Chapter 2 1989-

Angie walked into JJ's room.
"Jennifer, I want you to have my necklace." she said.
"What? No, I can't."
"Listen, no matter what happens, I love you."
"Angie, I can't take this.
"Just take it, Jen." JJ was secretly very happy because she always wanted one just like hers.
"I love you, Jennifer." Angie exclaimed.
"Ok. Whatever." JJ replied, confused.
20 minutes later:
"Listen, Angie, I don't know if I can-" JJ's eyes went wide, her face cold, and a shining tear slowly slid down her face as she walked into Angie's room. Angie was hanging from her ceiling fan, her feet still slightly swinging. A scream of horror filled the whole house, but it took JJ a while to realize it was her that was screaming. Her eyes locked with the locket, still being clutched in her hand. Her chest went tight and her teeth started to chatter. Why had she not seen this, she kept asking herself in her head.
"Jennifer, keep you voice" Our mother's scream of terror deafened her. Tears started pouring from our mother's eyes. JJ had never seen our mom so distraught. What was she to do? Our two older sisters, Hailey and Meredith, an her younger brother, Noah, came rushing in along with our dad.
"Hailey, get your mom out and call 911." Hailey did as our dad ordered. "Meredith, get Jen and Noah out." Meredith tugged on JJ's arm, but she stood, petrified of what had just taken place.
"Jennifer, let's go!" Meredith ordered, but JJ was incoherent. Everything she thought was right had gone away. Finally, Meredith grabbed JJ around the waist and carried her out, like a mother carrying a crying toddler.
"This is Scarlet May, NBC News. I'm standing out side the Jareau house where earlier today, Angie Jareau hung herself in here room She was 13 years old. The Jareau's are widely known here in North Versailles. The Parents, Jim and Jacquelyn, are avid soccer have 4 other children, Hailey is 15, Meredith is 14, Noah is 8 and Jennifer, who found Angie's hanging body, is 11. Police do not suspect foul play. This is Scarlet May, NBC news, North Versailles, Pennsylvania.
2 weeks later:
JJ tells me that mom died the day Angie did and that her shells been walking around all these years. I wouldn't have believed it, if it weren't for a certain on events 2 weeks after the suicide. The Jareau sisters returned to St. Mary's catholic school 2 weeks later like nothing even happened. Jen tells me it was easier that way.
"Hi I'm James Swan," a boy said as JJ gathered books from her locker.
"I know who you are. I've only been going to this school my whole life." JJ replied. "You don't have to talk to me." After that first day of school, my siblings came home to a completely different mother. She decided to go all Section 8, started preaching about God and all that stuff. Even took the kids out of school so they could have more time with God. She put the kids on lockdown, no contact with the outside world. After about 3 years of this, Meredith and Hailey became emancipated. My parents let Jennifer and Noah go back to school, only this time, they went to public school; East Allegheny Jr Sr High School. That's when she realized her only way out was soccer. When she was a senior, she got a full-ride scholarship to Pittsburg. She was finally free from the tragedy that scared her for years, but what was she to do about Noah and her 2 year-old sister, yours truly? She couldn't leave us there with an unstable mother and an alcoholic father. She had no choice. And she told me this every time she would see me. She would leave notes foe me to read, to learn how to escape, and that's where piano and academic came in. My mother thinks it's genetics, but I believe it was JJ's letters and e-mail saying, 'with a little bit of knowledge, and a lot bit of luck, you will prevail.'