Jess+Debski+2014

**__Unforgotten memories__**

 * Her plane landed after a nine hour flight. It had been the worst week she could have ever imagined. **
 * A week before, on a Wednesday, she thought her life was going great. She was coming home from school, just got great grades on her exams and the weather was beautiful. It seemed like a perfect day. As soon as she walked into her house, there was a tension in the air. Suitcases laid everywhere. It was all so crazy. Her dad was sitting on the stairs, crying. Her mother, packing black clothes. She knew before anyone spoke that her grandfather had passed away. He was sick with Alzheimer's for four years, it was an inevitable fate. **
 * She packed by just throwing clothes in the bag. She could not think of anything else the whole time. The flight there was overnight. Everyone was sleeping while she stayed awake; thinking about her last moments with her grandfather. She had not seen him for two years and wished she could see him once more. **
 * Getting to the house where her grandmother lives was strange. Seeing the house empty without her grandfather was the worst. Her grandmother was strong though the whole ordeal. **
 * The wake lasted three days, she could not control her tears as she saw him lying in the coffin. This is when she first realized that he actually was gone forever. Family and friends surrounded the casket. She was too scared to approach the coffin, because the fear of seeing him in this state was overwhelming. She reluctantly approached the coffin so she could say her last goodbyes. **
 * On the third day, the funeral was scheduled for two in the afternoon. It was a gloomy, rainy day. The procession was led slowly out of the church with the family in the front. A crowd of at least a hundred, all dressed in dreary black, progressively made their way to the cemetery. **
 * The spot he was to be laid in was finished off with a gray marble that matched the dull color of the sky. Those that attended placed roses on the coffin as a last portrayal of admiration. As he was slowly lowered into the ground, she started crying again. She felt as if she had never stopped crying since she had first learned of his passing. **
 * Her and her family stayed there for another three days to comfort her grandmother and deal with the loss in the family. It was hard for her to get adjusted to life without him, but she knew she would have to accept it. She would never see him again, but the memories would live on forever. **