A/N: This is the last chapter! Thank you so much for all of your support! I know the story was short, but hey, I felt like I needed to finish it!
About SixYears Later
School was over and so was Kelly's childhood; she was now an eighteen year old, free to do whatever she wished. There was a last party at P3 to celebrate her finally moving away and completing magical school. Much had changed in the last few years; Xia and Adam were now engaged and hoping to get married in the fall; Wyatt was now taking early college prep... She couldn't have seen this six years ago. No way could her eleven year old self seen all of the world change so rapidly. It wasn't even forseen by Pheobe.
She was sitting on a tabletop while Paige placed all the decorations around her, musing. It still seemed to ring in her head what had happened in the past six years... The Source, finally vanquished for good... Pheobe keeping her column going for so long and still giving excellent advice... Pearl finally going blind, but gaining Aura Sighting instead... yes, a lot of things had happened. And she'd gotten stronger through them. And while she wanted to keep the past alive, she knew it was best to let go. But she didn't want to. It was way too hard. She hated the present, doubted the future, and loved the past. She was one fucked up bitchy ass eighteen year old. Most of them are out looking for fun. She, however, was wading in the sea of the past. None of them do that,unless they're as fucked up as she was.
That night, Xia and Adam showed up at the party, where Xia happily announced she was going to have a baby in the fall, and that the wedding date was in August, a month from now.And while Kelly acted like she couldn't be happier for her two best friends in the world, she was lying her ass off.She was jealous. She had a crush on Adam when she was twelve. It hadn't really gone away. Stupid fucking bitch, taking her love away. She was going to have the goddamned perfect life Kelly wouldn't have. She'd often curse silently to herself when she saw her now. The relationship on Kelly's side had become strained...
Xia needed a babysitter for her kid... maybe she would move back to the U.K with them... But she didn't want to, not after the mental ranting and tonguelashing. She could hear Paige say something to her over the music, but she couldn't hear it. She was pretending to listen to Xia babble about what she was going to call the baby; some japanese or chinese name. Normally she would have loved to have suggested baby names to her, but she was just too lethargic to even bother to talk to anyone; she just nodded her head.
Her friends would say later that she seemed odd, out of the ordinary that night, as she had done for several years,but they hadn't bothered to notice. She was pretending to have fun, and doing a good job of it. Most of the time, she just thought. So much for friends help friends out. Hers didn't notice her problems. She wasn't depressed... she just felt something in her world was very off.
A thought occurred in her head as the music delicately swayed over her and Xia contiued talking spiritedly to Paige and Piper. She didn't really belong anywhere. She was born in the U.K, but her whole life had lived in the U.S...and while she couldn't be happier where she was... she needed a change. And life wouldn't go that way. She knew life too well that she was getting screwed by it. Nothing made sense anymore.
She walked out of P3 that night and never returned to her homes in the U.S or U.K. She made a life for herself elsewhere, where she could prove herself and not be compared to her parents or friends. And people in the wizarding world speculated and wondered what had happened to her, but only Kelly Matthews really knows what happened. For all you know, she could be a teacher in your classroom; her kids could be best friends with your kids; she could even be the next door neighbor. Or maybe...you're Kelly Matthews. Anything and everything can happen... and who knows.. maybe I'm Kelly Matthews...how else would I know this story? Only fate can tell you... and Kelly Matthews herself.
A few detractors, the people who didn't know Kelly Matthews say she killed herself. But we can't really make assumptions. I, Xia Long,knew her way too well to know she wouldn't do something like that. We'll see her again. Though maybe not soon. She'll show up.. she's not Harry Potter's daughter for nothing. She may deny it, but she'll always be her father's child. We can deny it all we want; say her fatherand motherput her up for adoption at birth, but you can't throw away who you are... nobody can. It'll catch up with them later and then, they'll be sorry, sorry they ever denied their birthright, who they truly are. Destiny is not called fate unless it means something... and all us witches know that, know it by heart. Kelly's out there, and she'll come only when we need her the most, which could be when none of us expect it. That girl's a card, she'll make us think she's gone and then she'll turn up again...or who knows. Maybe she really is dead. But we can't say that unless we really truly know the truth... and we may never get it.
The End