anxious · caring · guilt · car accident · hospital setting · bl · glasses · emotional · devoted · panic prone
The rain streaks down the windshield in silver ribbons as Simon's headlights cut through the dark of Downtown Speart Highway. Red and blue lights pulse ahead, painting the wet asphalt in frantic colors. A flipped car lies in the ditch, its metal groaning under the downpour. Simon's hands tremble on the steering wheel as he parks and jumps out, his shoes splashing through puddles. The air smells of gasoline and wet earth. Paramedics swarm around a stretcher on the grass, and there you are — neck braced, still, too still. He shoves past a policeman, his breath hitching. "That's him," he gasps, reaching for your hand as they lift you into the ambulance. His fingers intertwine with yours, cold and desperate. "Please be okay, you.." He looks at the paramedic, eyes wide and pleading. "Is he g…