A new Power of three Part 23:
The book 4hard times

2037, Saturday

She then trailed her hands over the picture of a baby. Lily. Her smile grew as her hand softly moved over her stomach. She would really end up in a hospital this time. She couldn't believe it. Though she couldn't even imagine she actually gave birth in the elevator there, because Lily just seemed to be in such a hurry. Then Meghan's first day of school. She smiled proudly at the image of meghan with her dolphin backpack. Her little girl would soon not be that little anymore.

2005
"me wana made pics!" Anna yelped, racing to her mom's side, as soon as she had seen her mother's camera
"but not many, okay?" Prue said and knelt down to Anna's height "Andy... can you go over to Mags?" Prue asked, holding the camera for Anna. Andy moved over to Mags
"I wanna hold Lily!" Meghan told him and took, herself, the baby out of their father's arms. Prue grinned and fast took a few shots
"hi! Me wana made pics"
"make pics, honey" Prue corrected Anna
"mak pics" Anna repeated. Prue nodded and smiled
"okay... come here..." Prue said and put the leather streams, which were knotted to the camera around Anna's neck. Better safe than sorry, Prue thought and then handed the camera to her small daughter "you know where to push, right?"
Anna nodded
"sit, momi!" Anna told her. Prue hesitated for a second, but then moved over to everyone else, sitting next to Mags, who was holding Lily and now sat between her parents
"schiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!" Anna said and pressed the button.

Then it seemed like darker times started. Susan had become sick.

2008
Prue had taken a day off. She needed some time to think. Ever since that night a week ago, she hadn't heard one word from her husband, what was even worse, was that Anna's birthday was in only two weeks, and she seriously had no idea, how to deal with that fact. The girls didn't sleep in their room anymore and technically were wrecks. Even Lily, who didn't understand any of the things happening, was devastated. Prue was finishing the invitations for Anna's party, when her cell rang. She took the phone without even thinking about
"yeah, hello?" she asked. The word Trudeau in combination with herself she hadn't used in a while
"hey" Prue's breath stopped. Julia.
"Julia... I... don't..."
"I know... I know you're pissed... and I know, he hurt you and the girls very much... I know I'd done the same as you did... I also know it actually is his turn to explain this to you... but he... he promised... and since he can't see you anymore... you and the girls... he's... he's a zombie... and he can't be a zombie right now, Prue"
"Julia... please... I seriously... I don't want him to hurt me even more... I won't let him hurt the girls... I... he... doesn't want this relationship anymore... or else... he'd... he'd been here... trying to... to apologize... to... to tell me what's wrong... but he's not... and this leads me to... to the conclusion he... doesn't want to be a part of this family anymore... and I... actually... actually ordered... ordered the... pa... papers for... for divorce proceedings yesterday…" Prue said... her heart breaking at even speaking of the possibility of a divorce out loud.
"Prue... no!" Julia protested "before you do anything like that... listen to me... okay? It's... a promise he made to Susan... why he's gone this much... why he doesn't tell you"
"Susan? As in... Andy's ex-wife Susan?"
"Prue... she's... she's ill... very ill..."
"what do you mean?" Prue asked confused
"she's got multiple sclerosis... she only found out... and... the shock caused several attacks on her... she... wasn't able to walk for a while... a part of her face was disabled, what caused her to not be able to speak... she doesn't have very much people there... and... she just needed someone by her side... while she was at worst. She's doing better right now... but... she... really needed him... and... they're friends, Prue...
"

Prue couldn't believe, she almost got a divorce. She really must have been desperate back then. Next she found a chapter about real life dangers.

2008
"you're not touching my daughter" Andy spoke to him confidently.
"keep me from it" Hollister sang, going for Prue, wrapping an arm around her and holding the weapon to her temple
"move and she's dead, Trudeau" he said starring Andy down „unload the weapon and throw it to me"
Andy looked at Prue, trying to calm her down. He slowly tried to get up his face screwing in pain. Prue looked frantically at him, seeing how he had lost a lot blood
"it's okay, Prue. We'll deal with it, okay?" he asked
"unload the weapon and throw it to me" Hollister again told him as he pulled Prue tighter. Prue winced and tears started to leave her eyes
"Prue... did you hear me" Andy continued, ignoring the guy
"one last time, Trudeau!" Hollister yelled „unload the fucking weapon and throw it to me!" Prue nodded lowly. She couldn't think. She tried to stay focused but she just couldn't think. She was completely panicking. She saw Andy laying there, trying to get up to stand up to this Hollister. He saw Meghan. He'd go after her. She was sure of that. She was only scared and worried about her husband and children. She couldn't even think about doing anything. She didn't remember her powers. All she could think of was the blood. Andy's painful face and her girls. She tried to clear her mind but she just couldn't.
Andy, too, nodded and then unloaded his weapon in front of Hollister and threw it to him, who just started laughing

