Part Four

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8 years ago- age ten

Ashlynn was finishing up clearing the table from her birthday dinner.

Her mother called her in from the other room to give Ashlynn her birthday present.

"Open the box honey." Lucy said as she stood hugging Xavier, Ashlynn's father.

Ashlynn opened a small box and saw a simple necklace with a ladybug on the end. (A/N note: imagine the necklace how you want. I may put a link eventually, but for now, just imagine it.)

"Thank you so much!" Ashlynn exclaimed as she started to run up to her parents to hug them.

Before she reached them, a huge explosion hit and Ashlynn flew backwards. When she regained her bearings, she heard her mother tel her to get under the bed.

Obeying her mother's wishes, she crawled under the bed. She peeked her head out the other side and watch her parents take their final breaths as they uttered their last words.

"We love you, Ashlynn." Her dad coughed out before his eyes rolled into the back of her head and her mother went limp.

Ashlynn stayed under the bed for two days, in shock, before someone came and told her she was safe.

She passed out from exhaustion and that day sticks with her, fresh in her memory, for years to come.

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