Brittany's Story
"Hey Brit, will you go up to the attic and see if my old, guitar is up there?" "Sure Bits, hang on," Beginning of sophomore and Bits had already enough to write a song about. Crazy; I climbed up the twisting stares up to the attic. Stupid old house, stupid old tower. Jeeze; too many stairs!
I started from the back boxes knowing, it would probably be there. I opened up the first box. It had mine and Bitsy's last year's papers. Like those would help us. I started going through them. Remembering writing all of those tiresome reports. Then I came upon, a poem we had to write. I never did turn this one in.
Wishes
She grew up in a small town
Always wanted to go to a Big City
That didn't happen
She wished her dad would come back
She wanted to know why he left
That didn't happen
She wished that life would be normal again
That didn't happen
She wished that people liked her for her
Not because she would do anything to help them
She's still wishing
She went through middle school wanting a boy who liked her for her
Not because she was a cheerleader or she was pretty
That didn't happen
She wished that it had been her in the car wreck
Not her sister
That didn't happen
She sat by her sisters bed side wishing she'd asked what was wrong
Instead of going off with her friends
That didn't happen
She wished that she could see the life in her sister's eyes
That used to be there before the wreck
That didn't happen
She wished that summer would end soon
So that she could get back to reality
That didn't happen
She wished that they would move
Away from it all
That happened
She wished that her sister felt alive again
Instead of feeling like dying inside
It's happening, slowly
She wished she felt alive
Instead of dying inside
She wished she could let go of Yesterday
That didn't happen
She wished she could say how she felt
Instead of hiding it
That didn't happen
She wished she could be like her sister
Nice to everyone, without worries
That didn't happen
She wished that she would stop feeling so bad
And that life would slow down
That didn't happen
She wished that she would find a guy who loved her for her
And no other reason
That happened
And when that happened she got everything that didn't happen
The old sister she used to have come back
She became nicer
Time did slow down
Summers flew by
She cared more about her family
Instead of dying inside
She felt alive
Silent tears were falling, life was so much better than it used to be. God bless La Push and everything else. Without it, life would basically still be Hell.
I slid the papers back into the box, closed it and went off to the next one.