Weenie Roast and Memories

 Carly, Day 52, February 21

It was the day before the Spooky Night Holiday and Carly had a bummer school day and came home really sad. She was planning on having her friends over but it was also TV Season Premiere night. She decided to take care of that before having her party. Then there was a knock on the door and Carly didn't even recognize who it was, but it was Nordhaven Cebolla (Carly's watcher's fault). She was also looking pretty sad. Look at the two sad faces. 

Carly let her in and she gave Carly a present which did make Carly happier. I forgot to look what it was but it said it was a rare plant. That is very thoughtful! 

Carly decided to go ahead and invite everyone else over. She wanted to do a weenie roast again because she only got silver on the last one. 

Everyone got around the fire. It was great seeing everyone together. 

Jace and Tae had a plate of grilled food and the girls hung out by the fire. 

Jace: What do you think they are all talking about? 
Tae: I don't know but Carly is a pretty good cook.

Carly: I like that new look, Cebolla!
Honey: I think I burned this marshmallow but I am still going to eat it.
Cebolla: Lilith, don't get too close to the fire. 

Tae: I burned my marshmallow too, but I am eating it.

Carly: Hey Jace, I saw you checking out Honey the other day.
Jace: I can look at Honey. She's beautiful and you won't go out with me.
Carly: That's just because our watchers won't let us. 
Irene: This is awkward.

Jace: Yeah, it's our watchers fault.

After the party ended and Carly was ready for bed, she looked at the picture she had found earlier that day. She thought she had lost it and was relieved to find it. 

Carly: Oh Austin, what were you trying to tell me that night? 

When Austin and Carly were at the school, they weren't like the other kids. The school was really for wealthy kids. All of the kids except for Austin and Carly would go home for holidays and summer break. Austin was like Carly. He had lost his parents when he was just an infant. He said his parents both fell to their deaths trying to find a remote place for all of them to live. When they went to climb the mountain, they left him with an elderly woman he called Aunt Leona , but he was sure she wasn't really his Aunt. Aunt Leona could see things that other people couldn't see. She knew his parents hadn't made it to the top. She raised him well, but kept him mostly hidden during the day. He didn't know why until he found a letter in Aunt Leona's desk. 

Austin used to come and get Carly out of bed at night to go look at the sky. He would always know if there was a meteor shower or a full moon or some other astral phenomenon to go look at it. But even more than that, they would talk about everything. It was the last night they were outside that he started to tell Carly about the letter.

Austin: I was digging around in Aunt Leona's desk and I found this old letter.
Carly: Whose was it?
Austin: It was addressed to my father but I didn't know who it was from. But it was a lot of stuff that the person knew about me and my father. 
Carly: Like what?
Austin: Well, I did find out that my name is-

And then Miss Eliza found them.

Miss Eliza: Austin, you cannot keep waking this young lady up to come outside with you.
Carly: It's OK, I like to.
Miss Eliza: I'm going to take you both back up to bed.
Austin (whispering): I'll tell you tomorrow Carly

But the next night never came for Austin to tell her. The next evening, someone came to pick him up from the school in the middle of the night. That is all Miss Eliza knew. The headmistress had told Miss Eliza it was family. 

Carly still wondered as she stared at the photo: 

Carly thinking: What was he going to tell her? His name is what? And then it dawned on her. His name isn't Austin Woodson. That's what he was going to say. That's why he appeared to vanish and there was no trace of him ever existing. But if that is true, it makes it even worse. I don't even know what name to look for. Does he ever think of me? Does he still have the picture I gave him?

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And somewhere far, far away from Gibbi Point a young man kept hidden for many years, prepares to fulfill his destiny.