Memories

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Three days later, grandma and grandad had arrived at the house in Devon. Gail, David and Bethany had gone home. Today Michelle and I had to go to Bella's school to collect her stuff.
"Isla darling, Michelle's ready" grandma said as she popped her head around my bedroom door.
"Ok I'll be down in a minute" I said and she left. I put on my favourite hoodie and put my phone in my pocket before calling zizzi, who i had been inseparable from since the accident, and was lying on my bed. She followed. I walked outside and saw Bella's bedroom door which I had kept shut since the accident. Before getting upset I rushed downstairs and joined Michelle in the kitchen.
"Hey angel" she said
"Hey"
"You ready?"
" I guess"
We went out into the porch and Michelle grabbed her bag, we stopped at the door and told grandma and grandad we were leaving.
As Michelle opened the door, zizzi started to whine.
"She'll get upset if I leave her"
"Do you want to take her?"
"Yes please"
"Grab her lead quick then"

I ran into the utility room and grabbed her lead before attaching it and heading out to the car.

We arrived at the school. Michelle and I got out and I got zizzi from the boot.
Michelle went in while I took zizzi for a wee. The school had an inset day and Michelle checked that we could take zizzi and they said it was fine. Bella's teacher,miss Albright, was stood inside.
"Hello Isla, it's nice to see you again, just wish it was in better circumstances"
"Yeah" I said remembering the last time I saw her was when Bella hid under the table on Elsa's birthday.
She took us down to Bella's classroom. Inside the walls were covered with brightly coloured pictures of strange things.
"So here was her peg, she left her coat here on Friday"
"That was Bella, always forgetting stuff" I said as she handed it to me. I held it close to me and breathed in the smell of her shampoo mixed with mums perfume, which Bella liked to experiment with.
She took down a picture from the wall amongst all the rest, surrounding a sign reading OUR FAMILIES.
"She made this a few weeks ago" miss Albright said, handing it to me.
Even though it was messy and covered in glitter, I could tell who was who.
Mum was wearing massive heels and had glitter all over her, Nick was really tall and wearing Bella's interesting drawing of a suit. I was stood with no body just legs sticking out of my head. She had glittery hair and Jessie lay on the floor with a dummy in her mouth. Next to the sun was another drawing which was Elsa and another next to that, which was Harry.

Michelle had gone over to her drawer with miss Albright. I sat down on a bench in the classroom, let go of zizzi's lead and she had her head in my lap. As well as breathing in the smell of Bella's coat, I admired the picture and cried. This was it, this was what her world looked like and she would never get to see the rest to the world, because she died when she wasn't even 5. My little sister would be 5 in a few days and she wouldn't get to have her 5th birthday because a drunk lorry driver took it away.

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