Prologue

"Sorry, Keith." Michael, Pop's coworker said. "Your dad, he.." Michael trailed off. "He didn't make it in the last mission."

Keith stared at Michael. He blinked a few times and continued to stare at him.

Pop had died? Where was he going to live now? With mom? Probably not because she moved awhile back for the army and took his half brother with her. How old was his half brother now?

So many thoughts crowded his head and he felt he couldn't breathe. Keith felt on the verge of tears when Michael spoke up, "I know your sad, but you have to let him go. Right before he.. went into the fire to save her, he told me, to send you to your half brother in Virginia and have him take care of you and love you."

Keith nodded. He swallowed the lump in his throat.

Hugging himself, he went to pack to go to Altea, Virginia.