WSET.com - ABC13Exclusive: Parents of Teens Killed in Car Wreck Speak Out

Reporter: Dhomonique Ricks l Videographer: Melinda Zosh

Lynchburg, VA - The parents of two 17-year-olds killed late Friday night in a single vehicle wreck on Mayflower Drive in Lynchburg are speaking out for the first time.

Breanna Boyd called home for the last time at about 10:30 p.m.

"Okay mom, I'll see you later," said Kristi Giggetts, Breanna's mother.

Boyd and Stacia Anderson were supposed to arrive home at midnight after seeing a movie.

But 30 minutes passed, then an hour, and there was still no sign or word from the girls.

"It wasn't like them to completely ignore a text or a phone call," Giggetts said.

"When they didn't answer our call, all of us instinctively as parents began to search for our children," said Pastor Keith Anderson, Stacia's father.

Another hour went by, and then another.

"Something is not right," said Pastor Anderson.

At 3 a.m. police knocked on their doors.

"They said that she did not make it," Giggetts said.

"The most gut wrenching pain that I ever experienced in my life," Pastor Anderson said. "I remember just really screaming at the top of my lungs." 

"It was like something grabbed my insides and I couldn't believe it. No, this didn't happen to her," Giggetts said.

Both girls were pronounced dead at the scene. Now, the families had answers.

"I had what I had been praying for since about 12 o'clock. Lord take me to my baby," Pastor Anderson said.

Early Saturday morning, Pastor Anderson did just that.

"I saw her and through the scrapes and blood that was obviously present, she looked beautiful," he said.

Monday, family says they are taking the news in stride and choose to focus on the good times; the memories.

"I spent some time in her room just trying to get her smell back in my nose," Pastor Anderson said.

And the peace they can now feel knowing that their little girls are in a better place.

"This year she was supposed to be graduating. She's graduated and she's going to heaven and she has her cap and gown and her senior trip is paradise," said Stacia's mother Renee' Anderson.

"I'm smiling because I really do feel joyful in knowing that I will see her again," Pastor Anderson said.

"She was a sunshine. She was the light of our world, and she still is," Renee' Anderson said. 

The two girls attended Liberty Christian Academy where their lives were celebrated Monday.

Grief counselors and support staff were on hand to help students and staff through this difficult time. This is third tragedy this school has faced in the past five years.