The Lifeless Downpour

Andy Johnson p. 4

            I still remember the sound of the busting glass, the screeching tires, and the painful scream that I heard last.  I will never forget that night.  I remember pulling myself out of the car with blood dripping down my face.  I knew that I was pretty messed up as I collapsed on the side of the road.

            “Jett we don’t have all night, lets get going,” shouted my friend Rodney.  We were heading to the biggest party of the summer.  Rodney and I have been friends since I moved to this little town in 4^th grade.  We are both on the wrestling team too so we have been through a lot together.  Rodney is also real girl crazy, so he gives me crap all the time how I never talk to girls.  Tonight that is all going to change though.  As I get my hair just right I run down the stairs and hop in my car.  I start the car and buckle my seat belt.  I notice Rod laughing at me as he gets in.  He has always given me crap about buckling up.  I just tell him my parents make me and then he shuts up.  It is only about a fifteen-minute ride to the house we are going to.  Their parents aren’t home and it is supposed to be great. 

            I notice some clouds moving overhead as we are on our way to the party.

 “We are lucky this is inside,” Rod replies. 

“Yeah I know,” I tell him. 

We are both pretty excited about tonight. It will be the last party until the summer is over.  As I pull in the driveway I notice Amy and Valerie walking in the house.  Rod has always been after Amy, and I have liked Val for a long time.  We look at each other and we both say, “score,” at the same time.  I park my car and we go inside.  It is pretty awesome.  They have strobe lights, blacks light, and streamers all over the place.  I can tell this is going to be a pretty awesome party.  We grab some of the snacks in the kitchen and walk around to see what is going on.  As we go in the living room, we see that all of the girls are dancing and almost all of the guys are sitting there watching them.  I say almost because there is always the one kid that dance in the middle of them.  His name is Kyle and he has always been one with the ladies since I moved here.

            An hour passes and Rod and I have finally joined everyone that is dancing.  After that, I notice Amy and Rod go into a room together and shut the door.  Then I notice Val coming towards me.  The thoughts ramble through my mind and I don’t know what to say or what to do. 

“Hey Jett, how is it going,” Val says as I just stare at her. 

“ Pretty good,” I finally say. 

We just sat on the couch and talked all night.  It is around eleven now and I decided to give Val and Amy a ride home.  On our way home Amy and Rod were all over each other in the back seat.  I could barely see the road because the rain was really coming down now.  I buckled my seat belt and kept on driving.  We were only about four miles out of town.  “Hey, do you have any tunes in the car,” Val asked?  I looked at her as if she was joking as I put in my CD.  When I looked back up all I saw were headlight right in my face.  I was in the wrong lane and there was a truck coming right at me.  I swerve into my lane and it went bad after that.  I just could not get any traction as I started to go sideways.  I tried to get it back straight and that is when it went airborne.  We were flipping so fast and no one else was buckled in.  Val fell right on me as I tried to hold on to her.  We hit the ground and I heard a horrible scream. There was glass busting and I was loosing my grip of Val.  She was screaming too and my ears were ringing.  My car would not stop until we finally hit a sign. 

I had no idea were everyone was.  I tried to look around as I wiped the blood away, dripping down my forehead.   I looked in the back seat and I only saw Amy.  I tried to shake her, but I knew she was dead.  Val still had a pulse so I hoped she was fine.  I tried to pull myself out of the window as the glass was cutting me.  I got out and drug myself to the road.  That is when I saw Rod laying there in the middle with a puddle of blood around his head.  I couldn’t stand looking anymore.  I just lay there, and then the next thing I know, I am in the hospital with Val next to me.  My parents told me that the doctor said I was going to be fine.  Then, they told me that Rod and Amy were dead.  I mean I wasn’t really surprised since I already knew but I still couldn’t hold back the tears.  “What about Val, is she ok,” I asked them.  They said that she only had a few broken bones and some deep cuts. 

After that horrible night, my life hasn’t been the same.  I couldn’t wrestle my junior year because of some of my injuries but I wasn’t going to without Rod.  Val and I don’t really talk about it anymore.  We have been going out though for four months and it has been pretty great.  All I know is that Rod and Amy will always be in my heart, and I will always remember them in whatever I do.

THE END