Present time

“Olivia! You have certainly grown up.” Grama held me at arms length. She tucked the hair by my eyes behind my ears. “How are your eyes so blue?” Another little girl ran up behind her. “Blair, you remember Olivia don’t you?”

Blair. I had heard that name before but where?

“Not really.” Blair squinted her eyes, shook her head, and started to run but stopped. “I thought I saw her when we were back on Ezra.”

I remembered her now she was the one who had gotten lost. I helped her get to the docks. No that was another girl. She was the one that ran into Jayne. “Yes that’s it!” Drat why do I always do that? “Sorry thinking out loud. I do that a lot.” Another girl ran up beside her.

“I’m Jenny. Since my little brat of sister is being rude, I’ll re-introduce you to everyone else.” Daddy pushed me in through the door and then Grama slammed it shut.

“I know all these people?”

“Yes we’re all family. You must of hit your head really hard.” I looked around at the people in the room.

“I think I might of.” They all looked new to me, but obviously I had met them before.

There was only one boy and two other girls besides Blair and Jenny. The oldest of the three was Todd, one of my cousins, and then there was Betha and Rochelle their twins. There were three adults in the room. My uncles John and Christian and my aunt Mercredi, they were acting very strangely around me. Momma and daddy were still outside talking with grama, and when they came in grama was crying.

I walked back over by momma. She looked worried I never had seen her that worried before. “Momma I want to go home,” I said looking around at everyone.

“We’re going to leave in a minute; your daddy has to clear some things up with your grama.” Me and momma stayed away from grama and daddy while they were yelling.

“Obviously she is NOT DEAD!!!” Daddy was scaring me.

“She was!!! Your father and I had to watch her get sick and then die! We saw the doctors at the institute confirm her death!”

“But she’s not…what institute?”

“It was an academy for