The bloodcurdling scream made me want to fall down and cry. I ran into Rebecca's room chaotic. She sits at the end of her bed crying. I ask her what had happened. She said she had a nightmare about her parents. Selfishly I thought to myself, she's actually going to tell me about her parents, not really focused on the fact that she's crying. " I'm sorry I never told you Casey, but when I was 14 years old my parents shot themselves. " They always were depressed. " They never seemed to care about me. " Oh, Rebecca I'm so sorry " , I had told her. " You shouldn't be apologizing " , she said. " I was a jerk for never telling you. " Wow, I thought she's apologizing to me! " Nice! " I added to my incomplete, yet very selfish though. They left me a note saying " Never stay out too late. Bad things can happen to you. " I never figured out what that meant. We sat there on the edge of the bed. Blankly staring into whatever it was that we were in. We slowly lower our heads and fall asleep to the soft sound of the crickets chirping outside the window...
