One Rainy Day... (Draft)

I remember waking up one morning for school not feeling too well. It was raining and cold outside. I usually dreaded to miss school because I hated to be behind and having to make-up work .But I just couldn't push myself to get up, when I finally had the strength to get out of bed I walked down the hallway to tell my ma that I didn't feel well . She told me to lie back down and just take the day off; so I did. An hour into my sleep my phone rung and woke me up, it was a text message from my friend in class. "Brittney where are you! We need you to anchor today remember!" I had totally forgotten that I signed up for anchoring that week. I texted her back and said don’t worry and that I would be there. I knew that I should have just told her that I wasn’t feeling too well but I didn’t want to let my classmates down. I hurried up and got ready and told my ma that I was going to school. She didn’t want me to, but she understood that I had to anchor for the show. I grabbed my umbrella and walked to my car. It was still pretty bad outside and very cold. I started my car and started to drive to school. I decided to call my boyfriend to tell him what was going on with me. I felt a little better talking to him because he always knew what to say to put a smile on my face. I was at the red light about to turn left to the road to my school. “I still can’t believe I’m going to this school just to anchor.” I vented to him.  The light turned green and I pushed on the gas, the dangerous thing about my road to my school was how it was made. You have to slow down to turn the roundabout because cars are coming from the opposite direction.  I had been taking this road all of my years in high school so I was use to what I had to do. “I still look really cute today, even though I have a cold.” I remember saying. When I came up to the turn everything seemed like it went to slow motion, “What do you have on?” My boyfriend asked. And right when my boyfriend asked this the scariest thing happened. When I turned the corner my car ended up in the other lane. I didn’t panic because the car in the other lane was farther back. “It’s okay Brittney, just pull your car back to your lane” I thought to myself. I can see the car getting closer and closer, I tried to swerve my car back to its lane but it wouldn’t go. “Babe did you hear my question?”  And in that moment I knew that I was going to hit this car head on, I remember letting go of the wheel and turning my body so I wouldn’t get hurt. The sound of the cars hitting together was the scariest thing I ever heard. “Please don’t let me die, please don’t let me die” I prayed. I was too scared to open my eyes because I didn’t know what to expect. This was the first car accident I ever been in and I was all alone. “Brittney! Brittney! What happened?” I opened my eyes hearing my boyfriend still on the phone. But the phone wasn’t in my hands any more I couldn’t find where it went. The inside of my car was smoky and all I can see was my broken windshield. I panicked thinking that the car was going to exploded with me sitting there in the car. So I got out the car and that’s when I started to ball into tears. There was a police officer already on seen and he ran up to me asking if I was okay. I couldn’t stop crying, it was still raining and he took me to his car and sat me down. He went to go check on the other car and called the paramedics. After a couple of minutes he came back and asked me for my name and my I.D. I told him it was in the car and my phone was in there too. He went to go look but all he could find was my school I.D and my phone. “I must have picked up the wrong I.D!” I cried. Oh no, I thought. I’m going to jail. I was the cause of the car accident and I didn’t have my driver’s license on me. I called my ma and told her what happened. My ma just had surgery that week and she couldn’t really walk because of it. But within 10 minutes she was there in her p.j’s, holding me saying everything was going to be alright. I still didn’t know if the other people in the car were ok because I didn’t want to see something that I didn’t want to see. “Everything is my fault! My car wouldn’t get back in the other lane, I tried and tried but it wouldn’t go back to its lane!” I cried to my ma. “It’s okay Brittney, just calm down.” I can tell that I was scaring my ma even more with my loud cries so I tried to calm down for her. The paramedics came and checked to see if everything was okay with me. I told them that I was fine. After I had the guts to stand up and see the accident most of everything was cleaned up. The traffic on both sides was still bad but everything else was picked up. The other people in the car turned out to be okay. It was two men in the car; they stood on the side of the road talking to the cops. The other police officer came up to me. Alright this is it. I’m going to jail I thought to myself. “Alright Brittney, I’m glad that you and everybody else was okay. This could have been a lot worse.” He wrote me a ticket and told me that I was free to go. Thank God I thought to myself. I got in my ma’s car and sat down, and then she started to drive off. “I can’t believe I lost my car.” I said sadly. I had just got my car three months ago from my ma and my dad. It was the perfect first car for me and it was gone. “I’ll rather have you than the car Brittney” my mother told me. She was right. I was so thankful to be okay. When I think back on my car accident now I always regret being on my cell phone. Many people today die because of phone use while driving. If I never was on the phone that day then I would have been more focus on the road and never would have got in the car accident. I now keep my phone in my purse on the back seat so I would not be tempted to look at my phone.