Stargazing

by fiveirongolfer

Jesse is a boy whose best friend just died. Now at Camp Green Lake, everyone makes fun of him for his stutter. Every night he goes on the lake and looks at the stars and thinks of his friend. Will he ever find anything to make him happy again?

5. Why Does This Have To Happen To Me?

Chapter 5

Jesse sat beside his mom as he watched her talk to Katie's family. He saw Katie's younger siblings Jake and Callie sit beside their mom. They were both crying very hard, but were managing to not make much noise. Why did this have to happen? He thought. Why does this have to happen to me? He thought to himself. I haven't done anything done anything bad. What did I do to deserve this? He kept thinking. He didn't know the answers to any of these. He kept sitting there as he kept feeling like it was his fault. He wanted to take that all away.

He sat on the couch breathing heavily. "I'm very sorry about Katie, Mr. And Mrs. T-T-Teppid" he said. They were both crying hard and holding each other's hands. "Thanks Jesse. We know how much she meant to you" said her mom. Jesse slowly nodded his head, "yeah". He swallows as he carefully waits to what's he's gonna say. "Did you find out who did this"? He asked. Her dad answered before her mom could, "yeah, they were a group of college baseball players who needed some money" he said. Jesse nodded his head. "Did you catch their names"? He asked again. "Well....no. They said their names, but...they lied" he said. "Ohhhh" Jesse said.

Jesse took a walk to Katie's house that day, and found out that it was very big mistake. He stood in front of her house, looking at what she used to live in. He saw her bedroom window. He saw her bed. Her curtains. It made him sadder to even look at it. He was about to cry when he heard a boy's voice from his side. "Are you a friend of Katie's"? The boy asked, he had group of at least 4 other boys behind him. They all had almost the same thing on. Baggy jeans that bunched a lot at their ankles. DC skating shoes, a college shirt of UCLA. And only the boy he was talking to had a baseball hat on.

"Yeah, I was" he said. Then he paused. "Are you"? He asked. The kid laughed and so did his gang. "Well sort of" he said. Jesse had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. "How? You don't exactly look like the kind of people who Katie would've hung out with. She would've told me. But if you are then I don't know Katie that well. So how did you know her" he said. The boy laughed some more, "I'm the one who beat her up" he said.