Abbi Gormer was just a thirteen-year-old who had a big heart. She was in the living room of her house, sitting on the couch and doing her schoolwork on the day of the car crash. Abbi leaped up from the couch, when she heard the phone ringing. It was her mom. "Ma, what's up?" and she heard the most devastating words she'd ever heard before.
"Chris is dead." Chris was Abbi's brother, four years older than her, at seventeen years old, and they were best friends. They spent every moment of every day they could together, teasing and playing with each other. They knew each other's biggest secrets. They chose each other instead of their other friends.
"T-this is NOT a funny joke." said Abbi, for once hoping it was a joke. She hated jokes. She thought they were cruel and mean.
"It's not a joke. There was a car crash when he was driving his friends to a concert, a-and he was checking h-his phone, and t-then it h-happened. His phone was s-still on and Evan called 911." burst out Abbi's mom.
9. 1. 1. The worst three numbers in the history of the universe. "And?"
"And he... he went to the hospital, and we met him there, and a few minutes after we arrived... he died.." Abbi heard her mom's voice crack. And she burst into tears. She was a strong girl, but for this, she used the power of her emotions to cry, harder than ever before. Before she knew it, she was sopping wet. The phone was covered in icky gloopy tears.
"Nooooo..." she screamed. She pounded the floor with all her might. She managed to squeak out a few words. "Did he say anything about me before he died?" And she heard the pain in her mom's voice. She heard it, loud and clear.
"He said he... he loved you." Tears dripped down her face, more than ever before, and the pain, the agony, of losing her brother, her best friend struck her the hardest of all.
Abbi hoped it wasn't true. "Are you- are you sure he's dead?" she stuttered. The news was too bad to be true. "M-maybe I can say g-good-b-bye..."
And then she heard it. She heard it loud and clear. "Abbi. He's dead. He's DEAD! There's nothing you can do or could've done about it," yelled her mom. And that's when she knew it was true.
