The One I Couldn't Protect
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I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING FOR SOOO LONG.
A family member of mine died and so we had to go to Korea. We spent one week with family and then another with family not sad. After I got back home everything began to pile on for school since it end of the year.
I meant to update the last chapter but my sister reminded me that the file at home and I was not.
Well HERE IT IS! The final chapter. I hope it doesn't disappoint!
.:Ji:.
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"How much longer?" I ask as I sat in the seat next to Annie in her car. We were on the highway and had been for quite some time.
"Not too much longer," Annie said. I hear a piece of paper rustle like she was reading directions then a sigh. 'Finally,' she whispered under her breath and I feel the car turn slightly to the right. Must have found the exit.
I don't even know where we are going. I had been in my apartment thinking to myself then there was a knock on the door. I answered and they suddenly I was being dragged out the door. If I hadn't heard Annie's shoes, she would have been treated like a kidnapper and I would have attacked her.
We drove for a little longer and by this point I stopped paying attention. Suddenly the car jerked to a stop and Annie opened her door, got out, and I did the same.
Carefully I unfolded my cane, tapped it on the ground twice, swiped it in front of my feet and began to walk. To where I didn't know but Annie's arm was there to lead me.
I hear the squeaking of a door and bell bangs off the top of the door.
"Welcome," a woman says.
"Hello," Annie says pulling me right over to what I guess is a desk. "I called earlier about meeting someone."
The woman begins to type then goes 'Oh right, I'm sorry. I wasn't the one to talk to you on the phone. I just started my shift."
"That's fine. This is the man that I mentioned." She pulls me a bit closer. "All we need is about 15 minutes."
I hear a chair squeak as the woman stands up and suddenly she is right next to me. "If you would follow me please." She says and Annie begins to pull me along.
I still don't know where we are but it smells funny. It reminds me of diapers, a sweaty gym, and a hospital all at the same time. We went through several doors, turned down countless halls, and said hello to more people than I thought the earth had on it.
"If you could wait here for a minute? I need to make sure she is ready?" the woman says, and with that she's off.
She was ready? I'm confused. "Annie, where are we?"
I could feel her staring at me probably wondering how to answer the question.
"You'll find out."
"Who is she?"
"The receptionist? She's just a person who-"
"No the girl who the receptionist is making sure is ready."
I could hear the playfulness in Annie's voice. "You'll just have to wait and see."
We stand there for about 5 minutes when I hear a door open. I expect it to be the receptionist but when I hear Annie take a shocked breath in, I'm guessing it's not.
"Mr. Anderson?" a man asks but it sounds a bit like a demand.
I nod.
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave. You are not allowed to be here."
I am totally confused. "What is here?"
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
I am about to answer but when I open my mouth it sounds like a girl.
"You're Mr. Kimmerson? I talked with you earlier. You allowed us to be here." Annie says. She sounds all sweet and innocent but I can tell you really wants to scream at this guy.
"Yes, but I didn't expect you to bring him."
"We're only going to be here for a few minutes, that's all. Just let him see her."
"We are not allowed to let him see her by law!"
"Annie, who is her?" I ask. Nobody has told me anything.
"Your sister!" Annie yells. I know she is not mad at me but at the guy and she just slipped.
"Wha-? She's here? How did you find that out?" I knew looking for her was pointless but suddenly I wanted to.
"Joan," Annie says quietly and I hear Mr. Kimmerson take a shocked breath.
"Joan Campbell? How do you know her?"
"Ahh," Annie sounds like she just won the lottery and can use it as a bribe. "So you know Joan. Then you know what she will do if you don't let Mr. Anderson here see his sister."
Annie had never called me Mr. Anderson. It sounded funny.
I hear Mr. Kimmerson shift then Annie wraps her arm in mine and leads me further into the room. Apparently Mr. Kimmerson knows that Joan doesn't joke around.
We walk for a while, and the whole time I hear people crying and shrieks coming from all around me followed by a, 'shh shh it's okay'. Suddenly I feel like my legs are made of jell-o and I can't walk. If Annie wasn't leading me down the hall I know I would fall to the ground, unable to move.
We stop suddenly and I head a door squeak open and suddenly everything in the entire building is quite. I can picture her in my head. She has the bluest eyes, thanks to the recessive genes from my parents, and hair that is lighter than mine but darker than dirty blonde. She has a spaced out look but if you say her name there is a flash of recognition then nothing. She's small for her age but that's because of the medication for her seizures.
I don't even know if she looks the same.
I am about to call out her name when suddenly I feel something slam into me and it's wrapped around my waist. I try to struggle out but it only holds on tighter.
"Yuu goe ahwae," it says and I freeze.
"Lucy?"
I feel the head in the stomach nod. Slowly I wrap my arms around Lucy's small waist as I carefully kneel down to her level. She still is small.
I pull her in closer to me and hug her even tighter. I had been waiting 11 years for this moment and I wasn't going to let it go to waste or let it pass me by.
Slowly I mouth 'thank you' to Annie. I know that she is watching. I smile, I can almost hear her nod 'your welcome' back.
Lucy was in my arms and I wasn't going to be letting her go any time soon. She was talking and she knew who I was. She knew that I had left and she… she… she was there in the arms.
I don't think that I can get over the fact that we were there a mess on the floor in each other's arms and I can't thank Annie enough.
Turns out that loosing someone, only makes the reunion that much sweeter.
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE READ!
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