Forgive Me...... I Died

Kemanora loves her family with all her heart.  She holds onto them dearly and can't let them go.  Can't imagine life without them.  Would die for her family's safety.  But on her birthday, Kemanora's family leaves for the store before Kemanora wakes up.  They never come back.  No one knows what happened to them.  One second they were in the car.... the next second they were gone.  Gone forever.
Kemanora is left broken, shattered.  Kemanora is like a ghost.  She can't think, everything is dizzying.  It's like she's under a spell, now that her family is gone.  It's like she herself is gone.  She just walks around with her eyes glazed and thinks and wonders.
Now, Kemanora had friends, many.  Cristeen Wiler, Cristine Winter, Summer Somer, Summer Lancing, Candace Rigged, Broclyn Joyson, Mary Kiley, and many more.  And when Kemanora stops attending school, these friends get scared and worried.  Every day they get more worried, and more worried, and more worried.  Finally, they go to check on her, and find the ghost-like girl she has turned into.  Her once beautiful brown curls are now straight and tangled, faded to a paler color.  Her once healthy, strong, tannish skin is now almost white and soft.  Her eyes are no longer blue, they have changed to a hypnotized-like grey.  She's super skinny and trips over her own feet.
Cristeen, Cristine, Summer S, Summer L, Candace, Broclyn and Mary are horrified by what their once healthy, strong friend has turned into.  They decide to run away to find Kemanora's family, for a question keeps playing in their minds..... Are they really dead?