The teenage girl sat at her desk trying to stay focused on the task at hand, but being stuck at a desk all day always got long for her... typing, planning, thinking, silence, a few strong solid strokes on the keyboard and the project was complete.
Surprisingly, her supervisor asked if she would go and do some purchasing as her next project. She jumped at the idea to get out of the office and complete another project. Quickly she gathered her supplies and received the last instructions on the purchases that were to take place.
The girl briskly walked to her car, excited to have this new project and excited for the one she had just finished.
She climbed into her beloved car with a smile on her face and headed off with her destinations in mind. However, there was no way that she could know the destiny she would face in the hour to come.
Carefully, she watched the cross traffic and once it was safe she began to drive forward to turn onto a smaller street. To the right she saw a vehicle moving towards the road, but surely they would stop? Surely?
She continued driving, because the road was hers to drive on.. it all happened so quickly, she looked an saw this large red vehicle headed right towards her car. No time to react, no time to think, no time to do anything except listen to the horrible sound of the crunching metal. She felt her body tense beyond reason as it attempted to fight gravity. In that instance it was hard for her to catch her next breath.
Oxygen. She needed oxygen. She was in shock. She knew she needed to get out of her vehicle, but did she need to move her vehicle? How bad was the accident? Was the other driver hurt? Was she hurt? She couldn't think clearly. Cautiously she climbed out of the vehicle to talk with the other driver. After the police were called they moved their cars to wait for the help to arrive. The girl knew that she would need her I.D. as well as her insurance information so she began to look in her car for the right things, but her hands were shaking violently. She wanted her nerves calmed, but she couldn't calm them. Her stomach felt like it had been tied into a million knots, a knot so bad that she thought it would be easier to count all of the stars rather than untying the knot.
A few hours later the pain began to set in as the shock began to disintegrate. She knew that she would have a mess to deal with concerning the insurance company. However, she decided not to become stressed and upset and simply trust.
The girl, her dad, and her brothers thought that the car was most likely totaled. The thought of her car being totaled left her feeling a pain that she had never experienced in her whole life before. If she lost her car should would be losing a part of her.
To this day.. the story is untold, however, she believes she may have driven her car for the last time ever in her life and during that drive tears fell from her eyes, because it might have been the end. Only time will tell...
I'm sorry to hear it, Jo. :(
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