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A/N: Sorry that I haven't updated in a while, so I'm back and I hope you like it. I'm working on updating Girl in the Shadows next, and then True Identity, and then I'll get back to this. Okay now read and review.

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I opened the door to Phoebe's and walked out in to the heavy crisp air. It crusted my throat and I intakes became shorter and shorter. The haze fogged my vision, or maybe it was the tears.

How much had happened here that change my life? It was the beginning of my life I lead now. It gave me my characteristics I own now. And most of all the memories I have implanted in my brain started here.

The sight I saw was painful and it ripped my heart in numerous bits. It was black no tinch of cheerful color could be found. The musty street and buildings were shattered to ruins.

Creatures were scattering the streets. Mice and rats gnawed at little things I could make out as bones. Bones of WHAT?

I walked the street, Phoebe hot on my heels. Every once in a while I could hear her gasp. Her sharp intake of air would echo through the streets and would be the only sound besides out footsteps.

I rounded the corner that I knew all to well. It was the street that I ran down when I was little, it was the street that all my friends would play tag on, it was the street that held the blood of a helpless woman.

**Flashback**

"Something is coming, something is coming!" A strange woman, bellowed racing down the quiet, deserted street. "It's coming, RUN!"

Then the "something" ran out of the blackberry bushes, over in the Blackbird Forest. It sprinted to the mysterious women, it moved so fast it seemed almost like a stream of wind that would never halt.

"Help me." the voice of that poor woman drifted away in the silence of the night. Her body was limp, as if it was never alive, while her precious blood that once lived within the women's veins, were now gushing through the streets.

The "creature" looked up and stared directly at the door of a Mary Kay's house. The "thing" had blood poring down its face and its eyes were filled with hate and anger. It looked down one last time the now lifeless woman and tore out her heart. Then her plunged it in its imploring mouth.

**End of Flashback**

That one woman's cry echoed through my head. Her hope faded just as everything around her. I looked down the street and I saw the color red. The road was stained in blood from years ago, and the shatters on bones still remained.

Finally in all the 7 years I let my tears fall. The little drops of water stained my cheeks and I feel weak. Memories flooded through me. These memories, I held so dear. One flashed to me of my first meeting with my baby sister Maggie.

**Flashback**

"PARKER!!!!!!!!!!!" Dakota popped out behind me. She hated when I hid from her, but it was ALWAYS fun! "Your Daddy says that you need to go now."

Poopy-butt Daddy. He's so mean. I don't wanna go home. Mean, mean Daddy. "Fine, bye bye Dakota."

I walked through the woods that I knew so well and made my way to Main Street. I went through the bushes blocking Dakota's and mine's secret path to our private secret fort. I got on Main Street secretly and made my way home.

I opened my door and was greeted by my Papa, Mama, Gramps, AND Grams! They said that Mommy was in something called labor. I didn't know what that was, but Mama and Grams said it was why Mommy was in fat and had a baby in her stomach. Mommy and Daddy told me that I was gonna have a sister or brother, but they never told me how. I thought the came on big birds that had beaks that they carried babies in. This confuses me a lot.

The phone and Papa went to get it. His face lit up and said, "Parker guess what?"

Duh, I wanted to know what the commotionion (I learned that word by Dakota's Mommy!). "What?" I asked in my most politest possible way.

"You have a new baby sister!" He said to me and everyone else in the room. They hugged each other and they hugged me. I was so excited!

"What to go see her and you Mommy and Daddy?" Mama asked me. Why do these people ask me such things? DUH I wanted to go. But instead of saying anything I just nodded my head.

Mama picked me up and then the five of us went to see Mommy, Daddy, and baby. Gramps drove us and then when we got there Grams picked me up and carried me in.

Mommy was lying on a white hospital bed and Daddy was in a chair right next to her. Mommy was holding something wrapped in a pink blanket. I think it was my baby sister, because it looked kinda like my dollie Hannah.

"Parker darling do you want to meet your new baby sister?" Mommy asked me in a tired but energetic (I learned this word yester day when Daddy said Dakota and I were too energetic!) voice. I nodded and Mama placed me at Mommy's feet on her bed. I crawled up to her hands and there lying in the pink blanket was a tiny baby.

The others looked at the baby with a smile on their faces. I looked at it in excitement. This is gonna be sooooooo fun!!!!!!!!!!!!! Baby and I will be able to play house, and dress up, and sneak into the secret fort from the secret path. Baby and I will be bestest friends, with an exception from Dakota, because we were bestest best friends.

Daddy picked me up and placed me in his lap. He hugged me and kissed my forehead. "Do you want to here her name?" I nodded my head and looked at the cute baby. "Her name is Maggie Faith Torgenson."

I smiled at my baby sister Maggie and she smiled back.

**End of Flashback**

"Maggie," I said her name through tears. Maggie never lived, I sure of it, no matter what I held of my hopes, I knew there was no way she was still alive. And this thought broke what little bit I had left of my heart.

My house was just several yards away and I wanted to get away now. But I knew this is why I came, and I needed to find what I wanted. Although, I still want to know what I wanted too. The town just sort-a pulled me in.

I walked closer to my old house. The shadows started lurking, and my memories flooded more and more. And then I opened my door and stepped in.

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A/N: So how'd you like it? It wasn't that good, but I needed to update this and I finally got around to doing so. If you hate it, it's fine with me, but if you like it review, PLEASE.

And I only added the 2nd flashback because I wanted to show that there were happy times in her old life, and also wanted another two chapters till someone comes! Oh and if you were confused, Mama and Papa are her Grandparents. Hehehehe!!!!!

Laterz