by Deidre Taylor
I am a 15 yr old girl and I want to tell you my story about my Ashley Boo... I wont ever forget my baby girl... She was my life, she meant the world to me...Exactly one week before her 2nd birthday, March 25, 2003, I felt my world be rip apart... It was a nice day, so my brothers and I decided to go on a walk, which ended up being a 6 mile walk to my grandmothers house... It was all good we was having fun talkin, walkin, ashley was having a blast running around like crazy... She was always a crazy lil dog that didnt even come up to my knees... Yeah we were near the road, and Ashley was a pretty good dog so if I told her to stay she stayed... So if she was getting ready to come across the road when a car was coming all I had to yell was stay and she did. We were just about there exactly 110 yards away, I felt some relief. Cause I didnt think we were ever going to make it... Ashley was on the other side of the road... I seen her starting to cross and out of the corner of my eye I seen a car... I yell stay and she just look at up me with those big gorgeous eyes of hers... And that was the last time I seen them big gorgeous eyes... All I remember was yelling NO! STAY! Then I heard tires screeching, and one loud howl coming from my baby. I watch the car drag her for a second, then all of a sudden I seen her go under the front and back tires... I knew that was the end of my Ashley... I stayed with her as she took her last few breaths of life, told her I loved her and promised that I'd never forget her... That was the hardest thing ever, was letting her go... Now, I still dont want to believe it happened... I know that when my brothers are picking on me I wont have her there to protect me, or when I go to bed at night she wont be at the bottom to comfort me, or when I wake up she wont be there to give me her kisses bye as I leave for school, and that she wont be there when I get home waiting for me... I know that its going to be hard to get over it because I watched it all happen... But I know that she will always and forever be my Ashley Boo... The poem really gave me hope that we will meet again, and i also want to thank you for letting me share my story.