The next two days of school no one went to, the school was traced for the murderer of two students, the news was raging with theories and thoughts. Lindsay sat on the couch basically those whole two days and lived off cereal and the news. Samantha and Alex mostly took care of Clemintine those next two days, Alex cooking and cleaning, with Samantha playing and helping with Clemintine's "business". Every chance Samantha got alone time to herself she ran up to her room shut the door, opened a window, letting sunlight poor through, she would doodle in a diary that she never used for it's purpose. Most of the doodles were what she thought her father looked like, she always wanted a father. She heard Alex banging something around downstairs. She tapped her pencil on the diary paper. She thought of a silly memory when she was younger.
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Six year old Samantha sat on a leather couch, anxiously awaiting something. "It's going to be okay there's nothing to worry about we're just getting a check-up" Said Lindsay squeezing her Daughter's hand. "Mom, they're going to mess up" whined Samantha shuffling around. "No they won't, they're professionals" said Lindsay laughing, Samantha laughed and looked at the television stuck to the maroon colored wall. After a couple minutes in silence Samantha asked without looking to her mother "Momma where's Daddy" ? "Well, he was a great person, a handsome man really. I- we loved each other and gave each other chocolates and flowers, but one day he said he wasn't prepared for a bueatiful daughter and son" said her mother a small tear conjuring out towards the side of her eye, she inhaled and exhaled and the tear disappeared.
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Samantha was laughing, then crying she heard a couple scratches at the door. "Crysanthumym, my savior" she said letting a white cat slink In to her room, she grabbed the cat and sat on a green quilted bed the cat cuddled on her chest, and they gradually fell asleep sun soaking in their fur and hair.
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Samantha was awoken by a shattering of glass and a couple shrieks and yells. Samantha grabbed Crysanthumym and ran down the stairs. "MOM? CLEMINTINE? ALEX?" She yelled when she hit the bottom floor she heard the yelling in the office. She sprinted towards the Office. She looked at the room in awe. It was a mess,first of all. A mixture of purple and whites swirled against a wall, Alex was dazed, he held a blue stopwatch, Clemintine was held In her mother's arms and crying, Lindsay held A golden Compass. Then the room swirled and she felt her life pass trough her eyes.

Oct,13,2017
Chapter published.