Chapter 35: The Ending of the Beginning, not the Beginning of the End.
Weeks adds up to months and the phone number to Tammy's family in Italy is disconnected, she never receiving a call back from her mother or sister. A while after that letters send were being returned, with "Unacceptable/Unknown Address" on them in red Italian lettering. With almost at the end to her EMT course, she drops out, selling her books and things to raise a bit it cash. She sell other personal belongings to raise more cash. In a few cases she pawns a few items like her laptop, digital camera, iPod Touch, Sony Play Station Portable and high school ring in hopes to get them back when she returns. She looks at her student credit cards and two credit cards her mother gave her for emergencies only. The Blue was says Master Card and the Sapphire Green says Visa. She also looks at her Rescue Ranger's and college ID cards. It is all she can do as she packs a back pack which she used carry her books and things for school with clothing, a few personal items and documents like her birth certificate and assorted other papers explaining family lineage and relations, pictures of the family along with her Rescue Ranger jacket and cap.
With passport in hand, she orders the lowest cost airline ticket she could find, reserving a round trip ticket for an early morning flight on Air Italia flight 477. She manages to also find a cheap hotel on the outskirts of Rome, just 35 Euros a night and a scooter to drive around Italy with for 10 Euros a day. She books them for a week, not knowing how long she would have to stay there.
She spends the day to do one last cleaning of the house before she leaves at midnight for her early morning flight to find her mother and sister in Italy. She never tells anyone of what she was going to do and hopes she would be back soon with her family reunited.