How Could This Happen?
Burt was driving back to the hospital. It was about 3:30 in the morning and the sky was pitch black. Burt's was the only car on the road and it was completely silent. He turned the radio on but switched it off again when Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' started playing; remembering the time he had walked in on Kurt and his friends dancing to it. Remembering how Kurt had joined the football team, remembering… Burt pulled over to the side of the road and broke down.
This just wasn't fair! How could this happen? Kids shouldn't get sick, parents shouldn't have to watch their kids suffer and not be able to do anything about it. It just wasn't fair!
Kurt was only 16; he still had so much to do, so much to live for! He was going to graduate from McKinley and go on to university. Him and Puck were going to spend their lives together and they'd adopt a couple of kids. They would go to Broadway and see 'Wicked' a thousand times and Kurt would cry every time. He couldn't die, Kurt couldn't die. His little boy couldn't die.
Okay, so I know this is short but I didn't think the way Burt is feeling could really be described in a lot of words.
Also, this isn't just for my story; this is also for everyone who died 10 years ago today.
I think that something along what I have written here might be a few of the things the families were thinking that day.
It's not fair that people died, so many people. They all had lives to live, families and neighbors.
While I was not directly affected by the horrible events of 9/11, I believe that everyone in the world was indirectly affected. Something like that can't happen and not affect everyone.
Kids lost their parents that day. Husbands, Wives, Mothers, Fathers, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Brothers, Sister, Friends, Your Best Friend, Your Neighbor, That guy you waved to every morning but never spoke to, that guy down the street you saw but never bothered to get to know.
Or that person who, had the events of 9/11 not happened, you might've met, and unfortunately never will.
RIP the victims of 9/11 and my heart goes out to the families, who after 10 years are still suffering.