Road Accident

Skylar

The loud ringing in my ears was the only sound I could hear. At first, I thought I was dreaming. My eyelids were heavy, and when I forced them open, everything around me was nothing but blurred shapes and broken light.

For a moment, I couldn’t understand what had happened. All I felt was the deafening hum inside my skull, drowning out everything else.

Then the smell hit me; burnt metal, smoke, and something sharp that made me want to gag. Slowly, my vision began to sharpen, and I realized I wasn’t dreaming at all. Everything around me was chaos.

The windshield in front of me was cracked. The car door beside me was crushed inward and twisted oddly.

I blinked hard, trying to clear my vision, but my head throbbed so much it felt like my skull might split open.

I turned slowly, and my heart almost stopped when my eyes landed on her.

“Mother,” I whispered.

She was lying beside me, her head slumped at an odd angle,