I drove to school in a somber mood, it was a far cry from what I was feeling earlier before I got my parents' gift, it was sweet of them to prepare my gift even if they were not going to be here for my eighteenth.

I was never removing the locket from my neck, I saw it as the piece of them they never left behind and it showed that they were always going to be here for me no matter what.

My eyes welled up as I thought of them again, I quickly switched my thoughts to that of a happy ...