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"You weren't here! You haven't been in a long time so stop trying to act like you were."
Willow grew up in a house with six brothers, one of them being her twin. She's grown up in a two bedroom apartment with an alcoholic mother who never...
"You can't grab the future if you keep holding the past."
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Cameron had reached the end of his rope.
It had been a long night - one straight out of hell and he wanted nothing more than to go home and sleep.
But he couldn't.
He couldn't rest until he had some answers- some sort of reassurance that things would get better.
Cam was so scared that if he went to sleep, by the time he woke up, it would be too late and Willow would be lost once and for all. And he could never forgive himself if something were to happen to her.
And so, he sends himself on one last mission. His final attempt at reaching Willow. His idea of luring her home.
It took some time - he couldn't turn up too early, and so he tried to kill an hour by getting breakfast and a coffee. He needed it after the night he had, running around the city like a chicken with its head chopped off.
It wasn't until his energy picked back up that Cameron felt he was ready to face the next person on his list - his last hope, as he called her when he messaged early this morning, begging for her to meet with him.
And with great reluctance, she finally agreed.
It was 6:45am when Cameron walked up to the new Conner house, perching himself across the street to wait for Sophia's green light.
He takes out his phone - which was too close to death for comfort - and types her out yet another text.
"Just another to add to the hundred," he mutters, hitting send to ask if the coast was clear. Only once she replies, assuring him her parents were long gone, off on their way to work, does he make his way up to the door.
He rings the bell, shoving his hands in his pockets as he waits. He hears her approach, squealing as she swings the door open and throws herself out.
"Cam!" Sophia cheers, jumping into his arms for a hug. "Oh, my God! I missed you!"
Cameron smiles, laughing as he embraces her and agrees. "Yeah, I missed you, too," he says, asking how she's been.
"So, so busy," she complains, groaning as she pulls away, rocking back on her heels as she expresses how packed her schedule had become with all the new changes in her life. "I've been taking a few AP classes this semester and I'm on the soccer team now, believe it or not," she shares, inviting the boy inside to join her while she finished getting ready.
Cameron follows her inside, eyes bouncing around the big, fancy foyer - a grand entrance that the Conners didn't have in their last home. "Wow," he comments. "That is busy."
