It all started one day sitting on a park bench. I took a bite of my sandwich and looked at the people. They all looked so happy. Parents held their children's hands, kids were on bikes and skates, and everyone was having a great time... except me. My gaze fell to the ground. I knew Violet was out there... and I knew she wasn't looking for me... no one was looking for me... I was dead.
Nathan walked up to the bench and sat next to me, eating a hot dog. "'S the matter?" asked seeing me looking sadly at the ground. A shrugged and to another bite from my sandwich, suddenly, I wasn't feeling so hungry. I stood up and walked toward a trash can when I saw a dog. He was a scruffy wolf-like husky with a crescent moon shape on his head. I sighed as the dog looked longingly at my sandwich and tossed it to him. "Go crazy..." I mumbled softly. The dog tore at the sandwich then ran into the crowd. Nathan walked to my side. "Nobel... but you didn't have to... look, the dog has owners." Typical Nathan, no matter what I did, HE could find a flaw... but for once I was glad for Nathan's criticism... because when I looked at the dog's owners my heart leapt.
"Moon, where did you get this? Don't tell me you were picking through trash." said a tall black girl with blonde hair. I wouldn't have recognized her if it wasn't for the girl sitting next to her. Her hair was long, her face slender, and she was tall and quite developed. She wore a black dress and had her hair tied up with a black ribbon. It was Violet, and the girl next to her was Narantha.
"Hey… Vi, don't look so upset, look, I bought us ice cream." said Narantha to Violet. Narantha put the ice cream under Violet's nose. "Its pistachio…" she said in a sing-song voice trying to get Violet to take it. Violet shook her head. "I'm not hungry." Narantha rolled her eyes… "You do realize I don't want to waist it?" Violet shrugged. "Then you eat it…" "I have my own." "Give it to Moon." "GOD DANG IT VIOLET TAKE THE FLIPPING ICE CREAM!" Narantha shouted. Violet looked at Narantha slightly shocked. She sighed and bowed her head leaving Narantha with a guilty look on her face. "Vi… I'm sorry… it's just that, ugh, you're always so upset, you haven't eaten in three days… and you're always looking to the forest for an answer… listen… I love the forest, it was my home… but you can't look to it and expect Sunny and Klaus just to come back… they're gone Vi… and there's nothing that can bring them back."
For a moment I didn't speak, didn't move, and Nathan looked at me like I was an idiot. "Um, dude, what are you looking at?" I shook my head breaking out of my dazed state. "Nathan..." I murmured. "Nathan, that's my sister." Nathan's look of confusion soon turned to a look of anger and hate. "C'mon! We're going back to V.F.D." But before I could protest, he grabbed my wrist and pulled me away.
I needed to think, and think fast. I had to, somehow, make Violet see me. I thought hard and then looked at Nathan's neck... then at my own. That was it. When I became a member of VFD they gave me a choker with one bead on it that looked like an eye, we all had them... and that was how I would get her attention. I knew Violet had an eye for small things like a necklace lying on the pavement... but then I thought... what if someone else found it. So I pulled it off, and chucked it at her. I smiled, not because I saw Violet in pain as it hit her, but because it did hit her. She looked at it briefly and I saw her expression as she really saw it. I smiled looking at her. See me... come on... see me! My hearts plead, and she did. She stood up and took off, leaving Narantha looking bewildered. "Pardon me!" she called after Nathan and me. "Pardon me!" I tried to wave at her but Nathan tugged me. "Ignore her, you can't be seen, remember?" I rolled my eyes. "She's my sister Nathan; I can't just let her go on thinking I'm dead! I'd feel horrible and guilty!" But Nathan just shook his head. "Yes you can... I mean... I did... I did for 14 years..."
