I.M.O.D

I.M.O.D
"Green Light!" I screamed as me and Devin darted through traffic. I hated the way Devin drove; he always scared the life out of me. "DEVIN! SLOW DOWN! Your going to get us killed!" Devin glanced at me with his big brown eyes, as his short shiny black hair shined in the light. He came to a complete stop on the side of the road. "Well, we do have to wait for Cassie and Justin anyways." We were skipping school, that day. It was an annual thing for us four.
We had just left the mall and were making our way back to school. I had to at least go to 6th and 7th period, as I sat there daydreaming I realized Cassie and Justin had finally caught up with us. Cassie quickly rolled her window down and Justin randomly started screaming out to us in his girl little high-pitched tone voice. "Let's race back to the school!" As soon as Justin finished his sentence, Devin didn't bother to let him say anything else, we zoomed out onto the road like a flash of lightening. I then noticed how Devin began to slow down when we weren't even on the road for 5 minutes. Then out of no where Justin's long, green, Chrysler, (also known as BOOGER) comes speeding up behind us, going over the 40 mph over the speed limit. I then glanced back up toward the road and had saw, the cop going toward downtown Greenup. Devin suddenly giggled, a silly evil giggle, and of course I couldn't help but laugh either, when I saw Justin and Cassie waving their arms up and down as they passed us! They had no clue there was a cop just on the other side of them.
We arrived in the school parking lot I saw that Justin was already outside leaned up against booger waiting for Devin and me. Cassie still sat inside Justin's car chatting on her cell phone. Devin ran over toward Justin laughing at the top of his lungs. He then told Justin what we had seen and what they didn't realize. They both began to laugh as they motioned for Cassie and me, to come with them.
We entered the school and Devin first. Devin signed himself in and walked off laughing; I wrote my name down and the reason I was late, I then scrolled over the list and seen were Devin wrote his reason for being late was because he does what he wants. I laughed quietly to myself, and walked through the door and made my way to 6th period.
Finally the school day was finished; I made my way outside, just like any normal day. I waited for the buses to leave before I crossed the parking lot toward Justin's car. I was so glad it was the weekend though; it crossed my mind a few times, what I was going to do tomorrow if the weather wasn't bad, and since I didn't have cheerleading practice. But I couldn't make up my mind. Finally the buses were gone, so I then met up with Justin at booger. I hopped in quickly and plugged my MP3 headphones in my ears. I laid the car seat down and closed my eyes as we drove off making are way home.
When we pulled into my driveway, I got out and waved at Justin as he backed out to leave. I was really tired and could barely keep my eyes open; they were super heavy. I opened the door, thrashed my books on the floor and walked down the hallway into my bedroom. I shut the door, threw on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, and dashed under the covers. With in five minutes I was out like a light.
I nearly slept all night! I didn't wake up till 1:00 pm the next day. My day was ruined, I had too much sleep and I was very upset with myself. So I just decided to take the day off and spend it at home with my mom.
"TURN DOWN THE TV" mom said as she pierced her eyes to the computer screen playing one of her goofy Internet games. As I lay on couch, doodling, watching Nickelodeon I ignored her request, because I was distracted by the phone ringing, it was a random time for someone to be calling. No one called when the sun had already fallen behind the trees that led into the Woods, unless it was Jacob, but I knew it wasn't him, he was grounded. I glanced up at the clock and noticed it was 9:30pm. Quickly mom reached for the phone as if she had been expecting this phone call all night. "Hello?" she answered with a confused expression upon her face. As I continued to lie there on the couch, lazily, soaking wet because I had just got out of the shower, I glanced over and saw mom flagging me toward the T.V. She wanted me to turn it down. Normally I ignored her when she told me to do something, but this time, I had a gut feeling tell me to do what she said, so I did. I knew something had to be seriously wrong for her to want to want the T.V volume down and she talked on the phone. I walked to the T.V and turned the volume down to level three.
When plumped back down on the couch, I saw from the corner of my eye something sparkling from where my mom was located. I looked over in a hurry and watched tears fall from her eyes as if a water fall had been installed. Her face was beaming read, and her nose had began to fill up with all kinds of snot. It startled me, and I started to panic. All that ran through my mind was my grandparents. Had something happened to them? As mom hung up the phone she stared at me and by the way she looked at me I was horrified. I started to taste the salt watered tears as the fell from my eyes. Was I crying? I didn't even know what was happening, was it that bad that she had to look a look on her face bad enough to make me want to cry? "WHAT HAPPENED?" I demanded her to tell me. "You sitting here staring at me, isn't getting me anywhere!" The tears began to fall down my face, at this time she looked at me before she began to speak. "It's Devin." She said in a low whisper. "He was in a car wreck this morning." I began to go over things in my head as she spoke, I had forgotten there was a terrible storm this evening. "He was pronounced dead on the scene." As she ended her story she picked up phone and ran into her bedroom, slamming the door behind her leaving a big thump for me to here. I sat there in the same spot I had been all night, speechless. What was I to do? I thought and I pondered to myself as I waited for mom to come back into the living room. I heard her bedroom door crack open once again. I slowly turned my head toward the awful noise, and then I heard her voice.
"I talked to Devin's Mom." She said, as she slowly glided through the kitchen. It startled me, the way she had spoken. I was confused, lost, upset, and I didn't know what to do with myself. I jumped up, and ran for my bedroom. I slammed the door very loudly behind me and flung myself onto my bed. Tears began to pour down my face once again. This was horrible; I never thought my eyes could produce so much water. I suddenly calmed myself down as I heard mom stomp through the hallway. I launched the covers over top of my head so she couldn't see me. EEEERRREEEK! The door squeaked opened as she pushed herself into my room. Why did she come in here? To tell me more things I didn't want to here at the moment? It would just rip my heart out again.
