The day she found out her father had been shot and placed in a coma, one she was told he may never awake. Her heart rate increased as she’d waited for the bad news to come. PC Dawson took a deep breath and explained how they’d been called out on a job and shot in the middle of a drug bust. Covering her mouth, she started to whimper before her legs gave way beneath her and the darkness enveloped her. She prayed for hours every morning and night of everyday hoping that he would wake up to wipe away her tears and tell her everything
“John Barton killed himself.” Josie breaks down completely and feels awful just as her HSC exams are starting for the year. She makes it through the funeral and exams with the help of Jacob, her mother, Nonna (who Josie finds a huge secret about) and also Michael
She ended up telling my grandma she was pregnant, who was very upset about it, and eventually my grandpa found out. He was so 38 disappointed that he kicked my mom out of the house. She moved in with my dad, thinking things were going to be good now that her family was together, but little did she know that the next five months were going to be terrible. My dad was the total opposite of what she
But the day he go to the college came, while his mom drive him to the college he started crying and his mom tried to cheer him up. A few months later, he was getting into routine of studying and his thing, but he still feels homesick, and miss his family. His roommate
One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness. Christine and Elgin get into a huge fight and yells at her husband to go back to his little black girl. (Dorris 7) “Forget us. Who needs you anyway” (Dorris 7). Christine collapses into the pillows and waits for Elgin to respond and expects him to say sorry but he doesn’t.
My heart had sunk to the deepest part of the world. I felt as if he had left me in the world alone. His funeral was on a Friday that he was supposed to pick my sister and I up for McDonalds. My sister refused to go because she did not believe my mom. But I missed school to watch my best friend be laid to rest.
Samantha Gearhart Professor Ballard Sociology 120 16 January 2011 September 11, 2001 “Mom, what happened?” I asked my mother, curious as to why she sat in front of the TV crying and calling my father frantically. “Nothing sweetie, go to your room,” my mother responded as tears rolled down her cheeks. September 11, 2001 was a day that changed history forever. Although I was only eleven years old, and had no idea how horrible it truly was, I knew that something terrible had happened. After my mother was able to calm down, and my father returned from work, they sat me down to explain what had happened.
But then that awful text message came, and I fell in a daze. Lost, confused, shocked. One of my friends from my youth group at church, Jack Williams, had committed suicide. It was hard. He went to a different school, so none of my good friends knew him and acted like I was overreacting.
“You didn’t make the team this year,” are the gut wrenching words that have the power to bring a high school athlete to tears. After reading the team roster posted outside the coaches office and not seeing my name on it. As a freshman, I had always heard the stories of how former players had reacted to the news of being cut, some left school in tears, some tried to beg the coach to give them another chance, some hit a wall and broke their knuckles and most spent the next month in isolation not wanting to face former team mates. It only made the pain worse to see the look of sadness on the faces of your friends. Until it happens to you, it’s hard to imagine the dull and wrenching pain that rushes through your body.
Donna was so upset, I knew, because I never saw her this way from the day I met her. Suddenly, the unexpected had happen. Blood came rushing down the head of my friend and tumble she went on the floor. Everyting happened so swiftly, that only thing was left for me to do is head up to the office and out the ambulance will take her. This day was most dreadful to me, because I watched the life of my good friend head away from me.