Rumors 2

She's Gone

[Mom's pov]
"Hailey! We're home!" I shouted to my daughter. I didn't get a response. "I'm gonna go check on her," I said to my husband. I walked into the bathroom. No this is not happening. "Hailey!!" I screamed. I ran over to the tub. She was pale, but she had a smile on her face. "Mark! Call 911!" I screamed. He came running in. "What happened!?" he shouted. "Just call 911!" I screamed. The sirens of the ambulance filled the silent night. They came in and rushed her into the ambulance and to the hospital. I sat right next to her as we raced to the hospital. They had her arms wrapped up. A mask on her face. They were doing CPR as we drove off.
After waiting in the waiting room the doctor came out to talk to me and my husband. "I'm sorry, she is gone. We couldn't save her." he told us. I just broke down, "no! No she is not dead! This is not real!" I fell to the floor crying. My baby girl, I remember holding her for the first time. Her first laugh, the first time she crawled, first steps, her first words. I remember her first day of kindergarten. Her smile, and I can still hear her voice. Why did this have to happen?
[Weeks later]
"She was my daughter. She didn't deserve this. She was innocent, she never lied. In her old school, after something unfortunate happened rumors started spreading. We changed her identity, we moved away. She started at a new school. The rumors followed her. The kids at her new school were worse to her. They drove her to this. Even though she said in her letter that this was her choice, something drove her to make that choice. She said that this was her white flag, saying she surrendered, she gave up. I can still hear her voice. I am upset, just like everyone else. In her letter Hailey said she didn't want us to be sad, but I don't see how that is possible. We.should try though, for Hailey." I said, in front of everyone at her funeral. Tears fell down my face. My baby girl, in a casket, she still had a smile on her face.