The 19-year-old woman was one of two teenagers who died in a moped accident. Crashed on the Cross Island Expressway On Sunday, the victim's grieving twin sister said she was living in the present in a race against time.
Fatal victim Giselle Flores was supposed to go home early Saturday morning and spend the weekend with her twin brother Sherrick Flores. But she never made it home.
Instead, she was pronounced dead on a Queens Highway after her 15-year-old riding companion lost control of the two-wheeler.
An hour before the accident, Giselle, who was out with a friend of the twins, called her sister.
“I thought, ‘What are you still doing out there?’ She said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m calling some of my friends to come pick me up. I’ll go home and meet you at 5 a.m.,'” Sherrick told The Post. “And she never got home.
“When the motorcycles came to pick her up, she said to my best friend, 'You know, get on. Let's go for a ride. We only live once.'”
Gizelle, who lives in Queens, and her friend left on separate mopeds. Gizelle went with teen Andy Martinez, whom she had met that night, her sister said.
Sherrick said her friend told her that as Martinez was traveling on the highway about 2 a.m., he lost control and hit a car, causing it to crash into the highway wall near 150th Street.
The boy her friend was in the car with dropped her off on the side of the road and picked Andy up and took him to the hospital, where he was declared dead.
Meanwhile, the friend called Shariq in a panic while Gizele lay lifeless.
“'She's not moving, she's not breathing. She's bleeding. I don't know what to do.' I said, 'Brother, call 911,' but they had already called 911,” Sherrick recalled. “I went to the emergency room to see her, and they told me my sister was dead.
“I saw my best friend covered in my sister’s blood — her legs, her shoes. She said, ‘I tried to wake her up but she wouldn’t wake up.'”
Sherrick said her mother and the whole family were “deeply saddened” is raising money for funeral costs.
Sherrick described her sister as “more than my best friend.” The two dream of going to college together after Gizelle graduates from high school in November.
“She was my whole world. Me and my sister have been through a lot,” Sherrick said. “We have the same mindset. We think alike. We actually wanted to go to college for the same thing, study medicine. She was going to be a nurse and I was going to be an ultrasound technician.”
But Sherrick also said her sister “always knew this was going to happen, because she had the mindset that we only live once.”
Sherrick, who lives in the Northern Territory, had to drive to Queens to pick up her sister and bring her back to the Northern Territory so the two siblings could spend the weekend together.
“She said, 'You know what? We're going to jet ski, we're going to go shopping, we're going to do this and that,'” Sherrick said.
“I told her, 'Relax, girl,' and she said, 'No, baby, we're going to do it all because what if I die tomorrow?' Her mindset was always, what if we die? We have to live for today.”
The investigation into the fatal crash remains ongoing and no arrests have been made yet.
