Chapter 2 (Julia's POV)

It's just a few more days before Rinoa's 5th birthday; I want it to be special for her because it's her first actual birthday when her dad will be home. He's always promised that he would be there for Rinoa's birthday but always ends up into his little general work. He kind of reminds me of someone I met in the past…Laguna.

There was a knock at the door, which distracted me from my thoughts. As I turned around I found Rinoa poking her head out from behind the door with her long raven hair tied in a ponytail.

"Thinking again?"

I smiled and gave out a little laugh. She was always saying that I thought too much. Though she was only four she was very honest and free spirited. She was also quite intelligent.

"There you go again, off in your own thoughts."

"I'm thinking of a new song to write."

"Liar!"

"I'm not a liar!" I ran up to her and started tickling her.

I stood up again and walked over to my piano. Rinoa soon came up and sat on my knee, as she would usually do whenever I played it. I started to play the tune of my first song, which was called 'Eyes on me'. Rinoa seemed to love that song and could sit and listen to me play the piano for hours.

I looked down at Rinoa who was looking up at me, then she asked me a question that took me by surprise.

"Did you write that song about Daddy?"

I looked at her as the hurtful memories came back to me as I saw his face in my mind.

I saw you smiling at me. Was it real or just my fantasy?

"No, it was before I met your father, it was about someone else."

"Who?"

I smiled and let out a little laugh as I saw her looking at me with those little dark eyes of hers.

"His name was Laguna Loire."

"Did he love you?"

More memories came back to me.

Did he love me? That was a question I could never answer, as I never knew.

"I loved him, that's why I wrote the song about him. He was a soldier and went away to war. I wrote the song hoping he would come back."

"Did he?"

"You should know the answer to that. Of course not and that was when I found your father."

"Oh."

I walked across the room to a little drawer and pulled out a little black, velvet box and walked back over to Rinoa.

"There's something I want you to have." I opened the box and took out the necklace.

"I wanted to give it to you on your birthday but I'm giving it to you now."

"But I thought it was lucky and it gave you luck when you most needed it."

That was true, someone special gave me this necklace when I was younger…my grandfather. He used to own a jewellery shop and he made it for me just before he died. I always wore it when I felt lonely or needed luck.

"I know and that's why I want you to have it."

I took the necklace out of the box and put it around Rinoa's neck. She gave me a quick glance and a smile then went to the mirror and started admiring herself with it. I used to love that necklace. It was silver and had a ring on it. I put the ring on because it was a friendship ring what Caraway had given to me when we first started dating.

Chapter 3 (Rinoa's pov)

I woke up early by the sound of a dog barking, and yet again dad forgot to take the dog out for a walk before he left the house this morning.

My dad had just got a new puppy; my granddad had given it to him as a present at Christmas. My dad says when she's older she can have puppies and he said that I can have one when I'm older, when I get my puppy I'm never going to forget to take it for a walk like dad does. I'm also gonna teach it lots of neat tricks.

I crawled out of bed and went down the stairs to the whining dog.

" What's wrong Trixie hasn't daddy fed you?"

Trixie looked up at me with those adorable eyes of hers. I gave out a little giggle and patted her on the head before going into the kitchen and getting out the dog food to feed Trixie.

After Trixie gobbled down the food I felt a hand on my soldier.

" Daddy forgot to feed the dog again this morning".

I looked up to see my mum laugh and shake her head.

" He was to busy getting your birthday sorted out, then he had to leave."

I looked down at Trixie again to see her looking up at me with her tail wagging behind her.

" Would you like to come with me to get the car from the garage down the road?"

" Sure."

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Luckily it was a sunny day outside and Trixie finally got her walk from this morning.

As we walked down the road a few girls from my school walked down with their mother. They were called Yen and Jodie and they were both sisters, as they walked past me they gave me an evil look and Jodie pushed into me as she walked past. It was my first year at school and not many people liked me because they were jealous that I lived in a mansion. I never knew why though, I hated it. It took ages to get from one place to another. What's the fun in that?

As we walked further we approached the garage.

My mom spoke to the person who worked there, who turned out to be a big fan of hers and was really nervous around her and kept stuttering his sentences, which was funny.

" Can I have my car please?" my mom said as she passed back the pen and paper with her autograph on it.

" S-sure".

He handed the keys over to my mom and showed her to her car, and then we left.

As we went down the road we went quite quickly. Then we went up to a red traffic light, my mom kept pressing on the break but nothing happened. I looked at her and she seemed to look a bit scared and panicked then I looked in out of the window and saw a van come straight in front of us.

The next few seconds I heard brakes squeal, tires scrape, windows smashing and my mom's scream…