-Thursday afternoon, 12 p.m. (Pacific Time), Seattle, WA-
-Aunt Melinda's home-
Fiona was busily packing up her things. Her mother just called and she said that they'd be arriving in Seattle in two hours. She'd finally gotten her clothes out of the dryer and was busily folding them when in walked her twin cousins, Maggie and Melissa.
"Hey Fi. We just thought you'd want some help packing your stuff up," they said in unison as Fi finished folding her shirts.
"No thanks. I'll be done pretty soon," she stated and saw their crestfallen expressions. "We don't want you to go Fi," said Maggie. "We want you to stay. We like having a big sister."
"Well, I liked being your big sister but you see, now I think I'm ready to go back to school where I'm from and to spend more time with my mom and Jack. How would you feel if I said you couldn't live with your mom and dad for a whole year? Wouldn't you miss them a lot?"
"Umm, yeah. We would, I guess," answered Melissa as she kept her eyes facing the floor, her chin quivering as did her sister's. Fi had loved being around them for the past year, but she did miss her mom and Jack dearly and did want to be back home.
"Okay, listen you guys. How about we don't say goodbye? How about we say, see ya later. That wouldn't be really me saying goodbye, that be me just saying that I would drop by once in awhile. Whatda you say?" she asked as she walked around the be and kneeled in front of the girls. She moved their chins up so they could face her and she almost felt her heart break.
Their eyes were watering and both tried to keep their chins from quivering any longer, when both lunged themselves at Fi and wrapped their arms around her. Fi also started to feel like crying, something she had been avoiding to do so the goodbyes wouldn't be so painful.
As soon as the crying subsided, she broke herself from the embrace that Maggie and Melissa had her in and rubbed the tears from her eyes. "You know what?" she asked. "What," they said in unison, their voices quivering. "Maybe I do need some help," stated Fi, as both little girls dried their eyes with their t-shirts and looked up at Fi as she stood in front of them.
As they all headed towards Fi's suitcase, each took an article of clothing and started to place it in different places of the suitcase. Fiona just laughed as both Maggie and Melissa kept taking articles of clothing and placing it in the suitcase.
Soon they had finished packing Fi's suitcase, with a little help from Fi as to how clothes were to be organized in the suitcase, Fi also mentioned that she wouldn't be able to take all her belongings with her since the tour bus would be crowded and asked the girls if they each wanted something.
Maggie zeroed in on Fiona's inflatable green chair with the aliens covering it as Melissa zoomed in on Fi's stuffed alien doll. Who would've of guessed she thought? as she led the girls outside her room with their new presents. She headed back into her room, zipped up her suitcase and began trying to decide which things she could take with her on the bus. After all, she would sharing a room with Annie and wouldn't have a lot of room to herself.
"Hmm," she muttered as she walked around the room, her straight dark brown hair swaying down her back as she paced around her room. She placed a finger over her mouth and muttered, asking herself what would be more important to her.