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Post by kade marshall trent on Mar 11, 2011 20:51:46 GMT -5
It seemed easy to forget the significance of the date when there were so many other things going on around you. Days sometimes blurred together, the day and month never seeming all that important when there was so much to worry about, other things that took all your time and energy away from you. Kade had been in this kind of position since he had come back to Arietta, his life revolving around Mykayla and her illness and trying to take care of her. Then there had been Britt and the natural drama that was there between them. Not to mention several other things that had been going on with this person or that, Jared getting married and Randi getting pregnant. Now Mykayla had gone and told the family that she not only had cancer, but had also told them that she was stopping treatment for it because she was having a baby as well. That had caused a lot of tension in the family, particularly between Kade and Rob, as their father felt Kade had failed to protect Mykayla by helping her keep it a secret for so long. Kade and Rob were hot heads, and it had all come down to Kade out right punching Rob in the face but somehow that had fixed things. It was just a lot, but when Kade had taken a moment for himself earlier that day, he had realized just what that day meant. He felt guilty for a moment, not knowing how he could forget, before he shrugged on his coat and headed for his parents’ Bed and Breakfast. He didn’t know that Amy would be there, but he figured he would go over and see. Sure enough, she was there in her room, Kade peaking in through the half open door before knocking on it lightly, offering his baby sister a soft, kind smile. “Hey, Ames. Can I come in?” From her bed she told him he could, and Kade could tell that she was just down. He crossed the room, a tinge of sadness touching his eyes as well as he saw the photo album she had laid out in front of her. It contained what pictures there had been left of the Orsino family, and Kade caught a glimpse of Micah and Tyler on the page. “It’s hard to believe they’ve been gone ten years…”
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Post by amy lynn orsino on Mar 11, 2011 21:34:56 GMT -5
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Amy Orsino could never forget this day. Every year she dreaded it, and weeks before it came she was very aware of the day. When it finally came, like clockwork, it was always the same. Others may forget the significance of it, and with everything that was going on it wasn’t a surprise for the young girl, but she could never ever forget. Because on this day, March 8th, her entire life had changed. This was the day of the house fire that had killed her family, sparing only her. It was this day that she had ended up becoming a member of the Trent family because she had nowhere else to go. Amy had been called into work that day, and though she hadn’t wanted to, she had gone and in the end that had made this day worse. She had gotten a customer who was mean and hateful, it had only made things worse for her. She had come home and had been in this mood for the rest of the day. She had spent most of the afternoon in tears, her eyes now red and puffy from what felt like the weight of the world that was resting on her shoulders. It had been ten years since losing her family, but as she sat there on her bed it felt almost like she was eight years old again and that it had just happened. She had eventually dug out the photo album from under her bed that had the few pictures that had survived after the fire. Most of them had been pictures that friends of the family had collected and had given to her after the fire. Every year she took it out and looked over it. It didn’t make the whole thing any easier, but it was something that Amy felt she had to do. She had to remember them. She was looking down at a picture of her older brothers, Micah and Tyler, when she heard the light knock on the door. She looked up, making out the image of her oldest brother, Kade, standing in the doorway. “Hey, Ames. Can I come in?” She nodded, not trusting her voice to talk. “It’s hard to believe they’ve been gone ten years…” Amy couldn’t agree more. Sometimes it just didn’t seem like it could be that long. She looked down, running the back of her hand across her face in an attempt to wipe away the evidence of her tears, Amy never being one that really enjoyed people seeing her so emotional. Her family was different, but with everything that had been going on, the last thing she wanted was to be a burden to them. “I really miss them, Kade,” she said in a small voice. Her voice broke, though, and she knew Kade would hear it.
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Post by kade marshall trent on Mar 11, 2011 23:27:44 GMT -5
Looking down at that old photo album, Kade was suddenly fifteen years old again, running around this town with that fire and zest youth tends to give you, thinking he and his friends were practically bullet proof. They were all at that age were driving was becoming their ultimate goal, football was their life, and girls were what made their world go round. Kade Trent and Micah Orsino had been best friends from the start, and they had all kinds of big plans for their lives. Tyler Orsino, as well as Jared and Hunter, and all been close with Kade and Micah, of course, the five of them being that group that when you saw one, the others were never far behind. But, life doesn’t turn out like you think it will, and the ones that you think will be with you until the end can get taken out of the picture in the blink of an eye. That house fire had taken five lives that night, sparing only Amy because she hadn’t been home. It had been a devastating loss to everyone, and when Kade stopped to think about his friends and how life had been, it still seemed like it had only happened yesterday. “I really miss them, Kade.” He could tell that Amy had been crying, and her voice cracked as she spoke. The smile on his lips faded, and he moved toward the bed again. “Scoot over.” She did, and Kade sat beside of her, stretching his legs out in front of him as he reached to hold up one end of the photo album. “Do you remember much about them?” he asked, nodding toward the picture of Micah and Tyler, the two of them laughing and obviously goofing off in some way. Amy had been eight years old when she had lost them, and Kade knew her memories had to be fuzzy at times because his were too, but he still remembered so much. “Like…that time when Mike and Ty decide they were going to build their own sail boat? It didn’t last two minutes on the water.” Kade chuckled at the memory, clearly able to see Micah lowering himself onto the homemade boat, only for Tyler to jump down and the thing sinking before it had even left the dock. “And I doubt you remember, but Micah and I were supposed to be watching you once at the park, and we kind of…lost you. Here you had fallen asleep in one of the slides, but we knew we’d be in big trouble for losing a whole person.” Kade could distinctly remember Micah asking how much trouble they would be in, and it made him grin.
