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Hello everyone. I'm sorry for all of these long author's notes. But what I wanted to let you know this time was that most of my stories are about to end. This is one of them. And the fun thing is when I've finished all of them I might have more time to work on the stories left.

So, except for this one there's…

-A light in the dark
-What I did for hate
-The search for a family
-Game on
-Buried deep within
-When I returned
-I won't go away
-The moment I needed the most
-I still love you
-What is a human when she loses her best friend (New)

Then I have another planned. But as for that new one I have big parts of it already written. So that's the plan for one left. But at least one and not ten. I have a few oneshots too but they're far fewer than fourteen.

Then the only stories that will be left is riding on the wings of a dove and how they ended up in care.

Well, on with the chapter.

Her mum looks like Tamlyn Tomita.

Abigail "Abby" Fujimoto

Two days ago I had been…

A week ago I had been…

Ever since we ended up on that island I had been so mad. First at the pilot and how we had been split up until I thought I had lost Captain Bob, Jory and Ian and I came to the others' camp and learnt how different lives their had become I had been so absolutely furious.

During the last forty-eight hours, or more I hadn't spoken a word to any of the others, it felt like they all had just left me and not cared…

They had had Lex, a shower and a prom. It just felt like they had never been through anything hard. And even though it was me and Lex that had put up the prom I didn't feel like they had known me and how thankful they should be.

But when I came into the air port after Taylor and before Jory and Ian all of it before was forgotten and forgiven. All I knew was my family that I ran forward to and wrapped my arms around my twin sister's shoulders.

I had never been as close to anyone as I was with Arabella. Maybe that wasn't so strange though considering we had been along from the moment we were conceived.

We hadn't been split up until I and the rest of the class had left and left the country for the island and Arabella had caught the flu.

I had been absolutely pissed. And a part of me had wanted to stay home.

"Abby…" Before I had even tried to let go of Arabella our older brother was behind me, and I had never heard his voice this shaky before. "…I want to hug you too."

I shouldn't have been surprised, every single member of my family were huggers. And barely had I come out of Arabella's arms I was wrapped into Benjamin's. He was tall and always had the best and hardest hugs.

I was just going to the left when I broke from one hug and then to the right and I'd be hugging someone else. But it was only my siblings and two cousins (siblings by heart). There was something strange about my mum and I barely noticed it while I was switching from hugging from Benjamin to our oldest cousin Rebecca.

I had never really noticed what a big family we all were. I, my twin sister and our older brother and then our two younger cousins…

And the youngest had been patiently waiting for the other to get hugs.

"I want to hug too. I want to hug too."

For some reason he had been left for last and at last that was the end of his patience.

"Where have you been? And why were we clapping for you?"

I didn't have an answer to any of those questions.

"Just come here Brody." I had to kneel slightly the young boy ran into my arms. "You know I had to save the best for last."

"You haven't hugged mum yet, silly." Brody took a step back but I stayed kneeled for a few seconds. "You can't forget her."

No I couldn't…

But having been away for a month almost was enough to make me confused about our whole family. Then of course, Brody had never known another mum than his aunt.

"…and mum's been worried most of all."

"He's right…" When mum still stood with her head turned away from me Benjamin spoke again. "Mum's been so worried… I will go get your bag." He left the rest of us while I turned to mum. She had tears streaming down her cheeks and was holding onto a tissue that was already wet with tears.

Many of us in this room were crying but no one as much and as wildly as her.

Since the moment mum had lost her husband, sister and brother-in-law and then had to take in her niece and nephew mum had probably spent most her time worrying. It was like she was fearing that now we were a whole group of people we could never go through life all of us without something happening to anyone of us.

"Mum?"

And when she hugged me mum cried louder than anyone else I could see or hear.

"It's okay mum. We're all safe now."

"I'm sorry…" Mum took a step back and stroke my cheek, then looked me up and down as if she was afraid I would disappear again if she didn't see every little piece of me. "…those things I told you before you left. When I said you and Bella needed to spend some time apart. I never would have forgiven myself if you didn't come back."

I wouldn't have to tell her that I had gotten sick.

"But I did. I am back now. All I want to do now is have a long, warm shower and then to actually sleep in a bed…"

"Here we go." Benjamin came back, he had gotten my bag. "Should we go back home?"

People were talking all around. But when I laid one arm around Arabella's shoulders and the other one around mum's we all seemed quiet.

"Yeah…" I looked around one more time and tried to ignore the tears of relief that had risen in my eyes and came rolling down my cheeks. "Home."

I suddenly remembered something I was told that in Sweden-, where I am, families are parents and siblings. While in China and such (the actress who plays Abby is half Japanese) it comes to those, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and on it goes. So that is what gave me the idea to that Abby's mum would be raising both her three own kids and then also their two cousins when something happened to their parents.

Random facts

I honestly don't know where the idea of Abby's big family came from. But I hope it wasn't too terrible.