I remember the first day I met her...
It was second semester of my junior year of high school and I was moved to a different because I was talking. There sitting across from me was Gina. For the next few weeks we would talk and got to know each other. Then I told her where I worked and she told me she needed a job. So in the next few days I got Gina a job with me. From there we hit it of. We became great friends. The summer came faster then we knew it. We worked the whole summer together. Toward the end of the summer her step father pulls up in this 89' red BMW. "That is my car in a few day" she told me. I was so jealous. I was an awesome car. So the next thing I know it we are driving in the BMW everyday. September came and she would pick me up at my house and we would drive to school in her car. Singing our lungs out on our way. We were in all the same classes together and we were 2 peas in a pod. Everyone said we were like day and night yet we were best of friends. When we had to do projects or anything with a partner, everyone knew Gina and I would be together. We never really did our work though. We would skip lunch just to get ice cream at the ice cream factory! Again I got Gina another job working with me. I remember once she was holding two cakes in her hands and fell and dropped one but put the one that fell back in the frig and we watched the employees eat it. they asked if we wanted a pick but we just looked at each other giggled and said no thanks. Summer was approaching and all of us were getting all excited for the bay queen, prom, graduating, ect. Finally we were off on the Bay Queen, our senior banquet. Gina and I thought it would be fun to go to a party and pull an all nighter. We went to school very unhappy and left in the middle of the day to go home and Sleep!! Then prom came and Gina and I were dancin machines. We graduated and we were free. NO more high school. She was going to go to new england tech and I was gonna go to VCU in Richmond, VA. Now Gina was not happy with this at all. But we hang out all the time and saw each other at work. We were still best of friends. On July 4 I went to RVA to check the place out! I had lots of fun. Gina was out in Cali with her mother. I came home on Sunday July 8. Gina was home!?! " why are you home early? You are suppossed to come home Tuesday" Gina said to me " I missed everyone, I had to come home. I told her about the trip and how everyone was so nice and friendly and i liked me. All she said was " But Erin Im nice and I like you" I laughed. She then told me " well Im going out to eat, ill talk to you later, I luv u!" " I love you too" I told her. That was the last time I talked to her. I remember the last time I saw her, she was laying in her casket with a cut on her eye lid and forehead and the side where her head was smashed was covered by the hair she had left. Her little hands where all puffy and bruised. i didnt want to look at her. I stayed at the wake the whole time and sat and cried. When I was getting ready to leave Tiff and Chris were up near Gina. I went up next to them and asked Chris to give her a kiss for me. " Its still Gina, you can kiss her." He showed me where to stand so I could reach over to kiss her. I kissed her head ever so softly and told her I loved her and we would be best friend forever just like you always told me. I said good bye and left. That was the last day I saw her face...