My Sister’s Keeper: Epilogue
Kate
2011 It’s been exactly one year since Anna’s death.
Miraculously I haven’t I haven’t relapsed since I got Anna’s kidney’s. Everything in our house reminds me of her, the bathroom where we used to fight over who kept our stuff where, the dinner table where Anna always had some goofy story to tell, and most of all our room where her bed still stands and everything exactly how she left it that dreadful day. Jesse’s life completely turned around after the accident, he has been a cop for 9 months now, he doesn’t smoke or drink as often anymore. My dad still spends a lot of time at the station though he’s home quite a bit more then right after it happened. I woke up at 5:30 so I could make Anna’s favorite breakfast for my family. Jesse comes down first dressed in his uniform, he just got home from the night shift at the police department. He sees what I have …show more content…
“No, it’s fine you just startled me with this.” We all sit down, no one talks, we just remember.
The rest of the day we go around to Anna’s favorite places in the city. Her favorite store, restaurant, and park. Then we go to place where that dreadful accident happened. Dad pulls the car into a Holiday gas station across the street. Mom cries in the passenger seat, dad looks like a statue remembering what happened and pulling his daughter out of the wrecked car. Me I just stare at it, my eyes blurring up. Jesse breaks the silence,“I think it’s time we go to the cemetery,”.
When we get there I know exactly where it is everyone does, but no one wants to get out of the car, and walk up to her beautifully crafted headstone. I’m the first one to move I walk up to it and I think I feel her around, I fall leaning on her headstone wishing it had been me instead of her, mom and dad rush to me thinking I relapsed. My parents and Jesse wrap me into a family hug and we sit there for a couple hours
Kate
2011 It’s been exactly one year since Anna’s death.
Miraculously I haven’t I haven’t relapsed since I got Anna’s kidney’s. Everything in our house reminds me of her, the bathroom where we used to fight over who kept our stuff where, the dinner table where Anna always had some goofy story to tell, and most of all our room where her bed still stands and everything exactly how she left it that dreadful day. Jesse’s life completely turned around after the accident, he has been a cop for 9 months now, he doesn’t smoke or drink as often anymore. My dad still spends a lot of time at the station though he’s home quite a bit more then right after it happened. I woke up at 5:30 so I could make Anna’s favorite breakfast for my family. Jesse comes down first dressed in his uniform, he just got home from the night shift at the police department. He sees what I have …show more content…
“No, it’s fine you just startled me with this.” We all sit down, no one talks, we just remember.
The rest of the day we go around to Anna’s favorite places in the city. Her favorite store, restaurant, and park. Then we go to place where that dreadful accident happened. Dad pulls the car into a Holiday gas station across the street. Mom cries in the passenger seat, dad looks like a statue remembering what happened and pulling his daughter out of the wrecked car. Me I just stare at it, my eyes blurring up. Jesse breaks the silence,“I think it’s time we go to the cemetery,”.
When we get there I know exactly where it is everyone does, but no one wants to get out of the car, and walk up to her beautifully crafted headstone. I’m the first one to move I walk up to it and I think I feel her around, I fall leaning on her headstone wishing it had been me instead of her, mom and dad rush to me thinking I relapsed. My parents and Jesse wrap me into a family hug and we sit there for a couple hours