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I was curled on my bed with my chin resting on my knees. Every time I thought of Walt my heart felt like a thousand bee's had attacked me. I had even taken a bubbled bath. Pounding my head for an answer I kept calling

"Isis! Isis! Cmon Isis wake up! Wakey wakey eggs and bakey! Ok really. This isn't funny anymore."

"Say please." Came the answer. A cold, harsh, familiar voice that I had actually missed.

"PLEASE!" I think.

"Good. Now. How can I be of service."

"What is up with Rah. Zia lost connection several months ago."

"Rah has grown much to powerful Sadie. Every year every summer he heats the earth tiny bit more. But now he has decided that he wants the world to be warmer."

"Makes sense. Who is Kate really? She's not who she says she is." I hate to bring her out into the open like this but she scares me sometimes. Once during training I critiqued her spell choice and gave her a different one to try. The girls eyes flashed and her hair stood on end. Her lips pulled back into something of a snarl and boy did she give me the jitters.

"One word Sadie. Cat."

"She's a cat?!"

"No…. Bast will help you…. It's not my place to tell you about her but I will tell you Kate's story is a horrible one. "

"I'm in the mood for a story. Get going woman. Or goddess… or whatever…" I lean back on the pillows and close my eyes as Isis transports me into a different world.

A dark alley filled with shadows is the first thing I see. 2 gangs are lined on opposite sides of the fence. A big boy, about 17 or 18 stands in the middle of the alley. He towered over the opposite gang leader. Long blonde hair fell down to her mid back and her eyes blazed with a fury I had only seen in Bes when he screamed in his Speedo.

The boy was tattooed all over with barbed wire and a broken heart that said 'I hate my mommy' his face was towards me and sent something of pure fear through me. His black hair was buzzed and his dark chocolate skin glistened with sweat. A white shirt with the sleeves ripped off black ripped jeans was his outfit of choice. The girl had feathers in her hair and was wearing black leather vest with a white shirt with holes and black denim short shorts.

"I wouldn't advise you talk to me like that Jackson." The blonde said with a hard tone.

"out of my way girl." Jackson growled.

"Uh no. Sorry." The girls feet stayed planted.

Jackson through a punch but the blonde ducked and slammed him hard in the Adams apple. She darted around him and jumped on his back punching him hard. That's when I got a good look at her face. What I saw sent me into a frenzy. She looked exactly like Kate. Yet there was something was wrong. This wasn't Kate. I couldn't be sure. But who ever she was had bested Jackson. He was sprawled on the ground unconscious.

The blonde got up and walked up to the next girl. This was Kate I was sure of it. When she was younger her hair must have been red, and her eyes blue. They shone with admiration towards the bigger girl.

The blonde walked to little Kate and said 'that's how you take down the bullies at school ok sweetie?' Kate nodded quickly.

A cute guy (I'm just saying) walked up to up to the blonde and wrapped his arm around her waist. That's all I'm saying.

"Hey jess.' She kissed his cheek and they walked off. Little Kate looked devastated.

'Bye sis..." she murmured.

A small girl with ripped jeans and a white shirt scooped the little girl up causing Kate to giggle.

"Hi Mandy!"

"What's up Katy cat!"

"Jess said she could help me get rid of all the bullies at school' said Kate the sadness returning to her face.

"Trust jess to let her little sister down..." Amanda said softly." Hey I know! Let's go get some ice cream! How does that sound to you?"

Kate nodded quickly. Funny. Mandy reminded me of some one. But who.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I saw Kate a few years later dressed in a black dress. She was sitting by a newly dug grave eating rocky road ice cream. I read the tomb stone quickly 'Amanda 'Mandy' Harelson' it brought a sharp knife of hurt to me as I realized what had happen. Mandy had died in a gang fight. Kate's only friend. Dead. Kate looked about 12. She had tears rolling down her face and a chocolate mustache was being smeared.

"Mandy there back. They beat me up every day." That was clearly the bullies she was talking about and the bruises on her face only made me feel worse. "Jess goes out every night with the gang. Mom and Dad are always on my butt about grades but they don't seem to understand what I feel like… I hate it Mandy. Why did you leave me! I can't do it without you! I don't have any friends…. Everyone expects me to lead the gang as soon as jess leaves which is in 3 days... It's not what I want but I'm so pressured….I have to. Yes. That is what I will do. Thank you Mandy. I'll make you proud."

Kate rose and set down a picture in a frame of her and Mandy. The she walked away throwing the ice cream out into the trash.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I saw Kate at the age she is now maybe a little younger. She and her parents were screaming at each other. Then the door bell rang.

"I'll get it." Kate hissed at her parents.

She opened the door and was lying on the floor when a punch had been thrown at her by a pretty girl.

"Kate! How Could YOU! JASON WAS MINE! I CANT BEIVLE YOU STOLE HIM!" Screamed the girl who I later learned name was Ami.

"Ami. I have no freakin idea what you are talkin' about!" Kate screamed back her hair doing that sparky static thing.

"Kate you little Liar! You KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! JASON WAS MY BOYFRIEND AND YOU CHEATED WITH HIM! MY BOYFRIEND AND MY BEST FRIEND! HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THIS!?"

It went back and forth like this for ages. Then Ami left because she was 'sick and tired of Kate'.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

A couple days later, maybe a week, Kate and her parents were fighting. Kate had gotten expelled for fighting a kid. One of the bullies most likely. Kate told her dad to shut up then bolted up the stairs packing her bags. Then she jumped out the window and said

"Carter and Sadie Kane here I come."

But she detoured and walked to the graveyard. She stood in front of Mandy.

"This is it. My chance to start over. I'll come back…. Someday.. Bye Amanda. My only friend…" then she walked away after she left a tiger lily next to the cold, marble, tomb stone. And as she walked away my vision faded.

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