Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul by Jack Canfield

Author:Jack Canfield [Canfield, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780757394911
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-30T07:00:00+00:00

BFF

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

Mary Baker Eddy

Whenever something bad would happen to me, I would think that nothing could be worse than when I had to move away from my home and leave my best friends behind. Flying away from my small home in Colchester, Connecticut, at the age of seven, I felt that it was the hardest thing I had ever done—or ever would do. But I was wrong. I was very, very wrong.

I was just about to go out the door, when I heard the phone ringing. “Hello?” I said into the receiver.

“Courtney? This is Mrs. Lynch.”

“Oh! Hey, Mrs. Lynch! My. . . .”

Mrs. Lynch cut me right off. “Courtney, please let me talk to your mom.”

“Sure, well . . . she’s walking out the door to go to dinner group, but I’m sure she’d want to talk to you!” I went to get my mom. I caught her just as she was pulling out of the driveway with my dad.

“Mom! Mom!” I called, motioning for her to stop the car. “It’s Mrs. Lynch, and it sounds really urgent!” I yelled, thrusting the phone at her. I started to walk away but then stopped because I heard the car door open and then slam shut.

I heard my mother say to Dad, “You go ahead and drop off this bread pudding. I have to stay here with Court and the girls.” I was really confused. I had never heard Mrs. Lynch sound so . . . stressed out . . . or serious . . . or anything like the way she had been when I just talked to her.

“Courtney, come here, Honey. I have to tell you something.”

“Why did Mrs. Lynch sound like that?” I asked, realizing that my mom looked very concerned and like she was choosing her words very carefully.

“Kelly and Jenn . . . ,” she trailed off. Then she took a deep breath and started again. “Kelly and Jenn have been in a very serious sledding accident.” Her words filtered into my head very slowly. Everything started to feel strange. Nothing was making any sense. I was confused. “What about Christiane? What happened? What do you mean?” All of a sudden, my mind sped up again and everything my mom was saying to me started to sink in and I had a very bad feeling in my stomach.

“We don’t know very much except that they both have serious head injuries and they were flown from Colchester to Hartford by Life Star. Then Hartford Hospital transferred them to Boston Children’s. They are both still in the air right now, on the way to Boston. Jenn was sent first because her injuries are more serious than Kelly’s.” Everything was spilling out of her like she was having a talking race with someone. There were tears in her eyes, and as I saw hers I felt a warm stream of tears running down my cheeks as well. I was too overwhelmed to do anything but hug my mom.

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