EPISODE 2: Feeling the Departed

Disclaimer: Refer to Chapter 1

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Max and Logan had kept Jondy up for the remainder of her 'night'. She decided there was no point trying to get any sleep, and there was only one place Jondy wanted to be when she had nothing better to do. Jondy was going to see her family.

Taylah, 16 was up bright and early Saturday mourning. Rage was on the TV and the top 50 had just started so Jondy sat next to Taylah, grabbing the Hit that was firmly placed in Taylah's hands.

"So what inspired you to come and frequent this couch?" With a response like that, Jondy was compelled to tickle everything out of her adopted sister.

"Just seemed like the thing to do on a bright Saturday mourning. What's your excuse? It's 8:00 and I don't think I've ever seen you up this early on a weekend."

"I got to work at 9:00 and I was just about to go shower. Like my new PJ's. I finally went and spent that 'Bra's and Things' voucher." Taylah got up and wrapped the robe she was wearing around herself, on her way to the kitchen. She had a coffee mug in her hand, she silently asked Jondy if she'd want one.

"Yeah, Tea please. So, Mum and Dad still asleep?" Taylah was boiling water in a kettle, while preparing a new mug with teabag and sugar for Jondy.

"Jade, what's on your mind. Mum is asleep and Dad's at Work, you know that. So just have out with it!" Hearing the word Jade startled Jondy who had for the first time in a long time let go and became Jondy again.

"Off course. Off course I know, it's just... I got a visit, from someone whom I never thought I'd see again." Taylah poured water into the mugs and went and got milk from the fridge.

"Who was it?" Jade had decided to think of herself as Jade instead of Jondy so to tell her sister the lie she had made up years ago.

"One of my sisters... one of the one's who ran away from my birth father. Her name is Max and she came here just to see me. She stayed at my house for three days and then she had to leave. And I miss her so much, I remember being really close to her Tay and she left only a couple of hours ago." Jade had told her family that her birth mother had died in a car crash and that all her brothers and sisters had been left to an abusive father. Jade said that her brothers and sisters ran away and that they planned to meet again one day.

Taylah opened up her arms and Jade walked into them. She didn't think she would cry over Max's departure, but in the time that they'd spent together, for the first time in her life she actually wanted to be Jondy. "Wow...we better go in my room."

"Yeah, okay..." Taylah and Jade went down the hall to her room. "On second thoughts, can I go in my old room. I want to get something out of my wardrobe."

"So, what was it like seeing her, Max after all this time. What she doing?" Jade who was in her wardrobe looking for her photo album.

"When she got to my place, she spoke through the intercom and I don't think I've ever felt anything like it. I have been living my life in the best possible way over the past year and Max came and she...she needed me. She needed her sister. She doesn't have many material things, but she does have friends and she's been searching her whole life for her brothers and sisters."

"So...are you going to see her again?" Taylah was sitting on Jade's old bed, her right hand holding the coffee mug.

"I really want to...but right now isn't really the best time. There is too many things I have to do here at the moment, and Max can't afford to stay here with me...we'll see." Jade who now sat on the floor with the now found photo album had it opened at an old drawing she had drawn when she was younger. It was a picture of her and Max when they were little drawn by her when she was 12.

"At least I have a photo this time!"