"wanna talk?" Prue finally asked him
"there's nothing to talk about" Andy told her again starting to move, but Prue pulled him back
"stop it already, now will you?!" Andy just looked away "i know you..." Prue's voice subsided
"I what?" Andy almost yelled at her "you know that I'm no real man anymore?! I couldn't even protect my family! I can't even get up anymore! I'm just a useless cripple..."
"it's not your fault." Prue said calmly
"do you really think so, or are you just saying that, because you feel you have to?!" Prue took a big breath
"listen, there's no need to yell at me. Lily is with us, in case you didn't notice. I know you're angry and you're... desperate... and you just simply had enough time to get bored and into stupid thoughts, but there's no need to yell, alright?" Andy again looked down "it is not your fault." Prue said again and searched his eyes "he was a... criminal... and if it wasn't you who had put him into jail, someone else would have..."
"yeah and if someone else would have... someone else's kids would be shocked now!"
"would you stop now? This also could have been something about me... this also could have been a demon... and you also would tell me, that it wasn't my fault!" she slightly raised her voice, as well, what caused Lily to start crying now. Prue placed her on her lap and softly stroke her to calm her down. While adjusting her eyes back at her husband
"you are a good man, Andy. He wasn't. I am proud on you to bring that guy into jail. With that you spared many people much pain."
"yeah. Other people... just my family... my own family I couldn't protect"
"you would have... if he wouldn't have hurt you in the very beginning. You protected me already so many times... you even died in order to protect me! You couldn't do anything. And what you could, you did!"
"i should have... made the house safer early... I should have put the guards up despite what you were saying... I should have... god... I just watched how he grabbed you and put a weapon to your head..."
"Andy, you couldn't have done anything..."
"yeah and that's exactly the point! I did everything I could and it still wasn't enough! God, Prue... I'm a cop. I'm a husband. I'm a father. I'm the owner of this house... and none of it I really can be... for it's just not enough what I am... I couldn't protect you. I couldn't keep him from touching you... from threatening you.. I couldn't hold him from scaring our kids and he almost got to Meghan... if she wouldn't have astral orbed... I couldn't keep him from coming into our house. From... making us feel uncomfortable here. And if Darryl wouldn't have been here, after us... he would have gone to the next family! I failed in everything I am! I just simply failed! Now just... just leave me alone..."
"no I'm not! Like you said you are my husband, and nothing's gonna change that! Nothing's gonna change the fact, that I love you. That we love you. It is not true, that you just watched him do all of that... you tried to keep him from stuff.. you encouraged me and Meghan to do things. You kept him long enough distracted so Darryl could be there in time. And if you would have had a weapon, like he did, you would have killed him. If you could have gotten up, you would have fought him. He was a coward. And he knew he wouldn't be able to fight you man by man. That's why he put you into an unfair fight! And you are not a cripple! You are on bedrest, because your wounds need to heal. And as soon as your leg is healed again... you're gonna be just fine again"
"if my leg will heal again..."
"it will heal. It won't heal tomorrow and it won't be healed in a week. Yes it will be some work... it'll hurt and you will have to fight... but your leg will heal again, okay? It is just simply not true, we don't need you. You just have to see it. You finally have to stop to think as you as a noone. The girls miss you. They try at every chance to cheer you. They wanna play with you. And you just keep them on distance."
"yeah because I can't even get to the toilette!"
"you are not supposed to take care for them. You shall only be with them. So they can heal. So you can heal. Just stop it. Noone could have done better than you. Noone. And you're not less a man, because you need help for a while now... but the way you behave since you are home again is just simply childish. We're all here to help you. To take care for you... just... lay back and enjoy it. Let us help so you can heal and when you're healed you can help us again. Stop thinking you'd have to be unbreakable and invulnerable to be a man. You are a man. You are my man. And because I don't want my man to get hurt... just let me help you to the bathroom. You are my husband. And just like you want to take care of me as your wife, I wanna take care of you as my husband. Let me do my job as well, please. If you let me help, your shoulder soon will be healed. You'll get crutches and you can do things alone again. But if you're now stubborn... your shoulder will need forever to heal and you'll need forever to do this on your own again." Prue looked at him as he just looked down
"they're still so little... I just can't get the thought out of my head, what he would have done to them"
"he didn't. We're all here alive and mostly healthy. That's what matters. You must have done a great job that day... or else we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be a family anymore." Andy sighed
"look... deep down I know you're right... but... I can't convince myself right now. I try. But I can't. Just like you try to feel safe here. But you can't, right?" Prue looked down and sighed "you are right. I need to heal. But not only my body, also my soul. We all need to heal. And I guess we will at some point. My point just hasn't come yet..."
"alright... but just let me help. I don't want you to get hurt even more." they again locked eyes and both nodded
"i love you"
"i love you as well"