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Post by amy lynn orsino on Mar 12, 2011 0:14:38 GMT -5
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this post is tagged for kade marshall trent. it is complete and came to be
565 words. impressive, huh? the lyrics found in this post are from the song
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luna, who does not appreciate stealing. additional notes: so sad. =(
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“Scoot over.” Amy moved over to make room for her older brother. He sat down beside of her, lifting up one end of her old photo album. “Do you remember much about them?” Amy shrugged. Sometimes she felt like she could remember them well, and other times she just wasn’t so sure. There were even times she wondered if what she remembered were really memories of them or if they were things she had just made up in her head. She had been so young when she had lost them. Most of her memories were hazy at best, but she tried so hard to hold onto them. “Like…that time when Mike and Ty decide they were going to build their own sail boat? It didn’t last two minutes on the water.” Kade chuckled and Amy couldn’t help but smile a little. The boys had gotten into a lot of crazy things over the years. They had always been good for a laugh. “And I doubt you remember, but Micah and I were supposed to be watching you once at the park, and we kind of…lost you. Here you had fallen asleep in one of the slides, but we knew we’d be in big trouble for losing a whole person.” She didn’t remember that one, but it definitely sounded like something that would happen to Kade and Micah. Chances were Amy had purposely hid herself from the boys because that was just how she was. She rested her head on Kade’s shoulder, turning the page of her photo album and glancing at the pictures. “I remember when you guys used to go out to the lake in the park and set off the firecrackers. And that time Tyler got chased by the seagulls.” Micah had put him up for a dare that time, though she couldn’t quite remember what the conditions of that one had been. Her eye caught a picture of her older sister, Bethany, and a small smile touched her lips. “I remember that time Beth, Mykayla, and I all decided to gang up on you boys because you didn’t want to include us, so we attacked you guys with water balloons in the living room. Mom and dad were so mad because we practically destroyed the house.” Her dark eyes went to the picture next to Beth’s and she pointed to it. “I remember that day, too. Mom and dad had bought me the bike for my birthday and Micah decided he wanted to be the one to teach me to ride.” A small smile came to her lips. “He wasn’t a very good teacher, though, because I ended up hitting a tree and breaking my arm.” Not the best memory, but looking back on it now it was kind of funny. She glanced up at Kade. “Sometimes I wonder what they’d be like now. Micah would probably be involved in something illegal. And Tyler would probably be something like a firefighter or an EMT like Jem. And Beth…” She swallowed the lump in her throat. “She probably would have went off to college and done something great. She was the most promising in the family.” Either way they had never gotten the chance to be any of those things. Life had been cut short, and Amy would never get the chance to know what her siblings would have grown up to be.
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Post by kade marshall trent on Mar 12, 2011 1:02:36 GMT -5
It was sometimes difficult to call up all these old memories, it being enough to make a person want to break down and get lost in that pain of the loss they had suffered so long ago. It had been hard for Kade to get used to life without his best friends, and to accept the fact that they were never coming back. But, somewhere along the way he had realized that it was better to have these memories of them than to have nothing left of the Orsinos at all, and that’s what made this tolerable. While he wished that they were still here, it was just a great honor to have even gotten to spend the time with them that he did. Amy started sharing her own memories, and although there was a bittersweet quality to them, Kade couldn’t help but to smile. Finding those firecrackers had been the best damn thing in the world at that point, Kade and Micah acting like little kids in a candy store and running down to the lake to blast them off. The thing with Tyler and seagulls though had been too funny, as that had been a lot of Micah’s doing by getting Tyler to go taunt the birds somehow. Kade listened as Amy talked, hearing Beth’s name and remembering the sweet sister that almost hadn’t seemed to quite belong with the rest of the Orsino clan, kind of like how Mykayla was with the Trents. She had always been a pretty girl, and would have been a heartbreaker, without a doubt. Kade had to chuckle at the memory of Micah teaching Amy to ride a bike, though. “He wasn’t a good teacher because he put you on the bike and said ‘One, two, three, go!’ and thought that was all the instruction you needed.” Micah had just been…overly optimistic was all. Then Kade listened as Amy mused about what they would all be right now had they lived. Her ideas were pretty spot on, too. “I know Micah would be involved in something illegal. It would probably lack morals, too. Maybe some kind of hit man, drug dealer combination, but with a hippie side. He’d be the mafia boss of Arietta, without a doubt. And Tyler would probably be his second in command by night, but have a job like you said by day. Beth… She would have married Hunter. Micah and I called that one.” For no particular reason at all other than they had seen it coming. Too bad that Beth and Hunter had never gotten that chance. “They would have been great people, no matter what they turned out to be. They were great people… and they loved you a lot even if Micah did break your arm, lose you, and let Ty put that gum in your hair.” Kade moved then, but only so that he could move his arm around Amy’s shoulders and let her move in closer to him, holding his baby sister when he knew that she needed it the most.
