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Chapter three: Dear Diary, I'm going to France

1.9.2020

Dear Diary!

Today's the day, I'm going to France! Of course, Mom wanted me to wait for a year so I would be sixteen when I leave. But no, I'm really going! Can you believe it? The whole year in France! The family there is really nice. They have a son who is a year older than me and a daughter who is only ten. But you know, I get along with Mel and Lisa, why wouldn't I get along with her?

Mom's crying again. She's been crying everyday on this last week. It's getting annoying, I mean, she already signed the papers! What's there to cry about anymore? I swear to God, if being a mom is like that, crying all the time, I'll never have children. Wonder what she'll be like when I go to college. Thank God, Wyatt decided to stay in San Francisco… In France I won't see how Mom tries to keep Chris in here, too. Honestly, that boy is a genius. They would pick him up to Columbia right away if Mom hadn't made perfectly clear that she's not letting him go until she has to…

So, why did Mom let me go? Because dad made her. He knows how upset I would have become if I couldn't go. He's the best. I swear, if there was a prize for best Dad of the year, he would have won it like… 19 times in a row. You know, since Wyatt was born. Of course, there's that time that neither Mom or dad agrees to talk about but still, he's the best dad in the world!

Okay, I have to go now, the plane doesn't wait. BTW, this is the last page of this diary, so I'll buy a new one from the airport. I wish I could take my laptop with me… I wonder how I can survive without it. Oh, well… I'm sure they have a computer over there. No, I hope and beg from the God that they have computer. I can't survive without messenger and e-mail. After all, France is really far away…

How could she have known that the last page of her diary was written on the last happy day of her life.

4.11.2022

After Wyatt and Leo had tried to heal Ashley for ten minutes, they finally accepted that she was not going to wake up. "We have to take her to bed", Piper said. Leo picked her up from the floor and carried her to her room. "I'll go check if the Elders knew anything…" he said quietly and orbed away without another word.

Piper was about to scream. Why – why – why was this happening to her little girl! To her innocent babygirl… "Mom?" Piper heard Chris's voice. She shook her head. "I'll go check the book. You guys stay in here just in case if she wakes up." With that, Piper left the room. She looked a little un-stable but Wyatt and Chris didn't dare to argue with her. (That's mostly because no one dared to argue with her even in completely normal situation.)

Wyatt sighed in frustration and sat on Ashley's bed. "God, she looks pale…" Chris said. "Yeah, it's scary. "What the…" Paige came to the room. "We were wondering where you disappeared. What happened?" she asked. "We don't know, we just found her from the bathroom like this", Chris answered. "You think it has something to do with the fight?" "If it has, I swear I will make Mom suffer like hell", Mel, who just entered the room with Nick and Lisa, said. "Don't talk like that, Mel. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fight. How could it?" Wyatt said.

Flashback

"Mom… Mom! For God's sake Mom, let go of me!" Piper was hugging Ashley like there was no tomorrow. "Just promise you'll call to us every day, k?" "Every day? Mom, I'm planning to have a life over there. I'll call you every week. Deal?" "Every other day." "I'll call to you twice in a week. Final offer, take it or leave it." Piper sighed. "Fine. Twice in a week." Ashley turned to Leo. "be careful in there, kiddo", Leo said as he pulled Ashley into a hug. "I will, Daddy. I promise." "Yeah, we don't want you back in a gasket", Wyatt said. "Wyatt!" Piper snapped. "What, do we?" Ashley laughed. "I'll buy you two Hard Rock Café shirts from Paris", she said as she hugged her brothers. "You do that. And send us pictures. And don't let that boy take our place", Chris said. "Of course I won't, are you stupid!"

"Ashley?" 11 year old Lisa said. "Yes, hunni?" "You will come back, right? You won't stay there forever?" Ashley smiled. "I could never do that. I'll be back after one year. Then you can tell me about your boyfriends and stuff." "Final call to a flight 756 to France leaving from gate 23!" Ashley sighed. "That's me. I love you all!" "We love you, too!"

As Ashley got abroad, she had no idea how much her life was about to change. She thought she was gonna spend a very happy year in a country of her dreams…