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Runaway Sister

Rosemary is a seventeen year old with a lot of responsibilities. She is to take over her father's family business, to add to that her younger sister, Bethany, has run away. God, help her remain sane.

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Prologue

She remains still, motionless. She is standing in her sister's, now abandoned, room. Staring at it thoroughly as if it could reveal the way to get her back. She doesn't know how to react, what to feel. Anger? Frustration? Rage? What she does know, is that her younger sister had ran away. She had most likely escaped the house in the morning, when she was still asleep.

"How? Why? When?" she asks to maids that were near her. But she knows that the two would know as much as she does. Nothing.

It didn't matter that her parents were Bethany's legal guardians, Rosemary still felt responsibly, guilty, and her worries never ceased. She didn't know why Bethany would do something like this, she didn't know when she started thinking about it, but had.

Looking at the letter in her hand, one that Bethany left on her bed. She reread it, adding to it another time read, six times already. She didn't bother to read it correctly or carefully anymore. It read.

"Dear Rosemary:

I'm sorry for this to you and causing you so much trouble. If you read this letter, you should know that I've left already. I'm sorry but I've never asked much of you, only this one time, I ask you to let me go and let me be. I will return at once I'm done this duty. So do not worry about me. Until we meet again, you have the right to scold me all day long and give me the world's longest lecture. But for now, just think about yourself, okay?

Love you forever, Bethany Arrowsmith."

The note itself was so agonising to her. That she carefully folded it and put it in her pocket. Making a note to put it somewhere safer. The meaning of the letter was hurtful, even if she underlined words to make her point. What scared her the most was the 'Love you forever', it almost sounded like a farewell, a parting for good.

What if she never planned on coming back? What if someone hurt her? What if she's starving outside? What if someone tried to – No, she thought. She wasn't going to sit here and let her sixteen year sister do something stupid. She's bring her back, she felt the sun touch her pale skin. It was truly mocking her, a beautiful day, but she felt like crap.