Her past invisioned her family when it was normal. When everyone was there. When she was around her sisters and her Dad, she stayed strong for them. She knew she had to, because she felt if she didn't everything would fall apart. Seven years had passed slowly for Sam. Probably the seven worst years of her life. In those seven years the two people that she loved most had left her. The first one was her Mother. Seven years ago her mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor. When the discovered it, it had already taken over half of her brain. She had a slim chance, but she still decided to have surgery to try and fix the problem, the surgery did nothing but killed her half way through it. After her Mom died, everything changed. Sam was nine at the time. Her mother was her best friend, she was the one who taught Sam how to surf. Their family had always been very close, even after her mother passed away, but there was a hole that was missing. The only person Sam truly had after her mother died was her twin brother, Riley. They were closer then close. They got through their mother's death, but after she died Riley wasn't the same. When they started highschool he started hanging around with a different crowd, Sam suspected he was getting into drugs, but she had no way to prove it. Then one night when they were fifteen, Sam got up to use the bathroom only to find the door to be locked and no one was answering when she knocked. She shoved the door open only to see her brother with a needle beside him and he was lying against the wall. A note lay on his dresser adressed to Sam. It was the only one that was there. Basically it explained that he missed their Mom too much and the things he had gotten into had eventually caught up with him and made him realize if his mother was alive she wouldn't exactly be happy about it. He felt like he had failed her and he couldn't take it. He missed her too much. Now sixteen year old Sam was finally accepting the fact that her brother was unhappy, she still felt the tinge of abandonment. He killed himself a year ago, but it still felt like yesterday. Sam missed them both more then anything. She sat on the beach for hours. Thinking. Thinking about everything, from Nate, to her friends and then to her Mom and Riley. Her head was getting heavy so she just lay back on the sand and watched the stars untill she passed out.