Year 9 Drama task - Someone you know – A relative or friend has died at the Hillsborough disaster. You go to a quiet place and speak your thoughts out loud.

It all started when I woke up ill on Saturday morning. So ill, I couldn’t lift my head from the pillow. Just then I realised I had tickets to the Liverpool match. I can’t go! It would be the first match I hadn’t attended, but I wish I had. Instead I sent my sister Sophie with my father. She wasn’t much of a football nut, but me and my sister lost our mother at the age of five due to skin cancer and so we usually did everything together and did things to make our father happy. Sophie kindly said she’d go along and support dad as I was too ill.

It had been an hour since they’d gone. “That’s strange”, I thought. “dad usually checks on me.” I drifted off into a deep sleep when I heard the the phone ringing non-stop. As soon as I picked it up I heard dad’s shaky voice. As soon as I heard Dad’s words, the receiver slipped through my finger tips and onto the laminated floor. The echo of emptiness carried through the house. At the age of 11, my sister Sophie was gone. In the space of six years I had lost the two most important people in my world. I would lose my father too. Lost in his own grieving world. His baby girl and wife – gone.
I will never hear her voice again. I will never feel the warmth of her hands against my cheek when she kissed me goodnight. Never again will I see my baby sister. Now I face the guilt for not going instead of her. I can’t face my father. I thought about ending it all. Being with my mother and sister. But I know my dad couldn’t let another daughter go.

Jamie-Leigh Litherland – Year 9

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