Page 96 of Till Forever Falls Apart
An orchestra of shrieking metal from the roof of my car was forced further into chaos as the van screeched to a halt.
Finally.
The car stopped moving.
The music we’d been fighting over a second ago suddenly seemed a lot louder, filling the deafening silence.
The headlights from the van shone through, completely blinding my vision, until they started to pull away, fading into the distance.
Did this prick just drive away?
A sharp pain radiated through my neck.
Spinning like a carousel filled my head as I hung upside down.
The smell of burnt rubber hit me, and I retched with the acid that rose from my stomach. Slowly turning my head, I looked over at Hayden.
“Hayden.” My words came out shaky. “Hayden?” I called louder.
Nothing.
I reached over, my hand touching his shoulder, and I shook him. “Hayden? Wake up.” My heart started racing, fear running through my veins as I shook him again. “Hayden?” I shouted.
His lifeless body just dangled there.
“Hayden? Wake the fuck up.”
I was panicking now. My breathing became heavy, my hands fumbling to try and get my seatbelt off, but the fucking thing wouldn’t budge.
I needed to get out. I needed to get to him.
Why the fuck wouldn’t he wake up?
“Sebastian?” Logan’s voice caused my head to snap back to my window as he crouched down, peering in.
“Hayden won’t wake up. He’s not responding.”
I heard Logan’s footsteps, and he reappeared at Hayden’s window, the flashlight from his phone darting about before his eyes met mine.
“The ambulance is on its way.”
It was the way he looked at me, like all the blood had drained from his face, that sent chills down my spine.
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Aria
“Serfina.”
“Yeah,” she replied.
“I lied earlier. I didn’t know Sebastian was with Hayden.”
We were on our second bottle of wine and had gone through most of her wedding plans. I was excited for it. It was going to be such a beautiful day. My heart sank. I no longer saw it happening with Sebastian and me.
She wrapped her arm around my shoulders as I sat there looking at my sleeves. “I kind of guessed that.”
A single tear fell from my eyes, and I wiped it with my hand.
