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The car ride was awkward as all hell. Cheyenne blabbered and yelled in the back, demanding that this was kidnapping and that she was going to call 911. "Cheyenne, please listen to us, you need to go home and take a nap." Aaron tried to reason with her as he drove the dark streets illuminated only by oncoming car headlights and street lamps. "Spirit, tell this crazy man that I live with you!" She screeched and pounded the back of his leather seat. Aaron was getting more pissed by the minute. "Shut the hell up and sit down, Cheyenne." He said loudly, not quite in a yell but loud and powerfully. Cheyenne was livid. She was so adamant about coming home with me, that Aaron nearly threw her out on the side of the ominous road and left her there to rot. I wouldn't let him. "We are almost there, Aaron. Just try to stay calm, okay?" I soothed him. "Yeah. Then we hopefully never have to see her again." He sighed in relief. Aaron started to drive a bit faster, and we entered an intersection. It was dark and hard to see oncoming cars. Suddenly an eight-teen wheeler hit us from Aaron's side. The impact was deafening, and in the slight moment between the truck and I, my brain processing it's arrival, that second of anticipation, I felt something I hadn't in a long time. …show more content…
Crash!
We were slammed off the road in a tumble, and the only screams I could hear were my own. It was a blur in memory, but crystal clear in the moment. It felt like every ticking second was an eternity. A painful eternity, feeling each one of my ribs agonizingly crack. Listening to the bloodcurdling screams I couldn't even recognize as my own. The car had flipped and we were rolling down a steep hill at full speed. The truck had crushed Aaron's skull like a squished grape and I was in too much of a panic to turn to a seemingly dead Cheyenne. My entire body was lit up with excruciating pain and my ears rang louder than my
screams. Finally it ended, the car upside down at the bottom of the hill, and I could barely move. All was silent except for the distant sirens far away in the night. I was fading in and out of consciousness, everything around me felt so faraway. I could hear cars up on the road screeching to a halt at the scene of the incident. I was in so much pain. Is this how I die? In the front of my best friend's vehicle, with the woman who broke me? "Hey, is anyone still alive in there?" A police officer yelled from the hill, slowly wading down into the wreckage. I tried to moan a "Yes!" But couldn't find the strength to do so. All of the blood was rushing to my head in the flipped over vehicle, I was too weak and wounded to try and get out myself. I prayed the officer would come over to me, and acknowledge my existence. "I see a guy!" Someone yelled and I heard a stampede of footsteps rush over to where I was. My heart pounded in my chest and I was trying so hard to move or make a sound, anything to prove I'm alive. "Oh my god, I think he might be breathing. Hurry! Get the stretchers!" A woman barked orders at the others. Soon enough there were people pulling me out of the wreckage and carefully laying me onto a stretcher, a sigh of relief escaped my lips knowing it'd all be okay now.
“I-I’ll let you know,” he stated, though I could tell he was livid. His face was red and he was staring off into space above him.
“What’s with these freaking lights,” he mumbles, ducking erratically as the bullets slash past him striking everything. To the edge of the road, he runs tumbling into a ditch where Michelle is waiting.
I had a close friendship with Cheyenne for several years, yet, I was not really brought into her life and introduced to her family until her grandmother was terminally ill. The grandmother (mother to the mother) was a popular figure in the community and was loved by most all. Cheyenne was especially close to her though so the situation was especially hard for her. When Cheyenne’s grandmother passed, she was under a great amount of grief. I consoled her through it, as did it seem like everyone else. She was the closest person in the world to Cheyenne, so the extreme grief seemed justified.
Awoken by his alarm clock, 12-year-old Jimmy Clark got up on Friday morning and began his day with breakfast.
Flanagan got in Clawd’s face, an unfathomable look of rage in his eyes. “Tell me.”
"Look," Alex said in such a soft voice that is was almost a whisper, "my house...in flames." Mrs. Robins gasped. She ran back inside and picked up the phone.
“Young lady you wait right there if you're going to pout about something and run up to your room without explanation your crazy, so let's hear it!”
He shook even more. He backed up a step. “You caused it. You caused this moment to happen. You are a murderer. You…” he started, raising his voice in every word. His face was drenched in anger, horror, and
Jocelyn was driving through a wooded section of highway. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, the sky went dark in the downpour.
When I was six years old, I hated car rides. To a six year old, a car ride was the epitome of boredom. There was nothing to do on a car ride except sit there for hours watching the trees. I would get carsick every single time I was in my mom’s Volvo. If I wasn’t sick or bored, I was waiting painfully in the backseat for the next exit ramp so my mom could turn off the road for a bathroom break. My mom would have to bribe me with candy or some other special treat just to get me in a car everyday. Some six year olds were afraid of monsters and doctor’s visits; I was afraid of the car. About ten years later something happened, a change. When I finally got my driver’s license at age sixteen, I was no longer afraid of the once dreaded car ride.
It started out just like any scorching, July evening. As farm fair was beginning to end, Angie, Lizzy, and I all decided to go together. It started to get dark, and all of the dazzling , gleaming fair lights started to illuminate the atmosphere. We decided to get some pizza, which tasted like paper and tomato juice! It was so abominable , that we threw it out to go on some rides. We walked around, saw a few other friends who gave us the “ fake-smile-and-wave” as they continued to keep walking., Finally, we got delicious ice cream to make up for the pizza. After a few rides, we had a few dollars left and we were getting exhausted. There was one ride that we had not gone on yet This ride spun around and went up and down really fast. We thought it would be a fun way to end the night, but that suddenly changed.
You’re driving along the road, just minding your own business when out of nowhere, BAMM. Another car just hit you, you’re frozen in shock unsure of what to do next. Finally, you snap out of it and realize what just happened to you. You get out of what’s left of your car and inspect the damage that’s been done. For some people this might just seem like a scary story, something that they never want to go through, but for me it is a reality.
Sauntering to the end of my driveway, I observe what seems to be the rear end of a car covered with a light grey tarp. The wheels are just visible enough to define it as a car. As I peel off the tarp, more and more of the brown car appears. Faded spots, small dents, and rusty corners are revealed as I get farther and farther with the edge of the tarp. Finally, I get to the end and my fully uncovered Nova is there.
The reckless driver hit us straight on, then “Bang!” a loud noise resonated through the air, and abruptly my body flew out and hit the pavement of the road. Everything around me was simply a white haze for a few seconds after the impact. My body felt extremely heavy and the sharp pain throbbed throughout my face and body. Lying there on the rough asphalt, I faintly heard my mom and Carrie call out to me, “Sydney! Sydney! Are you okay? Answer me! Sydney!” I wanted I speak up and answer them, nonetheless, it was useless, my voice just wouldn’t make a sound. The desperation in Carrie’s and my mom’s voices reverberated to me across from where I was lying. My mom frantically ran up to my side and hugged me tightly in her arms. Blood was squirting out of her pinky, where the top of her finger had been severed. The places where my mom’s tears fell, stung my wounds, nevertheless, it was nothing compared to each little movements that caused the pains to electrify through my body severely. Every second was hell, the pain was just utterly agonizing and tormenting. Whether it was due to the pain or the exhaustion my body suffered, my mind slowly drifted off and I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer. As my eyes gradually closed, the blazing siren seemed to have grown louder little by
“If you don’t get out, I will go home and you’ll walk home in the dark in the cold alone.” He shouted angrily