Aaron pt.2 (not a poem)

ONE YEAR LATER
Hey Lori catch I yell, while throwing her a present, we always open one from each other early. Lori catches it and throws a gift to me. Watch out! she screams a few seconds after it hits me. You are supposed to say watch out before it hits me, not after it hits me I call back laughing.
Its Christmas Eve and we are all waiting for the night to come so we can wake up to Christmas morning. We all wake up at different times, I am the first awake. I go to look outside expecting to see snow or icicles like I did last year, and the sun is lightly shining, there is no snow or icicles. I thought to myself If things were like this last year then Aaron might still be here and we could celebrate another Christmas together. I look down at my hand to see my ring, I was 14 and he was 17 but we were in love, and it was just a promise ring. That brings back a lot of memories, some happy some sad, like the day he gave me the promise ring while we were just lying underneath the stars. Then the sad memories come like going through his things after the funeral, and finding a wedding ring in the car that he was driving. I read his notebook after that, finding out that he was going to propose to me on Christmas day that year.
I hear footsteps behind me as I snap out of my thoughts and realize that 30 minutes had passed and everyone was awake. I never thought that I would ever have to say this, but I have to get Aaron off of my mind to live, it used to be that I couldn't live without him. I call in to everyone that I will join them in a second and not to start without me, as I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and put my hair back. I come back down and they are all sitting there not doing anything, I could tell they were all talking before I came back in there because of the way their eyes darted from me to everyone else in the group and then back to me. They know something I don't know obviously. I got a little bit nervous as I sit down beside everyone. To lighten up the mood a little bit Lori started to throw presents at the people that they belonged to, and we all started laughing. It took my mind off of Aaron a little bit, but the whole time I kept thinking to myself

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