This is a sequel to all those who are wondering. It's part of a story line that goes like this:

Her Fault

Stay Away From MY Sister

Invisibility

It Ends Tonight

Anyway, you want to read.

Chapter 18

Calum stopped at an intersection and drummed his fingers on the wheel of the car. It was dead on the roads; he'd passed all of two cars. He started wondering what his mother would say when he walked through the door at one thirty in the morning. Would she be mad? He was only at Adam's.

Mack was thinking the same thing. Her mother had told her to go and have a good time, but she saw the look in her father's eyes. The look that said he didn't want her out all night. She'd seen it millions of times between her and Troy.

He couldn't do something horrible. Troy always broke curfew; they were shocked when he was on time. But Mack tried her hardest to make it home before the designated hour. Tonight was different though. Her parents hadn't set a time for her to be back, so was she really breaking curfew?

She heard what sounded like a race car in the distance. Slowly she turned her head and saw the bright lights of the car coming straight at her and Calum. She grasped Calum's hand and shut her eyes right at the car rammed into Calum's side, sending the car off the road hitting a tree.

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Jack ran into the emergency room at two thirty in the morning as if it was three in the afternoon. Elaine followed behind him, quickly jogging though a much less crowded waiting room than the ones she was used to with Troy.

She noticed that some doctors passing by gave her sympathetic looks and she just knew the outcome wasn't going to be one she liked very much. All she knew was Mack was in the hospital, but she had yet to find out why.

"Mr. and Mrs. Bolton?"

Jack looked into the face of Dr. Hunter Leaf a doctor of forty three who had been interning at the hospital when Troy was born. He had only been twenty two then and was really involved with Troy even though he wasn't going to be doctor that worked with infants. "How is she," Jack asked.

Dr. Leaf took a deep breath. "Um...I don't know how to tell you this, but." He paused as if was at a loss for words. "There's nothing else we can do. She's on machines right now, but she's brain dead. You guys can go in and say your good byes then turn off the life support."

Jack shut his eyes, trying to block the tears from escaping his eyes. Dr. Leaf nodded in sympathy before turning and walking down the hall. Jack looked to Elaine who had collapsed into a chair and then turned back to Dr. Leaf. He ran down the hall to reach him.

"Yes?"

"The other kid in the car. I know it's probably against hospital rules to tell me but...he's a good friend of mines son. Is he okay?"

"Jack, their car was hit by a drunk driver to the driver's side. The other kid died in the ambulance. I'm sorry."

Dr. Leaf continued down the hall leaving Jack to comprehend what he had said. Jack looked back at Elaine and decided not to tell her what the doctor had told him. She didn't need to know that a drunk hit them and (at least for now) she didn't need to know that Calum was dead.

Jack felt a lump in his throat. Calum was dead. Mack was brain dead. This wasn't supposed to happen. He wiped the tears from his face and walked slowly back to Elaine. She looked up at him, silently asking him about Calum. All he could muster was a simple shake of the head. He pulled her into a hug as she started to sob again.

They stood there for a few minutes. When Elaine was ready, they walked down the hall to where Mack was. She laid lifeless on the bed, her eyes closed and cuts covered her face. Tears began to fall freely down Elaine's face again as she looked at her daughter. She covered her mouth with her hand and sat in a chair beside the bed. She grabbed Mack's lifeless hand in her own before uncovering her mouth and stroking Mack's hair.

"I love you," she said.

Jack touched his daughter's cheek with the back of his hand, tears threatening to fall. "I love you too Princess."

"Troy does too baby," Elaine told her. "We're going to miss you so much."

Jack looked to Elaine who nodded. He then turned his attention to the machine that was giving his daughter life. Quickly he looked back to see Elaine singing the lullaby she sang to Troy and Mack into Mack's ear. He sighed and turned off the machine. And alarm sounded for a moment, before it stopped. Elaine collapsed on her daughter's dead body, sobbing uncontrollably.

