tw: grief
[name_f]Gracelynn[/name_f] ‘Gracie’ [name_f]Imogene[/name_f] Burnwood (20) is someone [name_f]Emma[/name_f] met at a grief counseling group right after the accident Emma’s family were killed in. [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] was at a bar with a few of her friends and her boyfriend called her, asking her if she was okay and if her and her friends wanted picking up soon. [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] asked her boyfriend if he could pick them up in maybe an hour or so, because it was still kind of early. Her boyfriend told her that he loved her and told her that he would be there in an hour. It was in the winter and the sky was beginning to get dark, her boyfriend crashed the car and sadly passed away in hospital. [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] thought it was her fault until she started going to grief counseling which really helped. When [name_f]Emma[/name_f] joined, [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] could see the sadness that she was holding inside of her and immediately befriended her, knowing what she was going through. [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] and [name_f]Emma[/name_f] hit it off and occasionally would go for dinner after their sessions. When [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] left the sessions she still continued seeing [name_f]Emma[/name_f]. [name_f]Emma[/name_f] finds it good to have a friend who truly knows what she is going through.
Losing her boyfriend was really hard for [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] because he was the closest thing to family that she had. Being tossed from foster home to foster home for most of her childhood, [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] never felt like somewhere was her true home, until she met her boyfriend and his adoring family. [name_f]Gracie[/name_f] still stays in touch with her boyfriend’s family but each visit is making her feel so much guilt but she still decided that she wants to be there for the people who could of been her parents-in-law.