Glen walked into Spencer’s room and sat the girl on her bed while Ashley and Clay came in behind them and shut the door. Spencer jumped from her bed and tried to run to the door but Clay stood in the way, “Let me out!” she whined.

“Spencer you need to go back to sleep,” Glen said trying to lead his sister back to bed.

“Why, you guys aren’t sleeping?” she looked at each of them as if demanding them to come up with an explanation.

“That’s because we’re uh older….and um…” Glen was fumbling with his words, because in reality she was as old as them.

“Nice Glen,” Clay shook his head, “Come here.” He said to his sister as he sat on the bed and patted the mattress, she was hesitant at first but complied none the less, “Now why don’t you want to sleep?”

“Dream,” she said in a small voice which broke Ashley’s heart.

“What was it about?” the brunette came around and sat on the other side of the bed, stroking the girl’s hair as she gentle laid the girl on her back. Spencer struggled for a minute, obviously not wanting to lie down but soon relaxed.

“Dark…loud noises like pop…pop…pop, it hurt my ears,” tears started trickling down her flushed cheeks, “Glen and Clay had red sticky stuff on them and not moving and you were there…” Spencer pointed at Ashley, “You not moving either and I couldn’t move and mommy was there but she just walked away, why did she leave me?”

By now the three teens were trying to hold back tears listening to the blond sob into Ashley’s shoulder, “What now?”

“What do you usually do to calm Spencer down?” Glen asked as he rubbed his sister’s back in what he hoped to be a soothing motion while Clay kept his hand on her leg to let her knew that he was there.

“I don’t know, sing usually…”

“That’s what mom used to do,” Clay smiled slightly but it soon fell as he heard the front door slam shut. Spencer sprang up and yelled for her mom while her body shook with tears, Ashley gentle pulled her back down, “Remember when mom and dad had to leave late one night and she couldn’t sleep?”