Color
Today Black
It had already been a full year
since Jake decided to stop make believing. And the nerve of him … he had found
a girlfriend! I had always thought he would fall in love with me … and be my
Prince Charming again, but those are only my foolish thoughts. Just because I had
been in love with him forever doesn't mean he would like me. Besides I was a
year younger, not to mention about three inches shorter. I knew I was pretty
though, very pretty with auburn hair and blue eyes. So pretty that I knew most
boys stopped and stared when I walked by, and most girls glared.
I shut the book I had in my hands, I
heard a car pull up, then the doorbell rang. I got up lazily to get it. I was
shocked to see a policeman standing at my doorstep, his cap off revealing his
balding head.
"Emma Maureen DeFransis?" he asked, I
stood and stared blankly, this is what happens in movies where people die in
car accidents, please oh, please don't let it be that! Please!
"I'm so sorry to have to tell you this—"
No … No "but there was a car accident—"
Oh God! No! "your parents as well as your sister were involved—" Please let
them just be in the hospital … "they were killed instantly—" I took off! I
couldn't bear anymore! I faintly heard the policeman calling after me, but I
ran much faster than him, he gave up. I ran and ran until my lungs ached then I
threw myself to the muddy ground and cried, cried as I never cried before!
Screamed and wailed until my voice hurt so much that I had to stop, and only
tears dropped silently off my face. It couldn't be possible. Parents don't die!
Not until they're at least sixty! I must have sat there for fifteen minutes before
I heard footsteps approaching.
Jake came to
kneel beside me, and wordlessly embrace me as I cried, stroking my hair,
getting his shirt dirty. When he let go he looked at me with such love and
sorrow in his green eyes, that made me forget everything for a second, he did
love me! But then it all came back and hit me very hard. They were dead. My parents
… my sister, all dead.
"There dead," I half whispered "I can't
believe that they're dead," I sat there dumbly for a while and all of the
sudden I felt incredibly angry at God! How could he just kill my family? How?!
They were young and needed, and my sister was only fifteen! Fifteen years old!
They had a life to live, and me! I was an orphan! "where will I go?" I yelled
at the sky, "why them? Why not some old unloved person! Why!" I screamed. I
stomped a wild rose that was growing near foot, "It's not fair! You cannot just
do this!" tears began to stream from my eyes again as I dropped back to my
knees and began to sob loudly.
"Emma, get a hold on yourself, please …"
Jake said, I turned, a tear dripped from my chin, "You can stay at our house
until they figure out what to do."
He helped me up, taking his jacket off
for me to use, and lead me to his house with his strong arm around me. If I thought
any other day was blacker then I was horribly wrong. Today was colored the blackest,
as were the many days to come.