Trees and houses past in a blur as Ileana lazily laid her head up against the car window, her light purple hair sticking to her face and the glass, due to the electricity early spring brings. Her ice blue eyes snapping back and forth as they scanned the area passing beside her but her mind wasn't really calculating what she was seeing. Instead her mind was focusing on the events prior to this ten hour trip.
"Don't worry sweetie, I'm sure you'll make tons of friends where we're moving!" exclaimed her mother tilting her head backwards to speak to her daughter from the front passenger seat.
"Whatever," Murmured Ileana, her eyes never once leaving the window.
A sigh esc aped her mother's lips, "Ileana you need to move on. What happened was an honest mistake. You can make new friends; this time maybe you can get more than one." Her mom's gaze shifted towards her daughter sitting directly behind her. The only notation that Ileana had heard her or was listening was her furrowing brow, and the occasional twitch of her left ear, a habit the girl had had since she was seven and never bothered to break. "All I'm saying is that this is a brand new start for you, Ileana. So don't ruin it for yourself by remaining in the past. I'm sorry for what happened to Camara but you need to forget about her and focus on your new life."
"Easy for you to say, you didn't lose someone who was practically a part of yourself," mumbled Ileana, barely above a whisper. As her mother's head turned back around to face forwards a silent tear slid its way down Ileana's face, splashing on her grey cargo shorts. Quickly raising her arm, she wiped away the faint streak mark left behind by the tear. That was the whole reason they were moving.
So that she wouldn't constantly see reminders of what happened, but her parents didn't know the whole truth of what was happening. Sure they knew about the disappearance, they were the ones who helped her perform the burial without the body, but they didn't know what was currently happening. No one did. And as far as Ileana was concerned, no one ever would.