Fated

Chapter 1

Three months later

Salem

Emma ran to the mailbox hoping there would be a letter for her from Taylor. But when she opened it she was greeted with nothing but bills for her parents. Walking back to the four story house with sad tear filled eyes, she tried to not cry. It had been two weeks since her last letter from Taylor.

While Emma had kept her promise to write every day, obviously Taylor had not. She tried to think on the bright side that Taylor was busy with homework and chores that she was meaning to write but just couldn't find the time. Emma knew that was not true though; each letter she had received from Taylor since she and her family had moved got more and more distant each time.

Although Emma had made new friends she never forgot to write Taylor, and if she had forgotten then to write one day the next she would write two. It was hard for Emma to think that her best friend had forgotten her.

Emma stopped walking to look at the house that she now called home. To her it was not such of a prison that it once was when she first got there. It was tan with maroon shutters, she had her own bathroom. It was bigger than her old house. Now when she looked at it she thought of it not as a prison but as a home. She saw her little brother playing on porch, and her mother sitting on the porch swing with a glass of iced tea, she smiled, she never wanted to leave.

Emma walked up and sat with her mother in the swing and handed her the mail. Then she got up to sit with her brother to play with his toy cars.

"No letter from Taylor today Em?" her mother said as she flipped through the mail.

"No, I haven't gotten one in two weeks. I'm not worried about it though. Taylor is Taylor she never did like writing." Emma put the car down and walked back into the house.

As Emma walked away her mother could tell that even though her daughter didn't let on that it hurt that her friend had not written deep down inside, Emma was breaking.