Chapter 1
Everyone loses someone they care about at one point or another, but I never thought I would lose them all so quickly.
Ear splitting grinding and blood curdling screams filled my ears as I felt a strong impact on the right side of the car. It forced us over the edge of the hill, the car rolling roof over chassis, over and over. My head hit the dash, the windshield shattered, and the roof crushed down on top of me. My adrenaline was running so high, I didn't feel any pain from being thrown around the front seat. When we finally stopped at the bottom of the hill, I immediately squinted toward the driver’s side.
It took a moment for my eyes to refocus, but what I saw made me snap. "Ray!" I reached over with one hand …show more content…
I'll tell you what: bring me a Mountain Dew and I might consider calming down." A minute later, I got my pop and thankfully, the idiots in white coats left me alone.
Kostya spoke about five minutes later with a slight hesitant tone. "I'll bring you your homework tomorrow after school."
I stared straight ahead. "I'm going to school tomorrow, no matter what anyone says. I am getting out of here." Laying here and not doing anything will do nothing for me except test my sanity. I have to be out doing something. "So," I said to my friend, "what do you think we'll be doing in biology tomorrow?"
After discussing natural disasters for twenty minutes, I felt a jolting pain in my right leg. "Ow!" I yelped as a wet tongue spread slobber all over my face. "Damn it, Goliath. Be more careful, will you?" Tears welled up in my eyes as my German Shepard licked my bandages and nudged my chin, all the while wagging his tail. Recalling that Ray had given him to me, a tear flowed down my cheek.
The thought of crying was a sign of weakness to me, but the sorrow of losing my beloved Ray was too strong to fend off. I just let the tears come as Goliath settled himself between my legs, his head resting on my stomach. I sat up and buried my face in his neck, my hands gripping his fur so tight that they hurt. "Don't leave me, okay Goliath?" I