Remember Me (Part 2)

It was around 4 o’clock that Audrey showed up at my house. I gave her a hug as tears started to run from my eyes.


“You’re the best friend that I’ve ever had and I wish the best for the two of you but, are you sure you wanna do this?”

She nodded her head yes and handed me a little box.

“Open it.”

Audrey started to smiled as I started to open the box.

“This is an angel that I’ve had since longer then I can remember. This is one of my most treasured items and I want you to keep it safe for me.”

I gave her a hug and we talked for a little bit and then she said she needed to get going. Little did I know that this would be last time that I would ever see my best friend.

It was about 8:30pm when I got a call from Frank asking if I had seen or talked to Audrey. I told him that it was around 5 something that I last saw her and she said that she was on her way to pick him up. Apparently she never got there. Frank figured that her parents probably found out what they had planned and wouldn’t let her leave or talk to him. He got into his car and started to race off to her house. As if things weren’t bad enough for him already, there was a car accident to slow him down even more along the way. The only thing that was in his mind was to get to town and take Audrey in his in arms and confront her parents that he wants to marry her and he’ll care of her. Do what ever possible to give her everything that she has ever dreamed and be the one to make her happy for the rest of her life. Frank got to the front of her house and sat there wondering how he was suppose to put into words all that he wanted to say. All he knew was that as long as he had Audrey he would be happy.

He finally found the courage to walk up the to house and rang the door bell.

Audrey’s mom came and answered the door.

“Audrey puas nyob tseb os?”

he kindly asked.

She kindly responded that she wasn’t home but that he was more then welcome to sit and wait for her if he wanted so he did. Thoughts kept running through his head.

“Did I scare her?”
“Where could she be at this hour?”
“What if she didn’t want to run away with me but was too frighten to tell me no?”

and then all of a sudden there was a knock on the door.
Frank immediately jumped up from the sofa where he was sitting to get the door hoping that it was Audrey.
Standing on the other side of the door was not Audrey but instead two police officers.

“Hi.” One of the officers said.
“I’m Officer Steven Mitchell and this is my partner Officer Mike Jones. Is this the residency of Audrey Thao?”

Frank stood speechless and confused but nodded his head yes. He wanted to ask why they were there but nothing would come out. The cops asked if it was okay that they stepped in the house and again Frank nodded his head yes.

“Are you her brother?”
“No. I’m Frank. She’s my girlfriend.”  he stated.
“Is she alright? I’ve been waiting for her to come home.”

The Officers wanted to know if her parents were home.

“Yes, they are but they’re sleeping.”  he responded.
“What’s wrong? Where is she? Did she do something wrong? Is she hurt?”

He knew that something was wrong and his eyes started to water.
The cops looked at each other and then glanced at Frank.

“Would you take a sit Frank.”

He knew it was going to be bad news but he was still hoping that she could be alright.

“Now Frank, we came here tonight to let you guys know that Audrey was in an accident. She was riding on the freeway and witnesses say that she was headed north on the freeway when she was hit by a drink driver riding south who had no headlights on.”

Frank started to cry and scream louder then he had ever before that it woke Audrey’s parents up. The cops explained what happened and Frank left the house with tears in his eyes. He could not believe what had happened. It was just earlier that he had talked to her and tonight they was suppose to be the first night of the rest of their lives together not the end. Thoughts ran across Frank’s mind non-stop, then it brought him back to the accident he came across way to find Audrey. Flash backs non stop. Why didn’t he stop instead of rushing. It was her. Maybe if he was there he could of helped her but the truth was she was gone and there was nothing that he could of done.

Audrey’s parents blamed Frank for her accident. He paid for the whole funeral but yet that wasn’t enough for her parents. For all they knew, they lost their daughter but didn’t understand that Frank had lost the dearest thing to his heart which was their daughter too. They blamed him because if she hadn’t been on her way to see him then she’d still be alive.

Death is harder for some then others. It took Frank three years before he finally faced reality and realized that Audrey wasn’t coming back no matter how much he wanted her to before he could go and date again. It’s interesting how life can all of a sudden come to an end. Some are lucky enough to never go through it, for the rest of us, we’ll always remember. There’s an angel above us. Someone whom we loved and someone who loved us.