Moonlight Path
Everything was gone.
I was poor and weak but I had love.
I had kids and a wonderful husband until that fateful day…
Flashback:
"Honey! There was a shooting at our children's school!" cried my husband in a worried voice. I hung up the phone…
Please tell me they're okay please… Please…I thought as I drove straight to the school.
I parked and ran out of the car where many other husbands and wives were doing the same as me.
I raced to Jackie's and Kurt's classroom, hoping this was just a bad dream.
I ran inside. And the first thing I saw was my son and daughter behind the bookshelf…dead.
NO! Not my babies, no! They were only in the 6th grade…So young…I screamed in my head over and over again.
I fell to my knees as tears fell down my eyes. Then my phone began to ring.
"Um… sniffle who is this?" I asked barely audible.
"This is Officer Jones. Is this Monica Allegro?"
"Yes sir. This is her."
"Your husband, Chris, died today in a car wreck just a moment ago… I'm sorry for your loss," the officer stated sadly.
"What happened, sir?" I asked holding in my tears. Don't cry you idiot! I can cry after I hear what happened…Useless… I thought as tears were rolling down my face again.
"Um… pause He accidentally drove off the bridge and landed in the river, ma'am," he said still in a sad voice.
"Thank you officer for telling me what had happened… Goodbye and have a nice day…" I finished hanging up the phone as I cried my heart out.
I wept all day and night until I had no tears left in my eyes and I fell into a dreamless sleep alone in my empty house.
Flashback ends.
It's been a month since that day that scarred my life forever.
I'm a widow now who lost everything important to me: my love, my joy, my hope is gone and may never come back.