Jack walked to the window, the sun was making the sky yellow, pink and orange. "Calum," he whispered into the morning air. "Take care of my little girl." Suddenly out of the corner of his eye he saw a dove do a back flip. It flew into his view and hovered for a moment before another dove flew beside it. The two flew off toward the sun. "Odd," Jack said as he watched the birds fly away.

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"You're lying," Adam yelled. Tears were slowly streaming down his face. He covered his face in his hands and from the hallway, four of his little siblings were watching intently.

"I wonder what's wrong," Sadie said voicing all their thoughts. All of them were wondering themselves what force of nature could make their eighteen year old brother cry.

"Something bad," said Sam, who was only two years older than Sadie at nine. "Kevin, what do you think," he asked his older brother. In truth, Kevin, who was twelve, didn't know either. In his whole life he'd only seen Adam cry once- now.

The four turned at the sound of heavy footsteps hitting the steps then the floor of the hallway. "What are you four doing up?"

"Daddy, what's wrong with Adam," Bridget asked.

"We'll tell you in the morning."

"It is morning Daddy," Sadie said. "What's making Adam cry?"

"Yeah Dad," Kevin said.

"Please," Sam whined.

Mike Duval just shook his head. "No," he said. "I'm still trying to come to grips with it myself. You four go to sleep-"

"But I won't be able to go to sleep if I don't know why Adam's crying," Sadie said. She ran to her father and clung onto his leg. "Please?"

"What's going on out here?"

"Mom what's wrong with Adam," Bridget asked as Marie stepped out of Adam's room. "Mike go in there," she told her husband before looking down at the four.

"Is Adam sick," Sadie asked.

Marie closed her eyes, they would have to know sometime and the faster they learned the faster they could get over it. "Kids, follow me."

The four youngest Duval children followed their mother to the living room. Sadie climbed up into her lap and Bridget sat down beside her on the couch. Sam and Kevin sat in the arm chairs, looking at their mother as if she held the button to turn off a bomb that was going to blow in ten seconds.

"If the party was to celebrate, why did it make him sad," Sadie asked remembering that they had to camp outside while Adam had a bunch of kids over.

"It wasn't the party Sadie," Marie said. "Tonight there was an accident down the street and Mack and Calum were...they were killed."

Bridget gasped. "No," she said. Tears began to fall down her cheeks. Sam and Kevin both looked sad and moments away from crying themselves. Sadie just looked up at her mother. "Why does that make everyone sad?"

"Sadie that means...we wont ever see them."

"Why," she asked.

"Because...that's just the way it works. Do you remember when your fish stopped swimming," Marie asked.

"Yeah, we had to flush Summer down the toilet," Sadie said. Her face contorted into a confused expression. "Calum and Mack wont fit in the toilet though."

Marie laughed at her daughter's statement. "No, we're going to bury them in the ground."

"And we're never going to see them again," she said solemnly. "I don't like this."

"Now you lot," Marie said. "I want you to be nice to Adam. He's really upset by this as I'm sure you already know. Now that you know, you can go to bed."

Sadie jumped off Marie's lap and ran up the stairs. Mike was leaving Adam's room and she ran in to find Adam leaning against the wall, his knees to his chest. "Adam," she said. He looked up, his eyes were bloodshot and puffy. "I'm sorry."

He held his hand out and she walked over to it. Her little fingers fell into his large palm before she wrapped her arms around him in a hug. "You're really sad. I remember when my fish died, I was sad too." She let go and looked him in the eyes. "But Calum wouldn't want you crying over him."

"You're right," he said. "But I need too for a little while."

"Do you miss him?" Adam nodded. "I do too. You should get some sleep." Again Adam nodded. "He's with my fish in heaven," she whispered in his ear.

I bet you really hate me for killing them huh? Well I had this planned from day one.

There was a reason why I had focused on Adam's family and none of the other's- because of this scene. I really wanted to show how Calum affected that family.

I always have a reason for everything – my friends get mad at me when I do that, we'll be talking randomly and then I'll have a reason for why something happens and it ruins the moment.

Also, this will be the only one of my Mack stories with an epilogue. So you'll know it's over when the chapter's title is epilogue.

Anyway...

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