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“I guess,” I said.
“Come here, I want to show you something.”
Hannah grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the house.
I honestly couldn’t remember when I met Hannah.
We were just always friends.
Always together.
Hazel and Hannah.
Hannah and Hazel.
We kind of grew up the same.
She didn’t really have her parents in her life. Neither did I.
Her father left before she was born and her mother worked and loved to drink a lot.
I lost both of my parents when I was young.
They weren’t the best parents to begin with either.
I wasn’t sure if I missed them or even how to miss them.
No matter what happened in life, Hannah and I had Gram.
I called her Gram.
Hannah called herGrellie.
That came from Gram’s name - Evelyn.
She didn’t want to be known asGramfrom everyone.
So Hannah being the smart-ass she was, she called GramGrellieand it just stuck.
Even at Gram’s funeral, Hannah stood up, gave a beautiful eulogy and called herGrellieone more time.
Now Hannah and I snuck around to the back of the old house like we used to do when we were kids.
We played all kinds of games in and around the house.
From pretending we were princesses-slash-warriors and fighting off imaginary bad guys to sneaking boys here when we were teenagers, hoping to find the best place to make out.
All the way to sitting on the front porch steps, each with a drink, crying our eyes out when Gram was diagnosed with cancer.
Life in a strange way had moved full circle.
Hannah stayed put in town and worked for a marketing company with a nice office near the beach.
I helped myself to a big jump in life and moved to the east coast and worked for a marketing company that overlooked a bay.
Hannah and I made good money and visited each other all the time.
Then came Gram’s diagnosis and the reality that she wasn’t going to survive.