Then she found something about Andy turning seriously sick. The magical flue. How come she never heard of it?

2014
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he first checked both cheeks and then moved to his forehead. She didn't dare to breath for several seconds, as shock and fear crept into her even more
"you're burning up" she she said lowly, barely above what one could hear. Following her natural instincts she right away got up and hurried to the bathroom to pick up a thermometer. Andy opened his eyes again, when she sunk back down to his side
"open up" she directed gently. Andy sighed
"Prue..." Prue couldn't belive her husband really though this was something she'd argue about and right away went furious
"no, damn it! not Prue! open you mouth for god's sake!" she almost screamed at him, showing how scared she was. He saw her shaking visibly and grabbed her hands, trying to calm her down
"honey, I'm okay"
"the hell you're okay! Now open your damn mouth!"
"okay... maybe I'm not entirely okay right now. But I'm gonna be. Believe me" he said calmly. Prue closed her eyes, trying to control herself and so she continued in a very scary calm voice
"Andy, please... I'm gonna ask you now one last time, to open your mouth" she said and then looked at him. she waited for a response... a reaction, but there was nothing. You could see furious sparkles in her eyes
"okay... if you ask for that... fine by me" she said angrily, getting up and using her telekinesis to turn him around on his stomach. Before he could react, she sat on his back, a foot on each side of his sides, uncovering him, as much as needed and pulled his pants down
"Prue... what are you..."
"I asked you three times to open your mouth. Now I'm sick of it. if you don't cooperate, you also can have it otherwise. Cause I also have other places to take your temperature" she ranted. Realization hit Andy and he tried to get out from under her, but it was too late as Prue already was about to insert the thermometer in his butt.
Prue noticed how he tightened up, in order to prevent her from doing what she intended and just slapped him on the bare butt. Andy right away loosened up and gave up fighting. Prue really wasn't gonna discuss this with him.
Prue covered him back up, as Andy again started coughing. Mags, alarmed by yelling and coughing, had woken up and choose just that moment to come into the room
"what's wrong?" she asked, rubbing her eyes "dad!" she saw her father fighting with his breath once more and looked kinda scared. her father ill? Now that was something she never had during the 14 years of her life. She looked confused though. She didn't get how her mom could just sit there... well on top of her dad... and do nothing while he almost suffocated.
The sound of the thermometer, made her realize what had happened and she couldn't help but giggle. She hated when her mom did exactly the same to her. she hated the feeling and the... everything about it, but the image of her mother, removing the thermometer of her father's butt, just got the better of her.
"Meghan, go!" Prue said most seriously.
"is dad okay?"
"Meghan, go" Prue repeated again, almost as calmly.
"but..."
"Meghan!" Prue snapped. She was about to scold Andy pretty much and she didn't want to humiliate him any further in front of his daughter. Meghan looked at her dad once more and then without a word left the room.
Prue climbed off Andy and helped him into a position, where he could even out his breath once more... when Andy was finally back to his heavy breathing, the worriedness again got to Prue and hysterically she again started to rant again
"your temperature is almost up to 40! 40, Andy! So much to you're okay! God damn it! why the hell can't you just once... once in our life together, stop thinking, that you don't want to worry me? why did you have to hide this from me!?"
"Prue..."
"don't you dare Prue me right now! Is there more? Coughing, fever... what else, huh?"
"I can't orb anymore..."
"you can't..."
"orb..."
"how long?"
"two days..."
"two days?! Andy!"
"I thought it was nothing... and... I didn't want to worry you. I just thought my powers might be a little wonky..."
"two days!" Prue yelled. she looked back at Andy. So small. So weak. So miserable. She was so scared by him right now. She absolutely had no clue what was wrong and it just freaked her so completely out. She would have loved to break down and cry like a baby. How could her actual dead husband be so seriously ill? How could he be so bad? So... miserable? How could he be ill at all?! he is dead for crying out loud.
"Prue I..." Andy started and tried to get out of bed, but he only barely made it to sit up "I'm gonna throw up" he got out and Prue just in time grabbed a close by rubbish. Andy threw up heavily. Coughing during it every now and then, what definitely didn't ease his sickness. His whole body shook, as he was shivering. Prue didn't know what to do first. Try to warm him, help him ease out the breathing or search for something to ease his sickness. Once he had stopped wrenching, she cleaned his face and pushed him softly back onto his pillow, then covered him up. She took a few breathes, just looking at him. she needed to clam down. She needed to be the strong one, the reasonable this time. She normally wasn't when Andy was around. Especially not if it turned about the kids or him. but right now, he needed her to be strong, for he absolutely wasn't. she wondered if he even could stand right now.
[…]
"yes!" Prue entered and found Leo in bed. Piper at his side, trying to force him to have some tea.
"you too?" she asked
"he t
oo, what?"
"ill... Andy's coughing his lungs out and is running a major fever"
"magical flue's going around once more. Couldn't orb this morning, so I decided to stay home."
"wait a second... magical flue?"
"all magical beings who can't be killed naturally can get the magical flue. Symptoms are same as Any normal flue. But the cases soon grow serious and easily can be life threatening if you don't react to the first symptoms." Prue bit her lip
"so it can kill you and... and Andy?" Leo nodded
"about every ten years pretty much the whole magical world fears it... whitelighters mostly, after the first serious cases have been discovered are kept from orbing."
"all of them?" Piper asked
"at first only the serious cases, hoping it would keep the flue from spreading, but when it's getting too many infected, all whitelighters are cut out of it." Prue bit her lip and closed her eyes, suppressing tears while almost biting her lip bleeding
"how... how do you cure it?" she asked her voice trembling
"it's symptoms and treatment are just like every other flue, just that it's harmful for other beings. Is Andy okay?" Leo asked
"he said his orbing is gone for two days already... so guess..."
"then he is the serious case this time..." Leo concluded shocked. Prue's head shot up. She pictured it was bad by what Leo just said, but that Andy was the first very serious was scaring her the more.

