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One day, Ale got so mad with her parents because they didn’t let her go with her friends to vacations, so she ran out of the house as a desperate move. The night she came back, she didn’t even tell her parents that she had arrived and she went directly to her room. The house was silent, more than usual, but she was happy that her parents didn’t call her to have a conversation about her recent behavior. She went to sleep, but while she was sleeping she kept an eye open to see if someone entered the room. Nothing happened.
The next day she woke up and went to school as a normal. She didn’t care that her mother didn’t make breakfast as she usually does, maybe she was still mad of what happened yesterday, and anyways she went to her classes as a normal day. She came back in the afternoon, her parents weren’t home, she called her mother but she didn’t answer. She called her dad, but he didn’t answer either. She started to do her homework, “maybe they were busy” she thought. Some hours later, she heard someone ring the bell.
When Ale went to open the door she sees a police officer in the door, he said he was calling the house since the morning but nobody answered. She saw that the police officer was kind of nervous, she wondered why. The officer later said to Ale that he had some bad news. Her parents had died the last night in a car accident. Ale couldn’t believe the words the officer was saying. She stopped listening for a second and she started to think about all the terrible things she had said to her parents last night. You could see the officer talking and how he was so sorry about the terrible accident that had happened and Ale just staring at him but not listening at all. She just thought about how mad she was yesterday that she omitted everything that normally happened in the house, like there was no dinner or that her parents would have come with her to talk about her behavior, or just that her parents wouldn't wake her up to school and say goodbye to her while she leaves like every morning, every day.
The officer looked at how lost was Ale and so he waited for her to come back to reality. When Ale reacted and saw how the officer stopped talking she asked what happened. The officer, again, said that the accident occurred around 7 in the afternoon the past day, the “fight” started just minutes before. The officer left the house and Ale ran to her parent’s room, hoping to find them there. When she arrived to her parent’s room, she saw no one but a letter. She took the letter and saw that it was the handwriting of her mother, so she read the letter with her mother's voice. The letter said “Honey we went to look for you to see if everything is alright, if you get home before us please call your dad or call me to see that you are home and everything is ok so we can come back home.”
