Third Wheel
I inform him.
The world moves in slow motion as I watch Jackson round the front of the Impala. I feel I’m walking through a movie and not my real life. The hood is bent inward from the passenger side. With the crumpled metal of the red car attached to ours, Jackson must walk around it, too. He pulls the other driver’s head off the horn, leaning him back in his seat.
“Taylor, go sit down in the grass!” Jackson shouts at me. I jolt from my frozen stance and nod, turning toward the grass, my lower back pain returning.