Letters to Nowhere: Part 43

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The backseat of my parents' car felt cold and distant. I tugged on the seat belt several times, eyeing the bleach-blond hair hanging over the driver's seat.

            "Got your seat belt on, sweetheart?" Mom said, glancing over her shoulder, smiling at me.

            Dad's auburn hair showed above the passenger seat. "Jodi, she's not four years old anymore...you don't need to remind her to put her seat belt on."

            Mom shrugged as if this didn't matter at all and pulled the car out onto the road.  Seconds later we were speeding along the interstate, dodging cars left and right as Mom used both lanes to pass up everyone. My heart thudded faster and I gripped the door handle.

            "Slow down!"

            Dad turned around and lifted his eyebrow at me. "We can't, pumpkin...this is the speed we have to maintain to cause the greatest amount of impact."

            My mouth went completely dry, sickness settling in my stomach. "Wait...what? What's happening?"

            Neither of them spoke and I nearly screamed as we zipped down the interstate at a reckless speed. "Mom! Stop! Please . . ."

            I felt the blood drain from my face, nausea taking control of my body. "Oh God...this is it, isn't it? I'm not supposed to be here. Let me out!"

            My hands gripped the door handle, shaking it violently.

            Mom's head snapped around and she glared at me. "Karen, don't you want to come with us? We're a family. We should do this together."

            Trembling, I tugged harder at the lock. "I don't want to...I don't want to be here..."

            The door flew open and I jumped off right before the twenty-foot metal pole appeared out of nowhere. Pain shot through every nerve in my body as I tumbled onto hard, frozen grass.

            Right in front of my eyes, Mom and Dad's car wrapped itself around that pole, their bodies flung toward me, screaming my name. I threw my arm over my head as they landed with a thud beside me, pieces of limbs strewn in the grass.

            And blood. Everywhere. Oozing from Dad's face as he reached a hand toward me. I backed away from his bloody fingers screaming louder than I've ever screamed in my entire life.

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