p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"CONNIE/span/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"Everything around me was white and there was no noise. It felt weird, but it also felt like it was meant to be./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Constance." Someone called. The voice was familiar and feminine. It reminded me of…/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Mom?" I exclaimed. Her /span/ememspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"silhouette/span/ememspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;" appeared in the light, and her warm eyes watched me. I approached her figure and wrapped my eyes around her./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Constance" She unwrapped my arms from around her, "Sweetie, you need to wake up"/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""No," I shook my head at her, "I wanna stay with you."/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"She shook her head and looked behind me, I turned to find Derek with his hand out. He was waiting on me./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Go with Derek, he'll keep you safe." Mom explained/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""What?" I asked, Derek's hands wrapped around my arms. I fought his embrace but snapped out of the dream./span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Come on Baby Girl," Dad whispered beside me, "I knew I shouldn't have let her go." I could hear is footsteps mix with someone else as they stood in front of me./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""She was perfectly fine until I roared." A voice said, it was Derek's voice. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"Are they talking about me?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Yeah, but she's still the only person I have left." Dad whispered, I could hear Derek chuckle causing me to scrunch up my nose in anger. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"Why was he laughing at something that's so sentimental to my Father./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""So you're the person that taught her to be so hard to work with?" Derek asked. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"Soon after he finished, my Dad laughed, "/spanstrongspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"I /span/strongspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"taught her how to be strong, she taught herself how to be hard to work with."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""Well, she's a trooper. She's gonna be okay." Derek assured/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""She reminds me of her Mom, and I try to keep certain things away from her. But sometimes, I realize that she'll find out without me telling her." Dad added/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"I really didn't want to hear anymore, so I started to groan. My Dad rushed to my side and pulled me into a bone crushing hug./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""I thought I lost you Beautiful." Dad whispered. I smiled again before pulling him back into another hug./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 12pt;""I know." I whispered. I took a look at Derek, who already had a smirk on his face./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;" align="justify"strongspanspanspan style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"Hi you guys, I just wanted to apologize for my lack of uploading. my laptop decided to delete all of my files on it, even the things that came with it. I finally got another laptop and I had to recover my story again. I will try to /spanspan style="font-size: 16px;"continue/spanspanspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;" to upload and write, but I have no idea how long it will take. Bare with me, I am trying. Don't give up on me yet. I was also wondering who else watched the first episode of the final season of Teen Wolf. I watched the beginning, but I kinda fell asleep. Don't hate me but I will watch the re-run of it next Tuesday. This chapter is also a filler so nothing interesting was really /spanspan style="font-size: 16px;"suppose/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;" to happen. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful Thanksgiving./span/span/span/span/span/strong/p