Anonymous 28th October 2015

Hey Stacey :) Do you still remember me? I stumbled onto this page by chance when I was surfing through Facebook, and I remembered all the times we had together. Since your passing, I would suddenly think of you, on random nights when I wasn't able to sleep. I'd imagine how you'd be doing in school right now, along with the rest of us. I remember you as my quirky, fun, outgoing friend whom I just was getting to know at the time, and who spoke English all the time. We were in the same class from P1 to P3, but it wasn't until P3 that I started getting closer with you. I remember the other people telling me to talk to you in Cantonese so you could improve, but I could never do it because it felt so weird. Then I remember on that Christmas holiday that I was supposed to enjoy, receiving the news from Hong Kong in the middle of traveling abroad that someone from my school had died in a car accident. Then I found out it was you, and I remember feeling devastated and just burying my head on the breakfast counter table and crying. I couldn't imagine never seeing you again and my brain just couldn't link up the image of you with the image of dying. I remember imagining it was all a mistake, that you would come skipping back on the first day of school and announce to everyone that there had been a mistake. But of course that never happened. On the first day back to school, we had this counsellor coming to talk to us. The air was tense and we were silent the whole time. I remember we had to write a note to you on a piece of post-it note paper and stick it on a bulletin board. I had so many things to say to you, but my hand could not write any thing down. Now, we are all getting on the our school lives, with all the homework and the tests and the norm. I've been quite busy, and it was not until I saw this page on Facebook that I thought of you once more. But I promise that I will never forget you for the rest of my life, even though we had only met by chance and we were only a small part of each other's lives. I miss you so much and I love you so much too. Love, An old classmate