Hey #EmisonBabies :) Hope you had a wonderful Christmas Season! Here is another chapter for YTT. this one focus's on #Ezria's daughter Katie-Lauren (God-daughter to #Emison :) Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed writing it at like 11:30pm last night. Apologies for any errors.

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"Katie, are you sure we should be doing this?" her friend whispered as they snuck out of her bedroom window in the pitch black of night being careful not push the window up to high as it was known to squeak. The grass rustled & crunched under the weight their flip flops; the heat of summer had withered it away to almost nothing but dead roots.

"Please Katie, don't make me do this." Melanie pleaded softly wiping way the beads of sweat that had already formed on the back of her neck,. Her charcoal tresses sticking to it as they reach the curb at the front of the house. The moon hung high in the sky with stars spread across its vast emptiness above the neighbourhood.

The street was dead silent. No car whizzed by, not even the gentle hum of a sprinkler left on to tend to the wilting roses in the garden beds. Only the street lamp buzzed quietly at the end of the block as moths flew at it attracted by its bright light.

"Will you relax! Anyone would think you've never snuck out before," Katie hissed turning back around to her friend, her bright green eyes sparkled in the moonlight "Now come on. This is a once in a life time opportunity to be a part of the popular group at high-school. If we go tonight, our high school experience could be set! Do you really wanna pass that up by staying home playing Pictionary with our parents?".

Melanie seemed to be in deep in thought, she always scrunched her nose and made a clicking noise with her tongue. Like thinking music or that random string of instrumental crap they call elevator music.

"...Alright, but if we get caught it was all your idea! I tried to stop you and you wouldn't listen. Got it?" she said finally not looking the least bit happy about her decision.

"Yay! oh my god you're the best! I'll soooo owe you one. I promise!" Katie yipped, she was so easily excited kind of like a Chihuahua puppy. Melanie laughed inwardly at the thought. It was a wonder her friend hadn't pee'd herself. "What's with you?" Katie asked studying the girls face. "One minute you're begging me not to sneak out, the next you've got a weird look on your face."

Melanie smirked "It's nothing. Now lets go."

The girls walked the few blocks to the towns centre to get their bearings. Their clothes sticking to them uncomfortably from the humidity in the air. Still the roads were silent. "So where did you say this party was anyway? Do you think Dylan Kahn will be there? ...He is so cute!" Katie gushed looking up into the heavens in a daydream like daze. "Please tell me you're not picturing what your kids would look like?" the dark haired girl scolded sarcastically.

"God yes! You've seen him right? Electric blue eyes, chiselled cheek bones and that hot as hell half smirk thing he does with his mouth."

Melanie swatted her friend hard on the arm as they continued walking along "Will you cut that out? You know your mum dated his dad in high school right?.. Isn't that like-incest or something?"

"Ew! And no! First of all they went on one date & that's it. Nothing else happened."

Melanie just gave her a 'yeah right, I don't believe you' kind of expression before they were almost bombarded with a few of their other friends when they reached the party site. The local pool. It was far enough outside the town square so no one would hear the profanity filled music booming from a giant stereo. Not unlike the one John Cusack held over his head in the movie 'Say Anything' but close enough that no one could disappear into the night and not be noticed wandering off.

"Hey girls, glad to see you got the balls to skip out of curfew." Laughed one boy they didn't recognise who seemed to be half way passed wasted already, a plastic red cup in hand and an amber liquid stain down the front of his white shirt.

"What took you guys so long to get here anyway?" a blonde haired girl with a freckled face asked as their best guy friend Nathan Wolfe clumsily felt her up under her mini skirt mouthing at her neck like a deranged animal leaving a trail of saliva. "God Nath, How many times have I warned you not to eat jello shots!" Melanie groaned

"Sorry Georgia, this one over here wanted to stay home and play Pictionary with the parentals." Katie-Lauren joked finishing her story after being interrupted. "Can you believe she didn't want to come? I mean jeez lame right?" she scoffed. Melanie shot her a sideways glance.

"Come on Nath lets get you sobered up a bit. We don't want to be explaining a drowning in the pool to the police later do we?" she said taking his arm over her shoulder gesturing for one of the others to help her. "This is so awesome!" Katie squealed turning to Georgia & two other girls in red polka dot bikini's. The pool was packed with people, giant beach balls and floating unicorn shaped chairs. The far corner had the most popular group of them all grinding against each other to the music. Katie guessed that's what dancing was reduced to these days. Gone were the days where Ballet was one of the top dance classes to be apart of. A few guys who seemed closer to college age rather than highschool were playing beer pong and a giant keg sat a short distance away with guys cheering each other on to skull as much as possible in a minute, or so she assumed given the stop watch in a bimbo's hand.

It was so totally unreal to have actually been invited to this thing rather than crash like many others probably had by the number of people gathered.

"I'm gonna go find Dylan!" she yelled to the other girls over the music and wandered off amongst the crowd.

