AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I nod slowly, pulling on my arm. He’s hurting me.
“So if you trust me, it’s all good, honey. Let’s go,” he tells me as he walks to his car.
I take a deep breath, not knowing what to do. All the people around me are completely drunk, too.
“Rafael, wait!” I yell again behind his back. “Let me drive!”
I say anything to try to stop him. I’ve been drinking too, but much less than him.
I run to the driver’s side but already he is sitting behind the wheel.
I lean towards his window, feeling my tears welling up because I’m so frustrated and don’t understand his attitude. I know he’s drunk, he can’t take the wheel. Usually, we take a cab, we stay overnight, or he drives home when he hasn’t had so much to drink. But there…his eyes are glassy, and I begin to understand that he’s not just drunk.
He glares at me, with his mouth wrinkled.
“Get in the car, Iris. I’ll take you home.”
I look around again.
“Now!” he yells, slamming his steering wheel.
His shout makes me shake in my boots. I’m afraid of his reaction because I don’t recognize him tonight. But I can’t leave him, so I get into the passenger side of the car, as silent as a grave. A headache starts to invade me and I regret the drinks I had. Fuck, I’ll never touch another drop of alcohol.
The first minutes pass with the sound of the engine as the only background noise. When he misses a stop sign in the middle of town, I grab my door.
“Slow down,” I whisper to him.
He lets out a little laugh and speeds up a little more. He brushes my thigh with his free hand. “It’s all right, I’m in control.”
No, that’s not true, but I don’t want to make him angry. Not when we’re going a hundred miles an hour in the middle of town. Yes, this road is deserted, but I don’t feel it. When he misses another light, my mouth opens by itself.
“Stop acting stupid,” I almost beg him.
“You said you trusted me,” he spits, looking at me instead of the road.
“Not when you’ve been drinking like this! Turn your head towards the road, please.”
“I love you from the bottom of my soul,” he says. “Do you think I would let anything happen to you?”
I take a deep breath, holding on to his words. With his head still turned towards me, he doesn’t notice that the light in front of us is turning red.
“The light!” I exclaim.
But it’s already too late, the car is running at full speed. The city was deserted until then. Not anymore.
A van—also speeding—comes up on our left and hits us full force.
I feel as if my life has come to an end, and it probably has. A howl of agony echoes in my ears, mine. The shock is awful. My head is turned upside down, the blood rushes to my head. My seatbelt prevents me from collapsing on myself.
I blink several times in shock. I don’t really know what’s going on. My vision is blurry.
I’m still tied up, and I’m sore all over. I try to turn my face slowly and notice a spot of blood on my right arm.
What’s going on?
Did we just have an accident? I move carefully to try to see Rafael ,but my breathing becomes wheezy. My breath is shallow.
“Rafael,” I whisper to him.
