I wake up to Ariana gently shaking me. She has a pile of clothes in one of her hands. I groggily sit up and take the clothes. "But what about the IV in my arm? A-are you gonna t-take it out?"

"Oh yes, let me do that right now. So you can get dressed." She patted the clothes on that I set next to me. She walked over to my IV arm. She put on gloves, and pulled it out. It stung quite a bit, but afterwords she wiped a towelette on the area she took the IV out of. It felt much better after that.

Ariana steps away and throws away the gloves. "Alright, so I'm going to step out of the room for a minute. You're going to change into those clothes, and when you're done, hit the nurse call button." She smiled and walked out of the room.

I easily took off the hospital gown, picked up the shirt, and slipped it on, noticing how much bigger than me it was. I, next, undid a package that had underwear in it. I took a pair out and slipped them on after discarding the old ones. Lastly I found a pair of sweatpants. I pulled them up and tied the drawstrings as tight as they would go. The clothes smelled amazing. They smelled like home, I press the nurse call button and realize that these clothes are insanely comfortable.

"Hey, I knew that wouldn't take too long." She pauses with a smile and continues, "Your family is downstairs, in a conference room. Are you ready to see them?"

I smiled as tears started clouding my vision. I couldn't wait. My family was right downstairs. I wasn't sure if I was ready, but I wanted to see them. "Yeah, yeah. Yes, please."

"Then lets go." Ariana motions for me to follow her out the door. I follow her out the door, down the hall, into the elevator, and down a few more halls. Ariana stopped right in front of a double door. I can only assume that behind this door is my family. My family is right there after all these years, right there.

Ariana looks at me, "Are you ready?"

All I can do is nod, because I already know my voice would fail me. With all the tears welling up in my eyes, I may not even be able to see them.

Before I can even make myself actually ready, the door is swung open and I'm greeted with the faces of my past. I see my family, after being separated for six years we are finally a family unit again. I feel whole again. We're all crying and hugging. I love them; I barely remember them and I love them so much.

I see my parents, my beautiful parents. And my brothers, all three of them. And I wish I could live in this feeling forever. But someone ruins it by finally speaking. "Mr. and Mrs. Hemmings? Can I speak to you outside?" Ariana says, interrupting our reunion.

We all separate and they both hug me once again before walking out the doors closing behind them. Luke, Ben, and Jack all stare at me with awed expressions. Finally Ben breaks the silence by saying, "We really missed you, Lili." Both Jack and Luke nod in agreement.

I didn't think the reunion would be like this. I had no idea what it would be like, but I don't think this was one of the ways I imagined it. They all group hug me again until, I speak up too. "I-I really missed you guys. I was gone s-so long." I smiled at them, knowing they wouldn't let anything happen to me. They would protect me. As I make eye contact with Luke, I can tell he's my twin. I can remember some of the memories we shared because of our bond.

Mom and Dad walked back in, and they looked a bit grim for like half a second, before they looked at me again and smiled. Mom walked over to me, and stroked my hairline. She looked at me and said "Are you cold, sweetie? I knew we should've brought one of Luke's hoodies too. Maybe he brought an extra." She paused to look at him questioningly. "Well, if you get too cold maybe we can pick one up at the airport or something."

"H-hey mom I'm okay. I won't be too cold. I'll be fine." I looked down, knowing that I was just going to add to their worries. I felt so stupid. I stutter every time I talk.

Dad speaks next to try to get us on our way, probably so we wouldn't miss our flight. "Alright, let's get going. We need to get to the airport. And we have the rest of our lives to keep talking, so we don't need to stay here." He chuckles as the boys pick up their backpacks and lead the way out. At the last minute, Luke walks back to me and puts his arm around me. "Let's get outta here, Lil." He smiles at me as we walk together.

I didn't see a way out of that hell as I was living there. In the back of my mind, I think I always knew I was gonna die there. I was going to suffer until I died, but I made it out. Somehow, I made it out, and I couldn't wait to live my life. I've been blessed with this opportunity to live outside of captivity.

We got to the airport and I was immediately overwhelmed. So many people, and suddenly I couldn't breathe. My sight was black around the edges. I couldn't get enough air, and now I couldn't see through the tears in my eyes. "Stop, stop, stop." I whispered as I beelined to the nearest bench. Ben, Jack, and Luke were immediately around me. "How can we help?' Jack says, while he's crouching in front of me and the other boys are sitting to my right and left. It's okay I tell myself over and over until I believe it. They would protect me, they loved me and cared for me, I was okay. I looked up at Jack and said, "I'm okay." I paused for a second, "There's just so many people here, it's scary and overwhelming." Jack looked me in the eyes and said the best possible thing he could've, "It's okay. We'll protect you."