Finding Violet

Chapter 17

My eyes flickered open, I looked

around, I was in a hospital room.

Brooke, my Mom, and Josh were at my

bedside. My head hurt and my lungs

felt irritated, I coughed. "Paige?" My

Mom said, "Are you awake?" Her voice

was crackly, she sounded like she was

gonna burst into tears any time. "You

passed out in the house, you inhaled

too much smoke." My mom said. I

nodded my head, why was I in the

house? Violet. "Mom, Violet! Where is

she? They found her right?!" I yelled,

my Mom looked away and covered her

hands over her face. "I should have

saved her. She was my freaking

daughter and I let her die!" She cried.

My heart dropped and I could feel

myself giving in, "No, that wasn't

supposed to happen. She was supposed

to live! And grow up, not die! She was

my sister and I didn't even get to know

her! NO" I yelled, I lept from the bed

and ran for the door, "Paige stop"

Brooke yelled grabbing me, "I'm going

to find my SISTER!" I yelled pushing

her off. I went into the hallway, I ran

down the hallway in search of Violet.

About halfway down the hallway I

stopped, then I realized that she was

really dead. I burst into tears and

hugged myself, I walked back to my

room and Brooke and Josh tried to

comfort me but I pushed them away.

My mom was crying too. "M-mom,

I w-want t-t-to go home." I said

through sobs. She nodded and signed

me out. I changed into clothes and

walked out, as we were walking in the

hallway Matt came threw the doors.

"Paige!" He said coming towards me,

"Are you okay? I'm sorry about your

house!" He said hugging me. "I'm fine,

but--" I tried to tell him but I just

started crying, "What is it Paige?" He

asked. "Violet--she's--" I stuttered, "No,

no please no." He said his eyes

watering. "What happened?! Why

didn't she come out with you?!" He

cried, "I went back, to look for her. She's

gone Matt." I said. He covered his hand

over his mouth trying not to cry, "Matt,

I-" then he ran out. I started to cry

again, "It's fine Paige. You knew her for

what, a week? Now our lives can finally

go back to normal." Brooke said, I

looked her in the eye and slapped her,

it was hard. Her cheek was stained read

and she gasped, "Nothing's fine. My

sister is dead, and so is yours Brooke.

Normal? Don't you understand? Our

lives were never normal, our lives have

been a lie. There isn't a normal life

anymore, the only normal life would be

if me, Violet, mom, dad, you, and Josh

lived together happily ever after. But

that will never happen because

VIOLET IS DEAD!" I screamed.

Everyone in the hospital was staring,

my mom pulled me by the arm and out

of the hospital, we got in the car and

drove home. Wait, home? "Mom. Is the

house okay?" I asked, "yes only a few

rooms were destroyed in the fire." She

said. "So, where are we going to stay?" I

asked, "At the Lukasiaks." She said. I

was excited to see Chloe, but I was still

crying because of Violet's death. We

pulled up to their house and my mom

unloaded our suitcases, we rang the

doorbell. Christi opened the door,

"Thank god you guys are okay." She

said kissing all of us on the cheek. We

walked inside and Chloe came up to

hug me, she had a weird look on her

face, like something was really wrong.

"What's going on?" I asked, she turned

around nervously, "nothing Paige." She

said. "Chloe, look at me. What's wrong?

I mean, how much worse could my life

get anyway?!" I said. Her eyes were

watering, "Did you um hear the news

about Violet?" She asked shakily. My

heart dropped, why did she have to

bring that up?! "They said she's dead,

but they never found a body so they

don't know for sure! She could still be

out there!" I said on the verge of tears,

"Paige. The firefighters, they found it."

She said sympathetically, "It? What's

it?" I said in denial, "Bones. A burned

out corpse." She said crying. My head

spun, the thought of my twin sister

burned to a pile of bones made me

want to puke, I put my face in my

hands and sobbed. Chloe wrapped her

arms around me, "It was on the news."

She said. Violet was really dead, just a

burned out corpse. Only alive 17 years,

and died 2 days after her birthday.