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Nightmares of Hope Segment 3/5: Unbreakable Chain
* Dedicated to all the Sister Relationships out there
* Dedicated to my Two loving Sisters

"I'm wearing that necklace today," Sally told herself from under her breath. Each morning that she got dressed for school she always gave herself one decent look from her cluttered dresser’s mirror. She and her sister Hannah shared a room like most things except for a skinny gold chain of a pure gold heart that had been off limits to Sally from the moment Hannah brought it home from wherever it came from. It hung abandoned on the corner of that dresser for at least a good six months before Sally decided to take a chance and clasp it around her neck, before officially leaving the house and risk another lunch detention for being late. Throughout the day Sally received a lot of compliments on her new piece of jewelry, but did her best not to flaunt it because she and her sister attended the same middle school. Hannah only appeared to be older than her by a grade level in school, but they shared the same lunch period. Sally always sat by the window in a corner of the cafeteria so she could read and eat in peace.

This time she decided to pass on the reading because she had a homework assignment due that next class period that still needed to be completed. She'd been too preoccupied with...