Syd and Z's room

Syd had managed to get back to her room without anyone noticing her tear-streaked face. She punched in the code to lock her door so that even Z could get in without knocking. She wasn't exactly in the mood for company. I can't believe its all true. Someone murdered my father. Someone purposefully burnt my childhood house down and destroyed papa.

"who would do something like that?" Syd whispered to herself.

Her tears were spilling out of her eyes again. All of the pain she has been feeling for 13 years was spilling out of her as fast as her tears were. She felt so weak she didn't even make it to her bed. She collapsed in the middle of her and Z's beds.

"YOU BASTARD!" She screamed.

"you bastard." It came out as a whisper.

As her hurt turned into anger, she got the strength to stand up and walk to her closet. She threw open the door and reached up to the top of her closet. She pulled down a big box labeled "CG" for Carter Grayson. She set it down where she had fallen previously and then walked over to her desk. She picked up a file. The file that had revealed to her the truth about her father. She sat down next to the box that was covered in a thin layer of dust.

She hadn't opened it in years. It was time to bust it open again. She lifted the lid and the moment she saw the picture on top, an agonizing sob escaped out of her lips. She picked up the picture frame.

Residing inside the frame was a picture of the lightspeed rescue power rangers. Her parents' old team. Syd's tears spilled down onto the frame, distorting the faces of her family. They were in their ranger forms without their helmets. Papa was in the middle with mama at his right. Uncle Ryan was at mom's other side and then there was grandpa. On the other side of papa was Aunt Kelsey. Next to her was Uncle Chad, then Uncle Joel and his wife Aunt Angela. I haven't seen them in so long.

Memories flooded her mind. Birthday parties. Holidays. And just plain hanging out. Syd put the picture frame down and dug through the box. it was mostly lightspeed pictures, mixed with some family pictures of just her, mama, and papa. As she looked through the pictures, Syd let her tears fall freely.

When she got to the bottom of the box, she found a jewelry box. not remembering what she put in it, she opened it and took in a small gasp.

"oh my goodness. I can't believe I still have these."

Inside the box were three rings. Two of them belonged to Carter and the third was the promise ring that Carter gave her. Although Syd was never really religious, she wore it anyways. At least, she used to wear it. It was too big for her when he gave it to her, so she wore it on a chain around her neck.

The other two rings belonged to her papa. One was his wedding ring. Mama had given it to her after Papa's funeral. She never wore it.

The third ring was the ring that Papa had never taken off. One day, the day after her 7th birthday, she layed in her papa's arms watching cartoons in their living room. Syd always had the tendency to play with the rings on his finger.

That day she finally asked, "papa, why do you have this ring? I never see you take it off. Why?"

"well baby, when I was a kid, my papa, your grandpa, died. After his funeral, my mama, your grandma, gave me his wedding ring. She said that as long as I have this ring, I will never forget him. So I have never taken it off." Carter told the young girl in his arms as a tear rolled down his face.

Syd shut her eyes tightly as she remembered this. I almost forgot about that. I can't believe I almost forgot. She slipped her papa's wedding ring on her right ring finger, grandpa's wedding ring on her middle finger, and finally her own promise ring on her left ring finger.

All three rings were plain silver bands on the outside, the inscriptions on the inside of the bands told a different story. Her grandpa's ring said "forever and a day, I'll love you for always-RG&MG". Papa's ring said "you'll be here in my heart always(song-you'll be in my heart)-CG&DG". And her promise ring says, "your heart can only be given once, choose wisely."

She smiled as she looked down at her hands. It felt good to wear the rings again. She had put them away, thinking that it would only cause her pain to wear the rings everyday, but the feeling she was getting right now was completely opposite. She felt closer to her father again.

She didn't realize that she had begun crying again. Silent tears streamed down her face. She left the jewelry box out and put all of the pictures back in the box marked "CG". She put the file on her father's murder on the very top.

She put the box back on the top shelf of her closet and walked over to her bed. She sat clutching peanuts in her arms, allowing her tears to flow freely. (yeah I know…I'm making her cry a lot, well you would cry a lot too ok!) after all of the crying she had done, she got tired and decided to lay down.

For the first time in, well…probably years, Sydney Grayson Drew fell into a peaceful sleep. One problem, she forgot to unlock the door.