Her last goodbye.

Once again on another boring day in Callisburg everyone was sitting in their houses watching movies they have seen a million times. Eating the same things over and over because they could barely get out of their houses. Everyday was a repeat of the same thing over and over again. Days got longer and longer by the minute. One day, There was a girl who went out of her house to get her family food, and supplies to last for the month. So one of them would have to go out and get the food once a month. While she was walking down the road to the store she saw a girl, they locked eyes for a few seconds. She turned her head away as she was blushing. She kept walking, She got to the store and was putting things in the basket, she made sure she looked at the prices because they needed to be cheap. She turned down the next isle, and there she was, the girl she had seen on the side of the road. The girl had asked where she lived, Sara started getting worried but she trusted her, M-my house doesn’t look that great but.. I live two blocks away from here. Sara looked at her feet, and tearing up. The girl picked up her head and told her, There’s nothing wrong with what you live in as long as you have a roof over your head. Sara felt way better, they walked around getting food. Sara had looked over at the girl and realized she was putting stuff in her bag, “What are you doing!”. She had looked at Sara and told her,”I don’t have money so i steal, don’t say anything okay!”. Sara was getting a bad feeling about this girl, but she ignored it. Sara went to the register and paid for her food. The total was 20$. She paid then left with the girl. The girl dug out her candy from her bag and was eating it. “So tell me about you mystery girl”, the girl had said. “My life is boring, you wouldn’t wanna know, By the way, What’s your name?”. “My name is Jessie, call me Jess”. Sara looked at her hair and what she was wearing, she looked dirty. “Do you have clothes”, Sara asked. “Uhm- yeah, i guess you could say that”, she said. Jessie stared at her feet then looked up fast, smiling, continuing to eat her candy. They continued walking down the street and they came up to an alley, Jessie looked over, then looked back, she was even more sad. “So, where do you live?”, Jess said. “Up here, we're getting close, What about you?”. “Uh, i would rather not say right now, let’s just get you home okay”. They both didn’t talk. They got to Sara’s house and Jessie was shocked. “Omg! Your house is not that bad, why do you act like it!”. “You wouldn’t know okay, and I don't over react, my mom spends all of her money on things she doesn't need so we have like 20$ for food every month, IF THAT!”. “I’m sorry i didn’t realize Sara..”. “Just go, go to your house that’s probably a whole mansion!”, Sara said. Jessie looked up at the sky tearing, “yeah, sure, ha, i guess i will see you later then huh”. Sara looked back at her, She was staring at her like she had just broken her heart, and she did, “uh yeah, sure”. Her mom called her inside for dinner. “I gotta go, see ya later, bye”. “B-bye!”, Jessie said. Jessie walked home and was throwing rocks down the street. She looked down the Alley that they had passed, and kept walking. She was holding her tears in as she kept walking. A block away from the Alley was her roommate's apartment, where she lived. Although there were drug dealers there, and grafite everywhere, the cops never came, that’s why she moved in. You may be wondering why does this girl steal if she has a roof over her head and everything. Compared to Sara and Jessie, Sara has it better. Sara may not think this but Jessie has never told her story to anyone before, so nobody thinks that she’s got it bad. The next day Jessie woke up and walked to Sara’s house, “Sara! Hey!”, said Jessie. “Oh hey! I was just about to go to school”. “Cool, i can walk you”, said Jess. As they were walking they kept talking until Sara brought up the subject,Please tell me where you live? “I live… (she sighed).. I live in a ghetto apartment building, they sell drugs there and there’s like 30 people there, all in those 10 apartments, look.. (Jessie pulled Sara’s hand and made her stop) The reason i steal is because i don’t have money, none, i don’t have parents to provide for me, they left me when i was a kid to fend for myself. Sense then, these drug dealers took me in. They said I was a part of their family now, so that’s what I did, I became family”. Sara looked at her, she couldn’t believe that she had gone through so much pain and she didn’t realize it. “I-I’m sorry Jess”. Jessie looked at her crying, it was that moment when she had  said, “I’ve never told anyone that besides you”. She pulled Sara in and kissed her. Sara looked at Jessie and she knew that she had found what she was looking for. “Jess, as much as i want to keep kissing you i gotta get to school”. “Oh yeah, okay, Bye!”. “Bye!”, said Sara as she looked back for the last time. 

