he added. He knew that she wouldn’t be able to resist that.
