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"Hello?"
"Hi is this Elizabeth?" It was a young girls voice. "Yea it is. Who is this?"
"Um, Candi, James' little sister, do you 'member me?"
"Yes sweetie I remember you. What do you need?"
"Well um, Ashley your sister?"
"Yes she is, Candi is something wrong?" I was getting nervous and aggravated at the same time. "Well bubby brought her home and she's been laying here crying all day. I don't know where he went."
"Ugh O.K. I'll be there soon. Don't worry."
"Um, O.K. Bye."

James was my sister's boyfriend. They have been going out for about four weeks now. Turning around, I began to make my way to James' house. He was twenty-three, of course blond hair blue eyes, and he constantly worked out. He had large muscles that my sister loved but personally I always thought they were tacky. I knocked on the door and twelve year old Candi answered.

"Where's your mom?"
"At work, Ashley is in James' room" Candi Answered. She was extremely small for her age. Her hair was cut in an angle towards the front and her blue eyes were always pale.
I walked back to his room. Opening the door to the messy room I saw clothes and papers and CD's and just about everything else possible on the floor. Ashley was lying on the bed silent. "Ashley?"
"Oh my god Lizzy!" She ran over and hugged me. "Ashley, what happened?" She looked at the ground and got silent for a minuet. "It's over my career is over!"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm going to have a baby! I'm going to be fat and ugly. I'm going to be ruined!" She burst out into tears again. I couldn't help but laugh at the childish way she was acting. "Great you can't ever be good for anything can you!" She began screaming in my face. "Ashley calm down it will be alright!" She continued screaming at me and telling me what a horrible sister I was. I rolled my eyes and walked out shutting the door behind me. Candi was watching T.V. In the living room and I told her everything would be fine and there was nothing to worry about then said goodbye.

Starting home for the second time that day I hurried to beat the rain coming my way. Our house was big for just the two of us. The dark brown house was two stories with four bedrooms upstairs and a bathroom. Downstairs was a kitchen, bathroom, living room, and a dining room. I went in and went straight up to my room. I felt bad for my sister but I knew James would help her through this. I sat down on my bed and began to go through my emails. I wasn't far into them when James called.

"James?"
"Oh God Liz! Oh my god! Damnit! Help!" James was screaming into the phone. "What's wrong?"
"It's Ash, She, she tried to kill herself!"
"What! Where is she?"
"At Dr. J's. She's O.K. But oh my god Liz what do I do?" I began to panic but I hung up before he could tell. I ran down the stairs and out the door. I grabbed my motorcycle from under its green tarp on the side of the house. The motorcycle was black with silver flames that streaked down the side of it. I started it up and headed towards our doctors.

Dr. J worked out of a small white building more or less in he center of our island. He was one of four doctors that worked at our islands. His office was long and had three rooms. The front room that I entered was the waiting room. Chairs were scattered randomly throughout it and his receptionist was at a desk in the corner. From there was a door that led to the next room. The room was white with about ten beds in it. On one of the beds laid my sister curled up on her side. James was sitting at the end of her bed with his little sister. Candi was silent and her brother just looked at the ground.

"Ashley?" I sat on the bed next to her. "Ash, how are you?" she didn't even look my way. James muttered something that I didn't hear. "What?" He looked up at me for a brief second then back at the floor. "She killed the baby." No one moved for a while. Then from the door on the far wall that led to the operating room came Dr. J. "Ms. Ashley, you can go home whenever you like, I am sorry for your loss. I wish I could have helped you."

The short bald man wore a white coat that dragged on the floor as he walked away. "What did you do Ashley?" I sat there in shock. "What did you do?" Candi looked up at me. "Elizabeth, she just filled the bathtub too full, it wasn't her fault don't be mad at her." Candi looked as if she was about to cry. I couldn't take being there any longer. I stood up and walked over to James. I gave him a hug. "Are you going to be alright?" He didn't look up. "Can you take Candi home? My mom should be home by now." He looked so heart broken. "To your house or hers?"
"Hers." I hugged him again then took Candi by the hand.

I put my helmet on her and climbed on my bike. She sat on behind me and grabbed onto my shirt. I took her slow to her house, and I thought about a lot of different things. She was talking a lot of the time but I barely heard her. She jumped off when we stopped and ran to her front door. I waited till her mom let her in, waved then started off again.

I drove off to Autumn Park after that. I didn't feel like heading home. Parking my bike under a tree I then began climbing. Half way up, a pretty good distance from the ground, I stopped and made myself comfortable. I just enjoyed sitting and watching the woods and animals around me. It relaxed me and helped me think. Every time I closed my eyes though I got the feeling something was watching me. I quickly became aggravated because every time I looked around I didn't see anything. After only a half an hour I gave up on trying to relax. I kept thinking that I needed to be somewhere, like there was something I was supposed to be doing. Letting out a frustrated scream I climbed back down and slowly made my way back to my empty house, and into my quiet room, to lay alone in my bed.

"Lizzy! Lizzy! It's going to be O.K.! I'm not going to be fat!" Ashley slammed my door open screaming with joy. I looked out my window, it was still dark but it wouldn't be for long. "You killed a human Ashley." I rolled over away from her. She was silent for a moment. "But Liz, I can sing now, I couldn't go on stage fat and ugly. Now I can still support us. A baby would have ruined it all, and at least I'm still here."
"You killed someone Ashley!"
"It's not like that!"
"That's exactly how it is!"

I closed my eyes and she ran crying from my room. I sat up on the edge of my bed. My rotweiler Angel was at my feet. I reached down to pet the puppy. "Where have you been, haven't seen you since I've been home." She jumped up on my lap and snuggled against me.