*Quotes at the beginning are from Lady Antebellum's Cold as Stone (I do not own this) and the / mean the end of a line and … means I cut out a part of the lyrics.*

Chapter Thirteen- Three Long Years

"… It's gonna take forever to get over you/ I don't think this pain is gonna go away/ Scars left when it's said and done remain/ I wish I was cold as stone/ Then I wouldn't feel a thing/ I wish I didn't have this heart/ Then I wouldn't know the sting of the rain/ I could stand strong and still/ Watchin' you walk away/ I wouldn't hurt like this/ Or feel so all alone/ I wish I was cold as stone…" –Lady Antebellum Cold as Stone

"I think I'm going to lay down for a while guys; I don't feel so great," Patricia said and she started to walk out of the room.

"Patty, don't be silly, I just got here," the girl said.

"I'm hallucinating so I should probably lay down for a bit," Patricia said.

"What are you hallucinating?" Alfie asked his with voice showing only about half of the confusion that he really felt.

"I'm hallucinating that this girl is in front of me," Patricia responded.

"Um… Patricia," KT said, definitely weirded out by this situation, "that girl really is in front of you."

"Ok, I'll go along with this game…" Patricia said.

"Patty Cakes, you're being rude," the girl said, "you didn't tell them who I am." After a moment's pause the girl realized that Patricia wasn't going to tell. "I'm Sami, Patricia's older sister."

"Patricia," Nina accused, "you never said anything about an older sister!"

"I thought I did," Patricia mumbled out a very unconvincing lie.

"Now that I look at her, you guys look a lot alike," KT said.

"Woah, Trixie's got an older sister," Alfie said in shock.

Patricia looked at Eddie to see what he would say, but he just looked right back at her with the "how could you not tell me about this" face.

"Don't be mad, Eddie. She didn't deliberately not tell you about me," Sami said, reading his face. "Patricia hasn't seen me in three years, and I think she just missed me too much to want to talk about me."

They all sat down on the couch opposite of Sami as she talked. "How come it's been so long?" KT asked.

"I was in a place really far away. Don't ask where because if I tell you, I'd have to kill you." Everyone laughed except Patricia and Sami. "I was being serious," Sami said as everyone's faces fell. "I'm just kidding, I still can't tell you though; it's top secret."

"Didn't you guys stay in touch?" Nina asked.

"Where I was, you couldn't even get letters," Sami said with a sad look on her face.

"Talk about secluded," Fabian said. "There are only a few places on the Earth that could be that out of touch."

"You really are a nerd, Fabian," Sami responded, "but in a good and helpful way." She turned to KT and Nina, "You guys, KT and Nina, are obviously the Americans. Sorry about my sister, she has never really been fond of Americans; I guess you guys have cracked the hard shell that surrounds her, though."

"Wait," KT said, "if you haven't stayed in touch with Patricia, how do you know our names?"

"That's a good question. I've been talking to Trudy for a while about visiting to surprise my baby sister and she gave me some photos so I could see what had been going on." Everyone nodded, after all, it seemed like a good explanation.

Sami was talking to everyone about her three years of travel in a far off land that sounded so good, one could say that there was no place on Earth like it. Patricia was feeling a little dizzy from over excitement and excused herself to use the restroom.

When she got there she took the obituary out of her pocket, just to prove to herself that she wasn't going insane. The date was still three years ago to the day, and if that was true, what was going on downstairs with Sami?