Levi's Jeans

Sienna

My phone keeps losing reception and I'm lost. It doesn't help that the rain's picked up again and it's cold enough that the roads are slippery.

It's been ages since I've driven a stick shift and never with my left hand.

The gears scream as I shift to drive up the next hill, trying to load the map on my phone again, my attention split.

It happens so fast, the turn coming out of nowhere, the rain at its heaviest, the boulder on the side of the road. I look up and it's too late, I know it even as my foot instinctively slams the brakes.

The tires screech, the car slips and swerves.

I scream, clutching the steering wheel, realizing I'd never put on my seatbelt as the SUV collides with the boulder, the sound of metal crushing and my own screaming all I hear as something pops and my forehead collides against the windshield, the pain sharp and instant just before I lose consciousness.

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Giovanni

The car's stopped moving.

She's not much farther, but I'm stuck, cursing as I wait fo