Without You

Chapter 48

"I loved my parents more than anything, they were always happy and made time for me and my sisters. Growing up my older Sara played soccer, and was very good at it. I didn't want to follow her foot steps although I enjoyed soccer, another sport drew me in more, football. I told my dad and he taught me everything he knew. I was a little short for my age so never played football in a club or anything, just at home, or with my best friend Haley. We spent every Sunday during the football season watching the games. The Pittsburgh Steelers were his favorite team, and mine too."

"My parents loved us. My mom would let us get our way most of the time growing up. The only thing we let her have complete control of was food. She loved food and always made sure we had tons of it. She never let us down, always there to catch our falls, clean up our mistakes. The perfect mother."

"Haley and her family went missing 5 weeks before the accident. No one knew where they went, Sara was very upset also because her best friend Ann, who was her sister disappeared also. I had no more friends and was ignored all the time, mainly it sucked not having someone to confide into. She was taken away and her family was killed. She's still out there."

"My mom, Amy; dad, Bret; and sister, Sara died when I was nine. Sara was only eleven, today she would be seventeen. They were driving back from Sara's soccer game at night. I stayed home with Mae my sister who was seven at the time. I called them and then they hung up. Someone called me at 7:13, I looked at the phone and didn't recognize the number so didn't pick up. It got later and later, to keep Mae from panicking I told her they probably went out to dinner. The same number called for the 4th time tonight so I picked up, it was 7:34."

"It was a police officer named Samantha Matthews who wanted us to go to the hospital but wouldn't tell us why."

"When I told Mae she wrinkled her nose and said, 'I don't like hospitals they smell bad and they are very...... sad, no one is ever happy at a hospital.'"

"I laughed a little and then we sat in a silence. 10 minutes later someone pulled into our driveway. Mae and I got in the car and then the man, who's name I find out later is Cal, dropped us off at the hospital. Samantha was there and told me the worst news I had ever heard in my nine years of life."

"My parents and Sara were stuck by a drunk driver."

"My dad was driving, stopped at a red light when a pick-up truck swerved into his land and struck them, killing my dad instantly, mother at 6:58 at the hospital, and Sara was still in a coma."

"Mae didn't truly understand they were gone. We went to see Sara. She was lying there, motionless. Her long, straight, brown hair lying on her sides. Her blue eyes were shut. She still looked beautiful. "

"Then it hit me, Mae and I didn't have parents and we were alone."

"Even if Sara was ok then we couldn't live on our own. She was 11. Mae cried in Sara's hospital room until my grandparents came. She was only 7."

"I had never met them before, my mom never talked about them to me and I never knew why. Apparently they got in a fight when my mom, Amy found out she was pregnant with Sara. My mom was only 17 when she got pregnant. They didn't talk since that day, they never met us."

"My grandmother hugged Mae and told us everything was going to be okay. But she lied, my life went down hill from there and so did Mae's."

"Mae and I moved in with our grandparents who lived in Maine, away from my home in the Adirondacks. Sara woke up from the coma 1 week later, only for Mae and I to get there, her to tell us she loved us more than anything, and then die, while still holding my hand."

"Mae cried for days, I refused to eat, I couldn't sleep. My grandfather told me something was wrong with me because I didn't cry, I had my own way of mourning, I did it silently, I stared at the ceiling Mae and I shared."