Maddie sighed quietly to herself when Nurse Miller left with the clipboard that now held her fate. Maddie sat quietly for a few minutes and then decided to get up and walk over to the Nurses station where she found Nurse Miller sitting at the desk filing paper work.

"Is it alright if I sit with my grandmother? Seeing as I am not going to see her for a while?"

"Of course you can pumpkin, you know where to go?" Maddie nodded and smiled at Nurse Miller before she walked over to the elevator and pushed the button and waited patiently for the elevator. Minutes later Maddie was in the elevator waiting for it to get to level 2.

The elevator dinged indicating that it was on level two so; Maddie got out and walked along that quiet and spooky corridor as she walked to her grandmother's room. Maddie stood in the door way and looked at her grandmother as she laid there still and lifeless as machines helped her breath and those wires everywhere with the dried blood on her grandmothers wrist where they tried to get the line in her hand.

Maddie walked closer, took a seat next to her grandmother, took her hand in her own, and felt the tears fall down her cheeks.

"They are sending me to live with mom in America, I always wished I would live with mom and well now I have that chance I want to stay and not go. I do not want to leave you behind. It's always been me and you just us two and now it will be just you"

Maddie was waiting for her grandmother to answer her back but then she remembered where they were and why they were there in the first place and Maddie now held herself responsible.

"I wish I could hear your voice for the last time and I am going to call and check on you every day and I hope you remember how much I love you"

Maddie le the tears fall freely down her face, as she looked at her grandmother, the woman who brought her up and gave her everything she needed in life and now she needed Maddie but Maddie was now being taken away from her.

Maddie must have fallen asleep sitting next to her grandmother when she felt someone shake her awake.

"Maddie"

"uh huh" Maddie said slowly waking up , stretching and yawning and looked next to her was a complete stranger with Nurse Miller standing in the door way with a sad look on her face told Maddie that it was time.

"I'm Jackie, come on sweet let's get you home to your mom"

"No, I'm not going anywhere" Maddie said clinging on to her Grandmothers had tightly.

"Don't you want to see your mother?"

"No not really, my mother is this lady who right here that you are making me leave behind"

"Well I'm afraid Maddie you have no choice and your Grandmother wants what's only best for you"

"Well what's best for me is to stay here with my Grandmother"

"We don't have time for this sweetie," Jackie said biting her tongue to stop her from losing her temper with Maddie.

"I don't want to but, I have no choice so" Maddie shrugged and took one last look at her grandmother before she walked out of her room with a complete stranger who was now in charge of her until she got to America where she was under her mother's care.

"Thank you for looking after me" Maddie said rushing up to Nurse Miller and throwing her arms around her tight.

"Oh you are very welcome sweetie, I will check on your grandmother every day for you and I will talk to her and tell how much you miss her and love her alright?"

"Thank you she would like that"

"Ready to go then?" Jackie asked knowing Maddie's answer would be no.

"Not really but, I have to" they walked out of the hospital and over to Jackie's car where Maddie got into the passenger seat and closed the door.

The drive to Maddie's old home was rather quiet and Jackie did her best to create conversation but Maddie clearly did not want to talk and she totally understood. Maddie stared out through the window when a flash back came flooding back and Maddie blinked and the flash back was gone.

They pulled into the drive way and Maddie looked at her old house that she used to love and had many happy times there with her grandmother but now all she saw was hate and anger as she looked up at the house. Maddie opened the door of the car, slammed it shut, and ran up the steps and into the house. The smell of the house made Maddie burst into tear, ran up stairs to her bedroom, and slammed the door shut. Jackie walked into the house and saw the happiness in Maddie and Philippa's pictures and their love for each other was clearly visible. Jackie looked round the large house.

Maddie on the other hand stood in her room and looked round at everything knowing she was going to leave some of this behind. Maddie grabbed her suitcases and started shoving everything she could fit inside them all.

"Maddie, sweetie are you all packed" Jackie called up stairs.

"I will be there in the minute," Maddie yelled back.

The more that Maddie thought about it the more excited she was seeing her mother but, she still was angry at her mother for giving her to her grandmother all those years ago rather than look after her. Maddie shook the thoughts about her mother and filled those thoughts with hatred.

"I'm ready," Maddie, yelled trying to carry two bags down the steps.

Jackie rushed up the steps to help her, took the two bags down the steps, and put them into her car. They got the entire luggage into Jackie's car and head out on the road to the airport.

They arrived at the airport and checked Maddie in and they walked around duty-free and had a bite to eat because this was the only proper food that, Maddie would eat until she landed and was at her mother's house.

"So, are you excited to see your mother?" Jackie asked taking a bite of her lunch.

"No, not really to be honest" Maddie pushed the food around on her plate.

"Please eat some more sweetie, this will be the only proper food you will eat until you get to your mother's house" Maddie shrugged but took a small bite.

Finally, it was time for Maddie to board the plane, this was where Jackie said goodbye to Maddie, and Maddie thanked her for her help because deep down Maddie knew it was at all Jackie's fault and that she was actually trying to help her.

"Well this where we go our separate ways" Jackie hugged Maddie tight "Have a safe flight" Jackie let go and watched Maddie hand over her passport and ticket and then she disappeared to board the plane.

Maddie walked down the long hallway behind crowds of people waiting to board the plane. Maddie looked round at the people near her and the share smiles seeing that Maddie was alone. The queue soon dwindled down and Maddie was not embarking the plane where she was met with smiley, cheerful cabin crew in their crisp and clean uniform and their wings glistening in the light. A small blonde Cabin crew who smiled brightly at her and gesture for Maddie to follow her.

"Hi, Maddie?" the woman asked politely.

"Yeah I'm Maddie"

"Nice to meet you Maddie, I'm Hannah and I will be looking after you during the flight, I need to just pop this over your head just to show that you are travelling alone, is that alright?" Maddie nodded and Hannah placed the "unaccompanied Minor" sign around her neck and took Maddie to her seat which was right by the emergency exit with plenty of leg room for her.

"If you need anything I am here to help, so have you flown before?"

"Yeah I have flown before but just not alone"

"Aww bless your heart you will be fine, so have you got family in Cleveland then?"

"Yeah my mom Lives in Cleveland and I am on way to live with her and to be honest I don't want to go"

"You will be fine, your mom will be happy to see you I am sure"

"No, I don't think so; she doesn't know I am coming" Hannah was not sure what to say so she took this as her cue to leave.

"Well I better start doing some checks and I will come and check on you in a little while ok Maddie?" Maddie nodded and watched as Hannah left and started doing cabin checks.

"Welcome aboard this nonstop flight from London to Cleveland Ohio, the duration of this flight will be 8 hours , so on behalf of the captain and rest of the crew we wish you a pleasant flight so, sit back relax and enjoy the flight"