Ohana

Fall is beautiful in Indiana. The trees are covered with red, yellow, orange and brown leaves and the streams flow smoothly over rocks down into the winding creek below. It seems that even the softest of a breeze carries Lilly out and along the state forest's paths. Her family too. There's a beauty to everything that can't be explained, just experienced.

But behind every beautiful thing that exists, there is something tragic.

It was a flash of blinding light that made Lilly cover her eyes. A split second later is when she heard her mother cry out and her father curse, then the ear piercing sound of the brakes as she's thrown against Braden. All she could do was hold on to him tightly as the impact happened.

She screamed as the car rammed into the other side and was cut off by the shards of glass flying through the air. Everything flew at her as the car skidded to the right until it reached the side of the road that dropped off into the forest they had just walked through below.

It happened so fast.

The car fell off the side, throwing Lilly into the door as it hit the ground and kept rolling. All she could feel was the pain as her head slammed against the shattering window and the ground making the door cave in. Finally the roof slammed into something and it stopped. The last thing that she felt was a small limp body fall against her.

'Maybe it was fate. Maybe this is how my life is supposed to go.' It was the fragile little lie that she tells herself from then on out. Lost is exactly what she feels. And pain. And anger. She only has her younger brother now, Braden. She can't loose him too.

How far will you go to get back what you once had? How do you live?

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Ohana means family. Family means that nobody gets left behind or forgotten. But what if they are ripped away from you for forever? What happens when you're left alone, terrified and lost?