Chapter 2

Reagan Fox P.O.V

I really thought at the time I'd have more time. That I'd be able to do so much more, to find the one, to get married, to grow old but I was wrong even though I didn't know at the time maybe I did deep down

I gasp as I sit up frantically looking around the room. 'What the hell happened, was that just all a dream, it felt so real' I thought to myself as I carelessly fell back onto my bed. I just lay there contemplating if I was out of my mind when I heard a thump on my bed. "Hey, hey, hey wake up Ree it's your birthday, c'mon wake up" Maxon my 7-year-old brother screamed jumping up and down on the bed red-faced and out of breath. There was shouting downstairs, water running in the next room with Max still jumping on the bed, there might have even been a broken plate or two but I couldn't hear any of it. The only thing I could hear was the rapid beating of my heart and the muffled thoughts crowding my head. "Birthday" I muttered under my breath starting to think I really was going crazy.' How could I have dreamt of my birthday when it's today, no just no, there's no way it's my birthday I must have heard wrong or something. Yeah, that's definitely what happened, I just heard wrong' I thought to myself silently panicking. "Maxie sweetheart what's today's date," I ask him in a soft whisper fearing the answer. It's December first silly, your birthday" Max giggled as he jumped on me and curled up onto my lap like a cat, quietly sighing as he relished the warmth of my body. "Ree, what's it like turning 17?" Max asked me, his head nuzzled into my stomach. I looked down at him pulling him closer " Well first off there's more responsibility. You also gotta rely on yourself more than others also trying to find yourself in what feels like a crowd of people and then there's also where I have to leave for college" I said looking out my window at the snow, turning everything it touches to white. I don't know how long I sat there but there was something about the falling snow that just felt so calming. Then I heard sniffling which snapped me out of my stupor. I looked down at my lap where Max was curled up in a tight ball, his head facing away from me."Hey, bud what's wrong" I asked him in a soft voice bending over trying to get him to look at me. I tilt his head up to see tears glistening in his eye as he sniffles."I don't want you to go" he said to me in a broken voice." aww sweetie I won't leave just yet, it's okay don't cry. Here why don't you go downstairs and pack me a lunch whatever you want ok, surprise me." I said picking him up and putting him on the ground throwing my legs over the bed to get off. I stood stretching as Max scurries to the door and down the stairs as fast as his two little legs can take him, two steps at a time but not before giving me a kiss on my cheek. I stood there for a moment looking around my room and just taking it all in. Looking down I notice a dog carved out of wood sitting there on the side of my pillow. I tilt my head to the side as I bring it closer to my face and squint to get a better look at it." just like my dream" I thought out loud as I looked over to the window then back at the dog."A new day...A new start" I sigh into the air around me beginning to walk towards me bathroom but not before taking another look out the window.

This was what I thought at the time...but when everything happens so fast isn't that what most people think.