Aguilla
age of 14 weight 126 pounds
wrestling season I was 8-0, my favor
I was very excited. Like a kid getting candy on halloween
to begin my last match of my wrestling season
My enemy that went to carl sandburg
He had a stellar record of 6-2 his favor
I would win this match and be yearning to finish my year with 9-0 of my 7th grade wrestling season
As I stepped on the scale like a big piece of lunch meat
I was exactly 125.8 pouly pumped to win
The kid I was wrestling was his second year of wrestling while it was my 4th year of wrestling
A voice booming for the front table
̈126”
My Parents were on the stands watching my match and they were on facetime with my great grandpa
Watching my match.
We put on bands on our ankles and we started wrestling
2 minutes in the match I grabbed the kid and cradled him like a baby
I won the match. I was screaming out loud.
After the end of the match my parents picked me up from West Oak middle school
They told me they had bad news
They looked at me and to me,
¨great grandpa.¨
I was scared
What's going on?
They told me that my great grandpa had cancer
I broke down crying because I would never think that would ever
happen to my family
My great grandpa was a big guy weighing around
250 pounds
Had the deepest voices that was the smooth
I knew he was the one watching my match
He always cared about everyone and how they felt
He always put a smile on my face
The season of wrestling had almost come to the end
Sectionals was all in my mind at this time
That week of sectionals my parents had told me that,
¨I couldn't go to sectionals.¨
I was upset because I knew I could ́ve made it to state
But I had something else to focus on
It was my great Grandpa
My great grandpa was throwing up blood, Peeing blood, and wasn't feeling his best then he was before
It was a Saturday morning the sun was barely coming out
While we were on our way to Ohio
My great grandma told us to meet her at the hospital
We got really scared we were only 20 minutes away from my grandmas house.
So we turned around and went to the hospital.
We did a big u-turn like how a school bus did.
The roads were bumpy it had felt like a roller coaster.
We got the hospital and my great grandpa
Was laying down on the bed
The room was dark
And the only thing you could hear the beeping sound through the machine
While everyone was crying
My grandpa's eyes were closed
He knew he was about to go
Grandpa-Grandpa-Grandpa
He looked very pale and 60 pounds lighter that what he was before
He told us last minute that he wanted to be cremated
We all didn’t want that to happen.
He wanted it so we told him, ¨okay then.¨
I told my parents that I wanted to talk to him one on one.
They said okay
We sat there for a bit and told him
Grandpa relax and you will always be remembered
Him watching me
When I was a little kid he had always said,¨Aguilla¨
So I told him Aguilla and I held his hand.
My family came in and sat down.
And my great grandpa had passed away right next to me.
Grandpa?
Aguilla?