Why didn't Andy and Leo ever tell them about this magical flue? If it was this dangerous, how could they not tell them? Prepare them? She shook her head a little to clear her thoughts to be able to go on with reading. Her agency. she had worked night and day at first when she opened her agency. Then Lily fell ill.

2014
2 Am. The house lay silent. Everyone was deep asleep. Everyone but the youngest inhabitant of the house. Lily once again felt this pain in her stomach and she just couldn't go to sleep. She sniffled the tears back and bit her lip. She really didn't want to disturb her mother and father once more, but the pain was getting unbearable. She got up and slowly crept through the dark hall to her parents' room. She opened the door and snick inside to her mom's side
"mommy" she whined. Prue, like mostly highly alarmed by such a whine in the middle of the night sat up and moved out of Andy's grasp to sit up
"what's wrong?" she asked gently
"my stomach's hurting"
"again?" Prue asked worriedly. Lily nodded as a few tears left the little girls' eyes despite her trying to be strong "come here" Prue told her, holding her arms out to her youngest.
This scene was nothing out of the normal. Lily lately more often had stomach pain. She had put it off as a bug. Nothing to worry about. But slowly, Prue thought she might have been wrong. Really wrong. Lily automatically moved under the covers and cuddled into her mother's lap, starting to sob right away
"it hurts really bad, mommy" she cried. Prue sighed and stroke her daughter's head, trying to calm her down. Andy woke by the crying. Sleepily he turned around, glancing over at the two figures beside him and knew immediately what was wrong. He nodded to Prue and picked Lily out of her lap and wrapped his own strong arms protectively around her
"shshshs... mommy will make it go away... she's getting something... shshs" he whispered, rubbing her back
"did you sleep at all?" he asked tenderly. Lily shook her head and dug more into her father's chest, lowly crying away.
"You're gonna be okay..." Andy whispered and kissed her gently.

