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Chapter two
Crash
I stayed at home. My mother gave me a short list of guidelines. It read:
1. Stay in the house
2. Eat what Mommy and Daddy left for you in your room.
3. If you run out of food call Uncle Henry.
Well. That was simple enough. My young mind could comprehend that at least. I had a good supply of food, and my mother had left me some videos. I spent the next two days watching videos and reading books. My mother always told me that education was important. Luckily it was the summer, so I didn't miss any school.
I got a phone call from Uncle Henry that night.
"Hello?"
"Sally. This is Uncle Henry."
"Oh, hi Uncle Henry! What's up?"
There was a long silence. "Uncle Henry?"
"Your- your aunt died today. She had a rare case of Topheitus, a lung disease. She died right before your mother left."
"Oh, gosh, Uncle Henry, I'm sorry! But why didn't you wait until my parents got home? They could have told me."
Another long pause.
"Um... Your parents plane crashed. It crashed in the woods, and"
I didn't hear the rest of his sentence I dropped the phone. It landed with aa klunk on the floor.
My parents were dead?
They were dead?
No... it couldn't be. Uncle Henry never talked about deaths.
I picked up he phone. "Uncle Henry?"
"Yes?"
"Are my parents O.K.?"
"No. They're dead."
Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
The word seemed to ring in my ears. Dead, dead, dead. Dead.
I comprehended what that meant. I would never see them again. They would only be aa memory. No more popcorn, no more playing, nothing. Just thoughts.
Now when I'm thinking back on it, I think I probably matured more in that day than I had in the rest of my life.
"O.K. What do you want me to do?"
As Uncle Henry listed what had to be done, I looked at the window and realized it was time for sunset.