A Special Day

Zoe Eccles

2007

The day Im writing about is definitely the most sad day of my life so far. Two very important things in my life ended.

1st July 2007. I was woken up by my mum at about 7am, (she never woke me up) she had tears running down her face, I knew what it was about, hed been ill for a while, but it still came as a shock. She said with a croak in her voice, Last night well She couldnt say it, it was too hard for her. She tried to carry on, Your Grandpa passed away.

The sound of the words made me go cold, Im not sure what I felt, sadness or maybe a little guilt, that I hadnt spent much time with him. Tears fled down my face and I fell back on my pillow, I didnt want to go to school, but it was the last day of primary school and the last day of the school itself. ... (continues)