“POPPY!!!” Heartless screamed in agony before collapsing into tears as she watched her sister get dragged away. “She’s gone… I can’t believe…I did…and said…all that to her…Poppy…don’t leave me…please…I need you…Don’t go…why was I such a coward…I could have gone with her…Why…” She sobbed. We walked over to comfort her but she ran off into a field and started crying under a nearby tree.
We tried to comfort her but she refused to listen insisting that she was a horrible person. We soon gave up knowing soon Zee would crack and demand she shut up or something. If we had made bets I would have won within five minutes she cracked.
“FINE! THAT’S IT! MOPE AROUND ALL YOU WANT SHE WROTE A FREAKING LETTER FOR YOU. NOW CALM DOWN SO YOU CAN STOP CRYING AND READ IT WITHOUT RUINING IT!” she shrieked. Okay that was unexpected, but typically Poppy.
Zee handed Hannah the letter once she calmed down. When she finished reading it. She burst into tears and handed us the letter.
Dear girls,
If you get this letter it means I’m with dad. I have a suspicion that he has been killing our families, framing it as freak accidents and suicide. It makes sense, Mackenzie, Stephanie, Mabel, Feliciana, Niverna, Vanessa, Jenny, Eileen, Ohana, Sakura, Hinata, Ding Xue, Azrael, Jane, April, Summer, June, and Holly. Remember all the freak accidents they found out about years later, the ‘suicide’, admit it Zee, your mother was always to strong and proud to commit suicide. It’s probably true because I once walked past his office and heard him discuss the eliminated families with the hateful hag from hell (nick name for a teacher there). Stay away from your old families no matter what. It’s the first place he thinks you would go to. Stay safe. I love you girls. But I have to do this alone because I need to get this message inside. The only thing that can come with me is the letter. I wanted to explain it to you but you would never have understood.
And Hannah. My sister, I know you didn’t mean it. You never do. But let’s face it; I am going to die or am dead. But I want you to know that I love you. I’ll be walking a lonely road across a boulevard of broken dreams, don’t forget we aren’t the first people to escape and hopefully we won’t be the last. Rachel will help you. I swear. I know you probably really regret what you said but I know you still love me. Go to Rachel Lillian Chan, she’ll help you, she lives in Pennsylvania I’m not sure where but you’ll find her in the phone book. She’ll help you.
You guys are my family; I love you girls to death, take care.
You know you love me!
-Poppy
There were tear drops on the paper causing smudges, not from Hannah but from poppy. She cried as she wrote this letter.
“I’ll break a bone for every tear she shed, every word, every scream that he caused.” Heartless vowed. “If it’s the last thing I do, I’ll be there to watch him die. It doesn’t matter if I’m related to him. I’LL KILL THAT HEARTLESS B*ST*RD!” She screamed. It was a good thing we were in the middle of nowhere, if we were in a populated area we would have coppers after us. Heartless rushed into a car. “GET IN!” She yelled before racing off. We hopped into our respective cars and rushed on after her. We chased after her and it was horrible, even though she had one of the slowest cars out of us, she was the fastest. She went to the nearest city Lancaster and rushed to a book store to buy/steal a phone book and a map. She skimmed through the book until she found Rachel’s address and rushed off to her house at a more reasonable speed.
Once she reached a neighbour hood, she took her phone out and texted someone before driving off again. I was getting seriously pissed off by her by now when she hopped out of the car and rushed to a house I was ready to do a happy dance and then strangle her. I sighed as I got out the car. I gave her an extremely dirty look as I walked over to stand by her.
The door opened and a tall red head with green eyes opened the door. She looked at us and back at heartless.
“Who are you guys?” She asked. “Where’s Heartless?”
“Hello Rachel, I’m-“ Heartless started but she got cut off by Rachel
“Oh, you look so much like Poppy, Come in, come in. Poppy would be disappointed in me if I left you out by the road. Anyway, where is she, she hasn’t visited in a while.” Rachel blabbered.
“You know Poppy?” I asked shocked.
“Of course I do, she’s my little step sister. She told me all about your problem with your father, men like that are such disgraces to the human race don’t you think. My husband, Tristan, is out at work, my two daughters and one son are at pre-school. Must be sad thinking you’re an aunt, especially since you are so young. ” Rachel continued. Heartless stared at her in shock, out of all of us heartless loved Poppy the most, knowing that there was so much Poppy had kept from her must have really hurt her.
“Anyway, are you hungry? I can get you some Chinese take-out or something.” Rachel offered.
“No thanks, we’re just a little tired.” Zee answered for everyone.
“Rachel?” Heartless said hesitantly.
“Yes sweet pea?” Rachel asked.
“How well did you know Poppy?” Hannah asked.
“Do you know dear, she’s not dead yet. We are very close, I love her to bits, I know a lot of things about her but I won’t even pretend to know everything about her.” Rachel said cheerfully.
“Why?” Heartless asked.
“Because Poppy is Poppy and she has her secrets any way do you know when she’s next visit.”
“She’ll never visit again.” Heartless said.
“Why?”
“Because, my twin sister is dead.” She choked out before collapsing into sobs.
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AdventureBrooklyn never had the life she wanted. Her mother was a teen mother and disowned by her family when they discovered she was pregnant. Brooklyn and her twin brother Aaron were raised in such a way that they couldn't trust anyone. The 3 of them loath...
