The Forgotten

Chapter 10

When we got home from dinner the house was silent. Everyone was doing their own thing. My mom was watching TV, my Aunt was reading, Maria was texting, and Jackson was listening to music with his headphones, loud enough everyone could hear, but no one said anything. There was an empty spot on the couch next to him, I sat down. I liked the song he was listening to, and I could clearly hear it because of how loud he was listening. "Turn your music down boy!" Aunt Joyce said. "But I like that song!" I said. "Oh then..." My aunt said , Jackson didn't turn down his music. There was an awkward silence.

A couple minutes later I got up and went to my room. I feel so lost. I put my own headphones in and started listening to some punk pop/ rock music. My usual, I guess you could say. Music was my only escape these days.

I was slowly beginning to be able to live life again. It's hard but I know Sarah will always be there.

Everything happens for a reason, right?

I went back into my living room.

"You know, we've sat around sad for long enough." I said

Everyone looked at me.

"I know for a fact, that Sarah wouldn't want this. She would want us to be happy, and I know that Sarah will always be with us."

My mom looked at me, tears welling in her eyes. "You're right honey, and as hard as it is going to be, we do need to try to recover, for Sarah." She said.

Maria was tearing up, and Jackson was just looking at me, wide eyed.

"Well it'll never be the same without her, but we've got to learn to live with that. There's no going back, no changing what happened. So, we need to make the best of it and believe that one day we will all be reunited." Aunt Joyce said.

We all sat in the living room around the tv, we were watching Titanic together as a family. It was Sarah's favorite movie. The last time I watched it was over the summer with Sarah. I wanted to cry, yet again. But I held in the tears and used it as a happy memory of us.

I smiled and put my head on my mom's shoulder. Tomorrow would be the funeral and then I wouldn't have to be sad anymore.