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It all started so suddenly. But as it was happening, it was like everything was in slow motion. I didn't have any thoughts in my mind, they were stolen by the adrenaline. Afterward the same thought was circling through my mind. The car was supposed to stop.
I couldn't feel most of the pain initially. I lay in an awkward position, eyes closed, on the pavement. I was just shocked. It hurt my feelings that the car didn't stop. Then gradually it felt like every bone in my body was breaking. My headache just kept getting worse. I could hear people surrounding me.
Someone was asking me questions but I couldn't make them out. I couldn't open my eyes, and my lungs felt like they were on fire. My thoughts felt so foggy. I didn't want to be awake. It was so painful.
The more I faded out, the more the pain stopped. I let myself drift... Eventually I could get up. When I got up, my body didn't come with me. I could see everything. Their car sideways on the street. My mangled body on the street, covered in shards of glass from the car's destroyed windshield, blood pooling around me. Several people crowded my unconscious body, concerned looks and crying. I could hear sirens nearing in the distance. I even smelt the burning rubber scent of the car tires, and the metallic scent of blood.
The body of the person who hit me was still in the car. I also saw his spirit standing next to me, eyes full of panic viewing the gory wreck he had caused. He looked at me, but he couldn't choke out words, though I could tell he was trying to. I didn't want to listen anyways.
I looked away from him. When I looked in front of me, I forgot all about him and the wreck. I saw my mother, looking just as young and beautiful and perfect as she had before she was taken away from us. It didn't occur to me that this was impossible. This was supposed to happen. I was finally seeing her again at last. I missed her so much.
But her face fell as she looked behind me. I could see fear in her eyes as she reached out for me. I didn't want to look back. I ran to her, but I wasn't quick enough. Wind picked up around me and dead leaves swirled everywhere. I couldn't see anything, except for these stupid leaves. Everything was becoming darker.
Things started to fade out and then there was nothing.