Remembering Yesterday

James wrapped his arms around her and frowned. “Don’t you want me here?” Zoey kissed her cheek tears running down her face. “I thought you were dead!” James set her down as the guys walked into the RV. “What do you mean?” Zoey let out a soft sigh and looked at everyone. “I think you should all sit down. This is going to be a long story.” Zoey looked out the window and smiled when the RV started to move. She looked back at everyone and let out a soft sigh. “My mom wants to kill James.” The room went completely silent. Jinxx laughed, “Nice one. Now what’s the real story?” Zoey stared at him and he frowned. “You weren’t joking?” “I wish I was.” James frowned, “But why? Wait, how, no what!?” Zoey looked at everyone. “Well they don’t want me to find the truth about something. It has to do with this little girl I dream about named Kathie and this boy named Dennis. I’ve been dreaming about them for a while now. But tonight’s dream.” She sat down. “My parents killed Kathie’s parents.” Ashley opened a can of beer and handed it to Zoey. “I think you need this.” Zoey started to chug the beer down but Andy took the beer from her. “I don’t even know what’s going on right now! My parents, murderers! I don’t even know what they did with Kathie or Dennis. And now they want to kill James, my best friend, they treated him like their son!” Zoey covered her face with her hands. CC looked at Andy and he nodded. Andy grabbed Zoey’s hand and she looked up. “Come with me. I need you to see something.” She looked at James confused and he shrugged. She followed Andy to his bunk and he took a picture out from under his pillow.

Zoey held the picture and gasped as she saw the two kids in the photograph. It was Kathie and Dennis sharing a smoothie, the picture was a sepia color, and they were dressed as if they lived in the 50’s. “You’re Dennis…” Andy nodded. “But Kathie, what happened to her.” Andy grabbed her hands pulling her close to him. “I think you’re Kathie.” Zoey looked at him shaking her head. “I can’t be her!” “Think about it Zoey, you dream about Kathie and Dennis.” “No my mom said she’s my cousin.” “Tell me, have you ever seen this cousin of yours?” “No, but what if they killed her, just like they killed her parents?” “Zoey, you are Kathie Sterling.” Zoey pulled away from him. “No! That’s not possible. Explain to me how she has blonde hair and I’m a burnet. I look nothing like her!” Andy grabbed her and looked into her eyes. “You have those icy blue eyes that can hide nothing from me. Your hair may not be the same, but I read about that, it has something to do with genes.” Zoey sat down on the bed frowning. “I can’t believe this. But why don’t I remember anything?” “You were very young. I hardly remember. But I do remember that day they took you.” Zoey looked at him. “Tell me; tell me what happened that day.” Andy nodded as he sat on one of the beds, Zoey sat beside him waiting.”

“You were mad at me that day. You saw me with one of my new friends, a girl. I don’t remember her name but I do remember how sad you were. I tried to get you to calm down but you just wouldn’t take it. I grabbed your hand trying to get you to look at me. You said something that still hurts me whenever I think about it. You said Let me go Denny! I hate you. I never want to see you again!” Andy chuckled, “Of course you didn’t pronounce the words perfectly right you were about two at the time and were starting to talk. I was surprised thought, you learned things pretty quickly.” He let out a soft sigh remembering something horrible. “You ran away from me after that. And I started to walk home; I have to admit I cried. That’s when I heard you screaming. That still hunts me at night, your scream. It sent shivers down my spine. I ran to your house as fast as I could. I was about to enter your front yard when I heard the first shot.” Andy’s eyes started to water as he remembered how he felt that day. “I didn’t want to think you were dead. But my heart was shattering even though my brain yelled that you weren’t dead. You just couldn’t be. Your crying gave me hope and I slowly walked in. That’s when I saw you hiding under the table as that man pointed the gun at your mom’s head. Your eyes were closed as tightly as possible and you had your hands over your ears. I crawled towards you as fast as I could I covered your mouth so you wouldn’t be able to scream. And that’s when you finally opened your eyes, when I saw you the fear, everything went away, and I knew you felt the same. I could see it in your eyes that nothing else mattered as long as we were together.” Andy closed his eyes in pain, “We were almost out the door. Just inches from freedom, but that’s when she grabbed you. That bitch, but I wouldn’t let go. I grabbed onto you for dear life as she yelled at me to let go of you.”

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