"Mum?" Sophie asked.

Since they had gotten to the hospital, they had been shooed out of the room where her grandmother was and had now been told to wait in a small, stuffy waiting room that had a rather strange smell of plasters and medical products. Pandora was sitting next to her daughter nervously swinging her legs back and forth like a child and chewing on her thumb nervously. Her husband was sitting, reading the newspaper with a coffee bought at Starbucks. They were all a little blurry eyed from being awoken.

"What happened this time?" Sophie's father yawned.

"She stopped breathing in her sleep." Pandora just managed to whisper.

"I'm sorry, love."

"Don't be, it's not your fault. It's my own bloody fault, I didn't take good care of her. I let her live at the other end of the country for Christs sake!" Pandora sobbed.

"Oh, come on. Please don't think like that..."

"My mother is going to die soon, how can someone not take any blame for  that?"

"Maybe it's just old age?"

"Is that meant to cheer me up? She's only sixty odd!" Pandora said.

"I'm sorry, okay?" 

"I'm sorry, too." Pandora sighed, running her fingers through her hair. "It's just that all of this is a lot to take in..."

Sophie's dad nodded and looked to the floor, folding up his newspaper and throwing the remainder of his coffee in the bin. He put a comforting arm around his wife and sighed.

"I promise everything will be okay."

Pandora looked uncertainly at him. "How can you be so certain of that?"

"Because I know everything." he smirked.

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"Juliet, what the hell is wrong with you?!" Martha yelled.

"What did I do wrong, Martha?" Juliet frowned, sitting upright in her bed.

Martha just looked away for a second then seized Juliet's hand. She pulled the ring away and a hand on her hip. Juliet shook her head and looked to the floor, pulling her knees up to her chest..

"Forgot to mention, Sirius may have proposed to me last night and I may have said yes." Juliet mumbled.

"What...the hell..." Martha grumbled, getting her books ready.

"Wait, aren't you going to ask me more questions or something?" Juliet asked. "Anyway, what time is it in the morning?"

"To be fair with you, anything you say now is not going to be a surprise to me. Your family is so messed up, nothing is a surprise..." Martha mumbled.

Juliet rolled her eyes and walked out of their dorm room and hurried down the stairs. She smiled at every passing person which was strange behaviour for her. She could have sworn that today was going to be the best day of her life. 

But something was always going to spoil her fun, something was lurking around the corner. 

Literally.

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Years and years passed and Sophie made her way through high school. Although the work was hard and arduous, there were a few things plaguing her mind. Unfortunately, her Grandmothers impending death was the only thing getting in the way of her studies.