The Gold Earrings

By Jayme  

The gold earrings glistened and the sun shined on her black hair. She was in a red dress and was standing next to the bench. I can still see it in my mind.

Isabelle, that was her name. She hated her name but I always loved it. We had been friends for two years but I always felt I knew her forever. She would always want me to get my ears pierced. Almost everyday it would be the same thing she would ask "Jayme have you got your ears pierced yet?"

I would reply " No not yet." In the worst way I wanted to say yes and be just like Isabelle.

Isabelle walked into school with a pale, horrible look on her face. She burst in to tears when she walked up in front of me. I looked at her face and already knew what she was going to say.

" I am moving Jayme," Isabelle said, "I want to give you something though."

"What" I said still shocked. My stomach fell as I realized what she had just said.

She opened her hands and inside was a pair of shining gold earrings. They glistened so beautiful in the sunlight. She looked up at me with a look on her face as though the whole world was going to end. "Good bye Jayme."

The look on her face sacred me, it was a awful and awkward moment. She walked away and got into the car.

I stood there looking at those earrings for a long time, just sitting there not even thinking just staring.

Later that night my mother came home. She looked weary and tired. She looked at me and said," Honey Isabelle got in an accident. She's dead."

I felt my face turn with anger and soon wet tears ran down my face. She was gone? Gone forever.

A couple of years later I did get my ears pierced and all I could think about was Isabelle. I lost those earrings out of anger. But I would give anything to get them back. I believe they had magic. Magic that will never let me forget her.