They are missed.

About 300 people let Anthony Callan and Zakk Samuel's friends and families know how much Monday night at a candlelight vigil at Five Star Complex.

Callan, 17, worked at The Colony's IHOP restaurant and was driving home with Zakk Samuel, 15 of Oklahoma City, Okla., when Callan lost control of his Pontiac and made a fatal slide into a tree on Main Street, ending the lives of the two popular teen-agers.

A gathering estimated to be 300 people by Denton County Precinct 2 Constable Michael Truitt filled the west parking lot at Five Star Complex to honor the memory of Callan and Samuel.

Callan was a rock star-in-training, already a master of charisma, displaying a persona that warmed people's hearts and earned respect among peers.

This is how friends describe The Colony High School junior. Samuel was not unlike his fellow musician who he was in town visiting.

"Anthony had a unique personality," classmate Sabrenah Mendoza said. "I had a class with them last year and they were always cutting up."

Samuel and Callan were best friends. They went through their brief lives together and left them in same way -- together.

Friends signed large remembrance cards throughout the evening and some wandered through the crowd finding friends for a hug and a tear.

The smell of cigarette smoke mixed with sweet candle scents wafted through the air.

Quiet conversations screamed with emotion.

Callan's father, William, listened as Joseph Davis, one of the first people to stop at the crash, described the accident scene to him and related Callan's last moments of life as Davis saw them. Callan asked Davis questions in a very low yet curious voice, needing to know details about the last moments of his son's life.

Through tears, smiles and reflections Connie Callan talked with dozens of folks, offering all well-wishers her undivided attention.

Connie talked about the last time she and Anthony spoke on Friday.

"He was getting ready to go to work, and it was a couple of nights before at work, and he was so excited (because) some people had come in and they were a little drunk and they ordered the most expensive thing on the menu and they got it and they ran out the door, plates and all," she said. "He thought that was the funniest thing he's ever seen in his life. I told him 'Baby, don't work too hard,' and he said 'Ah, never Mom. Maybe something funny and exciting will happen.'"

That was the last conversation I ever had with my son," she said, as the emotion overwhelmed her.

A helicopter shined its Night Sun light toward the vigil and the observers returned the favor by holding their candles to the sky.

Constable Truitt said Anthony spent the night at his house Nov. 20. Anthony and Matthew Truitt, the constable's son, were close friends.

The Colony freshman Shannon Ranney huddled with three of her friends and talked about Anthony's charisma.

"He was always smiling," she said. "He really lit up a room."

Anthony's parents made brief statements to the gathering, mainly offering gratitude for the outpouring of love and support.

"Anthony would be so happy to see all this," William Callan said, adding that even in death his son continued to give as an organ donor. "Yesterday, he saved three lives."

"He loved all of you . so much," Connie Callan said "And you all meant so much to him."

A memorial fund has been established at Wells Fargo Bank under Anthony Callan Benefit Memorial Fund; account number 6019088746.