Last Visit From a Friend
They say kids have wild imaginations, but… When I was about 6 years old I was jumping on the trampoline on a nice warm day. My best friend (7) came walking over and hopped on.
I asked him how he got there and he said he walked (which was weird because his parents would never let him walk along the 2 mile stretch of highway between our homes). We laughed, played, he reminded me we were best friends and I jokingly said ‘DUH’.
I went inside to get us some otter pops and when I came back out he was gone. I went inside and started looking for him and that’s when my sister came over to me, crying. My friend who I was JUST playing with had apparently been hit HOURS earlier by a drunk driver and was pronounced dead on the scene.
His dad was in critical condition. I could not possibly have been jumping/talking with him that day, but I remember that entire day so vividly.