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[12] Memories
~Kara's POV~
Sitting on the docks overlooking the calm river under the town's bridge, I stared into oblivion as silent tears dripped down my face and I travelled in my thoughts.
Today marks exactly a decade since my Mom left, on the October 14th 2005, and left me a pink box, this pink box which I have kept with me since forever.
Holding it now as memories flooded through my vain mind, memories of the day at the flee market, when we have bought everything the box now contained.
The last time she read to me, our hide and seek that very night before she left with a man who bear the mark of the group I dread the most... Vipers...
Everything seemed to be happening so fast after then, and now here I was ten years after she had left, broken and still in search of answers to why everything had to happen the way it did.
Opening the box, I found a locket that had a picture of bot
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