Car crash

Car crash

Everything is normal- the kids are fighting over a toy in the backseat.

Mum is trying to calm them while driving.

I am in the passenger seat listening to an ipod, flicking through a magazine.

I change the song.. look up and seeing a car coming right at us.

Mum is trying to restrain the kids as I tug at her arm.

She looks up and screams.

Crash.

Silence.

All havoc breaks loose.

That day I died. From the inside out.

Numb, I can't hear a thing.

Blinking through diamond spider webs of cracked glass.

Nicole is crying in the back, hugging Daniel's torso- he's dead, cracked his neck.

Mum is slumped over the wheel.

Her forehead is cracked- she's died instantly.

Can't move. The shock, or the roof caging me, I don't know.

People come to help. Their lips move, but no sound emits.

There's a rushing sound in my ears- like air pressure that's way too high- like the altitude experienced while on a plane.

Amidst the smoke and ash I can barely make out my brother and sister.

The emergency crew arrives.

Bright red and blue lights blink at me.

The world looks surreal- in a dream and I blink.

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