Life and Death [Girl Meets World]

Chapter 26

~five days later~

Rowan's P.O.V

It has been five days since Gabrielle has gotten her new phone. Luckily for me, she's not on it all the time like most kids with phones these days.

Today is one of those days where you wish you didn't have to get up. Saturday, October 23, 2015. ((yes, basically day in the future, but I realized that now. my bad.)) Today is the day of Peyton's funeral.

The funeral starts at 11:00; exactly 2 hours from now. I'm already dressed in a black and white dress. The white is from the stomach up and the black is the rest of the dress. The straps are two finger length only because I hate strapless dresses.

I walk into Gabrielle's room to see her laying in bed reading a book.

"Gabrielle it's time to get dressed." I say to her.

"I'm already dressed." She says getting out from under the covers. She's wearing an all black dress with a white string tie that wraps around the waist.

"That looks very pretty on you, Gabrielle."

"Thank you. Same to you."

"Thanks. Shall I go make us breakfast?"

"May I please make breakfast, Rowan? I haven't been able to since I got here and we just went food shopping two days ago."

"Okay, okay." I say in defeat. "You can make breakfast. But please try not to destroy the house." We both start to giggle.

"I'll try not to." Gabrielle walks over to me. "But you'll have to stay in your room until I'm finished."

"Okay." I say and walk to my room. I climb back into bed and start rereading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to pass the time.

~approximately 30 minutes~

"Okay Rowan you can come out now!" I hear Gabrielle shout.

"I'll be there in a minute!" I say, putting a bookmark back into my book and placing it on my dresser.

I walk into the kitchen to see the table set nicely. On the two plates, there are three pancakes each, two sausage patties, at least three pieces of bacon, and hashbrowns.

"Wow. I'm very impressed Gabrielle."

"Thank you." She sits down in her chair and I do the same.

I start eating a small piece of everything. "Mmm. This looks as good as it tastes."

~at the funeral~

Gabrielle and I walk into the funeral house. There's a line to walk into Peyton's funeral, but it's a very small line.

I whisper to Gabrielle "I can't do this."

"Yes you can." She whispers back.

We get up to the end of the line and walk inside. By now, I'm practically shaking.

"We should go say our goodbyes." Gabrielle whispers to me.

I look up towards the casket to see a young woman standing there, tears running down her face. Gabrielle and I walk over to the girl.

"Hi. I'm Rowan and this is Gabrielle. What's your name?"

"Your... R-Rowan?" She says between tears.

"Yeah."

"I'm A-Amanda."

The next thing I know, I'm on the ground.