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It took a while for the dust to settle, but after it did Chris was in complete shock at what had just happened. But he quickly snapped back to reality.

"Come on!" Chris said. "We have to find her!" Quickly Jack and Chris ran to the ruins of where the tree house once stood. They were looking frantically. Suddenly Jack noticed a small clothe hand under the ruble.

"Oh no." He whispered so that Chris wouldn't hear. He quickly removed the remaining ruble. There she lay in the ruble totally lifeless.

"Dad! Did you find…." But as soon as Chris was about to finish his sentence he turned around to see Maria lying in the ruble. He quickly ran over to her and knelt down on his knees. He couldn't speak.

"Chris I…. I'm so sorry." Jack said. Chris pulled Maria into his lap and held her in his arms. He was on the verge of tears.

"I'll…I'll leave you alone." Jack said. He stood up and began to walk away. As soon as he left Chris started to sob uncontrollably.

"I'm…so…sorry…Maria." Chris said as he chocked between sobs. A few of his tears trickled down his cheek and onto her face. Suddenly her eyes began to flutter open. She looked up at Chris and smiled. He didn't notice though because his hands were still covering his eye sockets to contain himself.

"Are you crying over a broken doll?" Maria whispered softly. Chris removed his hands from his face with a shocked look.

"Ma…Maria? You're alive?" Maria smiled, and so did he.

"Dad! She's alive!" Chris yelled. "I'll go get help!" Jack said. He ran as fast as he could to go get help.

"Are…are you okay?" Chris asked

"Yeah, I'm okay, I guess. It's just I really hurt you you, and I am so sorry." She started to cry, but Chris wiped away the tears.

"Yeah, Yeah. It's okay. I mean you saved me and my dad." Maria smiled.

"Besides, I should be the one apologizing. I should have listened to you first, and I said all those horrible things to you."

"Looks like we both made some mistakes." Maria said.

"Yeah. But I'll never make them again." Chris pulled Maria up and was just about to kiss her when a bright light shown in their faces. It was the mayor's car.

"They went out looking for us you guys." Jack said. "Isn't it great?"

Great. They both thought sarcastically.

The story is almost over. Tomorrow, I am hoping to post the last chapter! So please read and review.