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The bell for lunch rang as I gathered my stuff together, heading out of my English class. I entered the hallway and thought how I'll be here for the next year. Living in Pennsylvania isn't that bad with Aunt Wilma; she has given me everything I needed plus more and I couldn't be more grateful. She gives me the space I need to recover from Billies death. And thats when I saw her, standing in the corner of the hallway staring at me. Her wavy, brown hair and hazel eyes clear as a cloudless sky. She was wearing her favorite yellow, sundress. I stopped, frozen in place.

"Billie?" I whisper.

"Pennie!" she says. And thats when I started to tear up I wiped my eyes and looked back at her and she was gone. I looked around frantically but I couldn't see her. I ran to the bathroom trying to avoid the other kids in the hallway. I went straight to the sink and splashed  water in my face. I turned around trying to avoid looking in the mirror and locked myself in a stall. I repeated a mantra  to myself: Shes dead. Shes gone. Shes in a better place. Over and over again until I calmed down enough to leave the bathroom. I couldn't go to the cafeteria so I headed to the media center.

I wen't to the fiction section and picked up a book on fallen angels and checked it out. Mrs. Jones, the media specialist, was sweet and a nice person who loved books more than she loved herself. I went to the back of the room and began to read.

Thirty pages in I hear someone call my name, I look up to see Sam. So this is where he goes when he leaves lunch early.

"Hey." I whisper.

"We didn't see you at lunch. Gigi and I were worried and Hayden sure looked confused when he turn to do his creepy staring at you." He says. I smiled a small smile. It was nice to know that people noticed me gone.

"I wasn't hungry." I lie. I'm starving but I couldn't eat, not after what just happened.

"Doesn't give you the excuse to abandon us!" he exclaims, pretending to sound hurt.

"I wasn't abandoning you guys, just didn't want to be there that's all." I say not wanting to explain myself.

"Well I'm here when you need me." he says. I know he is and that feels great. We say goodbye and soon after the bell rings. I head to my last class thinking all about what happened today. I missed her nickname for me and her voice and her-. I stopped thinking about it, trying to avoid crying. So I sang in my mind the lullaby she always sang only to me when we were on that hill watching the sunrise or sunset.

Oh sweet child

Let the sun warm your skin

And close your eyes

Dream of the sky

Dream of its twinkling stars

For I'll be among them

Dream of happiness

Dream of love

Dream of peace

Dream of music

Dream of a place free of harm

Dream of a place where you can be you

Dream of a place free of sorrow

Dream of a place where I can love you so.

I felt at peace when I finished.

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A/N

It has been a very loooooong time since I've uploaded but I must continue the story of Penelope. Hope you guys enjoy the story and this chapter!

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