Good Sister Interview

I wrote an interview based on the book I recently read, The Good Sister.

Megan: “Hello girls, how are you this evening?”

 

Rachel and Asha: “We’re good, thanks!”

 

Megan: “First I would just like to say sorry for your loss, this must be so difficult for both of you. I’ll start with Asha. Being the youngest and the closest to Sarah, how did this affect you?”

 

Asha: “At first it was like I was numb, I couldn’t feel anything. Which was weird because you usually associate death with grieving and pain, but in all honesty I didn’t believe she was actually gone. I kept telling myself that there is no way she could be dead.”

 

Megan: “And Rachel how about you, how did Sarah’s passing affect you?”

 

Rachel: “Being the least connected to Sarah was difficult because at first I don’t think my mind completely understood that she was gone. Sitting at her funeral was difficult, but if anything I felt more guilt than I felt grief.”

 

Megan: “This must be so tough for both of you, but if you could have said I thing to Sarah before she died, what would you say?”

 

Asha: “If I could have said one thing to Sarah, it would have been thank you. I would have said thank you, because she showed me how to be positive through the toughest things in life, and no matter what, you have to keep moving on.”

 

Rachel: “I suppose you’re looking for a sappy answer like Asha gave, but I don’t have one. If I could say one thing to Sarah it would be the complete opposite of what I had interrogated her about right before she died.”

 

Megan: “Rachel, it seems as though you know something more of the “accident” that occurred on this day, do you care to elaborate?”

 

Rachel: “I know that what happened wasn’t an accident, and it wasn’t a murder, she jumped. Sarah took her own life that day, and jumped. I also know the reason she killed herself wasn’t because she was depressed, or had cancer again, but she died because the guilt she felt was eating her alive.”

 

Megan: “What did she feel so guilty about that she felt the only way to relieve that guilt was to take her life?”

 

Rachel: “When I was with David, Sarah’s boyfriend at the time, he had told me that he and Sarah were responsible for a hit and run accident that had killed young boy. With this information, I finally saw my chance to confront Sarah, who was no longer so perfect, and chastise her about the car accident.”

 

Megan: “Why did you want to interrogate her about it?”

 

Rachel: “Ever since we were little I have always been the middle child, the girl with a pretty face, I could never donate bone marrow and save the day like Asha, and I wasn’t the Sarah the sickly child. I was always stuck in the middle, and I saw my chance to get ahead.”

 

Megan: “Asha, did you know about this?”

 

Asha: “I didn’t know why Rachel felt the need to ask about the accident, but I did know about the truth behind the accident.”

 

Megan: “What was your first reaction when you found out?”

 

Asha: “When I found the box in Sarah’s closet, I was stunned. I could not figure out why Sarah, my perfect older sister, would have a shirt with what seemed to be dried blood on it, and newspaper clippings from a random boy’s obituary. Nothing seemed to make sense.”

 

Megan: “Did your feelings toward Sarah change?”

 

Asha: “No, because she was still my sister, it was more or less just a lot of confusion. I guess I just couldn’t picture her doing such a thing. She was the good one, the one who through all of the chemo and hell that came with having cancer twice, would never in a million years would have been responsible for the murder of Brandon. The boy who left college to live a little, far away from his home, and just in an instant, it was gone.”

 

Megan: “Do either of you wish you could say something to Brandon? “

 

Rachel: “No, because nothing I could ever say to him would change what happened.”

 

Asha: “I don’t know if I wish I could say something to him, but I think I’d want to know if he knows Sarah.”

 

Megan: “Do you think he would know Sarah, Rachel?”

 

Rachel: “I mean maybe, but if I were him I’d be so mad. He probably wanted her to die.”

 

Megan: “Where do you girls think that Sarah is? Do you think that she is in Heaven, or that her spirit is back with the universe?”

 

Rachel: “I suppose a few months ago I would’ve said that she was with the universe, but now I guess I don’t really know where I think she is. Most days I don’t even know where I am.”

 

Asha: “I think that with all the recent changes, I’ve had a change of heart. I want to believe that she is in heaven flying with all of the other beautiful angels. I can just imagine her with her long white-blonde hair, and big wings swaying in the wind.”

 

Megan: “Okay girls, I have one final question for you this evening. Would you ever take Sarah’s place, why or why not? It’s okay to say no.”

 

Rachel: “Some days I wish Sarah and I’s roles were reversed, which is probably why I attempted suicide. I guess that I figured that I’d be the first one to go because I wasn’t the sick one whom everyone fell over, and I wasn’t Asha, the youngest one who saved the day. I guess my final answer would be no, but not because I’m being selfish, but because I think that I’ve finally started learning how to be loving and caring. In a way I think that a part of Sarah lives in me, because as soon as she passed I started to care more, and changed for the better.”

 

Asha: “Yes and no. Yes because I wish that Rachel would have been able to have the bond with Sarah that I did, but no because I know that Sarah wouldn’t have wanted it to be any other way. I think that Sarah, although she is dead, watches what goes on with Rachel and I, and I believe that she loves watching our family come together again. Sarah is where she belongs, she is no longer sick, and is guilt free, but she is still with us, and always will be.”