A Fateful Day

A/N: HEY GUYS! :D okaaaaay so this is my very first attempt at writing a short story. i had to do it back in year 12 at school so I've changed it a bit as well. if your wondering where you have seen this before; if it seems familiar, it is from my other account on Booksie. Username is zimagal. :) PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! xxoo <3

Before the accident i remember being so excited for a trip. It was winter break and we were on our way to visit our Uncle and Auntie three hours away. I remember my parents, younger sister and I pulling out of the driveway. After that all I remember is waking up here, in this hospital bed feeling afraid and confused, surrounded by the the mass amount of drips, I.V's and medicine that did their job of keeping me alive. It feels eery. They play a song on the radio that I remember hearing in the car and kick starts my memory as I drift off into a trance about the day of the gruesome accident.

I was sitting in the back seat of the old 1955 Mercury Monterey Station Wagon with my five year old sister Mia. The Monterey was getting terribly unroad worthy . The seat belts were fraying, it had no airbags and the windscreen was cracked. Don't get me started on the electronics. Most of the doors were starting to become rusty. Dad always boasted he was going to get the car fixed, but he never got around to it. We were watching her favourite Disney movie Cinderella on my portable DVD player. I remember her giggling when I was mocking the ugly step sisters, and feeling a warm atmosphere in the car. I remember Mom and Dad holding hands, they've been together since they were 16 and 18. I remember me thinking I hope I fall as madly in love with someone as they were with each other. Dad attempted to flick on the lights when it started pouring down with rain. After the third try he got them going, Mia moved over into the middle of the back seat and huddled into my college basketball jumper. She was terrified of storms; my hand engulfed hers as she took hold of it. I felt her fear as she squeezed my hand as a new wave of thunder and lightning came, faster than the other.

Then it happened. A big lorry behind us hauling tree logs, tried to overtake with speed unsuitable for this weather and the weight of his lorry. The monster truck started fishtailing and the back carriage swung around and collided with our station wagon sending us straight into the path of a big oak tree. We hit the tree with such force that Mom's frayed seat belt snapped and propelled her body straight through the front window and wrapped herself around the tree like a rag-doll instantly becoming unconscious. Dad's seat belt was the worst damaged which resulted in him being flung out of the car and impaled on a metal spiked fence that caged a box that held cables and data for the telephone poles. I hadn't noticed Mia not wearing her seat belt and she got tossed around like a ball in a spray can. I remember hearing a snapping sound and seeing her in an abnormal position laying across the drivers seat lifeless. I was terrified and tried to move to help her, but felt a lot of agonizing pain in my legs. I felt a warm sticky substance oozing out of my head and down my face. I started to black out from the trauma and loss of blood but I could distinctly hear the wail of an ambulance and fire engine in the distance. I remember thanking the person who phoned 911 just before passing out.

When I woke up in the hospital I felt oddly calm from the large amount of morphine and anaesthetic coursing through my broken body, but judging from the look on Auntie Deb's face I knew that I was the only survivor. I looked around the room from face to face trying to find a hopeful one telling me that this is all unreal that it was just a nightmare and that I had broken my legs playing basketball. When I overheard the Doctor telling my Uncle Jack that "Jason was very lucky to still be alive" I knew that it was all real and broke down crying and feeling Aunt Deb hold me tight made me sob even more.

All i can do now is lay here motionless. Think about what I could of done to make none of this real. Made sure Mia had her seat belt on, fixed the car myself like i planned to next week, a week to late. We never should of left in this weather, we were only half an hour away from our destination. Ill  always regret that I got to live and my family didn't. Mom and Dad will never get to retire and travel around America like they planned too. Never get to watch either of their children get married, meet their future grandchildren. Mia will never reach her Sixteenth, Eighteenth then Twenty-First birthday. Never go to spring break, get her first job, find a boyfriend and get married. Never get to walk down the aisle. Never have children.

While I get to do all of those things.

If only we didn't go leave on that fateful day.