Whispers

Part One - Cara

"Dammit," I muttered.

            "It was so much nicer when I left."

            The sun had been clouded over by a solid slate grey barely an hour into my drive, almost as if God decided to take a nap and flipped his giant light switch. It was hot and lively when I had left my dorm, now it just looked completely miserable. I sighed and turned the heat up. The car had welcomed in uninvited cold air and I was not having it. I was heading to my mother's for Thanksgiving weekend and this cold air was not making the drive any more enjoyable.

My college was two towns away from home, so it was going to take at least until after supper time to arrive into town. I groaned out of irritation, wishing a more local college accepted me before the one I so eagerly said yes to the one that had the second it told mother and I that I'd been accepted and turned on my radio, tapping hard against the steering wheel along to the beat of the song playing. I drove a little longer before the radio began to cut out a few times, then static began blaring through my car.

"Ugh!" I yelled. I went to change the station when I heard a loud tap against the roof of my car. My heart skipped a beat and quickly picked up its pace, making my chest and veins ache. I froze quickly before realizing that I was still driving and refocused on the road just as I heard an array of loud and not-so-loud taps followed post to the first tap. I saw water droplets form on my windshield, causing an awkward laugh to escape my lips.  Although nobody was with me, it still embarrassed me for some reason. I shook my head in disappointment towards Mother Nature, then continued driving in the now even more miserable weather.

After about another hour of driving, I came across one of the two small towns on the way to moms. I turn down a road to this small café I always do when I drive home during breaks off of school. I bring my car to a halt and get out, locking it as I head towards the café door. "What? Closed?!" I shouted. A few people walking along the streets turned their heads in my direction before quickly continuing their stroll. I groan and feel my face heat up as I trudge back to my car. I open the door and plop down in the driver's seat, starting the car and pulling away.

"Stupid," I grumble, and turn back onto the main road and exit the town, continuing my drive back home. The rain began pelting down 45 minutes after I left the town. I heard thunder, and as it rumbled through my car and chest, my heart sank. I groaned loudly and continued to drive, listening to the song on the radio cut in and out repeatedly before it completely went silent. Then the radio emanated an eerie, cliché and annoying static before I just clicked it off. Then I drove the rest of the way in silence.

I went to turn right, when I heard and felt the engine hiccup. "Wha-" I started before feeling the car jolt and my upper half jerk forward with the car. "No." I said. It started sputtering. "No." I repeated to the steering wheel again. It sputtered and slowed until it stopped in response. "NO." I bellowed, slamming my hand down on to the top of the wheel. "Oh hell, and I was half way there, piece of shit." I growl aloud. The car wheezes an apology and shuts down, leaving me in a dark, dense, rainy, middle-of-nowhere forested mountain side. I look out of my rain magnet of a window and watch the sky just slowly get darker, and I wrap my arm around myself, shivering harder as the cars internal temperature dropped drastically.

Grumbling, I reached into the back of my car and pulled my backpack full of a weekends worth of things up front, plopping it on my lap. I put up my hood and got out of the car, yelling strings of profane words at the sky, earning a thunder clap loud enough to make me deaf in response. "Yeah. Hate you too." And I started to walk, receiving an angry level of rain from the sky. I pulled my toque more onto my head and began walking away from my shitty, dead car. "Poor thing..." I whine.