Andrea,
Some stories; when I went to your candle light vigil, people asked to share stories about you, I never spoke up when I wish I did. Here are a few memories of you
How we met:
It was in 7th Grade history class with Mr. Hubbard (sp). We had a group assignment one day and I got to be in your group. You had long beautiful brown hair and long bangs aways pushed to the side. You use to wear a shirt that said "stud muffin" with a character of a muffin with jewelry all over it. Your name was Andrea but everyone called you "Drea". In the group we were in I was assigned to do the writing, and part of that task was to write everyones name at the top. Me being the horrible speller I was I asked you what your name was and you said Drea.. I wrote Dra. Who knows how I made it to college.. That was the first thing we laughed over and to this day I still have you in my phone as Dra.
8th grade:
We had math together with Mrs. Bender and we would talk about the boys in our class. We had lower grades in the class so we had two boys, Alex and Tyler, who were our "mentor" and "tutors". We laughed and said we were always going to date them and we would have been good at math forever. These dates never happened, we were always more the creative ones. We were also on the volleyball team together. I always remember that you made your serves over every time even on the first tryout day. After that season you stopped playing volleyball. But, not to worry! We also did more sport together including competitive winter cheerleading and lacrosse. In lacrosse you were the fearless goalie that had to eat a banana before every practice so you didn't get a bad of bruises on your legs. You would be in the goal and half way down the field I could always still here you scream "Common, is that all you got?!? COMMON" haha I love you Drea. If you can imagine a feisty little mexican girl defending our goal.. I wouldn't of had it any other way.
Your voice:
It was a known fact that you could sing, but only your good friends got to hear it. When ever someone would would catch you singing you would say "what, who me? No that wasn't me singing".
We always use to joke that you and I would do a talent show act together where I would be on stage with the mic turned off and your would be back stage singing while I'm lip singing. You wanted to show off your voice but your nerves got the best of you sometimes. You did sing in one talent show and once for one of our cheer competition singing the national anthem. You were brave little mexican girl :)
I didn't know what your life was like at the end, but everyone tells me you were happy. Everyone says you lose contact with people after high school but I never thought we would. You were beautiful Andrea
This is me trying to celebrate and remember the good times with you Andrea, but we all do miss you so dearly and think about you everyday.
I have so many memories with you, so many laughs, and cries. I'm so very blessed to have met an angel like you. Your home now and I know your in heaven looking down on all of us.
Love Ally
