HeY gUyS i'M bAcK! Missed me? No? Okay, then... :(

This is the sequel to my other fanfic, Is This Supposed to Happen?. If you guys didn't read that, please read that one first.

Thanks for reading, and let's get on with the sequel, It Happened Anyway. Hope you guys enjoy! ^^

It was the middle of the night.

Sophie jerked up from her bed, coughing. She knew immediately what it was.

Fire. Something was on fire. Quickly, she jumped off her bed, grabbed a towel from the bathroom, pressed it against her nose, and opened the door.

The whole house was already in flames.

"Grady!" She shouted, trying her best to ignore the blazing heat and the smoke searing pain in her eyes. "Grady? Edaline?" She couldn't stop coughing. "Edaline!"

"Sophie!" She heard Edaline's voice scream. "Down here! Hurry!"

Dodging the flames, she started to run downstairs.

Oh no. Oh no no no no. Oh NO.

The stairs were broken.

"Edaline! I can't go down!"

"You're going to have to jump, Sophie!"

Jump down two floors? Hell no. "I can't!"

"Sophie, I can't lose you, too! Please, jump!"

The voice crack. She meant Jolie.

"I owe it to Edaline to survive." she whispered to herself. "I owe it to Edaline to survive." And she jumped. Landed on her ankle.

"Sophie!" Edaline rushed to Sophie's side as she gritted her teeth in pain. "Oh my gosh, are you okay?"

"Yeah." Sophie grunted as Edaline took Sophie's arm and put it around her neck. The two carried each other out the door.

"Edaline? Where's Grady?" Sophie gasped when she accidentally stubbed her toe on a rock outside, sending waves of pain through her ankle.

"Grady's at work."

"Oh, thank goodness."

Sophie and Edaline looked at Havenfield in flames. High fire crawled up to the sky, threatening to devour the stars. It brought her back to Kenric and the everblaze. Tears stung her eyes.

"Are the animals okay?" Sophie cleared the bile in her throat.

"Yes. The fire didn't touch the pastures."

The only thing that filled the silence was the pops of fire and creaking of wood. Havenfield was destroyed. Her home was destroyed. Everything in it; all her photos of her friends, her school things, furniture, even the paintings that Keefe gave her. Everything.

"What happened?" Sophie whispered, too stunned to speak louder.

"Now what." Edaline audibly swallowed, the bob on her throat moving up and down. "Who."

She pointed to the door. Some of it was up in flames, but some of it was still intact.

In white, it was written.

Here lives a sinner.

And a sign of a U with a vertical line through the middle of it.