A/N: Hey keepers! Sorry again for missing updates. I can't always be regular with them right now because of my schedule, but I will try to post when I can! Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Amanda was laying on her bed, reading before she went to sleep. Suddenly, she heard the bedroom door close, and she looked up to see Jess coming in from the bathroom. She stood almost completely still at the front of the room, her hands clasped tightly together in front of her. Amanda sat up, immediately nervous.

"What's up?" she asked.

Jess took a deep breath before answering her sister, trying to muster up the courage to say what she was going to next. It was going to be a nightmare, she was sure, but she'd been avoiding it for far too long. She had to face this head on.

"We need to talk," she said.

"Okay," Amanda replied, confused, not sure what could possibly be wrong. She closed her book and set it down next to her.

Jess, overcome with nervousness again, began to pace the room, and moments of silence passed.

"Jessie you're starting to scare me," Amanda said.

Hearing this, Jess stopped. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then, like ripping off a band-aid, she just let it out.

"You need to talk to Finn,"

Amanda rolled her eyes and let out a loud sigh, falling back into her old position on the bed.

"Not this again," she exclaimed angrily.

"Amanda listen,"

"I can't believe you!" Amanda snapped.

"Mandy…"

"You're still gonna push this on me?!"

Jess tried desperately to explain herself, but Amanda cut her off with every sentence.

"It's not about…"

"Can't you just accept that I don't want to do this?"

"I've been having dreams!" Jess shouted, finally silencing Amanda and getting her attention once again. Amanda sat back up, and narrowed her eyes.

"What?" she hissed.

Jess sighed and sat down on her own bed. She put her hands down next to her to brace herself, and looked her sister straight in the eyes.

"Ever since Casey came to us, since we met all the others," she said, trying hard to keep her voice quiet and steady. "I've been having dreams again, but they're not like…my normal dreams."

Amanda crossed her arms and didn't say anything, just gave Jess a cold stare, waiting to hear the rest of what she had to say. Jess swallowed hard, and held back a cry that was trying to break through. Somehow the silence was worse than any words that could've been said. Not needing words to know what her sister was asking, Jess continued on.

"It was right after we were all at Finn's house the first time…all of us. And then…we were in the dream that night: together."

"You and me?" Amanda asked.

"No; everyone: You, me, Finn, Terry, Willa, Dell, Charlie…"

Amanda made a motion to say something else, but Jess cut her off. If she stopped talking now, she wasn't sure she'd get the courage to start up again.

"We were together Mandy, and not in the way we were now. We were friends…it looked like we had been for a long time."

Jess waited for Amanda to say something, but still silence hung in the air. She took a deep breath, and continued.

"Amanda…" She hesitated. "In the dream…someone had their arm around you, and you were smiling. The scene changed before I could see who it was but I think…"

"Stop," Amanda said, cutting her off.

"Amanda listen to me…" Jess insisted.

"I know what you're going to say and I don't wanna hear it!"

"You're not hearing me! I think these were memories!"

Jess hadn't wanted the revelation to come out so bluntly, hoping to avoid any extra upset aside from what would surely already be coming. But Amanda was giving her no choice.

With that, Amanda pushed herself off of the bed with a huff, and stormed to the end of the room, running her hands through her hair with frustration.

"I can't believe you," she hissed.

"I'm not lying Amanda!" Jess insisted, her upset quickly developing into anger. "Those dreams I had? Almost everything I saw paralleled something from those books. How do you explain that?"

"Our everyday lives have become super involved with the idea that we and these people we met are those book characters," Amanda said. "You had a dream about it: just like anyone else would."

"I know how to tell the difference between a regular dream and a vision," Jess snapped. "This was different from both of them!"

She felt her body temperature rising, and she wanted to scream. Why did her sister need to have a solution to everything? Why couldn't she just accept this, trust her, let this whole thing be what it was?

For a few moments, neither girl said anything, and in the silence Jess forced herself to calm down. Remembering how scared she was when all of this first came to light, and remembering how she'd told herself to prepare for Amanda to resist her, she took a deep breath before speaking again, this time in a gentler tone.

"Look," she said. "I was aware that this could've been a coincidence, so I made sure. I called Mattie."

With that, Amanda turned sharply around to face her again, her eyes widened. Jess cringed. She knew this was coming, but she'd been left with no choice: there was no way to get Amanda to believe while still leaving Mattie out of the story.

"Mattie?" Amanda hissed.

"Yes," Jess said, trying to keep her voice calm. "She works in Magic Kingdom and so I met her there last week and she read the castle and…"

Amanda wouldn't let her finish.