"Hey little lady, Wanna dance with the hottest guy here." she heard a voice say or more like mumble given his severely drunk state. he could barely stand and his feet were all over the place. "No thanks, you look like you need to hurl!"

The guy just whooped at the top of his lungs throwing off his shirt and downed another beer from a near by table. Most of it going down his chest rather than his mouth. "Nah I'm good,". She wandered off in the opposite direction when she felt a force from behind and hit the water before she knew what happened. Coming up for air in the cold water of the pool she spat out the chlorine from her lungs "Hey!" she yelled. Some of the girls had knocked her in accidently as two guys had come toward them as they fought no doubt for show. "Sorry! We're...Katie! What the hell are you doing here!" Katie's face fell as she realised who it was...Her older cousin Rachel Fitz from her dads side of the family who had studied at U Penn wearing denim shorts and a tasselled blue bikini top. "I'm so dead," Katie muttered under her breath as her cousin helped her out of the pool dripping wet. The dunk in the pool though unexpected was a welcome surprise given the heat of the day still hung heavy in the air.

"So..." her cousin probed glaring her down waiting for an explanation taping her foot impatiently.

"I...I...I was invited for one and I wanted to come! This is my chance to avoid being a loser in high school!" she explained quickly. "please don't tell on me!"

Her cousin crossed her arms over her chest "You are in so much trouble! Do you know how wild these parties can get? Who invited you anyway?"

"I don't know his name he just gave us an invi..."she stopped mid explanation realising she had just ratted out her best friend being here too.

Rachel's eyes widened "Us! Whose us?"

Katie slumped her shoulders in defeat "Melanie." she answered reluctantly "I swear we were just coming to have fun. We weren't going to drink or anything!"

"Whatever. Now lets find her before something bad happens!"

Katie's POV:

I'll forever hate myself for what happened next. I found Melanie making out with my crush Dylan Kahn near the toilet block. Both of them were clearly tipsy. Him more than her but whatever. How could she do this to me? He was my first crush. My first real deeply rooted crush. I pretty much talk about him none stop to her and whats more is the fact that she always said she hated him. She'd always make fun of me saying how crazy stupid I was to have a crush on him. Now here she was with her tongue down his throat. It should be me. I hear my inner voice screaming at her to stop and calling her every insulting name under the sun. Bitch, slut, slag, whore, lying skank and way worse if possible. But no I stayed silent. Throwing daggers her way as my fists clench and anger curdles inside me like a bubbling cauldron until Rachel pulls the guy off her.

"Hey get off her you idiot she's under age and she's not interested!" Dylan didn't even bat an eye and stumbled off toward another group of girls a short distance away. Everyone around us had stopped what they were doing to watch the altercation but went straight back to partying like nothing happened as me and Melanie started arguing.

"How could you? You knew I liked him. We're supposed to be friends Mel!" I shout at her.

"Now whose the uptight one?" she half laughs stumbling a little.

"I need to get you girls both back home or you'll be busted." Rachel interjected tugging on my arm.

"Stuff going home to her place. I'm going to find Dylan so we can make out some more." she chuckled half smirking until I pulled on her arm dragging her along behind me. She dug her heels into the ground with each step almost pulling me off balance "Come on we're leaving. Now!".

Melanie yanked her hand back rather violently. For a half drunk girl she was still pretty strong almost pulling my own arm out of its socket.

"I'm not going anywhere without Dylan! He said he liked me!"

"Of course he said he like you. You had your tongue down his throat. He'd of said he liked a camel if it was making out with him." I bite back

Melanie scoffs at me rolling her eyes like I'm taking things way out of proportion.

"I hate you! I finally get kissed by a guy and you make it all about you! Typical Katie move." she glares at me "Something finally good happens for me and you steal it away from me!" Tears are falling rom her eyes. She's drunk. Pissed at me and now she's upset, not a good combination. Hell she's a nightmare when she's sober. Hopped up on ice-cream & root beer floats on her period. But this is ten times worse.

"Fine! You can walk home by yourself I'm going home with Rachel!". Without so much as a grunt goodbye Melanie storms off leaving me to follow Rachel to her car.

"Whatever happens is on her. Now lets go before we're both grounded for life! You for sneaking out and me for notgetting you out of here sooner." she tells me as we reach her car. She pulls open the door literally clicking my seatbelt in place for me in the back seat like I'm some 5 year old child. I guess sneaking out to a party your parents didn't give you permission to go to where there are college boys and drinking doesn't exactly scream adult now does it?...Rachel pulls out of the carpark and drives a little way before cranking up the radio a bit when a blaring sound hits my ears at full speed followed loud screeching noise as a bright white light engrosses me, Rachel and the car...

