By: Elizabeth

Prologue

What I knew that day would never compare to what I learned 1 year later, and what I knew that day would never save me from what happened. I’m Lisa, a 12 year old girl who attends Brook Middle School. I live in Phoenix Arizona, in an apartment with my dad. I don’t have a mother, and my grandma disappeared. My dad has cancer, and my grandpa can’t remember anything. He doesn’t know that I’m alive and he doesn’t know that dad has cancer. He’s in the hospital right now being closely watched. I don’t know how my mother died and my dad refuses to tell me, and one day my grandma just disappeared. I’m a curious girl that looks for answers. I have a lot of questions and I jot them in my notebook. A few of them I got when I was reading the newspaper like this one:

What color are dinosaurs?

Others are about me and my personal life, like these:

How did mom die?

What did my mom look like?

Where did my grandmother go?

Sometimes I have dreams that lead me a tiny bit forward, but then I’m always back to where I started. Sometimes I even have visions, like sometimes when I’m writing in my journal and when I look outside I see a little girl and a woman playing ball. It takes me a minute to realize each time that that little girl is me and that woman is my mom, but every time I realize that they disappear, just like my grandma. Some how all the things I imagine and everything in my life ties together.

Chapter 1

I woke up in the middle of the night, I had the same dream, I’ve been having for the past 5 years. The dream where I’m looking for my family. I’m trapped in a room with no doors, keys, or color. I look around, and then I sit down and start to cry, and then I hear a voice, soon I realize that it’s my mothers! “Please don’t cry. You may not remember me, but I’m always with you…” and then it fades away on that last word.