A/N: I got this idea while watching Remember Me again today. Every time I watch it I cry and wish that there was an alternate ending. Anyway I hope that you enjoy this and I promise to update all of my other Remember Me fanfics soon.

Disclaimer: I do not own Remember Me

Chapter 1: So Alone

Melanie's POV

"Melanie?" I heard my mom call out from the hallway.

I slammed my diary shut before she could see what I was writing in it.

"Yes mom?" I answered back politely.

I looked right at my mom. We looked a lot like each other. Same blonde hair. Same blue eyes. Same facial features.

"Honey I have to work late tonight again. Will you be alright on your own?" she asked me.

I sighed. "Yes mom"

I didn't even know why she bothered asking. She always works late. Even though we live together and we're all that each other has we've grown very distant in the last few years. Sometimes it seemed like we barely knew each other anymore.

I felt so alone most of the time. My name is Melanie Tyler Hawkins. Please don't ask why I have a boy's middle name because I don't even know why. I suspect that maybe it was my dad's name but I can't say for sure. Mom never talked about him.

I watched my mom leave. It was heartbreaking. I'm only a 13-year-old girl. A girl who still needed her mother so much. Yet she was hardly there anymore.

I started working on my homework but then quit almost right away. Why bother? I've only been getting Ds and Fs anyway. I was almost certain that I was probably going to fail 8th grade anyway. So why try? Not that my mom knew that yet. I wasn't even sure that she would care honestly.

I jumped when my cellphone rang. I looked at the called and it was only my friend Tiffany.

"Hey Melanie want to meet us at Central Park later?" By us she meant her, Stephanie, Michelle, and I. We were the best of friends the four of us.

"Yes. What time?" I asked her.

"10pm" she said.

"That works for me" I answered.

My mother wouldn't be home until about 12am anyway. She wouldn't even notice that I was gone.

I spent the rest of my time writing in my diary, reading, or watching TV. I had midterms coming up soon and really I should have been studying for them, but as I said earlier, I didn't care about my grades or school anyway. So why did it matter?

Around 9:15 I left the house and headed for the subway. At exactly 10pm I arrived at Central Park and I started looking for my friends.

I saw Tiffany, Stephanie, and Michelle right away already smoking their cigarettes. Tiffany handed me one right away. No one else knew this but I smoked. My friends here introduced me to cigarettes a year ago. I've been hooked on them ever since. I've taken extra care to make sure that I don't stink like smoke which I think is why I haven't been caught yet. How my friends were able to get cigarettes was a mystery to me.

"Hey Melanie what do you say we go and have a little fun tonight?" Michelle asked me.

"Okay, what? Going to the movies? I'm pretty sure the mall is already closed"

For some reason they all laughed at me.

"Oh Melanie, that's all kid stuff. We're running low on cigarettes and a few other things as well. What do you say about robbing a store? We've done it many times and we think it's time you joined us as well"

"What?" I muttered, feeling scared.

"Oh come on Melanie" Tiffany said.

"But I don't-"

"Oh come on Melanie. Don't be such a chicken" Tiffany teased.

Then they all joined in and started calling me a coward and a chicken. I didn't know what to do or how to say to no. I didn't want to do it but if I didn't do it they would never let me live it down. They would mock and ridicule me.

I had no choice but to do it.

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