Clarissa is a diehard Disney fan. She knows all the lines to every Disney movie made, can sing along to every song, and do one of their dances at any given moment in time. When Clarissa finds out that her drama department is doing a special project...
"Daddy? When are we going to be home?" I asked, licking a double chocolate chip ice cream cone.
We are on our way home from the showing of Lilo and Stitch 2. My daddy is so nice, my friends would be so jealous when they hear I got to see that movie! And, even after all of that, he got me ice cream!
"Anytime now honey, just sit back and eat your ice cream. Maybe we can even play the Wii when we get home." My father said, I squeal with delight. Man - this time I will make sure to beat him at Mario Kart. Then my dad stopped at a red light.
I hate these things, they just stop you in mid-driving, what a subnormal device in society. So I decide to pout a little, "Another one of these things! Dad why do they have to make them, I hate how they make us wait to go home!" It truly is just plain old dumb, I want to be home bowling with daddy.
"Daddy needs to stop like everyone else, so we don't get in a car crash, that would not be good." My dad looks back and smiles. "I love you honey,"
"I love you too daddy!" The red light switched to green and my dad starts to drive. Then I hear a loud noise and I scream as I hear my dad shout, "I love you baby!" Then I feel a crash.
The whole car shakes, I hear the loudest noises I've ever heard, and the car starts to flip in circles. I scream while crying the whole way down. I can feel all the glass shatter - my dad is screaming too. Then everything is done - pure silence surrounds me. The car is on its side so I step out of the broken window. My body feels like I have been put in an oven. I look down and see blood everywhere. My arms and legs are scratched pretty badly... I am filled with a lot of that stuff.
"D-d-daddy?" Tears are starting to stream down my face. "Daddy where are you, I'm scared please answer me." I start to shake and I walk toward my dad's seat.
There is more blood than I have ever seen in my life, and when I look down all I can do is scream. I scream and scream. My daddy was covered in blood, "Dad! Daddy answer me!" I fall to the ground and keep screaming.
I hold my dad's hand even though he decides to not hold it back. I hear sirens now, that's the good guys I think, but I don't care. I am scared and my daddy isn't talking to me. He looks dead, like bad guys in the movies ended up like. I see some flashing lights and strange men are running toward me. One man picks me up, brings me over to a car, then sits me down.
"Hello honey, my name is Ryan. We're here to help you, and your father." I try to listen to this Ryan guy, but I can't stop crying, "It's okay. We can help you If you can calm down a bit. I know that this is really scary honey, but we need you to help us."
"O-o-okay," I say to him slowly.
"Okay, do you remember your name and age?" Ryan asks very softly.
"Umm, yeah it's Clarissa and I'm six years old." I reply while hiccuping in place of my crying.
"Do you know what happened sweety?"
"We were waiting at a red light and then it turned to green, then my dad started to drive. Then I heard this loud sound, then a really big crash and then..." Tears started to well in my eyes again, and my throat started to swell up.
"Hey now it's okay, lets just let the nice nurses finish looking at your wounds." Ryan said with a nice voice.
I nodded silently and looked at the ground.
Five days later
There is a big box, but I couldn't figure out what was inside it.. It didn't look like a present, those were never opened at the top. I went to go look, but my mom pulled me back.
"Mom I want to see what's in the box." I said, I had wanted to know for about an hour.
This guy was talking, but I wasn't listening, and everyone was crying. Even my mom was crying, and I tried to cheer her up but I couldn't. Maybe daddy wasn't here because he was sill at the doctors. The man stopped talking and people were standing up, my mom took my hand and we started to walk towards the box. I was so excited, I finally got to see the inside!When we got there my daddy was in the box. He looked like my favorite Disney character Sleeping beauty.
"Why is dad pretending to be Aurora? He looks so silly!" I started to giggle, Dad was always silly.
We waited on the side and then these two men started to put the top on the box daddy was in! I tried to stop them, but my mom pulled me back gently.
"Honey, daddy needs to stay in the box. He is going to be put in the ground." My mom said as a tear ran down her cheek.
"Mom, dad is only sleeping like sleeping beauty!" I screamed, they couldn't just bury him in the ground!
"Clarissa, daddy is dead. He won't be with us anymore."
All I could do is scream and cry when I hear that. I fell to the ground and cried. My mom was crying as she picked me up, and we left that horrible place.
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I bolted upright in my bed, tears were streaming down my face. The accident had happened 12 years ago and still haunted my dreams. I looked at the clock, it was 5:50 A.M. I turned off my alarm that would go off in five minutes. I Took a deep breath and hopped into the shower to wash away the bad memories.
