Joe P.O.V.

I couldn't believe the things in front of me. Everything in here is proving that Jack is my great-uncle. My great-uncle! A teardrop on one of the picture was started to glide down on one of the pictures.

I wiped the tear and looked at the back of it.

I'll see you in the summer bro.

-Johnny

I still couldn't believe this. The last I need to know was that Jack was my great-uncle. I can't believe it. I killed my own great-uncle. He helped me, but I killed him. I killed him. I killed him.

"Ahhhh! I killed him!" I shouted so loud that anyone could hear me.

Nick and Kevin came running up from behind. "Joe you ok!" They both shouted.

I started crying. I couldn't get over the fact that I partly killed my great-uncle Jack.

"Guys I killed our great-uncle."

Kevin looked at me confusedly. "What are you talking about?" Nick asked.

"Jack is Grandpa's brother," I replied.

Nick and Kevin placed their arm on each side of my shoulders. "It's ok Joseph," Kevin said.

The very last thing I need is confidence from them. It's only going to make me guiltier. "No I'm not guys I killed him. I killed my own great-uncle."

I started walking away, but Nick grasped my hand. "Joe…?" Kevin said.

I pulled my hand from his grasped. "No guys, I want to think about this on my own."

I walked to back to the cliff. Right to the location where everything happen. It was the very fact that everything I do always hurt someone, and it's usually me.

I felt like jumping down the cliff, but something was stopping me. More of a someone was stopping me.

"What do you think you're doing boy!"

I turned around seeing something I couldn't imagine. "Great Uncle Jack."

He had a serious face on him. "Don't you think of jumping!"

"But…" I defended.

"Joe I want you to go back to that box and look at one of those pictures. I wrote something on the back of it."

"Why are you still talking to me?" I asked, "I killed you. If I didn't let go you would still be alive."

He shook his head, "no you didn't Joe." His image was starting to fade. "Things happen for a reason. Always."

Slowly the image of Great Uncle Jack faded. "NO don't go!"

"Bye Joe." The voice slowly faded and so did his image, "I'll miss you."

I went on to grab a hold of him, but he disappears. If that's what he wants, then that's what he gets.

I walked back up to where Nick and Kevin were. They stood there waiting for me. I slowly began to smile.

This whole vacation was totally out of control. We walked back to the cabin I haven't been at for a long time.

I opened the door to see Lily, Miley, and Shelby. Uncle Jack was right.

"Things happen for a reason." I softly said.

Kevin turned to me, "You say something Joe?"

I nodded. "It's nothing bro."

One Month Later…

It been a moth since my great uncle died, and every time I went on to perform I felted like he was beside me.

With the help of Nick and Kevin, together he fulfilled his final wish. We cremated him and released his ashes over the Grand Canyon where he and Grandpa John would always challenge each other to a rock climbing challenge.

"Thank you Joseph." A whistling wind said as it took Jack's ashes away to the skies.

Everything has change since the beginning of our trip. We were just three brothers going on a skiing trip and now our life totally changed forever. If we haven't gone on this trip we wouldn't have met Miley, Lily, Shelby, and Oliver.

Once in awhile I saw Great- Uncle Jack muttered those few words that help me changed my life.

"Things happen for a reason."