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Ok, now we check in on Kellie's family!

Chapter 8: All The While

The night of the 23rd, Aaron lay in his college dorm bunk, trying to fall asleep, but couldn't.

"What's up, Aaron? You're always asleep by now." A friend of Aaron's, Austin, said from below him in the bottom bunk.

"I'm thinking about my sister." Austin grunted.

"Dude, get off her case. So she was gone for three months, so some freak who claims he's a Prince shows up in her room, it's no big deal. She's 15, for God's sake. You can't protect her forever." Aaron sighed.

I know, Aaron thought as he drifted off to sleep.

I just wish I could.

The next morning, as Aaron prepared for class, there was a phone call on his dorm room phone. Obi, another friend of Aaron's, answered the phone.

"Hey Aaron, it's for you." Aaron nodded his thanks, then walked over and picked up the phone.

"Aaron?" A female voice on the other end asked.

"Mom? What is it?" There was a pause before the answer. Was that sniffling he heard in the background?

"Well, I don't know how to put it. It's about Kellie…" Aaron's eyes got wide.

"What about Kellie? What happened? Did she get into another fight? Is she doing drugs? What is it?" Now Aaron confirmed there was sniffling in the background, only it was sobbing.

"She-she-she's gone, Aaron." Aaron's eyes got wide.

"Wh-wh-what?" There was the sound of a man sobbing.

"She's gone. There was a note, and no signs of anything else. He bed was empty, as if she was sleeping and then, she poofed out of think air! Aaron-" But Aaron had already hung up, and running out the door, half dressed in a pair of pants, to his car.

NO! Aaron screamed in his head.

WHERE DID SHE GO? As Aaron drove away from Washington State University, his thoughts finished.

And why didn't she say goodbye?

Aaron panted like a madman as he rushed through the front door of his house. His parents, and many other family members, were in the living room, and looked up surprised when he burst through the door.

Just like three years ago.

"Where's the note?" Was all he could manage. His cousin, Haylie, brought it up to him.

Dear Mom and Dad,

If you find this note, then I already left. Don't worry about me, I'll be in the Avatar world with Zuko. If you really are scared, then tune in to Avatar on Nickelodeon every Friday night at 8, I'm sure to be there. I doubt I'll ever come back, so don't get your hopes up. But if I don't ever come back. Tell the whole family that I love them. And my friends. Especially, tell Aaron that I've always loved him and looked up to him. I'll always be thinking of you. And I'll never stop missing you. Hopefully, one day I'll come back, and maybe with the whole gang… Whoops! I'm rambling. Well, good bye, I'll never forget ya, don't' forget me, and never stop loving me.

With the greatest love ever,

-Kellie

Aaron fell to the ground, sobbing. He had loved his sister. His family watched him sadly, knowing they all felt and shared the same pain. Only Aaron's had been magnified ten-fold.

She had looked up to him, truly loved him, spied on him to make sure he did the right things with his girlfriends, like he would have with her boyfriends if he hadn't been at college.

Aaron couldn't believe it. The shock of losing his only sibling, the only person who truly mattered, was too much for his being to handle.

Why couldn't I have come with you? Aaron asked himself. A hand was put on his shoulder. Aaron looked up to see his uncle Donny looking down at him.

"Come on," his uncle said with a feeble grin.

"It's Friday. Let's watch Kellie on TV." Aaron smiled. His uncle was so comical.

Yah. Let's watch Kellie on TV.

Aww, so sad. That's a phrase a kid from skool uses. Way 2 much, if u ask me. But, R&R, pplz, it makes my day.

INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!

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