She was crying already by the start of it all. She again laid the book aside. She shook slightly. Reading about the years to come was scaring her. It seemed like they'd really have a hard time ahead of them and she wasn't sure she wanted to know more. She was almost as desperate as to close the book and stop. She almost couldn't bare reading Lily's pain. When she couldn't handle it anymore she skipped a few chapters.

2016
'I can do this, I know I can!' Meghan told herself and focused on the spot she had to start. She took a few horse steps fast forward and then without thinking another time about it, made the double flik-flak. Once done, she made another two horse steps and only after standing straight there, her arms outstretched on both sides, she realized she had done it.
Meghan grinned and bit her lip, then jumped up. She only realized, she wasn't on safe ground but on the balance beam, when she came down. She still tried to catch the small beam, but bend the angle, she caught the beam with. Her face resembled pure pain when the foot bend.
Robbie, who actually didn't get she did it, automatically saw there was something more than wrong after the jump. He darted forward, but he was too far away. Both, Robbie and Alex could only watch in horror how Meghan fell off the beam towards the steps everyone had built up to go up on it
"Meghan!" Robbie yelled, wishing he could do just anything, no matter what, to prevent her from falling. They heard a loud crash as the whole construction fell together with Mags falling with such a might onto it. Robbie stopped for a second, watching the damage, before running to his girlfriend, Alex already there. he wanted to reach out and pick her, but then noticed there was a huge wound on Meghan's head.
"Meghan!" he called again, trying to get her to open her eyes and smile up at him

"oh my god..." he wanted to reach under her to pick her up when Alex shrugged him with a 'no!' off.
"don't move her. you could hurt her more by doing so"

"great. Two kids in hospital" Prue mumbled. But then she read about this huge party they hosted when Lily finally got out of hospital. These chapters were wrapped in lyrics

2016
"Prue... stop! You know how I hate dancing... please..."
Shut up and dance with me
Nothing could keep Prue from this now. She was so totally into this. She grinned at Andy and didn't answer him, but just continued to sing and pull him on the dancefloor. Andy just helplessly let her do whatever
We were victims of the night,
The chemical, physical, kryptonite
Helpless to the bass and faded light
Oh we were born to get together,
Born to get together.
"okay, okay... I got it... you reeeeally want me to dance with you, but I just reeeeally don't wanna dance"
She took my arm,
I don't know how it happened.
We took the floor and she said
Prue now let go of one of his hands, raised their tangled in the air and spun herself around, like he was supposed to have done it. She again grinned at him, still singing
Oh don't you dare look back
Just keep your eyes on me.
"alright. You asked for it!" he told her and threw her back, starring into her eyes. He fought the need to kiss her just then and let her continue to tease him with her singing
I said you're holding back,
She said shut up and dance with me
!
At that he spun Prue back to her feet and turned her around, finally the two danced together

"I'm gonna see to Lily" Andy almost yelled at Prue so she'd hear her
"don't forget to return" Prue told him smiling as they kissed passionately
"if there are some more kisses like these waiting for me on the dancefloor, I won't" he told her laughing as he pecked her several more times. He then went over to his two youngest and plopped himself between them, wrapping and arm around each of them
"what's with you two? Not up to dancing? If your old man has to you're not spared..."
"it's not my music" Anna told him as she and Lily stopped giggling at their father's action
"what about you? You okay, sunshine?"
"yeah. Just a little tired"
I never miss a beat
I'm lighting up my feet
And that's what they don't see
That's what they don't see
I'm dancing on my own
I make the moves as I go
And that's what they don't know
That's what they don't know

