One Of A Kind

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One Of A Kind

Chapter Nineteen

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~ Sage Preston's POV ~

May and I were sitting underneath the play structure at the playground as the March rain poured down around us.

We have been here for hours. Just laughing and talking about all of the memories we had here. It was close to our house so Mom would take us here every other day.

"Do you think that Dad hates me?" May asked as she drew in the mud with a stick.

"I... don't think so" I frowned. "I think he just doesn't know how to process things"

May's eyebrows furrowed and her lip curled downwards. Her blue eyes flicked over to my brown ones and she sighed.

"He never treated Eric or Summer like this"

I breathed out a humorless laugh. He didn't. He never treated them like this. Probably because Eric and Summer had only spent a few months home after the accident, then they were off to college.

He put on a brave face for them but when they were gone; it only took a few weeks for his facade to break. I couldn't blame him for that though. It's hard bottling your emotions up.

The accident messed our family up in ways nobody could have predicted. It ripped our perfect little family apart and nobody could pick up the pieces without getting cut in the process.

Dad was the one who got the call from Eric the night of the crash. May and I had stayed up late without permission and when we heard the phone ring, we snuck out of our room to find out what was going on.

"What do you mean Summer was in an accident? Eric calm down" Dad's tired and distraught voice grumbled. You could hear in his voice that he hadn't understood the severity of what had just happened.

"All of them- Dad- I - All I see is crushed metal- Dad - the firefighters aren't letting me over there" Eric's voice was muffled but the panic was evident.

"What's going on?" May whispered and I shrugged.

"Firefighters? Eric how bad is it? Where are you? Taylor!" Dad yelled making me and May flinch.

"What are you two doing- Adam? Adam what's going on?" Mom's eyes drifted towards my fear stricken father.

"Summer and Matt were in an accident. Eric's at the scene but the first responders aren't telling him anything" Dad's voice shook.

"Put him on speaker" Mom stumbled over to the phone. "Eric? Eric get somebody in charge"

May and I listened as the phone speaker fumbled a bit and an unfamiliar voice spoke.

"Adam, Taylor? This is Thomas Milton" I recognised the name of our neighbor who was also a policeman. "Summer's car was hit by a truck. We are currently trying to get the three of them out- I just got word that Marilyn Gomez was just boarded into an ambulance"

A few minutes went by and Eric was back on the phone.

Eric and Mom talked about what was going on for a little bit and we could hear Tony screaming for Summer and arguing with people in the background.