1 I love you, Ian.
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Quality: (Quality: Unrated)
I believe it was called "John Q.".The phone rang.
I was really wrapped up in the movie, so I waited
a few seconds to answer. I answered.
"Hello?" I said.
"Chelsea? It's Trevor". He was crying. I had never
heard him cry before. I was thinking that maybe his
girlfriend and him had broken up or something, so I went
on, never thinking that it might affect me.
"Hey. What's wrong?"
"I need to tell you something. You should probably sit down."
"Um... okay, I'm sitting... what's wrong sweetie?"
"Ian's dad just called me." He paused for a few seconds. So many thoughts ran through my mind right then. Ian was my very best friend, but he had been missing for about three weeks. He had ran away, that's all I knew. Still crying, Trevor told me the rest, "Ian died five minutes ago."
That almost killed me. I dont remember the rest of the conversation, I just know that I was crying so hard that I could barely breathe. It was October 5, 2002 at 11:45 p.m..
The next day I found out more. He was in a car wreck on I-44, and he got hit head on by oncoming traffic.
The day after, I found out more. He had had a seizure. Then I started to figure things out. He only had one seizure in his life, when he was really really upset. The autopsy showed that he had had a seizure.
The next day, all of it really started coming together. They found a suicide note. He was on his way to drive off of a bridge, but he didn't have a chance to change his mind. He died.
The funeral was really hard to be at. All of his friends (and trust me, there were a LOT) were there, and we were all hugging and crying. It was a foggy rainy day, a perfect funeral setting. It really resembled the mood. No one talked much until the end. We all sat around his memorial stone and picture at the end and talked about our memories with him. It was the hardest day you could imagine.
He was driving in the direction of my house. What if he was coming there like he always had in the past when he was upset?
I realized a few days later, after my head began to clear, that Ian and I used to want to run away together. We had planned everything out. I never thought about it until then, but when I talked to some people he had stayed with, I found out that he had done everything that we had planned. I might have been able to stop him. And I knew he was suicidal, but he had been many times in the past and he had never actually killed himself.
My point is, if you or a friend have suicidal thoughts, or if you even slightly suspect that a friend/family member/ANYONE may be suicidal, tell someone who can help, even if you have to call the police. I never thought it would happen to someone I was close to, but I found out quickly, no one is invincible. No one. Don't take a chance. Please.
I'm rating this 'G', because I believe that this is important no matter what age you are. It's reality.
RIP- Ian Guzik. I love you sweetie.
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