Brianne

I screamed. I didn’t know what to think or what to do? I thought to myself, "This isn’t supposed to happen, not to a fourteen year old." I didn’t believe it; I was in denial. I thought, "This didn’t happen, it can’t, it never will."

    One wonderful night (or as I thought) I was sitting at home watching a movie with my father. All of a sudden the phone rang, so of course I got up and answered it. The phone call wasn’t for me; it was for my mother. I gave her the phone, and not but two minutes later I hear my mother start to cry. I got up and went to her. "Mother are you ok? Is everything all right? What’s wrong? What’s going on?" She wouldn’t answer me, so I stood in front of her and waited for her to get off of the phone.

    My mother stood up; she gave me a hug. I was so baffled I had no idea what was going on. All I could think of was that something happened to my grandmother. No, that wasn’t it at all. My mom looked at me and said, "Sorry, sweetheart, she’s okay now." Now I knew something had to have happened to somebody close to me. She said, "Brianne has gotten into an accident in California"

    Right then and there I just started to bawl. I cried for the whole night. I thought that was bad finding out. Ohhh no, the next day at school was terrible. Everybody was crying. It was so hard to walk by her locker and not see her there, to see all of the pictures of angels hanging on her locker, and to see the rose on the desk that she would sit in during class. Looking at everybody just made everything worse. Some people were so confused they didn’t know what to think. Others were in denial, and the rest were bawling.

    A week after it happened was the funeral. I thought going to school would be bad. I would have to say the funeral was the saddest part. There had to have been at least one hundred to two hundred people there. Before the funeral I stood before her casket for so long that it looked like she was still breathing. I thought I saw that probably because right then I wanted her back more than anything in the whole entire world.

    Sitting in the pews, I was in the third row with all of my friends. All of a sudden the song "Angels Among Us" by Alabama came on as they were carrying the casket down the aisle. When I looked back and saw the casket, I just started hysterically bawling. After the funeral ceremony we went to the burial, and there about twenty of us brought many balloons, and we let all of them go to show that we knew she’s in a better place now and she was ok.

    If Brianne was still here, I’m sure she would have done a lot with her life. She was always so out-going she; was such a blast to hang out with. If she was still here, I’m sure that we would still be great friends.

    That was one of the most memorable times that have been in my life. Brianne died three years ago, and she is still in my heart and always will be. Nobody has ever gotten over this tragedy and probably never will. She was such a genuine girl with a lot of potential. She would have gone so far in life. She had so much going for her. We will always remember her in every way she helped us. When she was still here she helped me when I needed it, if I needed to talk to her if something was going wrong, or if I was just plain out bored.