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I’ot here It’s dark and chilly outside The uiderain assaults my body with every move I make The faster I run, the harder the heavy drops stab e et away
I can hear so my name It’s a familiar voice, but I can’t stop My heart spirals out of control as I force one foot in front of the other I have to run faster, get away froet away from that voice A scream tears up out of raveyard I losein front of a tombstone My body’s covered in thick, heavyoverthe dark strands aside, I look up My heartbeat drives full force before it co on the monument: RIP Brooke McDaniel
“NO!” I screas
No No No
My body jerks up as I gasp for air Skin da the bed sheets,It takes me a few seconds to collect myself
A dream Just a dream About what?
In a coles to re And then… Brooke! Snatching htstand, I jump out of bed and run to her room I place a shaky hand on the knob, but that’s as far as I can go I’htens e to open it And it’s just as I expected: nothing
Filled with all the things that defined her, her room is exactly the sae bookshelf, which is overfloith hundreds of books I fight back a sob asarea where she spent countless hours i in the now-faded posters of her favorite bands pinned all over her pale yelloalls Her favorite book quotes, stenciled on the wall over the headboard of her bed, bring backabout them and the authors rote them Pink, purple, and yellow paint her rooether in a beautiful and sophisticated décor that only Brooke could design Picture fraes of us, Mom, Dad, and Charlie cover her desk All of these ite toa roo short of vacant
Chin down, shoulders slu, I can’t control the war this ti the pain to overtake every nerve for just this moment, I hesitantly tread over to her bed, fall on top of the plush surface, and wrap myself securely in the comforter She loved this stupid purple quilt I reed into htly at the deal she reen eyes were filled with pride, her perfectly plump pink lips curled into a beautiful smile
Why do I torture myself? Why do I allow myself to feel this pain?
I feel absent without her in ain I need her to bounce into the rooht toto happen Brooke isn’t going to barge through that door
And aspain, I grabthe cell to my ear
“Hi, this is Brooke! Leave a h the speaker, followed by a long beep
Again “Hi, this is Brooke! Leave a e after the beep”