A Very Short Story

A time you died in a car crash and got lost on your way to the afterlife. Must include weebs, chakra cleansing, trampoline, butcher, drag queen and pentagram.

 

Spring break was just around the corner and the car trip was all packed and ready to go. Sully and I had been planning this trip for months and had made lists of everywhere we wanted to go. There was no real destination, we were just going wherever the roads took us. 

We almost got stuck with Sully’s younger brother and his friends who were a bunch of weebs, they were also going on a road trip, but they were going to some nerd tournament across the states which sounded boring as hell. His friends often referred to us as “drama queens” but they were just jealous of us. 

One of the many locations we were going to was this place that does spiritual cleansing such as chakra cleansing and aura readings, we were into that type of stuff. Sully had a wrap on the bonnet of her Mercedes of a pentagram with a matching dreamcatcher hanging off the mirror.  Sully’s mum was a lawyer which was a big surprise to me as her dad was a butcher. Love beats what you do, I guess. Sully had that type of upbringing where she gets anything she wants. The only thing my parents ever got me that was expensive was a trampoline when I was six. It was great and all and I loved it till I outgrew it, but it was nothing compared to what Sully’s parents got her.  

 

We were finally off on the road trip, my parents had given me warnings as they do about staying safe as two teenagers on a road trip by ourselves, Sully’s parents however didn’t seem too bothered about where we were going and encouraged us to meet as many people as we can and make memories. Both were right in their own ways of course but it was concerning how little her parents cared about her whereabouts. We turned into the interstate and Sully hit the gas like speed limit didn’t exist in her world. I told Sully to slow down as there was a tight turn coming up but Sully assured me she had driven this road many times before so she wasn’t going to crash. There was suddenly a loud screech from up the road, a couple of teens were drifting in between cars near missing a few. Sully pulled out to pass a truck then slammed on the breaks. The drifter came around the truck and slammed headfirst into Sully and I, at least I think it did. There was a lot of screams and screeches of metal, my memory is a bit fuzzy. I’ve been stuck in this loophole of seeing how I died over and over as if there was something I could do that would change the outcome. I wish I could talk to my parents again, tell them I’m sorry they’re not going to hear from me when we arrive at the first destination. Turns out our destination was death. 

I’ve been searching for the entrance of heaven, I thought it was a light at the end of the tunnel; but it was the headlights. It was just dark and cold nothingness, I kept walking in circles. I thought if I walked far enough, I’d leave this place behind, but I keep ending up at the crash site. There was just twisted metal and smoke, I couldn’t find Sully anywhere. I knew that she also didn’t survive that, she had a habit of not wearing a seatbelt as it ruined her vibe. I guess the boys had died too, their last mistake finally costing their lives. 

I felt like there was something I had to do, but I hadn’t worked out what it is yet. I didn’t understand why I was stuck with seeing the crash, I was dead nothing could change that. Is this what the afterlife is? Just spending eternity alone in the place where you died? That can’t be true; and yet here I was. Just as I was accepting this was fate for all eternity a doorway opened as if it was always there. I walked towards it cautiously afraid that it would just disappear or lead me back here. I put my hand on the door handle and was surprised by the warmth that greeted my touch. Excitement bubbled up inside me, this was it. I was finally leaving this horrible empty place I never wanted to see again. But just as I thought those words the door handle went cold, as if it had suddenly frozen over and I quickly let it go. Fear hit me again as I realized I was stuck here forever. A scream built up inside of me and rushed out of my windpipes tearing them as I made a sound never heard from a livings eardrum. This was my eternity.