If only I had not said goodbye that night. Things might have changed. Things might have gone the other way around. When I went to fetch her in the morning, Mrs. Park told me that she had already left 20 minutes before I got there, and that her dad picked her up.
"You can still reach her kid; I think I heard her dad say that they will drop by on this antique shop in town"
I drove the car as fast as I could and drove all the way to the antique shop. I was standing on the other road in front the shop. I saw her and her dad, who was, then, leaving the scene.
"Kate!"
I called her name. She saw me and cried. Her dad, not knowing who I was, reacted and gripped her. In response, she ran towards me and had crossed half the road when, out of nowhere, a speeding car hit her.
Everything happened so fast, I was shocked, my heart sunk. I ran towards her and held her in my arms. There was blood; I didn't know what I felt. Looking at her like that drove my sanity away. It was my fault. I cried and screamed and held her. I can't let go, I just can't let go. She was only a little conscious and half breathed my name.
"Sean..."
That was the last word I heard from her. How can I forget? How can I not remember? It seemed as if only an instance had passed, but the ambulance was already there. Her dad took her away as the medics assisted, while a few people in town merely watched.
I ran, on foot, to the hospital where they took her, and I waited outside the ER. Her dad told me that she had a 50/50 chance of survival; he told me that he never liked the idea of Kate always coming back to my town, considering the accident that had happened to her before. Night came and still no news from the doctor. Kate's dad told me to go home and to come back. I never wished to leave her side, but her dad insisted.
Early morning, I went back to the hospital, hoping to hear news about Kate.
She was gone. The doctor said that her parents already took her body back home. Earth seemed to go down on me, I was totally crushed. I felt dead inside. Then the doctor handed me a letter from Kate's dad
"I know our daughter loves you, but you need to forget and move on, she would wish the same thing for you."
How am I going to forget her? Even if the mind can not remember, the heart does. The love I still feel for her was not ordinary, it is more than that. I love her; I didn't know how to live a normal life again. How can I function at all without her? How can I face the morning with out her smile and the night without her touch, and see the future, knowing that she was not there anymore?
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