Sarah texted back immediately, eyebrows raising as she heard hysterical yells from the living room. "Yes, I suppose you could be right. Be right back, my mother is flipping her shit about something." She put her phone in her back pocket, frowning.
She slowly pulled her headphones out, eyes widening when she realized what she thought were just yells were actually agonized screams. Sarah shoved open her door, finding her mother on the ground with the phone next to her, sobbing fiercely. Sarah kneeled next to her, rubbing her back with alarm. Her stomach turned as her mother fought to produce words.
"Ma-mariah cr-cr-crash-ed." No. She's-s dea-ead!" No.
Sarah froze, mind racing. Her sister was dead. She had died in a car crash. Likely driving home from the party. Tears were streaming down her face long before she made a sound. A choked sob came from her mouth, and she hugged her mother tightly while rocking back and forth slowly. She whispered gently to her mother while the woman screamed in agony, trying to comfort her. First her father from cancer two years back, now this. Her mother would break. She pulled out her phone with severely shaking hands, still whispering soothingly to her mother.
She's dead. Mariah is dead.