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He gave me a deadpan look while my friend stayed in the corner, acting all meek.
“Amelia, let me explain,” my now ex-best-friend pleaded.
I tensed up that any lame excuse could explain her sleeping with my fiancé.
“You two deserve each other… you’ll fuck each other up. Go for it.”
Everything was happening too quickly. Within the span of a few seconds, I made the decision that life was too short, that I couldn’t bring up a child with a man like Jason. I’d been kidding myself, wanting a family so desperately, I ignored the clues that he was just a dick.
Adrenaline threaded through me, and with rage, I threw the pregnancy test at Jason, hitting him square in the face before it dropped to the ground. It landed face up, those two lines staring at us like beacons.
He glanced down and saw it, his eyes huge with shock.
“Are you fucking joking?” he blurted, his nose creasing with disgust at the idea of having a baby. “It can’t be mine. You just want child support from me while you’re spreading your legs for other men. My uncle’s an expensive lawyer and you won’t stand a chance.”
“Asshole.” Shuddering, my hands curling into fists with anger, I snapped, “You can fuck off. I’ll raise our child without a dickhead like you or any of your money. I don’t want a cent.”
Abruptly, I turned and ran out of the room, slamming the door behind me.
It felt like I was flying because I no longer felt my body. I fished the house and car keys from the bowl and stuffed them in my pocket. Then grabbing my bag and coat, I marched back into the kitchen. Sliding on my oven gloves, I collected the barely warm casserole out of the oven.
Fuck them both.
Hurriedly, I left the house as I heard Jason shouting at Lyric in the bedroom.
Nearing his lifted truck, I threw the glass casserole dish at his preciousBabe,with the big tires and shiny custom paint job. The glass dish shattered and dented the truck, making me smile. A giggle of delight bubbled out of my lips as I bent over to grab at a piece of glass as further inspiration struck. My hands, still padded by oven mitts, were well protected as I picked up two large pieces of the broken dish and ran them along the outside of the truck until I got to the driver’s side door. The screeching sounds were satisfying, especially when I scratched the words,Tiny Dick, across his hood.
Dumping the oven mitts on the ground, I collected the keys from my pocket, removed my car keys from the lot, and dumped the rest into the storm drain. With a smile, I got into my car, and that was when the tears really hit me.
I’d been driving ever since, with my phone switched off, and feeling like shit.
Against the impossible darkness, I kept going, my car lights carving through the night. Somewhere on my drive, I’d come to the conclusion that Jason had been cheating on me for months. It explained him working weekends away, which had become more frequent, our non-existent sex life, then there was my friend at my place for surprise visits.
I had managed to lose my closest friends in one day. But they weren’t really friends, considering they were cheating behind my back.
Taking my foot off the gas pedal, I took a slow, deep breath and turned the wheel into the curve around the steep mountain, squinting when my high beams bounced off the dull metal guard rails.
Snow fell as I made my way along the road, apprehension building as I realized there was a huge turn coming up. The urge to press down on the brake rapidly was strong as I made my way toward the first twist of the winding road. I didn’t know when the landscape changed from straight roads with houses to mountains, pine trees, and no streetlights.
Flicking on the bright lights, it felt as if I was completely alone on the mountain. Time to think about what I was going to do after I moved out of his apartment… a place I’d called home for the last three years.
Focusing on the drive, everything would have been just fine, dandy even, if that deer hadn’t been standing in the middle of the road, blinking at me with an expression that screamed, ‘uh, what?’ I’d have been off this mountain in no time.
With disturbingly calm nonchalance, I wrenched the wheel to avoid hitting the deer, not wanting to kill Rudolph so close to Christmas. I was still calm as the car skidded out of control, although I could hear a scream from somewhere in the car. It was far away, though, far, far away and seemed to fade farther away as the car plowed over a brick wall and went airborne.
I screamed, my life flashing before my eyes when I wasn’t ready to die. Not when I’d wasted the last three years with that dickhead Jason.
A huge pine tree loomed ever larger as the car sailed through the air toward it. Cars weren’t supposed to fly, but my hands on the steering wheel couldn’t seem to make the car change directions, so that sensation had my stomach lurching.
Hitting the ground, the shrubs and smaller trees slowed me somewhat before the car struck the huge pine hard enough for half the hood to crumble inward.
I cried out as my body was flung forward and the airbags burst out of the steering wheel and door, then fizzled out as quickly as they emerged. It buffeted my face from hitting the wheel, but then it threw me backward, and I slammed into the window to my left.
Sharpness snaked across my head just as the passenger’s seat airbags burst out of the dashboard and door, flooding the car with a strange noxious smell. My teeth clacked together so hard I was certain I’d shattered them all—just before the world went black.
Groggily, I opened my eyes, struggling from a consuming darkness around me until I saw a light, then a…monster.
I blinked, convinced I was imagining things.
