“Lucy, get off the phone you’ve been on it long enough.”
“Ok, mom! Look Paige I got to get off or mom will flip. You know how she gets. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“See you at the mall?” asked Paige.
“That’s cool. Bye,” replied Lucy.
“Bye.”
Lucy hung up and sighed on her blue comforter. It was quiet, too quiet. She got up and was going down the steps when her father came in. “Hi, dad.”
“Hey sweetie.”
She was now running down the steps and nearly tripped but luckily her father caught her.
“Thanks dad.”
“Wonder what would happen if I wasn’t there to catch you?” asked her father nearly laughing.
Lucy smiled. “I don’t know and I don’t want to find out. Could you tell mom that the phone is hung up and I’m going to bed as soon as I get in the shower?”
“Sure, I’ll tell her,” he agreed as he was walking toward the kitchen where his wife was.
“Thanks dad!” she yelled over her shoulder as she was walking up the steps.
When she turned on the water for her shower the steam rolled. She was so cold at that moment, though. Looking around she saw the only window in the bathroom was open. It wasn’t open when she first stepped inside the bathroom. Or was it? Confused she closed it.
She undressed and stepped in the shower. The warm shower did a lot. It cleared her head of thoughts that bothered her. After her shower she went straight to bed but not without thinking about her crush, Curtis Williams. How he flirted with her. She figured she would tell Paige tomorrow.
Lucy woke up from the sunshine streaming through her window. She dressed quickly and ran down the steps two at a time but stopped suddenly at the edge of the living room. Her father had gotten up from the chair he had been sitting on.
Lucy noticed he had a look of sadness upon his face. Her mother sitting on the couch, had red blood shot eyes like she had been crying.
Lucy’s smile disappeared as she asked, “What is wrong, what happened?”
Her mother stood up. “Lucy last night Paige went to visit her grandmother and a drunk driver wrecked head on into her car.”
Lucy gasped and felt tears well up for she knew what was coming.
Mrs. Stevenson went on, “She died instantly, I’m sorry.”
“No!” Lucy screamed. “No! This isn’t happening!”
“I’m sorry,” soothed her father.
But Lucy never heard the words for she was running outside and never stopping. The ground was still wet from the morning dew. Her feet quickly got wet but that never stopped her. Tears ran down her cheeks and blurred her vision but she knew the town so well.
Flashbacks flashed before her from the five years she had just moved at Guide light. Not knowing anybody and worst of all no friends. Paige undid that, she introduced Lucy to everybody she knew and asked her to be her best friend. She made Lucy feel at home. Ever since then they have been unseparateable. Until now.
She was running for Paige and for herself. She didn’t stop because she was tired, cold, hungry or because she couldn’t feel her feet but because she had no more tears to cry. When she did stop she was under a willow. The same willow that Paige and her made their best friend promise five years before in the country air. When she noticed this she started cry even though she had no more tears.
She whispered, “Paige I know you’re here. I know you can hear me. I would like to say thank you for making me laugh, let me cry on your shoulder, but most of all being my friend.” She sighed a relief and got up from where she was sitting and started to walk home.
It might’ve been her imagination but she was sure that she heard Paige’s voice saying. “Friends Forever, Lucy.”
Lucy smiled through her tears because she knew that Paige and her would always be together forever.