Regrets | ✔

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For a moment, everything was blurry in Adeel's vision.

But slowly, it came to focus and the throbbing in his head increased.
He moved his neck ever so slightly, noticing the inside of his car to be covered in shards of glass, and although he couldn't see it, he guessed the outside must be damaged to.

Adeel reached his hand to the handle, and pushed.
Fortunately, it wasn't jammed so he was able to slip out.

He felt a bit of liquid run down from the side of his head to his neck, upon touching he saw it was blood.

As he tried to even his breathing and come to terms with what had happened, he saw it.

The car he had collided with.

It lay six feet away from him, flipped on it's back with the glass shattered and sides crunched.

Adeel limped towards it, as a few more people began to gather, shouting for an  ambulance.

Some teenagers gaped from afar as they took pictures on their phones.

Idiots, Adeel thought to himself.

As he arrived near the car, people began to stare at his condition, but he didn't care.

He bent down near the front window, where a hand layed at the edge of the inside with a phone placed upon the person's palm.
Listening carefully, Adeel realized that the person on the other end of the line was still talking.

He picked up the phone and brought it to his ear.

"What is this man doing?" Someone called out, Adeel ignored them and listened to the caller.

"Jiaz? Are you Ok?"

Recognising that voice was like having a thousand sharp knives thrown at his at him.
Gul-e-Rana.

Reality began to struck Adeel.

He ran over a person.
Someone his wife happened to know.
This could end everything they'd been building towards, it might even break her to know that he possibly killed someone.

The call of the sirens began to be audible, meaning they were near.

Adeel knew that the right thing to do was wait and face up to it, but thinking about the voice talking into this stranger's phone made him doubt his morals.

Behind bars he will never see Rana.

In a moment of rush, Adeel let the phone fall and picked himself up from the ground.

He backed away from the car, and pushed pass the people blocking his way, he ignored their call for him to stop and began to walk away from them.

Away from the sirens.

And then his walk broke into a full blown sprint.

He didn't think, he couldn't.
He just wanted to get away.

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