I was at the park sitting on one of the benches thinking. When I saw her, the girl of my dreams. As beautiful as an angel. Her light soft shiny blongish brown hair glowing so bright in the sunshine. Her name was Grace, she was a year older than me, 14 years old. She was one of the most popular girls I always heard about but I had never met or seen her before. Finally I did when I heard her best friend Denise say to her, "Hey Grace, guess what? Alex finally agreed to keep his older brothers away from us on our first date alone later this evening. They made a deal." They kept talking about Alex and some other boys I didn't even know. But Alex was a jock at my friends' school, he had told me about him once before. They acted so grown up and talked liked they were like 19 years old. Grace and Denise. Always together talking. Ike had a crush on Denise's older sister Angie once before he had told me. Just then Alex showed up and he asked Denise to come with him so they could finally talk alone.
Grace said, "Catch you later Denise." That's when I did it, I talked to Grace. I said,"Um, hello Grace. My name is Zac, I..."
She interrupted me and said, "I know who you are. Angie told me about your brother. Your brother talked to Angie about you and she told me and showed me a picture of you. I have been waiting to finally meet you."
I was scared but I asked her, "Grace do you have a boyfriend?"
She smiled and answered, "No I don't, why do you want to be mine?" I blushed.
I said, "You mean it?"
She giggled and said, "Sure. Let's start now." She leaned toward me and gave me a quick kiss on the lips then a small kiss on the cheek. I kissed her then and made it as passionate as I could, but since this was my first kiss I didn't really know how but I did my best. I was satisfied I liked the way she kissed me. Everytime she touched me and I looked at her or whatever I felt a feeling go through my whole body. All tingly, like what my leg feels like when it falls asleep. But only for a second then goosebumps all over.
We had been going out for about 2 months now and I was going to meet her after her best friend, Denise's birthday party, which I wasn't ivited to. I heard Ike say that Alex was a drinker of beer. I couldn't wait until Grace and I finally could be together again after this party of Denise's. I just hope she will get here all right after what I always hear happens to innocent non-drinkers when they travel with drunkers. Alex was 17, he was 3 years older than both Denise and Grace but Denise thought she was in love and so was Alex, they had already had sex together. She had found out she was pregnant the week after. That was just last month they found out. But Denise was going to put the kid up for adoption when she had it. It was 12:30 in the morning now and Grace was late, I wondered where she was.
Right then Grace was hoping Alex would stop drinking now and take her to meet Zac at the park where they first met and was meeting again tonight. Alex was pretty drunk but Denise, nor I could drive so we had to take the big chance. We were driving when Denise decided to give Alex a kiss and he turned to her and held her, he had one hand on the wheel the other on Denise's face. I was hoping they would stop soon I said, finally, "Hey Alex, watch the road!" He turned to me and gave me a dirty look. I looked back at the road and there I saw them, the bright lights of another car right in our path and the drowned out sounds of them frantically blaring their horn by Alex's stupid music. I screamed. Then my face shot forward as our car rammed into the other car. SMASH!!!!!! I could hear screams of pain and anguish, and the crunch of metal and the shattering glass. My face hit the windsheild. Then everything was going black. I woke up and I was laying in a stretcher and I saw I was hurt badly, I moaned my last words, "I just want to say I love Zac Hanson." Then she died.
It was that evening I was sitting on the floor playing video games when the doorbell rang. I got up to answer it since I was home alone. I was expecting to see Grace standing there and I was prepared to kiss her. But instead of Grace it was a police officer.
He said, "Are you Zac Hanson?" I nodded and had a sinking feeling in my stomach.
The officer said, "Well I have something to tell you."
I was on the couch crying when I felt a hand touch my shoulders. It was Grace, I was so happy I jumped up to kiss her but my arms went right through her. She said in a whisper I could hardly hear, "Zac Hanson, I love you." Then she disappeared.
I heard that Alex was really drunk and he was kissing Denise, who was pregnant, when they didn't notice the on-coming car they crashed and the people in the other car were killed and Grace died shortly after saying that she loved me, Denise died instantly and same with the other people in the other car. But Alex lived. That was 8 deaths caused by drinking and driving of Alex.
