We Were One: Looking Glass by Elizabeth Reyes

Author:Elizabeth Reyes [Reyes, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Reyes
Published: 2018-01-28T18:30:00+00:00

PART TWO

Chapter 14: First year without her

What we knew about the accident at the very beginning was that somehow Madeline lost control of the car and it flew off the side of the embankment. They’d had the car’s convertible top down, and all three were ejected from the car as it rolled over several times. It’d been confirmed the fourth person hadn’t been a passenger in the car with them, so I knew, if there was the slightest hope the newscaster had it wrong and Madeline hadn’t already been gone, she would be soon.

Then I got the call from Loretta that confirmed my worst nightmare. My peanut was gone. She and Shelby had been pronounced dead at the scene while Maggie had been flown to the trauma center in Livingston. Only time anyone was transported there was when their injuries were as critical as Maggie’s apparently were.

I fell apart all over again, just as I did every time I woke from my drug-induced slumber—the only slumber I could get during those first agonizing days and weeks that followed her death.

I knew I had a family that loved me and were beyond concerned about me, but I just couldn’t find a reason to go on. Madeline was my everything. I lived and breathed for my peanut, and now she was gone. Words couldn’t even begin to describe the agony I was living in now. Every minute of every excruciating day the same four words overwhelmed my mind.

This was no life.

I didn’t even make the double wake they held for Madeline and Shelby. I was told the whole damn town and then some, because of the media coverage the accident had gotten, were there. I was told that, just as Loretta had at the scene of the accident when she first arrived that horrid day, she passed out at the wake. She was the fourth victim at the scene that day—the one that was taken by ambulance after going into shock.

Loretta had later explained to me that, when she’d called me that day, she was already out looking for them. She knew the areas they frequented, and so she’d been the first to arrive at the horrific scene and witnessed the gruesomeness of it all on her own. She called 911, and by the time they arrived, she’d gone into shock and had to be treated herself. Loretta didn’t even know Maggie had survived until she herself was released from the hospital. Loretta practically lived at the trauma center now where Maggie was still in a coma.

The days after the accident, when several vigils were held for Madeline and Shelby, I lay in bed, almost comatose myself. There was no way I could attend if I couldn’t even get myself out of bed. I attempted to attend the burial services with my family, but when I saw the hearse, I lost it. Not even when my mother had died had I felt such unbearable pain. I’d heard people could die from emotional pain alone if it was excruciating enough, so it made me wonder why I wasn’t dead yet.

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