Lost in My Mind

Chapter 2

"I don't know what's gotten into her." Her mom tells her friend Ansley.

"Well, maybe she feels like you are invading her personal space and wants to go and show you she can handle herself." Ansley said.

Ansley, knowing what her friend was going through, said that as gentle as she could. She didn't want her friend to feel as if she was on her daughter's side. Ansley had ginger hair, with eyes as blue as the Caribbean ocean. Her voice was as soft as the slight sound of the moving river the breeze that was carrying. You could barely hear it but Ansley and her friend loved listening to it while taking a walk in the woods bursting with color and screaming for attention. Yet nobody seemed to notice the vibrant colors.

"Tammy, you need to face the facts. Your little girl isn't so little anymore and she feels that she needs her freedom without her mommy. She feels that she has to show you that she can handle herself out in the big world." Ansley finally said after a long silence between them had her feeling like she was supposed to say something to make Tammy feel better. But it didn't.

Tammy sighed and went to stand up but sat back down.

She looked at Ansley with eyes that Ansley had never seen before. Tammy's eyes were watering. She was crying. And as the silence grew longer tammy was still crying. It seemed as if she couldn't stop. Tears just kept flowing and didn't stop until she heard a cry for help.

She quickly stood up and the tears were gone. It looked as if she had never cried in the first place. She ran when she heard the second cry for help. She and Ansley ran as fast as their legs could go. They were running pretty fast for two girls in a dress and flats.

"Why are we running so fast and why are we running period?!" Ansley yelled as she tripped on a log.

"Ow, shit! Tammy slow down I just twisted my ankle!" Ansley yelled desperately really wanting Tammy to slow down.

"You just stop running and stay there while I go see who's calling for help. When I get done, I'll come back and see how bad you twisted your ankle!" Tammy yelled still running as fast as she could.

When she arrived at the spot where she heard the cries for help she stopped. Ansley who didn't listen to Tammy ran into Tammy who wasn't paying any attention to Ansley's question. Tammy looked around. She didn't see one thing. There was no one there. She collapsed on the grass.

''Tammy! What is going on!?'' Ansley asked.

"I thought I heard someone calling for help." Tammy said breathlessly. "I thought it was my daughter."

"Let's go home, come on. We have had enough today. Let's go home and take a nap." Ansley told Tammy.

They were heading on home at sundown, when a deer jumped out right in front of the car. The car swerved left and right. Ansley, who was driving, could not seem to regain control of the steering wheel. The car hit a side rail and flipped over. Tammy hit her head and died instantly. Ansley hit her head off the window and went unconscious.

Ansley woke up in the hospital and sat up. Breathing heavily like she had just ran a mile.

"Where am I? Where is Tammy?! Where in the hell is my best friend!?"

"No no no no. Just lay back down sweetie you do not need to sit up."

A nurse was pushing Ansley to lay back down.

"I will not lay down until you tell me where Tammy is right now!"

"Tammy.........Didn't.............Make....It........I'm sorry."

"No!! Why!!! She has a daughter. Wasn't there anything you could have done?!"

"No. There was nothing we could have done she died instantly."