"
want me to take you home?"
"no. dad, I wanted this. Could you all just leave it? I'm fine."
"we're just worried"
"you can stop worrying now. I'm alright. Have the blessings of the doctors. They say I'm fine. So I am. It's gone..."
"i know, I know. It's just hard for us to get that the nightmare is finally over" Andy said softly and kissed Lily's temple. Lily just smiled
"but it is" she insisted
"want me to get you something to drink?"
"a sprite please" Anna said grinning
"hey, I didn't ask you" Andy said laughing and tickled Brianna a little. Lily laughed as well. She loved to see them all at ease like that. It almost was like nothing ever happened
"make it two" she told them, when Andy finally stopped to tickle her sister
"two sprites. Coming right up!" Andy said and almost jumped off the couch again. What caused the girls again to giggle
"i think dad has had a little too much to drink already" Lily laughed
But I keep cruising
Can't stop, won't stop grooving
It's like I got this music
In my mind, saying it's gonna be alright
"two sprites and one whiskey, please" Andy told Piper, as she walked up to him from behind the bar
"coming right up" Piper told him and while getting the drinks set, she glanced at Andy
"Lily okay?"
"yeah... she's just a little tired" he answered nodding
"well, she can rest a little in my office, if it's too much for her"
"i don't think... ahhh"
Cause the players gonna play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate
Baby I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake
Shake it off
Meghan had grabbed one of her father's hands and had pulled him to her, trying to get him back to the dancefloor. Andy laughed a little and played along for a few seconds. Dancing with his oldest, though he felt stupid as he was without any sense of rhythm unlike his oldest

"mom and dad are so cute together" Lily smiled
"yeah. They really are in love with each other. Even after all these years"
"i just hope I'll one day have something like that as well"
"why wouldn't you?" Meghan inquired
"i dunno… the past years just showed me clearly, that I'm not invincible. Every day is a present, Meghan. I learned that. Even the worst days are precious. Sometimes I just… feel like… I dunno. Somehow I wouldn't belong here. With everybody."
"well it was difficult for you to belong here, when you were really not yourself. But this is over now. You keep telling everyone you're fine and now you say stuff like that?" Lily sighed slightly
"don't get upset with me, Meghan. I didn't really mean it that way. I know I'm not completely alright right now. But considering the last two years I AM fine. But these past years I more belonged to the dead than to the living and I just need to adjust on being back again." Lily said softly. Not looking at her sister, but keeping her gaze on their parents
I need your grace
To remind me,
To find my own
"okay. You stop that now. c'mon." Meghan said and got up
"mags, what… what are you doing?"
"well I won't let you go on pitying yourself. This is ridiculous. c'mon" she told her and grabbed for her hands
"no, mags. Really. Leave it..." Lily told her, trying to fight back
"you are gonna dance now. With me."
"mags..." Lily tried again as her sister pulled her up. She couldn't fight mags. She knew that. Physical Meghan was a lot stronger than Lily would be any time soon or ever had been for that matter. As Lily finally stood she felt her legs like pudding. She hadn't really walked or whatever in the past 2 years. Mostly she could be happy if she even was able to sit. And often people around her even insisted on her taking a wheel chair instead of wasting her powers for something as stupid as walking. Lily almost fell, but Meghan pulled her back up
"we're gonna dance now!" she told Lily, looking her right into her eyes "you will feel you belong here. You will feel how it is to be alive!"
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Prue and Andy had noticed what was going on in the booth Lily sat. they watched in horror, how Lily almost broke down. Prue tried to pull away and head over to yell at Meghan and take care of Lily, but Andy held her back.
"no. wait. She knows what she's doing."
"but… Lily..."
"Meghan wouldn't ask something of her she wouldn't be able to handle. Trust me"
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Lily starred into Meghan's eyes. She felt how her sister was angry at her for saying, for even thinking, she wouldn't be able to handle life. She saw in her eyes how she tried to fight for her.
"we're partly Halliwell. We don't just give up. We fight" Meghan told Liliana. A few tears left Lily's eyes and she just pulled Meghan into a tight hug
"i love you sis"
"don't change the subject now" Meghan said softly after a few seconds of hugging her sister back "we're gonna dance..." Lily pulled slightly away and nodded. Together they went to the dancefloor and like some kind of couple, Lily leaned into her older sister and just let her lead her, while they slowly danced to the music. Lily felt the worried gazes of everyone. Just like Meghan did. But they just ignored them. Meghan softly kissed the top of Lily's head
"you are alive." Meghan told Lily again. Though she wasn't quite sure, if she didn't also tell that to herself right then.

Heartbreaks of the girl's followed. Teenage years.