Parallel

The Deep Sleep

The time was 6:30 AM, three hours ago Dante had been writing his essay that was due for his English class. He had time but for some reason. Something tugged at the back of his mind. Perhaps it was the fact that he hadn't slept for two days now. Dante let out a yawn and he grumbled as he drank the last bit of coffee in his mug normally he would immediately make more but his classes started in 15 minutes and he was going to be late. "Damn it I really don't wanna go" he said before yet again yawning and fumbling around on his desk looking for his car keys. "Where did I..?" He immediately remembered he had purposely put them on the shelf above the toilet. Its the last part of his routine. But things had been thrown off his routine due to his lack of sleep. He grabbed his keys and left his Dorm yawning again "damn it man" he walked sleepily towards the stairway and sighed once he reached them. He took his first step down and in what seemed to be a heart attack in the making he slipped down a stairs but caught himself "should I really be driving like this? I feel like I'm drunk" out of the corner of his eye he saw a figure approaching. "Dante? Dude you look like shit. You drunk or something?" It took a moment to register but he realized it was his friend Keith. "No..no man just tired.. haven't slept in a couple days" Keith stared at his friend and looked at the keys in his hand "youre not driving to class are you? You look like you'll fall asleep any minute" Dante shook his head "I'll be fine Keith I've been worse" Keith shook his head "Aight whatever man, get some sleep today" Dante nodded and walked to his car letting out a yawn, Keith watched him and shook his head "Crazy ass"

After getting onto the highway Dante stared over the dark road, occasionally a light zooming past as he drove past them. "Why do I do this to myself" he blinked a few times and slowly began to drift off, his foot heavy on the pedal, the car swerved to the left hard causing Dantes eyes to shoot wide open. The car screeched violently and he turned the wheel trying to straighten out the vehicle but it only caused the car to spin in the other direction before flying off the road and tumbling into a field. Inside Dante could only cover his head as glass flew into his face as the windows broke.The roof dented in as he tumbled and thrashed him around suddenly everything came to a halt. The  air filled with a burning smell as the engine hissed. Dante looked around, his vision going dark slowly as he observed his predicament. He opened his mouth taking a shaky breath until..

Silence...Calm.