Cherry.
Shane remembers her smell. She smelt of cherries mixed with vanilla. He was never sure if it was the perfume she used, the body spray or the hair wash but something about that smell made her unique. He used to smell her hair when he hugged her and she'd tell him it was creepy but he'd just laugh and say she loved it really. She denied it.
As he sits in his girlfriend's room, hearing Connie crying downstairs and Steve trying to comfort his distraught wife, he looks around the familiar environment. It pains him.
There are posters of him and his brothers, which embarrassed him before (and he told her often) but now just make him want to cry. There are a few items of clothing on the bed, which she'll never put away. There is her calendar, where tomorrow's date is circled with 'Connect Three Concert!!!' in red. She'll never attend and Shane will never play because he can't bear the thought of not seeing her smiling and singing along in the crowd.
And on her dresser, Shane's eye catches something that really does make him start to cry. Cherry body spray.
His sobs are not as loud as Connie's, but he buries his head in his hands and lets his body shake with the sobs - knowing that she'd never coming back. Not now, not next week or next month – never. She'll never see him again. At least, not on Earth. And Shane never believed in heaven.
"She died on impact. She didn't feel any pain."
The doctor's words repeated in his brain. They didn't help, though he was sure they were meant to. Mitchie was dead, and it didn't matter if it was a quick death or a slow death, she was still never coming back. The truck driver had been drunk and had smashed into Mitchie's car.
She was going to see him.
He tried not to blame himself, he really did, but it was too hard not to. Connie and Steve both said that it wasn't his fault – they blamed the drunk driver, not Shane. But Shane couldn't help it. He called her, asking if she wanted to come over. It was his fault.
As he sits in his girlfriend's room, his cries mingling with Connie's, he realizes that he never got the chance to tell Mitchie he loved her.
Thanks for reading – this was pretty sad so sorry if I started some tears, though I hoped not. This was also for my challenge, so please check out the link on my profile and join in – anyone can! Also, I got twitter, link is also on my profile, so check that out too!