Rerun Life

Prologue

December 2016

We were laughing at the top of our lungs. The wind caressed my cheeks, my hair flying in every direction. It was liberating. Music blasted off from our car especially that we rolled down the window panes. We were singing then laughing then hooting. We were even dancing on our own seats.

Everything was a blur when my surroundings passed by me in a swift motion. It almost seemed like I was flying while sitting yet I couldn't care less.

"Hit it, you slow woman. You drive like a grandma." I teased, slapping my knees as I laughed my ass off afterwards. My hands were wrapped around something cold and thin, but I didn't remember what it was. It felt cold on my palm.

I felt the vehicle accelerating, the thin metal stick passing by and settling on the figures 150. The wind slapped my face but I didn't give a damn but instead, I gave a cry of pleasure.

"Woohoo, we're the queens of the world, sister!" a voice yelled beside me and I heard squiggling sounds.

"Take a sip of my secret potion,
I'll make you fall in love.
For a spell that can't be broken,
One drop should be enough.
Boy, you belong to me,
I got the recipe
And it's called black magic,"
the radio spat the lyrics and we sang at the top of our lungs along with the lines as our hands flail around us in dramatic gestures.

I laughed and stretched my arms out from the window and into the air, feeling the wind against my arms. I saw people walking on the streets at the other side and the girl beside me popped her head outside the window and screamed "What's up bitches? Here have a drink and bow down to your queens, motherfuckers," she finished with a hysterical laugh and threw something at them. A noise of glass shattering was followed by a series of yells and curses but our laughs and the music only drowned their protests.

The person beside me faced me with the ends of her lips looped into a wicked grin, her face hidden in the shadows; strawberry blonde hair danced around her face, barely giving her attention on the road. I diverted my attention to my front and squinted my eyes as I tried to form the blurry image looming in front of us, registering the sound of continuous honks. A fleeting thought of realisation passed by my head as soon as I recognised what was moving towards us. Despite the euphoric state I was blissfully in, my eyes widen in alarm and terror.

"Watch out! Turn right! Turn right!" Catching the girl beside me in surprise, she jerked and turned the car left but remembering I told her to go right, she turned the steering wheel right and before things could register properly in my mind of what was to happen, I crashed onto something. I think I heard shattering.

I was soon being dragged down into a pit hole of vast darkness and black nothingness.