Forever In Your Shadows

Chapter 34

Scarlett's POV

All I remembered was trying to save Amelie from some guy. Heather and I had been looking for her for hours since we hadn't seen her all day. When we did of course all of us got hurt.

I stood in a white room with nothing around me. Nothing to tell me where I was or where anything was.

"You have grown up." I turned around at the voice and recognized it immediately. I smiled and ran to him. He envelopes me in a hug and laughed. "And you haven't changed a bit." He smiled.

"I missed you so much daddy." I cried.

"I missed you too Scar." He said while making the hug tighter. "You aren't supposed to be up here yet." He frowned. "You need to go back."

"What do you mean back?" I frowned.

"You need to get back to your mother and sister. Remind your mother that everything is going to be okay." He said while placing his hands on my shoulders. "You look just like your mother..." He smiled.

"I don't want to go back..." I cried. "I want to stay with you!"

"Scarlett as much as I want you to stay with me, your mother needs you. Your sister and brother need you too. I'll always be here waiting for you." He said while giving me one last hug. I felt myself being pulled away from everything and back into darkness...

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"Scarlett, please honey... Wake up for me.." I heard mom whisper. I felt something holding my hand and heard light sobbing. I groaned and heard a gasp. "Please, please wake up. I'm here. I'm here." I felt something touch my face and I slowly opened my eyes. I saw mom staring at me with tears in her eyes. Her hand on my cheek.

"Mom?" I mumbled.

"Oh thank god." She cried while hugging me. I felt a little bit of pain, but I enjoyed it.

"What happened?" I asked while looking around. I saw Amelie sitting near a door with an arm cast and a few stitches on her face. Alejandro was sitting next to her just staring at me. Dad was sitting on the other side of my bed across from mom too..

"I'll get a doctor." Dad said while leaving.

"You got hurt trying to save your sister... You were barely clinging onto life when you got her here." Mom sobbed.

"You carried me into the emergency lobby and was barely able to tell them to help me first.." Amelie sniffed. "Then you just collapsed and didn't wake up..." I saw her crying... I didn't even remember that...

A doctor came in to check everything to make sure I was fine and well. I felt fine just in pain. Mom and everyone else came back in and we're smiling at the fact that I was alive.

"I'm so glad you're okay." Mom said while moving a piece of hair from my face. Dad and the twins left to go get food. It left me with mom to enjoy our time again. "It's been a rough week with you being out like this." She frowned.

"I've been asleep for a week?" I gasped.

"Yes." Mom laughed lightly. "Heather went home yesterday. She's on crutches, but she swears she'll be alright."

"She went back to Jersey?" I frowned.

"Yeah. Her parents came to get her. She promises to come back when she's healed up." Mom explained. I nodded and looked at her hand on mine. "What's wrong?" She asked.

"I saw him." I frowned. "He told me to remind you that everything was going to be okay." I sniffed. "I didn't want to come back after seeing him... But he said it wasn't my time yet..." I cried. Mom started crying and hugged me.

"Oh honey..." She sniffed. "I'm glad you came back... I don't know what I would've done without you." She kissed my head and stroked my hair. I was upset, but I was happy to be with my mom. "I dreamt of him... It felt so real... When I woke up and he was gone... I felt like a part of me was gone. But when I look at you, I see him too." She smiled. "And I feel so much better.."

We stayed together on my bed for a little while. I wanted to go home, but everything needed to be healed before I could.

Lin's POV

Amelie and Alejandro were taking their time walking behind me. I wanted to get back to the room to spend time with Scarlett.

"I miss daddy." I heard Scarlett say quietly. I stopped and listened in.

"I miss him too." Pippa sighed. They missed me? Maybe I had a chance...

"He made the best pancakes." Scarlett laughed. Well if you say so.

"He did. Didn't he?" Pippa laughed with her. So she agrees??

"Do you think he's proud of me? With everything I've done?" Of course I'm proud of you. You've done everything so young...

"I know he's proud of you. Just like I am of you. He's going to be right there side stage, or even front stage watching you. He's always going to be there supporting you." Pippa explained. "He loves you so much pancake." Pippa laughed.

"Mom! Not that pet name." Scarlett whined. Pancake?

"He always called you that when you were little. Because you would wear your pancakes." Pippa laughed.

"I was a messy child." Scarlett laughed.

"You were. But Steven didn't care. He loved you like his own." Pippa wasn't talking about me... She was talking about him still... She never got over him... Then again, they never got to tell each other goodbye... Or anything... She just woke up and he was gone forever... It all makes sense now...

"Even when you told dad about me?" Scarlett asked.

"Of course. He punched your father in the face when you were in the hospital. I stood up for your dad then, and yelled at Steven, but only because I wanted to hit your father first." She laughed. "But yes, he loved you so much. So, so much. If I could go back in time and just to see him once more..." She sighed.

"You would stop him from going to work?" Scarlett asked. I waited to hear the answer but Amelie and Alejandro decided to run inside the room and yell surprise....