The Before and After Project (An Emblem3 Fanfiction)

Chapter 10

Wes’ POV:

I’d walked out of school almost as soon as the bell rang for lunch, there was no way I could handle a whole day watching the two lovebirds. It just sickened me to my core to think that what we had was gone forever.

“Wes, where the hell are you going?” Kaylee shrieked after me, she would never understand…she COULD never understand, because if I tried to explain, it would only end badly.

“Not feeling well…gonna go home…”I muttered and turned around deciding that it would look too suspicious if I didn’t even try and be boyfriendy about this. “If I’m feeling better, maybe you could come round later!” I grinned as her eyes lit up.

“I hope you feel better then!” she giggled and blew a kiss to me, walking back into school in relief. I smiled, as I turned around. I was glad I could make someone happy after my terrible day.

I put my earphones in and turned the music up loud. I wanted to block out the outside world and just be in my own world today. I was just walking with no destination in mind, just walking until my feet got sore and I decided that it was time to head home.

It was starting to get reasonably late in the day, I was pretty sure school would be out by now. I picked up my skateboard from my house and took off down the road at full speed.

I still had the music pounding in my ears and I felt completely and absolutely free in that moment. Like nothing in the world could harm me, Gabby was completely blown out of my mind at this point in time.

All that mattered, was my music and my board. I was watching the road, looking for stones to make sure I didn’t manage to wipe out. There was a huge corner up ahead that always made me slightly worried and cautious, I could never see around it and with my earphones in I couldn’t hear what was coming either.

It was like all my senses had failed at once, except for that feeling in the pit of my stomach. The one that would tell me exactly when things were going to go wrong. I should’ve stopped, I knew what was coming…but something in me dared me to keep going at full speed, to not care what was waiting for me around the corner, just to keep going.

And that was when the sound of tires screeching pounded through my ears, I looked up to see a car coming straight for me and suddenly my world went black.

The darkness was beginning to scare me, was I dead? Or was I alive? I couldn’t tell because everything felt so weird. It was like I was in a world of darkness all by myself. I would call out, but the only thing I heard was my own voice echoing through the black void.

They say your life flashes before your eyes, but the only thing that flashed through mine was Gabby…I guess she was my entire life. There was also a smidge of my family mixed in there, but that was about it.

I could feel a searing pain in my body, and somehow that told me that I wasn’t dead. Because if I was dead I wouldn’t be feeling this right now, I would’ve just gone up to heaven or hell….or wherever the heck you go when you die.

Suddenly it was like I was being pulled back into reality. I could hear voices screaming instructions around me and people crying hysterically. It was kind of unnerving to be honest, I wanted to scream out and tell people that I was okay…but I couldn’t.

Then it hit me that I wasn’t the only person in the accident. I had seen the person desperately trying to swerve so that they would miss me, but apparently it didn’t work…because here I am, in my world of darkness...although it did feel like the real world was slowly coming back to me.

I could feel what was probably the paramedics lifting me up onto a stretcher. I winced internally as they shifted my body, but I knew that I was in good hands.