Someone Worth Dying For

Prologue

Celeste ran into the hospital room and stopped dead at the sight of her grandfather. The doctor was just taking off the respirator, and turning off the monitor when he spotted her, distraught, at the entrance. "

"Can I help you?" He asked, impatiently, thinking she had gotten lost. She shook her head, dumbfounded. She had gotten the call from her best friend saying that she had seen her grandfather rushed into an ambulance, and Sally had to get to the hospital all by herself. And she was too late. "I'm sorry, but you need to go back to wherever you were, please." The Doctor said with a hint of contempt in his voice. 

"But that's my grandfather," she said before she burst into tears. "What happened?" She didn't sit down like the doctor suggested, instead she dropped to the floor on her knees and looked up, helpless as the doctor told of the heart attack. Her grandfather was all she had. She lived with him and had been for a while. She wasn't very close to her parents, and her grandfather was her hero. He was Superman. and now, he was gone. Just like that. 

The police made her wait at the hospital for her parents to come and take her to their house. This meant that she would have to live with them and her annoying sister. She cried some more when they talked about the funeral arrangements, and the legal guardianship going back to her parents. She wouldn't have to change her school, because they lived in the same city, but it was still a hard. move. 

The Funeral

Celeste couldn't stop crying. She still wished that he was next to her, not in the coffin in front of her. She watched as person after person got up and spoke about her amazing grandfather. About the impact he had, and how they missed him. Celeste bet they thought it would comfort her, but it did the opposite. She wept as they put the coffin in the ground, and sobbed when they said the prayer. The only fun thing she remembered about that day was the m&m fight she had with her friend.  

She went home that night and cried herself to sleep. She had school next week, and she had no idea how she was going to face it. Grandfather had helped her through her mistakes, and cheered her up through her hard times. And now, she was alone. She was alone, and nobody cared.