Kay opened the front door to her house and slowly stepped inside. The living room was empty and dark. She sat her suitcases down beside the desk and walked towards the kitchen.
"Mom? Dad? Jess? Hank? Anyone here?" Kay asked loudly, pushing open the kitchen door. She looked around the empty kitchen and sighed. She stepped over towards the refrigerator, where a note was hanging, stuck to a magnet.
"Kay,
If you get home before we get back, go on and unpack. We should be home shortly after you get there. We went to do some last minute Christmas shopping.
Love,
Mom, Dad, Jess and Hank"
Kay went back to the living room and picked up her suitcases and took them up to her old room. As she sat them down on her bed, Kay smiled as memories of her teenage years flooded back to her, "What I wanted give to be a teen again. Everything was so good then. Miguel, Simone, Reese, Jess and I were inseparable."
Kay unpacked her clothes and placed them into their old drawers and headed back downstairs. Kay grabbed her side as she reached the edge of the stairs, "Oh, God. This is the worst pain yet."
Kay tried to reach the couch but collapsed halfway through the hall.