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Chapter 1

Day 1:

It was past midnight one January. Rianne was fidgeting on her seat unable to contain her excitement. She looked outside the window and smiled upon seeing the twinkling lights of the city below and the stars in the sky. She looked beside her to see if Keith, her boyfriend has woken up. She shrugged her shoulders and went back to star gazing seeing him still deep asleep.

It has been almost 6 years since Rianne left her hometown. She went abroad to live with her family and she never had the chance to go back. Until now.

There was this one memory of her hometown that she have kept deep within her since she was 12. she never confided about it to anyone but her sister, Kate. Rianne reached into her jeans pocket and pulled out a stone.

It was a stone like any other however, an extra ordinary one. The color is of a mixture of gray and black. It is shaped like the number eight and is about an inch small. "Anne" is engraved on it. But what makes it special is that, "Aly" is engraved on the other side.

She closed her hand on the stone and whispered, "Will I finally see you again?"