Save Me

"Mary!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. "Mary where are you?"
I continued searching the wreckage, limping around on my one leg that wasn't gushing blood. My eyes scanned the perimeter until they landed on a lifeless body in which was laying in a contorted position across the open car door.

"Mary!" I gasped at the appearance, tears were streaming down my face as I struggled to get over to my sister. "This is all my fault!" I screamed into the air, pounding the ground with my fist while trying to shake Mary awake. "Please wake up.....please."
She groaned and rolled over onto her back, revealing a large gash in her side and a growing puddle of blood next to her head. Her face scrunched up in agony when I tried to reach under her and pull her up. Her head immediately snapped up only to have her eyes stare into my gaze.
"Mary this is all my fault." I choked out, still staring into her large blue eyes.
She responded by placing one finger over my lips and making a shushing sound. "Where is mom?" she questioned me.
I looked over Mary's shoulder to see my mother lying limp against the car seat. My breath hitched as I watched her chest stay completely and utterly still. She wasn't breathing.......and it was all my fault.

***

Brianna Thompson was always the happy girl. She hung around her twin sister Mary like she was her life support. Until the devastating car crash that took her mother's life and soon after, Mary's also.
Brianna slowly changed after the incident. She now only wore black clothes to emphasize her grieving and she quickly lost all her friends due to the depressing state she became accustomed to. The bullies at school started to show their faces, making Brianna's life even more miserable than it had to be. On top of all that, her family lost the house and are now forced to live on the streets. How will she survive on the pocket money she earns at the bar and the small amounts of life that she seems to hold onto?