"Kyla." Is all I manage to say. With a sigh I drop my head in my hands. Sitting right here, right in front of me is my flesh and blood. I should be ecstatic. Reaching as far into my soul as I can I try to put the pieces together. I pull my head out of my hands and stare back at her.

"What happened to you?"

She tears her eyes from mine and I force myself to remain calm.

"I needed to escape… so I did."

"That’s it? You disappear off of the face of the earth and that’s all I get?"

"I don’t owe you anything."

Even after all I’ve done I still deserve more of an explanation that that.

"I watched you flat line."

"Things aren’t always what they seem from the other side of the glass."

To anyone else an experience like this would have been life changing. To me its anything but.

"How do you know Spencer’s family."

"You startled me."

And that’s it. After all these years after everything that’s changed those are the only words my sister and I speak. She hates me. I could feel it in her tone and see it in her eyes. I abandoned her so many years ago. She was my baby sister and I didn’t protect her like I should have.

But that doesn’t make it fair. I deserve more than that shitty excuse for an explanation.

But none of that matters now. I’ve changed. Family means absolutely nothing to me. It shouldn’t be like this. Kyla shouldn’t be here. She should be underground, she should have just stayed dead. Kyla could cause some serious problems for me. Silently I begin to consider my options. In the end it comes down to only thing I know. Murder. I could do it. Or could I? Could I really do it without knowing what my minds yearns to know?

The vibrating object in my pocket pulls me away from my thoughts.

"Hey!" I say in the friendliest voice I can manage at the moment. "Where are you? Yeah… I’ll be there.”

The keys jingle in my hands as I make my way out of the ‘play house’ and into my car. This was all too much, or maybe it just wasn’t enough. Either way I needed to take my mind off of the current situation, and seeing Spencer Carlin is just the way to do it.

To be continued…

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Thoughts?