His shoes, tucked neatly inside a walk-in closet, look worn. His clothes are folded immaculately on top of one another.
The football trophies, reminders of how Fraughton sliced through defenses as Viewmont High's favorite running back, are prominently displayed.
The bed is perfectly made. On the wall above his bed are cowboy hats and antlers, which speak to his deeply rooted outdoor interests.
And then there are the pictures on the walls - pictures from junior prom night, pictures with his younger brother, Sennett, pictures of his sporting exploits, pictures that friends and family brought over soon after his death a year ago today.
"It's a good thing," said Fraughton's mother, Charli. "Sometimes when a person is gone and you don't see him for a while, you kind of wonder if you remember him right. Then we come in, see his face and say, 'Yes that's how we remember him.' His friends come over all of the time, just to hang out.
"We're amazed at how often his friends come over."
Today is the one year anniversary of the day Fraughton drowned while swimming in Bear Lake. It was a death that came way too soon and an event that shook the Viewmont High community.
Fraughton was a great football player, one who rushed for 950 yards as a junior, and one who had Division I coaches clamored for his services.
He was a cowboy, one who wore his boots, hat and Wrangler jeans to school. He wrote poetry, was a certified horseshoer and raised a horse from birth.
Beyond that, people who knew Fraughton say he was a great person: A competitor on the field, a caring friend off the field.
That's why his death affected so many. And that's why his mother and father, Cody, make sure their son's memory lives on.
Today, the Fraughtons will make the trek up to Bear Lake, simply to meditate and to think about Seth. Today, the Fraughtons will celebrate Seth's life, while remembering the awful event of Aug. 4, 2007.
The athlete:
The drawer is full of recruiting letters from seemingly every major school in the West, including BYU, Utah and Utah State, the local schools that every kid in the state dreams of playing for.
That's how respected Fraughton's talent was.
Although Fraughton didn't have a firm offer at the time of his death, many believe that it was going to happen. BYU, Fraughton's dream school, showed heavy interest. Utah State showed interest, as did a few Ivy League schools, who loved Fraughton's 3.9 GPA as much as his skill with the football in his hands.
"He was going to have a huge senior season," said Viewmont head coach Robbie Gunter. "He ran for 950 yards in his junior season and he wasn't even the featured back on our team. He would've had a monster senior season as the main back in our offense. I really thought he could've played at BYU or Utah. He would've been a glue guy, someone that would've found a home in the program."
With Fraughton, Gunter believed that the Vikings would've had a chance to make a run through the Class 5A playoffs. Without him, Viewmont lacked the guy who could score any time he touched the football.
Beyond that, Fraughton's death touched the football community deeply. The Viewmont kids, who honored Fraughton by wearing his number on their jerseys, initially wanted to tattoo his number 33 to their bodies.
The grieving extended across the state, as condolences came pouring in from every opposing team the Vikings faced.
"Seth was willing to do whatever it took to win games," Gunter said. "He was always looking out for the other guys."
The healing:
The details of the accident have been told and retold over the course of the year. Fraughton and a number of his friends went to Bear Lake to hang out. A few of his friends were on a paddle boat in the middle of the lake, and Fraughton, along with another friend, decided to swim out to the boat.
Fraughton didn't have a life jacket on.
"They wanted to go out there, swim around and tease their friends," Cody Fraughton said. "Halfway out, they realized they wouldn't make it there and turned around."
That's when the trouble started. Fraughton and his friend tired as they attempted to swim to shore. The friend signaled for help, but it came too late as Fraughton slipped below the surface.
His body was found eight hours later.
The events that followed were the first steps that the Fraughtons took to healing as a family. When they arrived at the lake, they expected to see a few people. Instead, they were mobbed with sympathizers and well-wishers.
For Cody Fraughton, as a father, he knew that it was his responsibility to identify Seth's body. Still, he wasn't prepared for what happened next.
"I thought it was something that I should do alone," Cody said. "I told Sennett that if he didn't want to be there he didn't have to be. He told me that if I was going to do it, he wanted to be by my side. It was unbelievable for a 15-year-old to say that. He and my son Kyle were unbelievable sources of strength to me in the entire ordeal."
Upon seeing Seth, the family stayed with him for five hours, wiping the sand off his face, praying, grieving. That time spent with Seth did a lot for the family in terms of bringing closure.
"He looked almost peaceful," Cody said. "His skin color was good. He looked like he was sleeping."
Those were the moments that a family bonded in the face of tragedy. Those were the moments that the Fraughton's came together as one, and clung to their unwavering faith in God to get them through the toughest moment that any of them had faced.
That, and the year that followed, was when a family took an unspeakable tragedy and used to it become closer.
"It's been a really short year," said Sennett Fraughton, who will begin his junior season on the Viewmont football team this week. "I just can't believe he passed away a year ago. It's unreal."
