Roslyn
The last few days have been pretty calm in relation to all of the others recently. Not much has happened since Julie died.
Her funeral was beautiful. Everyone who knew Julie said that she would have loved it if she had attended it herself. According to her family, she was quite the fashionista and loved throwing extravagant parties to show off her great taste in design. I wish I could have seen some of her designs.
Her funeral, though beautiful and touching, did not last long. I think her family just wanted to get it done and over with. Planning a funeral is a lot of work. Planning a funeral for your daughter who has been with you for thousands of years, is a much harder task to tackle in such a short amount of time.
The whole family has not come out of their house recently. They just sit inside all day I guess. I don't blame them. I would do the same. In fact, that is kind of exactly what I have been doing recently as well.
People have left baskets of goodies and food for them to let their new neighbors they are thinking about them in this hard time in their lives. All of the gifts are all still sitting on their front porch where the neighbors left them. I was about to send flowers over there to share my condolences but it appears they want nothing to do with anyone's gifts or pity. They seem to be fine just grieving by themselves as a family.
Though I may be the last person any of them want to see, I am going to attempt to stop by at some point and see how everyone is holding up. It is the least I can do. Hopefully they will see me and not turn me away at their front door when I show up. I owe Julie my life.
Literally.
James hasn't gone to school these last few days since his little sister died. Not that I blame him. I haven't gone either. The only difference between me and him is that I am no longer enrolled in school for this year.
When I came home after seeing Julie, my parents wondered what happened. I had to lie about what happened exactly in order to protect our neighbors' identities. I told them there was an attack similar to mine and Julie was dying.
I think the attack with Jackie really make that point very clear to them. They think Julie's attack was triggering for me. Having the two attacks being so close to each other, I think they realized how dangerous it is out there. The creatures are no longer limiting their attacks to after dusk.
I barely finished my sentence before my mom was on the phone calling the school to tell them I would not be attending for the rest of this year. My parents do not think going to school is a good idea after my attack. They don't think I should have gone back so soon after.
So now all my friends will get to graduate and walk across the stage to receive their high school diplomas. I will get sent a diploma in the mail when I finish my online school. I had to talk my parents into that decision to let me enroll in online classes so that I could still graduate on time. They don't want to stress me out any more than I already am.
But I don't want to be the only senior not graduating this year. That would suck.
I grab my phone from the side of the bed and slide it into my pocket. I am tired of just sitting around and doing nothing. I need to go check up on James' family and see how they are doing.
"I'm going next door." I alert my parents before rushing out the door. I move some of the gifts on their porch so that I can get to the door and I ring the bell. I probably should have brought cookies or something. I look dumb showing up empty-handed. Then again, I am not even sure if they eat cookies. Don't they only drink blood or something? Maybe they would just eat me instead of the cookies I would bring. I don't know.
