"MUM WATCH OUT!!!" I scream when my mum suddenly loses control of the car and we are heading straight for a truck, mum freezes in place, I reach out to try to grab the steering wheel but its no use, my seat belt is stuck on something preventing me from moving altogether.

As we collided with the truck at full force my belt must have come loose of whatever it was stuck on and my body gets flung forward making my head hit the dashboard making a throbbing pain go through me.

I hear my mum scream which means she must have snapped out of her frozen state when we hit the truck. The truck made our car role at least four times, it finally stops on its roof I look around there is glass everywhere and part of our car and the truck all over the place.

Something starts to drip on my face, I look at where the blood is coming from and let out a loud scream, my stomach has a deep cut that comes from my right hip to my left rib cage, but I ignore the pain as I hear my mums ear pear sing scream of pain. my head snaps to where my mum is seated in the driver's seat she has blood all over her body there is so much I can't even see where it's all coming from.

I pull and pull on my seat belt until it comes undone making me fall on the roof and wince in pain as the cut on my stomach starts to bleed a lot more but I get up and try to open the door but it just wouldn't budge so I had to climb out the window. when I'm out of the window I have scratches and buses all over me.

My vision is a bit fuzzy at the moment from when I hit my head but I don't care about that or about me for that matter all I care about is my mother.

"MUM!" I scream as I run to her side of the car and yank her door open with full force when it comes open I grab my mum and pull her seat belt undone and we both stumble back a little.

I sit against the side of the car with mum in my arms whispering smooth and calming things in her ears

Mum opens her eyes and gives me a sad smile and said "Be strong baby girl, I love you" then her eyes close and her head fall to one side.

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I wake up gasping for breath and in a pool of my own sweat, tears are running down my face I remember the day so perfectly like it was yesterday and I have to admit it hurt like hell

I sit up and look over at the clock and it's already 6 am so I get up and limp over to my small closet and get out my mum's white dress with pretty pink flowers, it is tight around the chest area all the way to my hips then it flows to my mid-thigh.

it's October 27 the anniversary of my mother's death, I wear one of my mums dresses every anniversary, it's like a tradition me and Stella have done since we where fifteen a year after the accident Stella will wear one-off my mums dresses as well since mum thought of Stella as a daughter.

After my shower, I put my make up on and style my hair so it looks wavy and stops at my mid-back.

By the time I'm ready I go back to my room to get my flats Stella sitting on my bed already dressed in one of my mothers dresses she must have just grabbed out of my small closet it was one exactly like mine but its light blue with white mini flowers and black heals she looks beautiful with light to no makeup on and hair styled in a messy bun on the top of her head.

"Amelia would have been so proud of you Astrid you know that right? And you look absolutely stunning" Stella said with the look of awe in her eyes.

I smile and whip away a tear that had escaped from my eye, stupid tears I thought to myself

"You look absolutely beautiful too Stella mum would have been just as proud at you as she would be at me" I smile and limp over to my closet where my cream coloured flats and bend over to get them on

"What the hell Astrid!" Stella screamed

I look over to where she is crouched on my inch size matres that lay on the floor in the middle of the room "What?" I give her a confused look.

She pointed at my right thigh with wide eyes and when I look down, I see my thigh wrapped up in a bandage I didn't really notice that is is so noticeable the dress is too short to cover up the bandage on my leg but you want to know one thing, I don't care because this day is about mum, not me so I don't care if people see it.

"So what," I say and walk back in my bathroom and put on my mum's silver love heart locket around my neck and it has a picture of me and mum in it.

"So you ever going to tell me what he did to you this time?" She raises her eyebrows.

I know what she means by him but I ask anyway "Who?" I frown.

She lets out a sigh of frustration and says "You know who I'm talking about don't act stupid to me Astrid" She points at me like I'm a little kid that did something wrong and blame that something on someone else.

I sigh and tell her all about last night.

When I'm finished I look at her and she is standing there with wide eyes and tears in them and when she is about to say something I interrupt her "Let's go now or we will be late okay?" she knew that was a sign for her to drop the subject and nodded.

Once at school I can feel all eyes on me because this town is small and everyone knew about my mum's death and even what date it happened on, creepy.

I heard someone whistle and say my name and I turn around and see Jack Taylor one of 'the six' with his messy obviously died blonde hair and his Greene blue eyes staring right at me the most embarrassing part is that all the six are standing around him smiling at me.

