Chapter 3:

For the next couple days, I felt like I was in a bad dream. I kept pinching myself, but nothing seemed to work. I was awake for the most terrible time of my life. Day in and day out, I kept hearing, "I am sorry for your lost." I never really showed much emotion. I couldn't believe she was gone.

The day until the funeral was drawing closer and all I could think about was what Mike said on the last day of school, "I am sorry for your loss. I will see you again. "

"How did she know Mom was dead? How did she know? We just got out of school. No one knew from school until they got home. How did Mike know?" The thoughts and sentences kept replaying in my head. I am frustrated at Mike but also sad. So, I turned my emotions off.

For the next several hours before the funeral, I was laying on my bed with my friends, but even they couldn't turn on my emotions. I was like a zombie. The door opens to Major, and I never even moved, "Is she okay?"

"I don't know. She hasn't said anything the last several hours," Wade said as he rubbed my back.

"Can you leave us alone for a little bit?" Major asked.

As everyone left, I stayed on my bed and just looked at Major with no feelings. He must be just as sad as I am. He was starting to show me a sweeter side to him. I would have smiled, but all I felt was darkness and coldness.

He sat down on my bed and said threw his tears, "I am sorry, Eve. I wish you could stay here, but your mom wants you to go to Nevah Flow, Wisconsin with her family."

"What?" I exclaimed showing a little emotion as I came out of my daze. "What do you mean her family? Mom told me that I would never meet any of my family. She said that they didn't want us."

"People change, Eve. We just have to respect your mother's wants and you will be going to live with them."

"But Major, I don't want to go."

"I understand, Eve. But I cannot help you. I was never given custody of you. So, you will either go with them or be sent off to a foster care. "

"How can this be? Mom was always so prepared, but she was not ready for this."

"I know it will be hard, but you have too. It is the law," he said with tears in his eyes. Clearing his throat, he continued, "Tomorrow after the funeral and everything is figured out, you will be going to go live with your uncle Marcus Lietwolf and his family in Wisconsin."

"But what about my friends?" I whined.

"I am sorry," he said, leaving me alone to cry.

"No!" I yelled as I felt rage flow through me.

Wade and everyone came back into my room. Wade tried to comfort me, but it was no use. I cried as I realized that everything and everyone, I knew I was going to have to leave. I had not only lost my mom, but now I am losing everyone, everything… I am losing my home. What happened to me?

I put my head into my pillow and didn't do anything. I just laid there and felt nothing. We went to the cemetery, we buried Mom, I packed my things… But I still felt nothing.

The next day after we buried Mom, I woke up, cried, ate, then everyone sent me off to the airport to go to Wisconsin. But I didn't feel anything. I was leaving my home and family… everything was gone now.

"I am going to miss you," Theresa said as she gave me the biggest hug and slightly soaking my back in tears.

"Me, too," Kyle said, patting my back.

"But not as much as me," Wade said, snuggling up behind me and taking in one last deep breath of my scent.

"I will miss you all too. I will call once I get settled in," I said lifeless.

Major was the last one I said goodbye to, and I couldn't tell who was crying more me or him.

Stepping onto the plane, I cried as I left my family and my world behind to be with a group of strange people I had never met before.

As I took my seat on the plane, I looked out the window and could have sworn I saw Mike, standing at the airport terminal, waiting for to see me off. The plane took off before I could get a better look, but where I saw her, I saw a golden light where she was. I started to cry again.

As I redirected my attention to my friends and Major all crying, I whispered, "Goodbye, Baldsville Kansas. The home of my family, friends, and my past. Hello, to the unknown territory of Nevah Flow Wisconsin."

I couldn't hold back the tears anymore. I cried and cried as the plane took off. I began to feel things again. I began to see the golden lights again and I felt like Mom was with me. "I got this," I said through my tears. "I will get back to you, Baldsville."

After a while of being on the plane and crying, we landed in Nevah Flow, a city of over 30,000 people. "It might be easy to be able to get lost and go back home," I said as I stepped out of the airport and felt something that made me have energy to leave.

I really didn't know who to look for. I had never even heard of my uncle. But when I got to my bags, no one was waiting for anyone. Whomever is this man, and my family had no idea I was coming? I took in a deep breath and went up to one of the airport securities and asked, "Do you know where a Marcus Lietwolf is?"

"Marcus? Why are you looking for him?" the man asked.

"He is my uncle, and I am to live with him."

"Well, I am sorry for you. Let's go call him and see if he will come and pick you up," the man said as he walked over to the counter desk and called a number.

As I looked around the airport, I felt eyes on me but all I saw were dogs sitting outside the door. I looked at them and felt a sense of peace. It was as if they were Mom telling me to do it. As much as I wanted to leave, I knew that this was the place to be.

Clearing his throat, the officer said, "I couldn't get a hold of him, but I could give you a ride there."

"Just tell me where it is. I would like to go alone," I said.

"Are you sure? This place is not the safest."

"I will be alright. I would like to see the place and I enjoy a walk."

"Well, he lives out in the woods," he said taking out a map. "This is where you are going." He was pointing to a small little road that was in the middle of nowhere. "Are you sure you would not like a ride?"

"I will be fine," I said as I picked up my stuff and headed to the little secluded house.

Before I left, I looked to where the dogs were at before and they seemed to vanish. "This place already makes me feel unsafe," I said as I left the airport to go to a sketchy house in the middle of the forest. I looked at the map as I walked.

As I walked, I heard a wolf howl and machines whirling up. "What is going on?" I thought as I looked at all the signs that said, "BEWARE! PRIVATE PROPERTY!"

"Red Flag Number One… My family lives in the middle of nowhere, no one knows where I am, there are wolves out here, and I am on private property. Please let them be nice," I thought as I continued on a curvy path to the house.