Live a Little

Prologue

Prologue

September 28, 2005

♫ Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday Dear, Katherine , Happy Birthday to You. ♫
As soon as I hear mommy and daddy singing that song I wake up and jump out of bed, this is my favorite day, not only am I eight today but today is also mommy's birthday and Grandma Ann's birthday too, and we always celebrate it together. We always bake the triple chocolate cake using grandma's secret recipe.

"Happy BIrthday Mommy i love you!!" I scream as I run to hug my mommy.

"Shhh, your sisters are still sleeping" she says putting her finger to her lips.

"Are grandma and grandpa here yet??" I ask jumping up and down.

"No, not yet, you want to come with me to get them from the airport??"

"No, its okay, ill stay with daddy and we can make grandma some birthday breakfast and we can all eat it together when you get here,"

"Alright, I'll see you in a bit then birthday girl, take good care of your sisters." mommy says as she grabs her keys and walks out the door.

I run to the kitchen where daddy is in the fridge staring at all the food.

"Daddy what are we gonna make grandma and mommy?"

"How about some chocolate chip pancakes?"

"YESSSS!! Mommy loves those!!"

Daddy and me find all the ingredients to make mommy's favorite pancakes. We set it all on the counter, the eggs,milk, flour, sugar, and the most important part the chocolate chips!!! Like usual I got to crack all the eggs and pour all the ingredients in the bowl, while daddy mixed it all because I always made a mess when I mixed them. Daddy and I had finished the batter and we started making our super fluffy pancakes. We were on about pancake number four when the phone starts to ring.

"Katherine go answer the phone its probably Jess calling."

I run to the phone, and its not aunt Jess calling, it sounds like a guy voice, they ask who I am and I say im Katherine and then they ask to speak to Brandon Maurer, thats my daddy. I hand it to him. And he speaks to the phone guy and then he drops the pancakes spatula, and tears start rolling down his face. He hangs up and he's crying even harder.

"Whats wrong daddy?"

He wipes his tears.
".... Go get your shoes on and wake up your sisters we need to go."

"Where are we going?"

"Just go do what i said." he raises his voice as more tears fall down his face. I dont know whats wrong with daddy but i'm scared and we can't leave yet, mommy and grandma aren't here yet. I wake up Kristen and Kendal, Daddy helps me get their shoes on and we all get in daddy's car.

The car rides pretty short and we get to the hospital were mommy works, I wonder what we are doing here. We get inside and I see Jess shes also crying. She sees me and my sisters and gives us each a hug and says happy birthday to me while she hugs me , I ask her what's wrong and that's when daddy explains to me what happened.

"You know how mommy went to go get Grandma and Grandpa from the airport, well they got in a bad car accident and grandma and grandpa aren't doing well they got bad injuries because of the crash."

"Well what happened to mommy?" Daddy tears up.

"She's gone, she got hit first and she died instantly" No, not mommy. I begin to cry realy hard and Daddy and Jess just hug me really tight. But why did she have to die? She didn't do anything bad, plus she was a very good mommy.

"take good care of your sisters" were the last words mommy said to me and that's what I'm gonna do, im gonna make sure Kristen and Kendal are taken care of just like mommy asked.