For nearly a week, Teaisha Scales clung to life from her hospital bed. The 17-year-old William Floyd High School senior was paralyzed, with a broken neck and injuries to her heart and lungs, after her boyfriend crashed their car into a utility pole as he drove drunk in Mastic Beach, police said.

But at times, Scales could open her eyes and mumble.

"She said, ''The baby,'' " her godmother, Evelyn Mayo, 47, of Bellport, recalled. In August, Scales had given birth to a baby she named Frank. He wasn''t involved in the crash, but it was like Scales to be concerned about her child, Mayo said.

Six days after the March 12 crash, the Mastic teen''s fight came to an end. Her relatives gathered at a Bellport church yesterday to say goodbye to the girl who loved to dance, adored the singer Beyoncé, and had many friends.

"I''m going to miss her coming over and talking to me," Mayo said after the service. "It''s too young, too young."

Charges against her boyfriend, Michael Peacock, 22, of Mastic, have been upgraded to add vehicular manslaughter in addition to drunken driving and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, court records show. He is being held without bail at the Suffolk County Jail. His injuries were nonlife-threatening.

Suffolk County police said Scales was a passenger in Peacock''s 1998 Cadillac that a patrol car saw speeding at Stanley Drive and John''s Neck Road. Four blocks north, the car crashed into a utility pole.

Police said they hadn''t chased the vehicle, but the patrol car was damaged as it approached the crash site and blew a tire when it swerved and struck a fence while trying to avoid the collapsed pole.

Brenda Booker, Scales'' mother, said her daughter wanted to become a nurse. But from her family''s Mastic home, she had little to say about the crash. "That''s my baby that I lost," she said.