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Post by amy lynn orsino on Mar 12, 2011 1:24:21 GMT -5
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this post is tagged for kade marshall trent. it is complete and came to be
424 words. impressive, huh? the lyrics found in this post are from the song
to be determined. this post template was created by the one and only
luna, who does not appreciate stealing. additional notes: so sad. =(
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“He wasn’t a good teacher because he put you on the bike and said ‘One, two, three, go!’ and thought that was all the instruction you needed.” Amy couldn’t help the small smile that crept onto her lips. Micah hadn’t really thought that one through at the time. But that was just Micah. He had never really been one to think a lot of things through. “I know Micah would be involved in something illegal. It would probably lack morals, too. Maybe some kind of hit man, drug dealer combination, but with a hippie side. He’d be the mafia boss of Arietta, without a doubt. And Tyler would probably be his second in command by night, but have a job like you said by day. Beth… She would have married Hunter. Micah and I called that one.” Kade knew her siblings just as well if not better than Amy had, so she took his word on those thoughts. Beth and Hunter was never something she would have thought of, something she had never even considered. Though to think of it now she could just about see it. It was almost how everyone just knew that Kade and Britt were going to be together one day. “They would have been great people, no matter what they turned out to be. They were great people… and they loved you a lot even if Micah did break your arm, lose you, and let Ty put that gum in your hair.” She offered up another small smile, and when Kade moved his arm around her, she snuggled up closer against him. It wasn’t often that moments like these passed between Amy and her oldest brother. He had been absent for a year and since coming back he had been concerned with other things. Like Mykayla. The thought send a cold, dead feeling to the pit of her stomach. Since hearing about Mykayla, Amy couldn’t help but think the worst. And with today, well, those thoughts were worse than ever. “I’m afraid of losing Mykayla, too, Kade,” she whispered softly, that being the first time she had actually voiced the thought. It scared her like nothing else ever could have. After what had happened ten years ago, she always had a fear that one day she’d wake up and her adoptive family would be gone. It was irrational, she had known, but now it seemed like it could really happen, and Amy didn’t think she handle losing another family member. She didn’t think she was strong enough for that.
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Post by kade marshall trent on Mar 12, 2011 13:16:25 GMT -5
Kade’s eyes were still lingering on the photo album page, seeing pretty Beth with those intense eyes of her and the gorgeous smile she had possessed even at that young age. Kade knew what other pictures were in that album, remembering moments from Fourth of July parties the Orsino crew would have with Michael and Melanie being one of the most festive, well-loved couples in Arietta and best friends with Rob and Marion. There were several others of Micah and Tyler, the two of them always hams when it came to camera time and never shy about striking some kind of pose. They had been so full of life, and it still bothered Kade to no end to not know how none of them had made it out of that fire. The fire department had said it had started in the basement with some kind of explosion, and sadly Kade figured it had been Michael down there trying to adjust something so he might not have made it out regardless. But the kids and Melanie…they should have had a chance. He didn’t over work his mind with it now, as knowing what had happened wouldn’t change anything, but ten years ago the thought of it had nearly been enough to put Kade in the ground as well. But, you mourn, and then you realize that just because their lives ended yours can’t. As he held Amy, he knew that he was grateful just to have her and to have the opportunity to take care of her if her own family couldn’t. “I’m afraid of losing Mykayla, too, Kade.” That was something that they were all fearful of right now, and Kade felt a sigh pass through his lips. “I know, Amy, but I don’t think that any of us are going to be able to tell her what to do. You just have to believe that she’s going to be okay.” No one wanted Kay to stop treatment and put herself in jeopardy, but she was bound and determined to make it with that baby. That was when Mykayla herself appeared in the doorway, seeming to have heard her name and offering a smile to them both as she crossed the room and got into Amy’s bed on the other side of the baby sister. Kade watched as his other sister cuddled up to Amy’s opposite side and looked at them both. “I’m not going anywhere,” she told them, sending a meaningful look to Kade before looking at Amy in a reassuring way.
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