What comes your way*editing*

Creating Home

------------------12 hours later--------------------

"Kalen, can we stop somewhere?" My eyes start to feel heavy and unstable. Kalen and I switched on and off driving every gas station we hit.

"If we want to make it before the storm hits then we can't stop."

"Kalen we've been driving for hours, can't we stop for a little bit?"

"Cora, I can't keep this up with you." Our voices start to raise.

"God damn Kalen! I can't stand this car right now!" Kalen's foot pushes harder on the gas making us both jolt forward. "Shit Kalen, please!" He sharply turns the car to the side of the road.

"Kalen calm down! Ok?" He leans to the handle bar, and I hear him snuffle. I rub his back and leaned my forehead on his shoulder.

"It's just, it's been forever since I last saw her, I'm not sure what she will think of me." I kiss the side of his head.

"Kalen she will think nothing more than good." He gets up shaking me off.

"You don't get it, it's been years since we all saw each other, it means we changed. A lot, i've done things I am not proud of."

"Like what?"

"This truck, Cora, isn't mine." I look at him like he is the stupidest person in the world.

"I know that."

"No Cora, this truck is stolen, I run this side business that does what I said, but it's illegal."

"And? Kalen, I've done shit, and stealing a car is the least of the problems." He looks at me his cheeks stained with tears.

"It doesn't matter."

"Get out Kalen, I'll drive the rest of the way." He looks out his window and opens his door going to the other side of the car without saying a word.

I drive along the road, heading off the highway to a dirt road. I look at Kalen who has

fallen asleep in the passenger seat next to me. I take a left pulling up. I look up at the police station, I look back at Kalen. I open the door and stand outside of it trying to hold back tears. Do I really want to do this? I look back at the car and Kalen hasn't moved. I breathe and walk into the police station.

"May I help you ma'am?" A guy behind the counter asks, his uniform giving me flashbacks to my high school years. "Ma'am?"

"Ah um...sorry uh do you know where Kinber Farms is? And where the Kids Care Cemetery is?"

"Sure, Ill give you a map." He takes a pen and a paper on the counter of a map and circles somethings. "Here is the Kids Care Cemetery. He points to a small greenery on the map with the bottom of the pen. "And here is the all famous Kinber Farms." He moves the pen across the paper to a bigger piece of land South of the cemetery.

"Okay thank you sir!"

"Have a good day!" I bolt out of there, jumping into the car throwing the map on the dash. I check Kalen who is still sleeping, and I pull out of the police station and follow the road to the Kids Care Cemetery.

It took me about an hour to reach the Cemetery, and in that time Kalen finally woke up.

"You ready?" I ask Kalen. He nods his head and we both get out of the truck.

The cemetery was simple, about 20 gravestones lined the front of the grave. There was an old metal rusted fence that failed to keep anything out but it's residents. We walk slowly towards the grave newly finished, Kalen leads the way. Her name carved on the stone. Moss edging its way up the corners. Tianra Cabot was a loving daughter and sister. In smaller writing it read, Tianra's last words were to, Cora Jame, whom she wanted to thank for the encouraging moments that they had together, while they both fought this on-going disease.

I felt Kalens eyes on me as my eyes filled with tears. I fell on my knees with tears non-stop falling from my eyes. Kalen bent down and hugged me from the back. I turn to give him a proper hug. He starts to cry, his tears and breathe matching mine. She was one of the unlucky ones, and she passed everything to me to save the relationship that she had gained with me. Kalen told me that she wouldn't take treatments until I came to visit her, but I didn't because I was selfish, I didn't want to face Kalen again. We just broke up and Tianra was our connection, but after I got well, I left everything behind, including Tianra. I regret that, I really do. She was like a sister to me and I let her go. Hand in hand with Kalen I remember the times we had with Tianra, it was like we never left each other, we are once again connected by this same little girl.