I can see Andrew staring at me with the corner of my eye he is leaning against his locker with wide eyes and his mouth slightly open as his eyes skim my body from head to toe and I see his eyes stop at my mid-thigh where I have a bandage wrapped around it and his face goes red making me look at him

We stare at each other for what feels like hours but probably only seconds until the bell rings and making me bump into Stella and Andrew hit his head on his locker

Stella pulls me away and drags me to my locker so I can get out my Artbook and says "See what I mean you where eye-fucking each other again you see" she says dramatically.

Before I can say anything or do anything for that matter Makayla walks up to us and says "I know right, I saw the look you and Andrew shared it was filled with 'damn girl I want to see you naked' and 'I'll kiss you in the rain so you get twice as wet' and -" I hit her on the arm and burst out laughing and so does Stella and Makayla, even tho it hurts so much to laugh I couldn't help it. 

"Sh-shut u-up," I say in between laughter I lift up my head to see that there was nobody in the hallway but us "Shit"

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The first two of my classes went by quickly and now it was lunchtime and me, Stella and Makayla were sitting at a cafeteria table near the big glass window and we were talking about which one out of 'The Six' is the hottest and we all agreed that Andrew black was the hottest and then my stupid stomach had to growl when the girls finally went silent.

Stella laughs and says "let's get you some food in that angry stomach of yours okay" I nod and get up followed by Stella and Makayla we get a tray and start filling them up and I get some spaghetti and a glass of milk and an apple and go.

I tell Stella I will be back because I have to go tell Miss Gomez that I and Stella can't make it to dance this afternoon because I'm going to the graveyard to see my mum. I open the double doors to the cafeteria and step out and then I run into someone the only reason I know its someone is because I can hear there heart beating against my ear

Someone's hands grip my waist making tingles spread through my body and my stomach does backflips and I don't understand what that means.

"Astrid?" I look up when I hear the familiar voice "You know we have a habit of bumping into each other don't you?" Andrew smirks at me with amusement in his big brown eyes.

"Um... I'm so sorry I have to go" I said as my cheeks redden from embarrassment.

Before I can even get away his hand grips around my wrist and pulls me back to him making our faces inches apart.

"Your so cute when you blush" and I swore I just blushed harder causing him to chuckle. Stupid cheeks.

We were just staring into each other's eyes for a minute then his gaze landed on my lips and I completely forget how to breathe he looks up at my eyes again then mouth again then starts to move forward so our lips were slightly brushing his hand letting go of my wrist and travel down my body to my waist and the next thing I know the cafeteria doors open and hit Andrew in the back making him lose balance.

Before we fall to the ground Andrews hand comes out and holds the back of my head making sure I didn't hit it on the ground as we fell. I let out an embarrassing girly squeal as his body lands on top of mine painfully

He lifts his face up to look at me and pushes some of my blonde hair out of my face and says "Are you okay? Did I hurt you?"

"Well other than that your way bigger than a hippo I'm fine" he gives me a confused look and I sigh.

He must have figured out what I meant and pushed his body harder down on mine making me squeal like a girl and he grins at me what the hell is it with me and squealing at the moment.

"Take it back" his grin widens make dimples show on the corner of his lips.

"Take what back" I push at his chest but he wouldn't even budge.

"Calling me fat" He presses down harder. Okay, I  officially can't breathe right now.

"I didn't call you fat I said you where a hippo" Harder.

"Take. It. Back. Now"

"Or what?" Harder.

"Or this" He started to tickle me in the sides making me laugh, it started to get too painful so I quickly gave in hoping I didn't show ant pain on my face.

"OK! OK! YOU AREN'T A HIPPO" He suddenly stops tickling me.

"That wasn't so hard was it now?" he laughs, I'm glad he didn't notice my pain.

I was about to reply when somebody clears their throat

We look up to see Makayla, Stella, Jack, Kurt, Jace, Heath and Conner all standing there with the expressions of 'caught red-handed' on their faces but Stella has an evil-looking grin on her face with makes me and Andrew look at her with suspicion.

Andrew gets up and offers me a hand and I take it but, when we are both standing we didn't let go of the hands of each other but then I thought of my dad and what he would do to Andrew if he got too close to me so I yank my hand from his grip and he turns around and gives me a confused look and I just shake my head and grab Stella and Makayla hands and walk away.

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I and Stella pull up in the graveyard my mum is berried in and grabbed the yellow roses from the back seat and get out of the car with Stella behind me with pink roses in her hands.

When we get to my mum's grave I bend down and trace my fingers over her name and below it says 'loving wife and mother'.

And with that, I start crying and fell to the ground letting out a loud sob and cuddling into my best friend.

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