Heart Break

• Ebony Kate De Jonge, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2011

Angish.
She felt one emotion.
Her brother lay there.
Face pale, blood seeping out gush across forehead.
Heart ceasing to beat.
Eyelids closed.
Sister shakes head.
She blinks furiously, refusing to shed tears.
Refusing to express any anger.
Refuing to shift.
Refusing to beleive.
How could this be?
Hours ago the five year was walking home from school.
Giggling.
Happy.
Care-free.
Playing on the footpath.
Unaware.
Screaming.
Blood.
Death.
He was gone.
The realization begins to sink in.
She begins to scream.
People come running.
Gasping.
Shock.
Unbeleif.
Greif.
Mother weeps.
Gathers son in arms.
Brushes golden curl out of the boy's eye.
She shakes her head.
Drunk driver.
Her son.
Alive one second.
Gone from the cruel world the next.
Forever.
He was so full of life.
He reflected energy.
Delight.
Joy.
Sunshine.
Heartbreak.
Death.
Sister collapses.
Tears cascade down face.
Father appears.
Sadness.
Anger.
Anguish.