High School Musical - Next Gen (Complete)

Chapter 24

-SUMMERS POV-

The big smile could not wipe off of my face, nothings ruining my amazing mood.

I didn't know what to do so I'm sitting on my laptop, half watching the intense game of Call of Duty between Luke and Damien and half playing space invaders, still the smile is not coming off of my face.

"Thumb cramp! Thumb cramp! Avenge me!" Damien yells and I giggle at his serious tone and also because, in my amazing mood, I find everything funny.

"UGH! I just died!" Luke lets out the loudest sigh of frustration I've ever heard and I chuckle a little louder.

"How on earth is this funny?" Damien asks, they both turn around and glare at me.

"I'm just in a happy mood" I shrug with a big grin.

"Yeah. Yeah. Kat told us after we asked her why you were hugging and whispering to Max" Luke rolls his eyes.

"I find it weird, what do you see in him anyways" Damien asks, raising an eyebrow.

"She what?" I exclaim and they shrug like its no big deal "just don't say anything to Dad, okay?" I ask in my whiny voice.

"Don't tell Dad what?" Dad walks into the room and places the keys in the key bowl and chucks his over-sized hoodie over the side of the couch and sits on the arm chair.

"That your- uhh- pancakes suck" I give him a sympathetic smile.

"Her and Max are a thing now" Damien crosses his fingers on his left hand, still holding his controller in his other hand.

"Oh really" Dad smirks at me.

"I hate you" I stare bluntly at Damien but I feel my cheeks burn a deep shade of pink.

"Put the news on" Dad flicks his head at the TV, Damien groans but hesitantly turns the Play Station off and turns on the News.

"But its just the boring mid-day news" Damien scrunches his nose in disgust.

"And we just got breaking News that a plane has crashed over the Pacific" my gut sinks and my cheeks that were once red are now white "Search parties are trying to locate swept away bodies and the police are now calling the families that have lost loved ones." The formal middle-aged man says.

"You dont think?" Damien asks and I'm scared to even move.

"I doubt-" Dad was interrupted by, and on Que, a phone ring.

"Hello?" Dad asks after clearing his throat, my throat is starting to go dry and my eyes are starting to tear up "okay" dads voice cracks and I feel all my walls crashing down, the baby, my beautiful, generous mother, my counselor, my shoulder to cry on, my world. "Thank you, bye" dad hangs up the phone and the tears start rolling.

My hands shake, my ears heat up, my throat throbs, my hearts tears into two, three, five, nine, forty, one thousand, a million pieces.

I haven't just lost one person, I've lost three. My mum, my baby sibling, and my best friend.

As the silent tears start to roll down my cheeks Dad lets out a humongous yell that could be heard by the whole block, hes out done Damien's stupid frustration yell. He kicked the couch and fell to the ground in complete anger and sadness, he kneeled and cried into his hands.

He lost more than me, his wife, his soul mate, his child, his best friend, and the mother of his children. He was going to be living off only his strength and not the strength of two hearts.

"Why me, why me, why me" he whispered and rocked back and forth, tears dripping from his hands onto the cold wooden floor.

I sit on the couch in shock, my hands in my lap, tear stains down my cheeks and drops of water dripping onto my jeans.

What am I meant to do? How do I get her back? We don't even know if the baby was a boy or a girl! As the tears fall even faster and larger, which I didn't even think was possible, the sobs begin to kick in I run up stairs away from all the silent tears and begin to cry and yell.

"Why is this happening to me?" I cry. "What did she do to deserve death?" I yell but just get down on my knees and cry into my hands. "she didn't deserve it, she never meant to hurt anyone, she never wanted to hurt anyone, she was happy and healthy."

Once there were no more tears to cry and no more words to be yelled I fell asleep on top of my bed, the sheets on one side of the room and the Donner on the other side, I may have thrown them there out of rage.

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I woke up, it was dark out side, my curtains were shut and I was tucked into bed quite nicely. This could only mean one thing, grandma was here.

I walked downstairs but at the sight of all the tissues and the sound of sobs I broke down again, remembering what had happened.

"Shes gone" Silent tears fall once again and the warming arms of a familiar scent wrapped around me, tight enough to know that he cares but not too tight that I couldn't breath.

"Its okay, shhh" He strokes my head and I press my head into his chest, my arms wrapping around him too.

He was home again. His presence, the way he held me, the way he stroked my head and told me everything was going to be okay made me feel calm.

"You're home" I whisper and I feel him nod.

"I'm sorry I left" He kissed my forehead and picked me up bridal style, my vision still blurry from all the tears cluttering my eyes.

"She broke down at the bottom of the stairs, can we get a hot chocolate and a packet of Pods in here" Max asks a skinny man in maybe his late thirties whom is dressed in a white apron attire.

"Ill take care of you, Ill learn how to make good pancakes and Ill get you ready in time before school and you can talk to me about anything" Dad cries as he hugs me and I cry with him.

"I don't care about any of that stuff, just as long as we're all together i'll be happy." I cry with a small, fake smile.

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