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Chapter 5

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I sat in my room for three straight days. I didn't eat or shower. I just sat in my bed, but today was the day of De's funeral. I really didn't want to go. It would be too painful. Then there was a knock on my bedroom door.

"Go away!"

"Peyton Sweetheart, Kiesha is here to see you." my mom said as she slowly opened the door.

Kiesha stepped in like she was scared of me. My mom left to give us some privacy. Kiesha hopped in my bed and cuddled up with me. I started to cry all over again. She hugged me tighter.

"I know you and De were close so what do you think he would say if he saw you crying and acting pathetic like this?" she sad

I sniffled and shrugged my shoulders.

"Now you know he would say 'Now stop all that crying babygirl' " she said making her voice deep so she would sound like a boy "You know I would hate to see a beautiful girl like you cry"

I laughed at me best friend This was the first time i smiled in almost a week.

"You have to go to his funeral."

"But you know I hate funerals."

"Go for De please!" she begged.

I thought about it. De was important to me so I decided to go.

"Ok I'll go." I said "Just let me take a quick shower first"

"You need a long shower with lots of soap girl because you stink!"

I threw a pillow at her head. I was not looking foward to this funeral.

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My mom hard to work,of course, so Kiesha drove me to De's funeral. His funeral was held at a huge church. There was a lot of people there. De was loved by  a lot of people. I had not been to a church since my dad's funeral. I hated funerals and I missed De so much. We walked into the church and the first thing we saw was a huge picture of De. It was a picture of him at the prom  I knew it was at the prom because he danced with me and he looked really good. De was dressed in a pink vest with a white dress shirt under it. He wore white slacks and pink shoes. He looked so nice. De didn't dress up often, but when he did he looked amazing. The picture brought back memories and the tears came again. Take me to the Kingdom by Tamela Mann played as we walked in and sat in our seats. I was relieved that we didn't sit in the front. I didn't want to see De's lifeless body. The funeral was just like any other funeral. De's parents cried and talked about how great he was. De and his parents weren't close because they didn't like that he sold drugs. Some of his friends spoke and the choir sang. I wasn't really paying attention until the preacher came up. He looked around the church slowly examing all our faces then he bagan his serman.

"As I look around this church,I see a lot of young people."

He paused for a second and took a deep breath.

"I'm not going to sugar coat it. We all know De sold drugs. He had a lot of problems and to be honest I'm scared for his soul."

He paused again. He took a deep breath. The look on his face looked like he was in pain. 

"Please young people change your life while you can. Smoking and drinkng...these things mess with your mind. Having sex before marriage. You guys these things are wrong! They should be the farthest thing from your minds. You should be working on school and your relationship with God. This world is coming to an end and I pray you guys aren't left behind. Please get your life right.

I felt like this man was talking directly to me. All of the things that I have done in my life came to my mind. I smoked,drank,and had sex. I was a huge sinner. What did he mean when he said the world was coming to an end? After the funeral, Kiesha and I went to get something to eat. I was still thinking about what the preacher said.

"Girl did you hear that crazy man talking about the world is coming to an end!?

He sounded like one of those crackheads on the side of the street." she threw her head back and laughed. I let out a nervous laugh.

"What he said sounded just like us. It was kind of scary." I confessed.

"Peyton don't listen to that man! He was just trying to scare us." she grabbed my shoulders and shook me lke she was trying to shake the words out of my head.

"God isn't real remember!" she yelled earning us a disaproving look from an old couple.

Maybe she was right. He was just trying to scare us. I'm not going to burn in burn in hell if I have fun.

"Girl you're right! Let's go out and be sinners! We need to party like De would have wanted us to!"

I high fived Kiesha and we went out and did what we do best.

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