I was still in shock. The fuzz were at the door and I was just so confused. I heard what they were saying but it just didn’t compute with my brain. Mom and dad...no they couldn’t be… this didn’t make any sense. Greg came up and told me to go sit down and that he would take care of it. It didn’t take long for him to come back and sit down next to me. I felt the crushing weight of sadness on my body.
“Daniel, mom and dad were in an accident...they were on their way home from the store and this truck came out of nowhere...it was no one's fault but they’re gone,Daniel, gone for good.” He gulped and choked on the last word. He repeated it as if he was speaking to a young child.
“NO! NO! Mom and dad they wouldn’t do this, they wouldn’t leave us!” I yell as I jump up and run out the house as the emotions overload my body. This wasn’t how it was supposed to be. I could hear Gregory shouting for me but I blocked him out. I went to my special place where I could be alone.
I ran all the way the park and behind the slight brush of trees to the open field of golden wheat. I plopped down before one of the few trees and tried to sort out my thoughts. I started to stare off into space thinking ‘What will I do now?’
“Danny, you in there Danny?” a soft voice called while gently nudging my shoulder.
I slowly focused my eyes to see a head full of tumbling black curls with two deep green eyes.
“Bon?” I mumbled as I adjusted to my surroundings.
“Hey Danny, Greg told what happened and how you ran off,” Bonnie informed me. “Do you want to talk about it?” she continued. I could see in her eyes how much she cared and hated to see me suffer but how can I put this kind of pain into words? Would she ever understand?
“I know nothing I will say will make you feel better, but just know I’m here for you,” Bonnie murmured. And that’s when I fell apart hearing her support when she could've just left me to my misery.
“I just don’t understand they were here one second and gone the next,” I cried out “How will I live without them?”. I slumped down against the tree defeated as Bonnie slowly pulls my head into her lap and runs her hands through my hair.
“How can you stand to be near me?” I questioned. “I’m a blubbering mess not the sturdy boyfriend you deserve,”
“We all have have weak points and if you're a blubbering mess than you're my blubbering mess,” she jokes. A light smile fills my face. How she can make me feel happy at a time like this I have no idea but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“You're my sunshine,” I tell her. The brightest point in my life and that's probably why I love you so much, I think. Then I hear her gasp softly and realize that last thought wasn’t in my head like I thought it was. Suddenly my mind is overloaded with thoughts I didn’t mean to declare my love for her right now but somehow I can’t find myself regretting it. Then the worries start to set in, what if she doesn’t feel the same way, how will I feel, and can I take the pain of my heart being broken and my parents dying in the same day? Those thoughts don’t matter though because she quickly responds with a sweet and soft I love you to paired with an even sweeter smile. I can’t believe this a day that started so bad could end with emotions like this and before I know it I sweep her off her feet and into my arms twirling her around. That's when I realize I want to spend my life with this woman and I almost ask her to marry me right then and there but I realize I’m not prepared at all. I mean I don’t have a ring, I haven’t asked her parents permission, and I haven’t even mentioned it to Greg. I’ll talk to him later I decide and then I’ll start to save up my extra money from the station for a ring.
“You're it!” Bonnie shrieks tapping me on my shoulder and knocking me out of my thoughts.
“I’m gonna get you!” I replied with a wicked grin on my face chasing her through the fields allowing me to forget everything that's happened.
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