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From that moment on, wherever Katie went, Tyler followed. Determined to help her, he watched her very closely. Tyler noticed how Katie was always aware of her surroundings. Also, she would take a mass number of pills. They could be doctor prescribed, but it worried Tyler. No one takes that many pills. Surely there was an explanation, but what if she truly used them illegally. Would she admit to it, especially to Tyler?

Every time she stepped foot in a room, she examined the room; top to bottom. She knew how many people were in the room. Katie also took note on all of the exits. Tyler could not help but notice. After watching her, Tyler decided it would probably be a good time to have a nice chat with her brother, Jackson. Tyler had a couple questions that needed to be answered.

“As your best friend, also your brother, have you ever truly watched your sister? I know that sounds extremely weird especially since you are her brother, but have you ever watched her? Does she really take that many pills throughout the day?”

Jackson just stared at Tyler and thought about it. “I would have to say no. She is a little different during the first days when we find her, but after that she is back to normal. If you are referring to this place, well it is new to her. The pills, her doctor has he on a zillion, but I will ask her about it next time I see her.”

“I completely understand being in a new place, but still. Over the last couple of days, I have been paying close attention to her. Every time she steps foot into a room, she looks for an exit. It looks as if she is taking mental notes about the room, especially the people in the room. At first I thought it was just a tactic she had picked up over time, but if you watch her facial expressions it says differently. She is guarded at first, then mentally relaxes.” Tyler explained.

“After mom died, dad starting working more. At the time, it explained a lot. He lost his wife, the love of his life, the mother of his children. He is allowed his own way of coping. The way he coped though made him forget about Katie and I. Couple of months later, his company made tons of money and we were moving to Chicago, Illinois. Out of everyone in the house, Katie was one of the closet one to our mother. So naturally she suffered a little with depression. Also as a kid she had anxiety problems, but you are already aware of that. Especially when we would all play together and she would have an attack. Anyway, we moved to Chicago, Illinois. It was horrible. We used to live in a small town and we moved to a big city. On top of everything, we were not used to the cold. We all adapted in our own way. Dad worked all the time and tried to come home every night. I joined a gang and lived with them most days. Then a year later dad kicks the bucket and dies on both of us. When dad died it proved difficult, with the company and an angry fourteen-year-old. Imagine being only nineteen and having to deal with that. Naturally Katie being Katie, she let me live my life and I had someone take care of her. I would occasionally check up on her, but, for the most part, she was set for life. With the company and the money I sent her, she was fine. Or at least that is what I told myself. This was around the time that I moved in officially with my gang in Chicago.” Jackson started explaining. “It had been a couple of months since I talked to her and I got a call in the middle of the night. It was our head maid at the house, Samantha. She explained to me that Katie had not talked to anyone in the house for over three days and she was extremely worried. So I let the house and drove home. I figured I would stay with her for awhile because I had not spoke to her in a few months. When I arrive at our house technically, since everything was in my name at the time. Samantha informed me that Katie was sleeping. I did not want to wake her, so I just hung out with the staff. It was several hours later, around eight at night when one of the cooks started to get worried because Katie had not been down at all in a while. I volunteered to go and check on her. Well when I got in there, there were pills laying all over the room. My fifteen-year-old sister, the one for who I was responsible for tried to kill herself. I did not even get a note, that is how much I mattered to her. Honestly, I just started crying. One of the butlers came up with a tray and found both of us. I was cradling Katie like a little baby and she just laid there ice cold. So to end this sad story we were in the hospital for the next week. Naturally, Social Services got involved and I told them I would not be leaving this time.” Jackson was almost in tears when retelling this story. He still could not imagine what would have happened if the maid had not called him earlier. Tyler had this serious face on. He could not imagine receiving that phone call and having to go to her funeral. There are some things in life people don’t want to do and Tyler realized that was one of them.

Jackson continued with his story. “I was involved in her life. She was a part of this dance therapy exercise thing. The only way I know to explain it as she danced as therapy. It paid off because when she dances now it makes you cry, she is so good. Back to the point, word got around that I had a sister and so the kidnappings started.”

Tyler fully understood Jackson now. He now understood why Jackson did certain things. Although Tyler has never thought about killing himself, he only imagined Katie was really desperate in the attempt. He fully supported living life, but Katie must have been pretty bad. He would try to understand for her.

“Has she ever tried it again?” Tyler was just wondering aloud. He did not really want to know the answer, but at the same time; he did. If she had in fact tried it again, he wanted her to get help. He at least needed to know if he should watch her more closely.

“To my knowledge, no. She has had some low points in life. Then she dances and it is like it all goes away. It does not exactly explain a lot, but it helps her. It helps her more than I can.” Jackson replied. “Now she takes a lot of depression and anxiety pills, so I think we are doing pretty good. Now in the weird circumstances when she is off of them, I pay attention to her. But we have not had a situation like that in awhile. Thank god.”

Tyler had to sit down after hearing all of this. The precious little girl he fell in love with, he could not imagine some of the things she had to endure. Tyler had wondered just how much she was not telling Jackson. If a person did that to her, what’s to say they did not do worse.

“Now she dances with a company and enjoys it. When she was a teenager I would send her overseas to some dance camps. She thoroughly enjoyed it, to my knowledge. Katie always wanted to go back. I guess she took all her emotions and put it somewhere productive.” With that, Jackson walked away.