My thoughts swirled violently in my head as I made my way home. So many emotions were hitting me one after another. Fear, anger, sadness, and guilt..... This one girl caused so much. Everything I thought I knew had to be questioned. I want to stay strong but every wall I've built up is starting to crumble.

I blinked away the building tears but they came back as an onslaught like an ocean tide and suddenly I couldn't stop them. I picked up the pace wiping the away the non-stop tears as they feel down my face. I reached home gratefully barreling into the house running up to my room and slamming my door behind me.

Soon I was full on sobbing. I curled into myself trying to calm myself. I stayed in that position for what seemed like minutes, but was really probably hours. When my room grew dark a timid knock on my door shook me out of my trance. I ignored it just wanting to be alone. The knock returned again more persistently now. I groaned and rolled off my bed and shuffled over to the door. It was late already and this strange visitor confused me.

I opened the door and my eyes widened in shock. My sister stood nervously in the doorway. This shocked and scared me. I couldn't remember the last time I've seen her. She looked now very corpse like. Her eyes a vacant void the life drained from them. Her once always smiling lips turned down into a harsh frown, and her body now frightenley thin and frail looking. She looks distant as if she wasn't completely here. "Alex," I questioned softly. She simply nodded.

"Sky," she croaks. "Why were you crying?" I frown at her not realizing I was being so load. I back away a bit and walk over to sit on my bed. "I'm okay Alex, nothing's wrong," I say quietly. She already had gone through so much; she didn't need to hear my problems, and anything that could bring back the memories. "No Sky, please tell me" she tells me. "It's okay I just want to help." She grabs my shoulders now staring into my eyes. "It's only going to hurt you to hear it," I say urging her to change her mind. "It would hurt me more knowing I didn't try to help you" she says with determination and sincerity.

I closed my eyes and took a breath debating with myself. "I found my lock," I say in a small voice. "That's amazing," she says happily now smiling softly at me. "No it's not this is horrible," I whisper yell. "I can't have one." Her demeanor grows serious now. "Don't you ever say that," she snaps at me.

My eyes widen not expecting to make her angry. "Never say such that because it's a lie like that," her voice stressing every word. "There's no point," I respond. "Not if it will just end in the crushing of my soul." She sighs at my words. "Not everybody is the same, and what you are doing is unfair and cruel to your lock," she says. "You haven't even given them a chance so you'll never know your story." "He destroyed you," my voice now dropping to a whisper. Her eyes hardened and she swiftly raised her hand and slapped me.

"Never again will you speak ill of him again," Her words bit out at me. "None of this was his fault you hear? He couldn't help what happened to him and it's my fault I'm now like this. There was not stopping his death. There was no way around it so don't you dare push away your soul mate because of something you don't even understand," she rants angrily. Her words hit me full force. She's right, and I was so very wrong. "I'm so very sorry," I cry in despair. "So very sorry," I mumble through my fresh tears. She sighs and leans forward to briefly hug me then shoves me back off and away from the bed. "Fix this now," she says not taking no for an answer. She shoves me to the window. "They will never know, just go"

A new determination fills me and I open the window climbing through and jumping down. I race in the direction of where the necklace wants me to go. I ran, and ran as fast as my legs could take me.

Soon I reached a white two story house. I am in luck as I can see her sitting at a desk through one of the upper windows. I search for some small pebbles on the nearby ground. It's a bit cliché, but too late I've already thrown it. It makes a little tap and she looks up. At first she looked a bit scared and confused, but then a large smile graced her features.

She gets up pushing open the window, and leans out a bit still smiling. "What happened, Miss "I don't need a soul mate" did you have a midnight realization?" she jokes. I smile lightly at this. "A little bit, so can you can you come down?" I ask. She nods then disappears and soon after the door opens. "What even is your name?" she laughs. "It's Skylar," I tell her. "And yours?" "Crystal," she says coming closer.

"I'm sorry," I say seriously now. "I shouldn't have treated you so unfairly." She smiles back even brighter. "Doesn't matter now because everything is going to be okay now right?" she asks. "Yes," I say now smiling back. She came forward only to pull me forward and kiss me...... "Thank you for being the key to my heart," she says after pulling away.