Secrets

Up in the Stars

MEGANS POV: 2 days since the note was discovered

I woke up with a jump and saw Carmen looming over me, grinning. " Kyle is here" she said, smiling. " He wants to talk to you!" I just groaned and looked over at the clock, it was 7:30pm. "Who gets up this early?!" I almost screamed. "normal people, Megs. Normal people and it's not early, not by a long-shot!." I just got up and through my pillow at Carmen. Well I guess it really wasn't my pillow,everything I owned got burned in the fire. The only thing I had left, was a locket from my mother that now hangs around my neck for safekeeping. "Ill go stall him, you get dressed." I sighed and watched as Carmen bounded out of the room and down the hallway. I slowly got up an went to go get dressed.

I walked down stairs and saw Mrs. finch baking cookies for Alex, laurel, Carmen and Kyle. I smiled at everyone and slid into a chair across from Kyle. "anything you needed in particular?" I asked him, smiling awkwardly. ever since I kissed him at the party, we haven't talked much. "yes. actually" he said."my father wants you to come over for therapy, and he sent me to get you. I also brought your car back over." I grinned and yelled "MY BABY!" and everyone at the table laughed. I loved my car more than anything. well maybe except for Alex. "wait-did you say therapy?! I moaned. Alex then started smirking and said "good luck with that. Gran had her in therapy for a few years, to open up. But that did not last!" at the memory of Karen I flinched, but then smiled at Alex. he seemed to be taking her death okay, a lot better than I thought he would. "My dad really needs to see you and since you slept in a day, we need to go now.!" Kyle said quickly, giving me a look. I knew suddenly that I wasn't going in for therapy. "oh, okay!" I scrambled up to my feet and grabbed an apple. Alex looked at me strangely and then started to say something until Laurel cut him off. "Alex, let's go christmas shopping! it's in a few weeks, remember!?" laurel chimed in, pulling him to his feet. "what a great idea, sweetie! I'll drive you guys!" Mrs. Finch added. Everyone clambered up from the table and left to go shopping.

Once they left Kyle spoke up "Laurel is really doing a good job of distracting Alex! I doubt that he suspects a thing!" I nodded in agreement with him. "it's just 'cause she is crushing on him." I snickered, and grabbed my winter coat from the coat rack. "oh! here are your keys, my lady." Kyle said, handing me the keys to my baby. "my lady?" I sniggered, walking through the hallway. "yes, it seemed appropriate." he laughed. I was glad to see that all awkwardness seemed to fade away after talking a little bit. "I opened the front door and felt a cool burst of winter air hit out faces. "Ugh!" I moaned "I miss Florida!" I ran to my jeep sitting in the driveway, and sat down into the swirling warm air inside of the car.ad Kyle sat down, I backed out of the drive way and headed to his house. "when were you in Florida?" he asked suddenly. I looked at him, and remembered that he didn't know all the details. "I lived their, before....before it happened." I said quietly. "oh." was all Kyle said. he suddenly changed to topic."Your not used to the cold, being here for so long?" I just smiled, grateful for the change of topic. "NO! I hate the cold. The only thing good about it is the snow, I love building snowmen." I continued to drive for a while, until a memory hit me. "I remember this one time, our parents took us on a vacation to Alaska. it was a few months before....before the incident. We stayed in a nice hotel, and we built snowman outside In the back. my parents had a snowball fight, and I played in the snow with Jordan." I smiled at the happy memory. I looked over at Kyle and noticed him looking at me out of the corner of his eye. "Jordan was....?" he asked. "oh, Um he was...um." I didn't really know what to say. "Jordan was Alex." I said finally. "I don't usually use our old names anymore. I guess I was just caught up in the moment." I was getting upset again. "What....what was your name?" he asked me. I swallowed and said "Rebecca." an just left it at that. "you did have some happy memories." Kyle said suddenly. "what?" I asked him "you told me a happy memory, I imagine theirs lots of them, their just buried down deep." he elaborated. "I guess so" I said. "I don't remember much of my childhood...i almost wish I did. just so i...could remember my mother." Suddenly Kyle reached over and touched a tear that was falling from my cheek. "Pull over, Megs" he said, out of the blue."pull over!"

I quickly pulled over onto the shoulder and said "Kyle! what's wrong?!" he just looked and me and said quietly "I want to try something. just listen to me, okay?" I was very confused "what, what's going on-" I tried to say "MEGAN!" Kyle cut me off. "listen okay?" he took a deep breathe and said "okay, just listen to my voice okay? I want you to think of another time, a happier time. think of a place, a scene, a smell. anything, that reminds you of happiness okay?" I closed my eyes and felt a memory welling inside of my body "okay." I said "I...i feel it." "good,now pull at the memory, bring it into your eyes. tell me what you see." Kyle said. I pulled at the swirling memory, and then is saw her. my mother, with her deep blue eyes and shiny blond curls. I saw her eyes, the exact same shade as Alex's. she was singing softly, a slow melody. I could hear so much love in her voice. I sat next to her, as a young girl as we both smiled into my brothers crib. "you need to take care of your baby brother." my mothers soft, bell time voice said to me. "My beautiful becca, can you promise me?" I just nodded next to her, and my mother beamed a bright shiny smile. "sing with me becca!" my mother giggled! "Up in the stars, my baby dances. up in the stars we sing! up in the stars lies a dreamer up in stars we sing!" I heard my little voice mix with my mothers in a soft melody, as we sang my brother to sleep. "Up in the stars I say I love you, up in the stars we laugh.up in the stars their are no worries up in the stars we sing!" my mother finished the lullaby in her sing-song voice and then said "I love you my little babies, and don't you forget it! whatever happens, you can look up in the stars and find me. Know that I'm in the stars, saying I love you." the memory faded to a close and I opened my eyes to see Kyle smiling at me. tears were streaming from my eyes, and Kyle leaned over and brushed them away with soft kisses. I took a deep breathe and asked "where did you learn to do that? that was the best memory I could have ever seen!" Kyle shrugged and said "Oprah, she did a segment about hypnosis." I laughed, letting the car fill with joy, and love. Kyle began to laugh too. I leaned back in the seat to look up at the sky. I saw thousands of stars, gleaming and shining in the night, I looked to my left and saw one star, that was so much brighter than the others. softly I said "I love you too." as it glimmered and shined.

A/N

I'm so sorry I haven't updated! I know it's been like 2 millennia,but I have been so busy lately. I'm also kinda running out of ideas until now and what I have planned for the end! so comment on suggestions :) thank you for reading and I promise to update much, much more. but it have christmas, and pep band coming up! (woot-woot!) so it's going to be hard to find time! and don't even get me started on finals :( anyways, thanks for reading

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