Song is a version I heard of : All Through The Night

She said," Sit down, now!"

I sat down on the couch and looked down at the floor to avoid eye contact. She sat down on the couch beside me and said," You were grounded and you left the house. Where did you go?"

I said," I needed to talk to someone."

She looked at me and said," I was right here, you could have called Olivia, but why did you leave the house to talk to someone?"

I said," I didn't want to talk to you."

She asked," Who did you have to talk to so bad that you couldn't have asked someone first?"

I said as I headed toward my room," my mom." I shut the door quietly and lay down on my bed.

I kept repeating quietly," I wanted to talk to my mom. I needed my mom."

Heather knocked quietly and then opened the door. She came in and sat down on the bed beside me.

She said," I would have taken you if you had asked. Sarah, I will never keep you away from that cemetery if that's where you want to be. I know that you still talk to your mom, that you still feel the need to talk to her."

We sat there quietly for a few minutes then she said," You know I have to tell Olivia, which means you need to explain about where you go in the afternoons."

I said," I can't tell her Heather, she'll never understand."

She said," You have too. She'll never understand if you don't tell her."

We sat in my room without saying anything to each other until we heard the front door open.

Olivia called out," Where are you guys?"

Heather answered," We're in Sarah's room."

Olivia walked in. I was still laying on the bed and Heather was sitting in the same place beside me.

Olivia's POV

When I walked in, I knew she had done something. The look on Heather's face told me we had to talk. Sarah had never broken a punishment before. She normally did whatever you told her because she hated being in trouble so much, but I knew she had done something. Heather didn't seem to upset about it though so I figured it wasn't something I should be mad about. So I decided to keep my cool.

Olivia asked," What did she do?"

Heather said," Sarah has something about this afternoon she has to tell you."

Heather looked at me urging to go one. I had no idea how to start, or what to say.

I jumped in and said," I snuck out the fire escape while Heather was on the phone because I had to talk to someone."

Olivia said," You left the house using the fire escape, while you were grounded? Sarah who did you have to talk to?"

I looked down and answered quietly," My mom."

Olivia knelled down in front of me and looked up into my eyes. She asked," Why did you have to talk to your mom?"

I said," She understands me like no body else."

Olivia said," Sarah, she's not here. She can't talk to you anymore."

I looked at Heather desperate. Heather said," Tell her Sarah."

Olivia asked," Tell me what?"

I said," She's still here to me. When I talk to her, she answers me. I can feel her answers in my heart. I know what she would have told me to do. She answers me."

She said," If you know what she would have told you then why did you sneak out and go to the cemetery?"

I said," Because I can't hear her here anymore. When she first died I could hear her no matter where I was, but I can't anymore. I have to be there at her tombstone to be able to hear her anymore. I have to be where she is to hear her."

Heather spoke for the first time," Sarah, you know she's not there anymore either. I know you know that. What we need to know is why that exact spot means so much to you."

I said as tears slid down my face," Her body's there. The body that held me when I was scared and rocked me to sleep when I was little. I can hear her singing to me when I'm there."

I looked over out the window and started to sing the song my mom had always sung to me,"

Soft and drowsy hours are creeping

Hill and dale in slumber sleeping,

I my loving vigil keeping,

All through the night.