My eyes flashed
over the stairs, the proud picture stabbing a wound into my heart. My mind
registered the words as I tried to avoid remembering. I failed. Tears pricked
my eyes as I blinked away the painful memory of the accident. It was all a
blur, everything happening so quickly. All I saw was the light, the intensity
like nothing I had ever seen before. My vision blurred as I forced my eyes open,
white walls, white sheets, white monitors beeping around me. My mother cried out
as she watched my arm twitch, rubbing her drowsy eyes, the restraint of it all overwhelming.
I knew nothing, remembered nothing. Only later did I learn that it was the
alcohol, the dizziness controlling his every muscle. He swerved too early,
missed the light, charging on forwards, music blaring, completely unaware of
his surroundings. He left soon after the crash, too soon after in fact. I never
saw him. And now, here I was, eight months later, scars snaking their way up my
every body part, secret wounds hiding under bits of old clothing. I wheeled up
to the stairs, sighing deeply, avoiding eye contact as I felt stares seep through
me. Businessmen, young teenagers, naive mothers, chatting away furiously until
they reached the bottom of the unbearably steep stairs, conversations dying
away, along with every last bit of hope I had in me. They looked, they judged,
and yet they really knew nothing. Nothing about me, nothing about my life. I
held my breath, terrified to let it out, knowing that countless tears would flow
out with it. Nothing had been the same since the accident. Nothing would be the
same ever again.
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Thank you very much! Yes, I wanted to keep it quite open and mysterious, but basically, the narrator was the victim and she never got to see the man who was drinking and driving because he committed a sort of "hit and run". She only found out later that he was drinking. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above comment; very intense and emotional. Very good use of words when writing this. It definitly keeps the reader in suspense, and wondering what happens next. Definitly something that people should read to see an example of how dangerous drinking and driving can be.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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