How To Get Away With Murder

Nov. 14th, 2020

It was time for the funeral. My whole family was there. Even my Aunt Rose who lives 2 hours away. Fiona was there, wiping tears from my face. I looked up at my dad, walking up to give his speech. I saw as tears streamed down from his tired, brown eyes. Then he went on and on about how amazing mom was. When he walked back to his seat, he stopped and asked me if I wanted to give a speech. I quickly refused knowing if I did I would probably embarrass myself from whining so much. Soon enough, the funeral was over and everyone was getting in their cars to go home. My dad opened the car door for me, and I stepped inside. Fiona was already in the car, and watched as I buckled my seatbelt. I know she's just being a good friend by being concerned for me, but I don't want anyone to worry about me. I can take care of myself. The car was silent on the way home. Fiona stared at me the entire ride as I pretended not to notice. I just kept staring out the window, blank and emotionless. I had no tears left to cry. Fiona was sleeping over my house that night, even though she had just slept over the night before the funeral. I just didn't want to be alone. When we arrived home, we all got out of the car and my dad went to go take a nap. Fiona looked at me. "Are you okay?" she said in a sorry voice. I said "Yeah, of course" even though that was a complete lie. Deep down, I felt extremely guilty for not saying anything about the kid in school. Fiona and I went inside the house, and went straight to my room. "I have to use the bathroom, be right back" I said to Fiona. When really I was going to wake up my dad to tell him about the kid at school. I needed to stop feeling guilty before it got to me. I took one look inside my parents room. Last time I looked in there was when the incident happened. I kept picturing my mom, dead on the floor. Next thing I know, It felt as if I couldn't catch my breath. I fall to the floor, crying and breathing heavy. I guess Fiona heard, because she ran to me. She looked at me with panic and worry. Her cousin has anxiety, so she knew what to do. She sat down next to me, and talked about our inside jokes and other things that made me laugh. I caught my breath and wiped my cheeks. I hugged her and said "Thank you, I don't know what I would've done without you here." She stood up and grabbed my hand to help me up. We went back to my room, and decided to just turn on the tv. We grabbed some snacks from the kitchen and sat down to watch SpongeBob. The entire time, we just laughed at the dumb jokes and sang along when the "Campfire song song" came on. I glanced at the clock. 1:21 a.m. Jeez, I didn't know it was possible to binge watch SpongeBob.