A few weeks went by and Jessie was still waiting for Sara to come by and go for a walk like they usually do. Jessie started to get worried so she went up to her house by herself. When she got there she knocked on the door. “Hello, anyone home?”, she had asked. Still no answer. Jessie got even more worried, she went looking all over the town for her, She kept asking herself, Why didn’t she come see me after school? But she wasn’t giving up yet. She asked everyone where she was but nobody knew.  She was thinking to herself, What if she had left me and just didn’t want to talk to me. She went home and just hoped that she would come soon. She waited for a week, biting her nails looking at the clock every minute. “Dad- i need you to, tell J-jessie i’m in the hospital”, Sara said laying there hopelessly. “Who?”, said her father. “J-jessie’. Sara gave her the address to her house and smiled. “Okay, I will be back, please don’t leave me hunny, I love you so much”, her dad said, tearing up and leaning down to kiss her forehead. “I l-love you too dad, hurry”, Sara said. Her father got to the door and looked back one last time. He ran out the building looking at this girl's address, he thought it was one of her friends. Meanwhile her mom was out at the bar drinking while her daughter was in the hospital. Everybody was trying to get a hold of her but she didn’t answer. It wasn’t no surprise to Sara. Her dad got in the car and looked up the girls address. He looked around trying to find it, but when he pulled up he looked at the address again, and was trying to get through his head, Why would she see a drug dealer?'' He went up to the door and knocked. Jessie got up fast and ran to the door, The drug dealers were hiding because they thought it was the cops. Jessie opened the door, and sighed. “What”, Jessie said. “Are you Sara’s friend?”, he asked. “Yes! Yes I am, where is she!”, she said. “Oh, uhm, well she is in the hospital, she has Cancer Jessie”, he said crying looking at his feet. “W-what, that’s.. (jessie was crying) Take me to her Mr. Q”, Jessie had said. They got in the car and Sara’s dad took her to the hospital. When they got there they hurried inside and he showed her to the room. When Jessie and him got into the room, they walked up to her tearing up. Jessie was looking at her and said, “Is she sleeping?”. Sara’s dad tried to  wake up Sara, but she wasn’t waking up. They pressed the emergency button, because they didn’t know if she was asleep or not. The doctors got in there and he had explained that he tried to wake her up but she wasn’t budging. Jessie sat in the chair shaking, and balling, looking at her face. The doctors put their hand on her chest and then put the stethoscope on her heart. They said, “Full Code!”. Jessie stood up fast, “What’s Full Code!!”. “Get them out of here!”, said the doctor. Jessie was breathing hard trying to fight back. “SARA! WAKE UP!”, she yelled, crying. Her dad was trying to get Jessie back, and out of the room. Jessie was trying to fight; she was yelling at the doctors telling them they didn’t understand. “Jessie, Sara had stage 4 cancer, we knew she was going to die soon but we were trying to spend the last minutes we had with her, while we could”, her dad said. “Why didn’t she tell me! She was so happy and it was like she was okay”. “She acted like that because she didn’t want people to make fun of her, she was always an outcast she couldn’t do any sports or any events in school because of her cancer, she has always wanted someone to love but any one she liked she would tell them she had cancer, so they left”, her dad said shaking. Jessie looked at the ground then back to him, “Why didn’t she tell me that she had cancer, I loved her and I would have never left her, she knows that”. “Wait, y’all were dating..”, he said. “Not yet but we would have been, if she didn’t-”, Jessie ran out of the hospital crying. She ran down the Alley that Sara and her passed while Jessie was walking her home. “Mom, I can’t ever be a good person, I didn’t know she had cancer, I’m a bad person. I should’ve known”. She said looking down the Alley. Her mom was killed down the Alley that’s why she would always look down it. “I wish you were here mom”, Jessie said leaving. She walked to her apartment that she was staying in and sat on the porch staring at the ground holding Sara’s necklace she took from her while she was in the hospital, to remind her of Sara. She stayed up all night waiting for the next morning to go see if her mom was home to tell her. It was the next morning and Jessie walked to her house throwing rocks in the road. She felt lonely. She knocked on the door and she had answered. “What do you want, if your one of Sara’s friends tell her to get home now, because I want her to meet my new boyfriend”, Sara’s mother said. “Actually Mrs. Q, She’s dead, and not that you would know but she died from cancer, stage 4! Maybe if you would spend more time focusing on her and not having parties you would know this, but you don’t so I came here to tell you myself!”, Jessie said. “Her mother slammed the door in Jessie’s face. Jessie smirked then started tearing up, she turned around and walked home. When she got home she took a shower in cold water because the apartments didn’t have any hot water. She clogged the drain and waited for the bath to get filled. When it was full she got under the water and forced herself under, someone knocked on the door, and she got up quick. “Who is it”, she said. “Hurry up!”, one of the guys said. She got out and dried off with a rag. She walked over to the mirror and looked at herself, then looked down at the sink. She opened the cabinet and found rat poison, she stuck it in her pocket then walked out. “There, I’m done”, Jessie said. She walked out of the apartment and went to the Ally her mom died at. She took the rat poison out of her pocket, and said, “I’m coming Sara, I’m coming Mom”. She swallowed the poison and sat against the wall, waiting. She stayed there all night. A guy walked down the Alley the next morning, and saw the box. “Hey! What is this!”, he said. “You're too late to go away while you can”. He picked her up and dragged her. “I wanna die with my mom! Leave me here!!!”, she yelled. “NO!”, he said mad. He got her in the car and took her to the hospital but when he opened the door he saw her foaming out the mouth and her eyes open. He called the cops and told them what happened. Sara’s dad heard what happened and told the cops to bury them by each other because they were in love. They agreed and told him it would be done in no time. He was so angry that Jessie had done that. He went to where she lived and asked the drug dealers where her parents were, they said they had no clue, but then one guy told him that it was only him and they lived in Oklahoma, then gave him the address. He headed to Oklahoma and when he got there he got out of the car, and went to their door and knocked. “Hello?”, Jessie’s dad said. “Hello, I came here to tell you something very important. May I come in?”, he said. “We don’t know you so, no”, the father said. “It’s about Jessie!”. He looked at him and said, “Come in”. He sat down on the couch and was looking at them tearing up. “Your daughter is dead, she was living in a drugged out apartment and she met my daughter who just died of cancer, I think that may be why she killed herself. I don't know the whole story”. The father had looked at him tearing up, and told him, “Thank you for telling me”. “I felt you needed to know Sir”, He said walking out. He got in his car and drove home. When he got there he took off his socks and fell asleep. And that was The story of Jessie’s last goodbye.