Accidents

chapter 1

the heavy stride of warm wind gusts and enters the car window hitting my tan creamy skin, my face gets whipped by my long wavy brown hair and repeats over and over.

i try to put up the windows but it seems to be locked. "can you put the windows up carter" telling my cousin that i haven't seen since i was 10 years old.

he notices me grasping at my hair that keeps hitting my face.

carter starts to chuckle and instead of obliging to my request he speeds up on the highway very fast, to quicken the long strides of wind just to devour my face even more.

he slows down and bursts into laughter. 

i glare at him punching his arm.

"the look on your face" he says laughing in between his comment of my reaction.

"shut up" i tell him.

carter finally puts up the windows, "dias and my mom are excited to see you, how many years was it?"

"almost nine years."

"almost nine fucking years huh?" he raises his brows.

once i see the tall grey house covered in all glass windows appearing to me as a very modern type of home, with huge stones leading the path to the front door. i get a little anxious from each closer step I take near the tall looking house.

"guess who's here!" carter shouts while entering the beautiful house making his words echo on each fresh painted wall.

a figure appears running quickly to wrap their arms around me. "oh my god!" she pulls away a little from our hug, keeping her hands on my shoulders and she takes every detail on my face. i immediately recognize the familiar face once she smiles, stretching the ends of her lips as much as she can, bringing the wrinkles on the corner of her eyelids to reappear. i give her the same energy with a warm smile back.

"you've..wow you've grown so much mia! look at you so beautiful you look so much like your mother," she softly tells me brushing my hair back and kissing my forehead.

the thought of my mother pings at my stomach, i can feel the tears rising underneath my eyes. instead i squeeze my aunt for another round of her hugs, bringing myself back together.

im wanting to change the subject and in fact im on the urge of asking her if she has anything to eat. it was a long drive and i only drank a smoothie in the past previous hours that carter bought me along the drive here. i couldn't eat anything else i was so nervous to really have an appetite.

before i can actually ask her, dias catches my eye and i see her sprinting down the shiny staircase as i drop my stuff and run into her for a hug. we both tip over and fall down as we laugh at each other.

"i missed you so much," dias whines in between our tight hug. "its been too long," i say, now swaying each other by our hug.

"you're still short," dias remarks as we part our hug and chuckles at me. i think carter has left since he's not here.

i join dias and aunt sil, im so glad things are going as planned so far i don't feel as if im anxious anymore but instead i have this warm feeling inside of me, like a relief sensation.