Darkness crept around my room enhancing sounds that moaned and creaked in the night. I just lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling not wanting to close my eyes in fear of seeing Abre there smiling at me. She seemed so close to me in the dark, shining in the stars but something ate away at her and made her intangible.

Finally my eyes gave way to the heavy skin of my eyelids and I shut my blue eyes into a sound sleep. That's when I was transported into another world in which everything was created by my mind.

I stood in the middle of a desolate intersection. Above me yellow light flooded the black street below my feet that was covered in a thin layer of rain. I turned behind me to blink and see two shining light coming towards me in a fast rate. I squinted my eyes as the golden light illuminated my body.

The jeep rumbled down the down the street as the engine hummed maintaining a constant speed of about 100 miles an hour. I heard laughter flow from the car as the head lights turned low from my eyes so that the passengers were visible in the car. Abre had her hands clutching the leather wheel out in front of her with a sweet smile on her face as her friends squirmed in the back tossing bottled and laughing.

I called out to her but as I finished her name a loud bellowing sound caught my attention off to my left. Another pair of headlights blinded me this time as the suburban was coming to the intersection at the same time. I turned my head back to Abre and yelled out this time for her to watch out for the car but she ignored my calls and kept going laughing still.

I pleaded, screamed as hard as I could but Abre only caught a glimpse of the car at the last minute. Her eyes widened as her face elongated into a scream from her lips. Her body clenched up tightly as the wheels locked from their spin and the car swung it's rear end into the intersection nearly turning around in a full circle. The suburban laid on it's horn one last time as it approached the intersection at a face pace. Abre's friends screamed for her to go forward and Abre's foot slammed down on the peddle as the wheels screeched. . .but only too late.

The wheels spinning only created the car to go forward and make the suburban shatter the side Abre had sat on. The pieces flew around my like a thousand raindrops as I watched the front of the suburban take the life of her. I stood there only hearing my breaths in the darkness as the cars bounced off each other and became stationary allowing the cluttering rain to settle on the ground.

All I saw of Abre was a red streaked hand out the cracked window hanging there, lifeless with it's fingers spread out trying to grasp it's life lost. The purple and white bracelet I had given to her back in 5th grade slowly unraveled and floated to the street dipping into a puddle and sinking to the bottom.

"A. . .bre. . ." I wailed but no one heard me. Her friends opened the doors of the car and looked at Abre through the shattered glass and gasped and held their mouths but none of them felt the way I did.

I woke with a start feeling the dripping sweat dry with the rush of air I created. I breathed heavily as I realized I was reaching out into the depths of my room feeling as if Abre was there. I looked at my hand and sighed but then looked at it again and opened the grasped fingers to see the beaded purple and white bracelet nestled inside of the palm of my hand. I looked at it with winder and I brought it to my chest and ran my finger over the beads gently.

"Abre. . ." I whispered as I kissed the tail of the bracelet. It tasted like salty tears that stung my lips but still I felt like Abre was wearing the bracelet on her slender wrist again, smiling.