That's the last thing I remember before waking up in a white room, a ceiling fan above my head whirring around & around making me feel dizzy. I can't breathe, I look down at my nose and see an oxygen mask sitting there. As my eyes begin to focus my arms and legs feel heavy. A plaster cast sits on my right leg and dozens tubes are sticking in me at every angle. A steady beeping sound reaches my ears. I hope to god I'm dead and this is just a horrible dream. Like those dreams that seem so real at first but then your alarm clock goes off telling you it is a dream and that you're 15 minutes late to school. This beep is different its steady and oddly calming. I turn my head as best I can to the side of the bed. A nerve in my neck pinches violently preventing my moving any more. I shift my eyes instead. Its a machine, a heart monitor if my obsessive watching of Greys Anatomy has taught me anything. Its monitoring my heart.

It is then I realise a person sits beside me. A woman, her head against my bed whilst the rest of her is nestled in an arm chair. Her dark hair short and scruffy. I try to cough but only a wheezy sound escapes my throat. Its dry to the bone. I want water...water...the pool...the party...My heart begins to race faster and faster. I can't breathe! I start to panic. The woman next to me suddenly jolts upward. She was sleeping. Its my mum. "Oh my god! Hang on baby, i'll get the nurse." she tells me gently. Immediately she presses a large red button behind my head. A nurse and a doctor rush to my side. I can see mum crying as I'm still trying to breathe.

"Please! Please help my baby!" she screams as two other women; a blonde and brunette rush to hold her back. Auntie Ali & Aunt Em. "She's all I've got!"

"Shh Aria. It's gonna be ok." I hear Aunt Em whisper as Aunt Ali cradles her tightly. Still I can't breathe, I'm in so much pain my chest hurts. All I can think about is the pain and the pool party. I don't understand any of this. What happened to me? Where's Rachel? Where's Melanie?.

The doctor checks my eyes with a little light. "No!' I manage to scream. Now I remember! A horn, a car or a big truck I don't know but I remember Rachel taking her eyes of the road for the radio and a bright white light. "No!" I lose myself as the memory of the accident floods my mind. "Nurse push one of morphine!" I hear the doctor order. Ouch! I feel a sharp jab to my arm, followed by a bout of tiredness. My eyes begin to close on themselves. Slowly I drift into darkness, still my mum calls out to me. "Stay with me Baby! I can't lose you!".

Which leads me to this moment right now. "Katie, honey it's me Auntie Ali," I hear her whisper. I feel her soft hand glide through my hair. My eyes are closed but I know I'm still in the hospital. I don't know how long I've been here or even what day it is. All I can think is where's Rachel & Melanie?

"Come on Katie we just want you to wake uo and tell us you're going to be ok."

"Is she awake yet?" another voice asks.

"Not yet, the doctor said she could be asleep for a little longer yet. The doctor gave her morphine. It helps the healing process apparently. I suppose if she's asleep she doesn't feel the pain."

"I can't believe this happened. She's so young." I now realise its Aunt Em talking. Where's my mum & Dad I haven't seen him since that night I snuck out. Slowly I force my eyes open. Aunt Ali is standing over me "Katie, honey you're ok. You're safe now." she tells me holding my hand for dear life. Tears are clinging to her eyelashes like snowflakes in the winter time. "W-Water." I whisper hoarsely.

She nods silently turning to Aunt Em who grabs the jug on the table below my bed and pours a cup. "Here, small sips now ok?" She reminds Ali as she passes the cup to her and then me gently allowing me to open my mouth for the straw. The water is cool and inviting on my tongue. Later I managed to ask about Melanie. She had left the party soon after us and had gone home. She was safe and sound but was told not to come and see me. Aunt Em had heard my dad tell her parents when they came to the hospital.

No POV:

Its been a week since the accident. Katie stood motionless in the sleeting rain. An umbrella above her head. Staring at the headstone of her cousin.

Here lies Rachel Fitzgerald

Daughter to Wes & Evelyn Fitzgerald, Niece to Ezra & Aria

& Beloved cousin to Katie-Lauren.

Known to all that loved her as Fitzy.

R.I.P

Her eyes swimming with tears, blurring her vision. "I'm so sorry Rachel. If it wasn't for me and my stupid idea to sneak out to that party you wouldn't of had to drive me home and we wouldn't have been hit by that bloody truck." she explains choking on the words thanks to the lump in her throat. She hops on her one foot leaning on her crutches for support. Her cousin was gone. Her body shaking from head to foot sobbing as she placed a bunch of white roses on the grass. "I'll see you again soon." She stands up straight again and hobbled over to where her mum & dad are. Aunt Evelyn is crying into Uncle Wes' shoulder as he guides her back to the car.

"I never forgive myself for what I've done. I played a part in this. Because of me I lost a cousin & my Aunt & Uncle lost a daughter."She whispers over her shoulder to the head stone.

"I just hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me...one day. I'll miss you Fitzy."

So there you have that oneshot/chapter of Katie-Lauren Ezria's daughter. Who should I do next? #Haleb's kids Annabelle & Camille or #Emison twins ? I tried really hard to make this as emotional as possible. Please let me know if I achieved that by your reviews! thanks for reading.

till later you wonderful people.

xoxox