A moment of silence went on for awhile then I finally peeped my head out, to glance at my mother as she stood there slightly at the edge of my bed. Soaking wet from the tears that continued down her face, "What is it?" I hissed at her. I was in no mood to talk to anyone. Didn't she get that? She flopped down genitally on the foot of my bed, and started to rub my leg, like she was trying to comfort me. I looked at her. Still nothing said. I sat straight up to get a closer look at her. Just as I got comfortable, she threw her arms around my back, pulling me closely to her chest. She held me so tightly, as if she was holding the death grip on my. My stomach grew weak, and today's dinner started to stir around inside, like a washing machine, ready to come back out to the world. But this time it would look a little unpleasant.
10:30pm had come around. Not even a word from mom had been said unless she was answering the phone. I was so tired my eyelids were very heavy as if they weighed 100 pounds, I couldn't sleep though, especially with all this stuff happening. It felt to me, like a wonderful dream, peaceful, evening had turned into the worst nightmare of my life. Mom returned back to my room with a nice cold pop. I popped it open and began to chug it. I was dying of thirst and the nice, cold soda rushing down my throat sent chill bumps up and down my body. She giggled at me, and then spoke. "You don't have t go to school tomorrow." A smile finally broke upon my face. This made me happy because I knew I could go visit Devin's family. Then mom spoke again. "Rachelle said a bunch of your were down at the barn, and you should join them. I think this would be a great idea, you need to be with your friends at a moment like this." I nodded my head in agreement with her. I jumped out of bed, ran to my closet and grabbed something nice and cozy to wear, while I pondered outside in the barn with my friends.
The ride seemed really long. The dead silence made it even worse. I hated everything being like this. I knew now for sure nothing would ever be the same, not being able to see Devin's dark complected skin every morning before school had started. It was going to be hard, losing a member of our school. I would of never thought someone could die so early in life. As we pulled up to the barn that sat right in the middle of the flat plain located beside Devin's grandparents house. I noticed a light, creeping the cracks of the barn, coming from upstairs. I opened and closed the door quickly in a hurry, I ran through the field and up the stairs toward the upper part of the barn. I dunked down, as I entered the upstairs, that way my head wouldn't bang against the wood dangling everywhere. I glanced around and saw all my friends sitting around with hay stacks stalked everywhere. I then planted my butt down on the nearest opened hay stack. All my friends were weeping with sorrow; I then began to join them. A bunch of hands flung toward me, as I noticed everyone began to hug each other. I couldn't take this anymore. It even killed me, to see my friends cry. I wished I could have made them feel a little better, but I know at a time like this, nothing would ever work. By the time it reached midnight everyone started to leave. I didn't want to leave this barn. I felt like I needed to be here. But if I did end up staying longer I would have to try and make a nice comfy bed in the hay, and that was something I didn’t intend to do. As me and mom made are way down the stairs we heard Rachelle speak up. “We’re having a funeral for him this week.” I was determined to go, and I didn’t care how bad the weather would be either.
A few days have passed and I realized it was time for the funeral. I had gone to the showing the night before but I couldn’t stay very long. Pain shot through as I glanced up his face, and the faces of my friends. I dressed quickly wearing my favorite pair of dress pants and a brown shirt to go with my shoes, along with a big fuzzy jacket. I watched mom run around in a hurry to finish getting ready. In her hurry worried voice she screamed. “WE’RE GOING TO BE LATE!” Which she always did say that when a special occasion had occurred. But I knew we wouldn’t be late.
Quickly, we sprinted to the car. Mom screamed at me telling me to run inside and grab her car keys and purse. I knew if she didn’t have her head attached she would forget that too. I walked inside looked around, grabbed her keys and purse, and then dashed out the front door.
Mom rammed her keys into the ignition and we darted out of the driveway. Flying through Greenup I thought to myself. “Man, if mom doesn’t slow down, then we will have to be arranging a funeral from for us now!” Her speed kept increasing, along with my heart. She was scaring me. To death, but I guess her intense speed got us to the funeral on time.
We parked the car in the “Reeds Funeral Home” parking lot and waited. We were there no longer than thirty minutes as we saw a humongous truck, with extremely large wheels, slowly make its way through the road, and sitting in the back of the bed laid my best friends casket. I began to tear up, as mom pulled out and followed the rest of the cars, which lined up behind the big truck, to the grave yard. Another long silent trip came to me mom, but it wasn’t as awkward as it was when we went to the barn. I just kept my head turned toward the window, watching the environment as we drove by. It was a beautiful scene, with the snow that fell upon the tip top of the trees. But that moment of wonder ended quite quicker than I thought it would, as we pulled into the cemetery mom had parked on the far left leaving our little silver caviler that we had been driving. We walked over to where everyone was standing near a giant wall. My heart began top fail as I heard the preacher talk. When he spoke I watched them put the casket genitally in the wall. By this time the snow was pouring, as if Devin were crying. Tears once again poured out of my eyes. I stood there watching them close the wall up, then I heard someone say “Please leave so the family can be alone.”
I walked back toward the car with mom, crying, and then it really hit me. Going to school now would be very difficult. I’ve thought about it before but I just let it slip past me, I never thought I would have to see a member of my school leave; this was going to be a big change for us. Us as students will have to move on with our lives, even though it was going to be. All I could think of now is how I’m never going to be able to see my friend Devin again.