Story: "Can we watch Planes, next?" Luke questioned. We were watching Disney's Planes while Mrs. Karen, my mom's friend, was watching us. Mom and Dad went to go see grandma, because she was very sick, and was in the hospital. It was not a family tradition to leave the house on christmas eve, but it was a family emergency. "Can we?' Luke begged. "Pleaaaase!" Mrs.Karen, checking her phone for recent emails or texts, didn't respond. "Excuse me," I murmured. "Mrs. Karen, Luke asked you a question." Mrs. Karen froze. She didn't respond, she didn't move, all she did was stare at the dim, glowing screen of her phone. When she finally did dare to move, a sorrowful facial expression spreed across her face as she turned off her phone.
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Is grandma okay? Is grandma Lynn safely on her way here? Mrs. Karen grabbed the T.V. remote, and hit the oval shaped 'pause' button. "Grandma has just passed away," Mrs. Karen whispered. Time stood stil. Literately, nobody dared to move except the movie playing, which Luke paused, not knowing what was going on. Ashlyn looked at Jacob, Jacob looked at Luke, and Luke looked at Jacob, looking annoyed, because Mrs. Karen paused the movie. Nobody looked at me; there was no expression on my frozen solid face. The only moving thing on me was a tear dripping down my face. Then two, then three, and then came a river. A fast mooing rover flowing down my cheeks, and onto my penguin p.j.'s. 'come on!' I thought as the tears rolled down.'I need to be an example for my siblings! They are all looking at me, I need to tell them that it will be alright, not cry, and show them that it won't be!' The only thing that I could think of was to pull my knees up to my sorrowful face and cry, so that's what I did. I cried. It was completely silent for 30 seconds. Nobody moved. The only noise was my sorrowful
Is grandma okay? Is grandma Lynn safely on her way here? Mrs. Karen grabbed the T.V. remote, and hit the oval shaped 'pause' button. "Grandma has just passed away," Mrs. Karen whispered. Time stood stil. Literately, nobody dared to move except the movie playing, which Luke paused, not knowing what was going on. Ashlyn looked at Jacob, Jacob looked at Luke, and Luke looked at Jacob, looking annoyed, because Mrs. Karen paused the movie. Nobody looked at me; there was no expression on my frozen solid face. The only moving thing on me was a tear dripping down my face. Then two, then three, and then came a river. A fast mooing rover flowing down my cheeks, and onto my penguin p.j.'s. 'come on!' I thought as the tears rolled down.'I need to be an example for my siblings! They are all looking at me, I need to tell them that it will be alright, not cry, and show them that it won't be!' The only thing that I could think of was to pull my knees up to my sorrowful face and cry, so that's what I did. I cried. It was completely silent for 30 seconds. Nobody moved. The only noise was my sorrowful