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Here is another chapter of "Remember: The Story Of Ember McLain"! In this chapter, we'll find out what that phone call was about, and how Amber's life goes even more downhill and she starts to become Ember McLain…

I don't think I said this, but considering every chapter is titled by a lyric from Remember, this story will be long, and will be around 31 chapters(33 if you include the prologue and epilogue at the end). So, I hope you all stick around still, even though this story is gonna be around 31 chapters.

Anyway, enough of me talking! Onto the story!

Please read and review!

GhostWriterGirl out!

My Life, A Losing Game…

Ring. Ring. Rrrring.

The ringing of my cellphone woke me up. Sniffling, I grabbed my phone and answered whoever was calling me at… two in the morning?

There better be a good reason for this person waking me up at this ungodly hour.

"Hello?" I asked, my voice hoarse from crying my broken heart out.

"Amber? Is Kitty with you?"

I frowned. "No, Mrs. Matthews. Kitty isn't with me. Why?"

Hey, I wasn't about to rat out my best friend, especially when she was right about Dean doing something behind my back.

That cheater… I thought angrily, but was pulled out of my thoughts by Kitty's mother's frantic answer.

"Amber, there has been an accident at the intersection leading out of Amity Park; a motorbike has collided into a truck. The truck driver's fine, but… but the two teenagers on the motorbike died. I was thinking 'Poor kids. Their parents must be grieving so much now'. And… and then the phone rang, and it was one of the police at the scene where the crash happened. She asked me, 'Are you Mrs. Matthews?', and I said, 'Yes, I am.' And… and the policewoman said, 'As you probably heard, there was an accident at the intersection. We looked at the bodies of the two teenagers, and… and they're your daughter, Kristen Matthews, and her boyfriend, Jonathan Sullivan.'"

My breath caught in my throat as tears started to form in my eyes as Mrs. Matthews continued, her voice wracked with barely suppressed sobs, "The-they're dead, Amber! My little girl and her boyfriend are dead! I wanted to break the news to you before… before…"

I hung up on her, and the phone slipped out of my shaking fingers, the screen cracking as it hit the floor, but I didn't care; I was crying too much to care.

Kitty and Johnny were dead. Kitty and Johnny were dead. My best friends were dead! Why? Why did they have to die? Why?

Somehow, through my grief, I managed to pick up my phone, and call Laurie. I heard her gasp and saying, "I'll be there as fast as I can," and then hung up. The phone slipped through my fingers and fell to the floor again as I continued to cry my heart out.

There was a rapping on the front door and I ran out of my bedroom, down the stairs and to the door, opening it with such strength, that I was sure it would have flown off it's hinges.

Standing there was Laurie. Her short hair was blown back, her tawny eyes were red from crying, her cheeks were tear-stained, she was wearing a jacket over her pyjamas and her arms were wide open, clearly meaning for her to hug me.

I collapsed into her embrace, and we sank onto the porch, crying together for the loss of our friends, Kitty Matthews and Johnny "13" Sullivan.

A Month Later

The funeral was a small one; only friends and family of Kitty and Johnny attended, and the priest. I was numb to everything, the bitter wind stinging my face, even more because of the tears staining my cheeks as I cried silent tears. Laurie stood beside me, her face somber. Even though she wore black clothes nearly every single day, she somehow made it a mourning colour today.

Mrs. Matthews was sobbing as Mr. Matthews said some things about his daughter. Standing by Johnny's grave, his father was also making the near-exact speech, while his other father(AN: Yes, Johnny was raised by a gay couple. Deal with it)was crying as well.

The speeches went on for another minute, and then Mrs. Matthews said, "Amber? Do you think you could say a few words, please?"

I nodded and walked over to Mrs. Matthews, holding back a sob as I looked at everyone, before speaking.

"Kitty was my first ever friend. We have been in nearly every single class of our school life. She's been my confidant, my best friend, my support when my father died and my brother disappeared and my soul sister. She's always supported my dreams of becoming a rockstar, and she was the most important person to me, before and after I lost my father and brother. Now… now that she's gone, both her and Johnny, I have lost the two most important people to me. They were my best friends, my only friends, the most wonderful, most special people in my life. And…"

I looked out at everyone, and saw that everyone important to Kitty and Johnny were there… except for one person, who had been as much of a friend to them as me and Laurie were.

My hands curled into fists as red-hot anger settled in there with grief and sadness.

I looked out at everyone again and finished, "And now that they're gone, I don't know who to be my… excuse me."

I walked away, a hand over my mouth as tears poured down my face and I hastily wiped them away, heading towards an abandoned part of the cemetery.

Laurie saw me leave and followed after me, which I was glad for.

I needed her common sense to drag me out of my rage at not seeing Dean be there for Kitty and Johnny's funerals.

And here it is!

Yes, Kitty and Johnny are dead. Is Ember's death gonna happen soon? Maybe…

What's gonna happen next chapter? You'll have to wait and see.

REPLIES TO MY AWESOME REVIEWERS:

Aurora Marie Williams: I know. Poor Ember. Not only has she had to deal with realising that Dean was cheating on her, but with Kitty and Johnny's deaths. But at least she has Laurie to help her through it, and vice versa. Yeah, I know; it was bad to trust things going okay. You'll have to wait and see in the next chapter, but as you can see in this chapter, he didn't even attend their funeral.

EleahBlue: I know, poor Amber. And yeah, this chapter confirmed your fears about what that call was about.

Yeah, I think that this is going to be a feels-packed journey from that chapter onward. So, maybe you should be prepared to faint from emotion nearly every single chapter.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter! And yeah, I had fun on my trip besides the spot being underneath all those birds' nests(it was really annoying)

LooneyAces: Yep, Dean's a cheater. But poor Ember; you really feel for her in this story and see all the pain she went through when she was alive. And yeah, it does eventually lead to her death, and as sad as that will be, it is destined to happen to her. And all those deaths, all that pain she went through… that helped to make her Ember McLain after she died.

AstroGravityPhan: Yep, Ember has realised the truth. Laurie has been right all along; she has had experience dealing with cheaters before. I'm sorry, but you'll have to wait until the end for that to be solved at last. Until then, keep on guessing. But I am not telling until the end of this story.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I'll try to update much more quicker, but no promises, as I'm trying to do several stories at once. But don't worry, I'm not giving up on this story!

Please read and review! GhostWriterGirl out!