~ A M E L I A ~ It took a lot of convincing on Everett’s part, but he wore me down, and I said yes to going on a trip away. Part of me knew I would say yes, I wanted to scream it to him and jump into his arms when he first suggested it, but I was so distraught from our conversation that I couldn’t be happy, not really. I couldn’t be happy knowing that I was going to lose someone who became so important to me, someone who, without meaning to, became my rock. When I lost hope, when I lost everyone around me, he was there. He was always there. Him convincing me became stronger when he promised we would focus most of the weekend on researching to break the curse and find my parents. Unless he had something of use hiding wherever he was taking me, I didn’t know what a change of location woul

