San Pedro
High School Student Tells Another Sad Tale About Life
The Worst
Day of My Life
By San Pedro
Senior Rain Wase
The worst day of my life was when my best
friend killed herself.
It was a hot summer morning and I hadn't seen
her for a few weeks. As I got out of bed, she called and asked me to come over.
As I start to get ready, my mom tells me to ask her mom if we are stilling
going to have the bonfire that night.
I start to ride my bike to the halfway point
in between our houses. When I get there she's waiting and greets me with a nice
hello. We start to ride to her house and we began a real talk. We called it a "real
talk "because it isn't a "b.s" conversation.
She starts
to tell me about what's going on in her life. She starts talking about school
and she begins to cry. I don't
understand.
When we get
to her house, we go straight to her room. She rolls up her sleeves and I notice
her wrist's dense scars.
"Why
are you hurting yourself?" I ask.
She starts
to cry and just runs out of her room, goes in the kitchen, grabs a knife and
stabs her lower stomach and just falls to the floor and starts to bleed. Her
mother and I run to her. She looks up at me and says: "Don't do what I
did."
I didn't
understand what that meant and I still don't.
After the
police left, I still ask her mom about having a bonfire and she looks at me
like I'm crazy.
But it's
just death. And it happens every moment of every day.
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