Constellations

five

My stomach did flips and my eyes started to water. Gosh! I miss them so much. Memories of that night came rushing into my head like a movie.

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        I shook out my crayons in the box onto the floor and searched for my favorite color to finish up my masterpiece that I am making for my parents.

They were coming back from a work trip today you know? They have been gone for a week and I can't wait to see them.

They are going to love this drawing so much. " Aspen!!!!!" my brother shouted from the living room. "yeah?" "Come in here I have gone a whole week without letting you get hurt, and I don't want to mess that up now."

        My brother is taking care of me to show my parents that he is responsible enough to go on vacation with his girlfriend when they graduate from high school, like that will ever happen.

" Whatever i'm coming" i yell while gathering up my drawing and the crayon box. I scurried into the living room and set  my stuff down on the hardwood floor.

I reached for the remote and turned on the TV. I scattered out my crayons once again and finished up on coloring the grass.

         Clark snatched the remote away from me and flipped through the channels. "Hey!! That was my favorite show!" I whined but my brother didn't respond he was frozen looking at the television screen.

I turned to the TV and a news lady showed up on the screen

"Plane 5683 crashed approximately 4:40 this afternoon the plane had what the police believe to be a engine failure.Charred wreckage was flung across a wide area after the plane plummeted into a field only 15 minuets away from its destination."

Pictures of a plane shattered into a billion different pieces flashed on an off of the screen. The news caster re appeared

" there are no known survivors from the incident. Now onto Gary for the weather." My brother hit the power button with an empty look on his face.

"Whats wrong Clark?" I asked concerned.

" Um..... I........I....... that's the plane Mom and Dad were on Aspen." his face was stretched into a frown. My brain refused to believe this.

It couldn't be the same plane. Mommy and Daddy are going to walk through that door any minute now and then I am going to show them the picture I have drawn for them.

Then they are going to talk about all of the adventures they went on while they were in Mexico. They will show us all kinds of different rocks and seashells they saw on the beach.

I looked over to Clark who had his head in his hands and his shoulders were shaking.

"Clark!!! Tell me that that wasn't their plane and that any minuet now they will walk through that door! Daddy will pick me up and swing me around in his arms and then everything will go back to normal. Please Clark?"

Tears flowed from my eyes as I jumped up into Clark's arms.

" I am so sorry Aspen" he lifted his head and embraced me in his arms. We sat like that for what felt like hours. They didn't come home, they weren't going to. They were gone, and never coming back

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I ran. I turned around and ran as fast as I could and as far as I could. I dont know why but that was the only thing my body could do.

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