“Jared, slow down!” I yell, as we speed down M-46 in his birthday present, a brand new Ford Focus. I knew that getting in the car with him had been a bad idea, especially after the fight that he had with his parents that he explained to me when he came to pick me up. The way he impatiently honked his horn as I rushed to get ready, how his expression looked guarded, almost belligerent. His expression changed when I got into the car, a huge grin on his face, but I could still see it in his eyes. I smelled a faint hint of Jack Daniels wafting from his breath. I ignored the smell, and the fact that my stomach was doing backflips. I knew it was going to be a bad idea to get into the car with him; he always drives when he’s upset over something,
“I like the feeling of getting away for a while, you know?” he said once. This was one of those nights.
“Relax Liv, everything’s fine; you have absolutely nothing to worry about.” He says with that grin that he knows I love, but I can see the anger barely hidden in his eyes.
He turns to get onto the long back road that leads to my house, that little boy grin spreading across his face as he makes a turn that you would see in most Bruce Willis movies, not on a Michigan highway. With my parents out to dinner tonight, I was panicking about how I would be able to get out of the house; I was supposed to be keeping an eye on my little brother Jeremy for the night. Thankfully, I asked my sister Caroline to watch him while she does her dual enrollment college homework, and she said she didn’t mind. Jared called as I was finishing up my own homework (I know, homework on a Friday night, that’s the kind of dork I am). My parents had always loved Jared, so I knew that they wouldn’t mind that I went out with him while they weren’t home. But this night was different, Jared was different. Almost as if he was a totally different person, and it scared me to death.
“Liv, are you sure you want to go home so soon? C’mon, the night is young!” he pressed, picking up speed while I clung to my seat. Jared turned up the radio, which had been nothing but mere background music before, to a near deafening level.
“Um, yeah, I am pretty sure; Jeremy needs help with his homework anyway.” I yelled over the rapping styles of Eminem. A total lie, I thought to myself, but he didn’t need to know that. As much as I liked my boyfriend, I can’t stand to see him this way.
“Well, okay, but there was something I wanted to tell you.” he said mysteriously, waggling his eyebrows.
Could this be what I hoped it was? I hadn’t had the courage to tell him that I loved him yet, and he hasn’t said it either. It’s been over four months too, that’s what had me eager for him to say those three amazing words.
“I---” he started saying, but while he did, I could sense something was wrong. As soon as I looked away from him and onto the road, I saw it, with its wide-eyed fear and its 8-pointed antlers on our side of the road. My heart jumped right into my throat.
“Jared, deer!”
I scream. He finally looks at the road, and unthinkingly swerves, missing the deer, but we start spinning. It feels like the Tilt-A-Whirl I went on at the carnival last year. Suddenly, I can see clearly enough, a tree getting bigger and bigger. I see my life passing before my eyes, my first communion, my thirteenth birthday party, last year’s trip to Grandma’s, Mom taking me to the DMV to get my driver’s license, this year’s seventeenth birthday, the images flash through my head, faster and faster and faster, making me dizzy. We finally crash, I hear myself scream, and I black out.
The last thing that I remember from the accident was the sirens and the flashing lights. I remember hearing one of the EMT’s saying “She’s alive! Let’s get her to the hospital!” As I was being brought onto a stretcher, I heard another man saying “Poor boy, he must have died on impact.” I had hoped I heard this wrong, I prayed that I heard this wrong, but then I came to the realization that I didn’t, and a huge lump formed in my throat as hot tears starting forming and dripping down the sides of my face.
Jared was dead.
Jared Was Dead.
I black out again as I am pulled into the ambulance.
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