"What are you doing meeting up with Mattie?" she snapped.

Amanda looked hurt, and Jess felt two inches tall.

"Manda," she started, trying to keep her voice steady. "I'm sorry I lied, but…"

"We don't keep secrets from each other!" Amanda yelled, her voice more broken now than angry.

The sisters stopped for a moment, and stared at each other, questions and revelations running through their minds. Their eyes seemed to communicate that they were thinking the same thing, that they were realizing how far apart from each-other they'd grown. For a moment, any anger melted away, and there was a reaching out for each-other in their gaze, an acknowledgement of what they were to each other, a desperate plea to not let go.

But Jess knew she couldn't hold onto her feelings any longer. The plea was unsuccessful. There was no stopping this now.

"Well maybe I had to," she said.

Amanda was taken aback, and she stumbled to find her words as anger and betrayal began to boil in her gut.

"What do you mean you had to?!"

"I friended her Mattie on Facebook last year," Jess admitted. "We talk. And after I had the dream I met her in the Magic Kingdom so she could read the castle and see if it had any memories trapped inside it. I wanted to tell you, but I didn't because you would've stopped me!"

"Of course I would've: it's Mattie!"

"I wasn't the one who decided I didn't want anything to do with her anymore, Amanda, you were! Even though you knew how close we were! Even though you knew I wanted to have more friends!"

Amanda felt her face getting hot, and she wanted to cry as secret after secret poured from her sister's lips. Jess was the one person she had in this entire world, and her heart was breaking as she was starting to think that maybe she hardly knew her at all.

"She was putting herself in danger of getting caught and us too," she hissed, trying desperately to hold back the tears that were already pooling in her eyes. "We had to distance ourselves! I was trying to protect you!"

"Really?!" Jess shot back. "Do you know where Mattie is right now? She's at home: with her family; she got adopted! She found a better life and we're still living in a crappy one room apartment that we pay for in cash from our off the books job, because you've always been so freaking stubborn about what you think is right."

This was the moment Jess had feared, the horrible fight she'd felt building for months, for years. She felt everything in her calling out to stop, stop! But she couldn't hold back. Everything she'd felt for so long, everything shut up inside her, had finally been set free, and now it was running wild like a house fly: impossible to catch, impossible to stop, going too fast to even think about getting control of.

"We survived on nothing for almost ten years because I was stubborn!" Amanda yelled, cries finding their way into her words now.

"You think so?" Jess yelled back. "Because the way I see it, Wanda is ninety percent of the reason we're still getting by, and it was because of me that we got close to her. I stood up to you when she approached us and you wanted to shut her out just like you shut out everyone else!"

Jess was crying too now. Again she wanted to stop. Again she couldn't.

"Don't go there with this," Amanda said, shaking her head.

"Do you honestly think we've been less happy since this all started? Do you really, truly believe that Finn would be bad for you, that any of them would be bad for you, that they would be bad for us? Look at yourself! You've been refusing to get involved in this thing since it started even though you know it's true, even though we both know there's absolutely no denying it!"

Amanda squeezed her eyes shut, hoping it would somehow shut out her sister's words. She couldn't listen to it, couldn't bear to face it, and she tried desperately to let the mantras in her head drown out the thoughts of Finn and the others that were now flooding her mind. You're okay alone; you have to be okay alone; don't let anyone else in; don't let yourself get hurt. Still Jess continued to yell.

"You're always glowing around Finn, and you know we always have a good time when the seven of us are together, and yet you still pretend like we're doomed to be alone forever! Can't you just take hold of an opportunity for once? Can't you just believe that maybe there's something better for…"

Suddenly, everything stopped, and Jess let out a gasp. Amanda opened her eyes to see her frozen, staring out into space, looking almost paralyzed. She started to stumble and, all else immediately forgotten, Amanda ran over to catch her in her arms. Jess still did and said nothing, and terror replaced anything else Amanda had been feeling.

"Jess?" she called.

No response.

"Jess? Jessie!"

Finally, Jess came to, inhaling sharply and standing up straight again. Amanda walked around to face her, and saw her face twisted into a knot.

"I think…" she stuttered. "I think I just had a dream."

"During the day?" Amanda asked. "That's never happened before!"

"I know."

"What happened?"

"I don't…I don't know what it means just…you were…"

Jess stopped for a moment before looking her sister straight in the eye, a look of fear plastered on her face.

"We need to talk to Finn," she said. "Now."

A/N: Here we go! See you next time, and stay magical!