Fate's Kinda Funny [ON HOLD]

Chapter 1: Always Expect The Unexpected

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!"

We all heard from outside. We all decided to just ignore it. Then we heard it again. We still ignored it. Then it came again. I finally decided to go check it out. I went inside my house to find my mom screaming at my step dad. When it all finally sunk in and I fully heard what she was saying.

She was screaming,"Brent!! He's dead!! He's not breathing!!!! Help us!!! Brent!! Brent!!!"

At first I thought it was Brent that she was saying was dead, but then I realized. I stood there. Frozen. I couldn't move. I stood there in shock while it all sunk in. When my sister saw me standing there and she knew I had heard everything, she screamed at me to go back outside.

"Jade!! Go back outside! You don't need to be in here right now!! GO!!!!!!"

My sister had left earlier and went to get something to eat. I didn't think she would be back this quick though. I figured it be about an hour to an hour and a half. When she did get home though she came speeding into the driveway and hopped out. My mom must have called her when she first realized.

I went back outside and sat down in a chair. My eyes were as big as softballs. When I finally came back to earth my friend Luke was asking me what had happened. He was shaking me by my shoulders and asking me something.

When I had finally completely zoned back in and understood him I figured out that he was saying,"What happened?!!?? Jade?!??! What happened??!!???"

I didn't want to tell him. I couldn't tell him in front of my little brother. My little brother wasn't really my brother but I claimed him. He was my step dad's son and not even related to me at all. My step dad wasn't even my step dad by law but I claimed him, too. He was there for me my whole life when my dad wasn't. He was my dad when my dad wasn't there for me. He was there to pick me up when I fell down. I loved him like my dad.

I thought intently about how I could tell Luke about it but there wasn't a way. I pulled him away from my little brother and slowly and quietly told him.

"My dad.......he's dead.........that's what my mom was saying......she said.......that he was dead.........," I slowly said biting back tears as I knew they were going to come. As I said that it hit me and I couldn't take it. I knew I would lose him someday, but I didn't think it would be this soon.

As soon as Luke registered what I said, he took off at a sprint to his house. His house wasn't that far away but if he had walked it would have taken him a minute or so.

He was going to get his mom. To tell you the truth, my dad and his mom kinda had a little something something going on. They had started to get close and kinda date. Ever since Luke and his mom moved in they had started to get close to my dad.

Luke had kinda started to look up to my dad. He looked to him for all kinds of things. He talked to him all the time. He loved being around my dad and joking with him.

It made me feel bad for him as well as myself.

He was gone longer than what I expected him to be. While he was gone an ambulance showed up in my drive way. I stayed outside until I ran in before the ambulance people could. I ran to my mom. She embraced me and hugged me as tightly as she possibly could. I cried. I let it all out. Well not really all of it. I tried to keep it contained to a minimum.

She slowly walked me to her bedroom and sat me down on her bed. I sat down and cried into my hands. I cried for a long time. I cried until I felt a strong pair of arms wrap around me. I instantly felt safe. I was instantly comforted.

Luke had hugged me. He slowly and softly cooed into my ear,"Jade. I'm so sorry. This shouldn't have happened to you. You deserve better than this. I'm sorry." He slowly said all of this while he was crying himself. I had never seen him cry. Not once had I ever seen him cry. It made me feel even more sad for him.

After he let me go out of his grasp, I got up and walked out of my moms room. His mom saw me and hugged me. She hugged me for a minute before she said,"Come on. Your mom told me to take you and Alex back to my house until everything calms down and the ambulance leaves."

It made me feel a little better that I didn't have to stay here while all of this was still happening. Right as I was thinking this the ambulance people walk by with my dad on a stretcher. He didn't move at all. He was stone cold. He was dead. I couldn't bear to see this so I ran out the door. I waited for Luke, Alex, and Luke's mom to catch up and then we kept on walking to their house.

We got there and I went back to Luke's bedroom with him. I sat down in a chair and cried even more. I cried and cried. I cried until I couldn't cry anymore. When I was done crying I looked around at Luke's bedroom. I had never been in his room.

He had a flag hanging on his wall. He had a few dream catchers and his bed. He didn't have much of anything.

I heard his mom call for me and I walked in to where she was. She held a phone out to me and told me it was my mamaw. I took the phone and put it to my ear.

It was my mamaw and she wanted to know if I was okay and if I needed anything. She has always been very comforting. When I got off the phone I went back and collapsed into the chair I had been sitting in.

At one point my mom came and got Alex and me. We went home and I didn't even go inside. I stayed outside and sat on the swing. I stayed out there for a long time until my mom made Brandon, my sister's boyfriend, come and get me.

I went in and sat down. When everything had happened my sister had been at a restaurant with Brandon. When my mom had called her she was back at the house in no more than 5 minutes where she had went so fast. It would usually take at least 20 to 25 minutes at the most to get home from where she was.

When she walked into the living room she handed me something from the restaurant. She had went and got us something to eat.

I hadn't realized how hungry I was until I started eating it. After I finished I threw away my garbage and went to my bedroom. I lied down and went to sleep. I didn't want anything else to happen. I didn't want to see anything else happen before my eyes. I didn't want to see my life fall apart before my eyes.

So much had happened that one night. So much that I didn't even expect. So much I would never expect. So much that no one would expect in their lives. Even though I never expected my life to fall apart in front of me, it did. This is the night that I learned to always expect the unexpected. This is one night that I will never be able to forget in all of my life. It is glued into my mind like a piece of paper.