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A/N: I would like to thank everyone for their reviews and would like to apologize about how long it's been since my last update. I've been pretty busy with school and all so I haven't had much time to write for fun. Also I would like to apoligize for how much this chapter jumps around, it's just I want to get the plot started so this chapter serves as a time lope. But anyways please R/R.
Darkness. There was nothing to be seen for miles. Celeste knelt solemnly on the ground the February air biting at her fingertips. There was a faint smell of smoking rising from the chimneys in the background.
"Hoot! Hoot!" An owl called.
Celeste turned to Kevin, "Are you sure you want to be here?"
He nodded, "I feel at peace while I'm here. I know it sounds funny but while I'm here I almost," He paused for a moment, "Feel her presence around me."
She smiled, "You must miss her."
" Dearly."
There was a long, uncomfortable silence as a gust of frigid wind blew by.
" It is getting cold," Kevin said wrapping himself tighter beneath his coat.
" It is. Would you like to go?"
He was silent for a moment, "One more minute, please."
" One more minute," She said with a smile.
The senile old man looked at her in a gaze, "I remember sitting long hours with her at her mother's grave." He paused for a minute, " She was really taken by the whole thing."
May 1998:
" I'm sick of it!" Lucy said throwing her book bag onto the table.
" Sick of what?" Mary questioned following her through the door.
She turned and sighed, "It seems as if everyone knows about mother's passing! I swear at least 10 people came up to me today and told me something along the lines of I was so surprised to hear about your mother, it was so sudden, or I was so upset when I heard about your mother."
" They where just paying their respects."
" I wish people would stop paying their respects and things would get back to normal."
Mary picked up a cookie and took a bite, "Luce, mom died, things never will be normal."
Lucy placed a vase of roses and stood back from the grave in a daze.
" I wish you were here," she said pushing a lock of hair behind her ears, "You've missed so much. I made varsity cheerleader, and I hear Mary's basketball team is going to make it to playoffs." She laid back and looked to the sky. This is stupid, there is no way she can hear me! She's dead.
" I thought I would find you here," Mary said placing a coat over Lucy's shoulders.
" I needed time to think."
" Don't we all." She sat down besides Lucy, "Do you remember Christmas two years ago?"
" The year before grandma died? It was great. The family was all there. Aunt Julie, Grandma, Grandpa, the Cornel, Ruth. It was fun, it was family."
" Well anyway grandma gave me this," she said pulling out a locket, " She said she would always be there with me as long as I wore it, and I always felt that she was there with me every step I took. After mom died I placed her picture in it, sorta as a remembrance," she handed it to Lucy, "I want you to have it."
" I couldn't."
She pulled Lucy's hair back and gave her a kiss, "Yes you can Luce, yes you can."
December 2000:
Lucy slowly opened the attic door that lead into darkness. She touched a antique piano and pressed down on a key as it rang out into the dry air. Pictures lined the mantle of a dusty fireplace. She touched the frail picture frame that contained a beautiful portrait of her mother.
" I miss you." She said placing the locket on the table and running down the steps.
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there in no path and leave a trail..."-Emerson
A/N: I know that was short, It's been so long since I've posted and I wanted to post another chapter. I promise the next one will be longer. Please Review.
