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“We tried to do everything we could, but the impact caused several injuries and internal bleeding. We weren’t able to stop it.”
I fall to the ground. Am I dreaming? Carol’s sobs echo in my ears, and the doctor keeps talking, but I can’t comprehend what he is saying. My wife and daughter are dead. They won’t be coming home with me tonight.
He walks away, and I try to take a deep breath, before I start having a panic attack, but it’s no use. My chest is tight.
“Milo, what are we going to go?” Carol asks, grabbing his hand.
Tears won’t stop, and I don’t know how I’m going to survive. My whole world has collapsed. My beautiful daughter won’t be playing softball this summer, and my dad won’t be lying next to me when I go to sleep. This isn’t supposed to happen.
I stand up and throw my arms around Carol, trying to comfort her. Tina was the only person she had left, and now we are both left alone.
Another doctor comes out and goes straight to the woman from outside and from what I can tell, it must be good news because she smiles and then leaves.
What am I supposed to do now? Just leave and go home like nothing ever happened? I need answers. What caused the accident?
I pull out my phone and dial the Sheriff.
“Milo, I just heard. I’m so sorry for your loss, son.”
“Listen, I don’t want to hear any of that right now. All I want is answers. What happened? What caused the accident?” I ask, trying to gain some composure.
“I’m on my way up there. Give me five minutes.”
Nothing is ever going to bring my family back. Things will never be the same. How am I supposed to go on living without the two very people that make life worth living?
“The doctor asked if we wanted to see them, but I said no. I want to remember them as they were,” Carol says.
My wife was beautiful, intelligent and someone I imagined growing gray and old with. Kennedy, well she was the very light of my life. The whole reason I work so hard for my family. I wanted to give her the world, and it still wasn’t enough. Seeing their lifeless bodies isn’t going to do anything but make it worse.
Carol pulls out her pack of cigarettes and offers me one. Right now, I’ll take anything. I follow her outside and take a seat on the curb, not carrying who stares at me. Grown men, okay.
“Hey, Milo.”
I look up to find the Sheriff hovering over me. “This is Tina’s mother, Carol.”
He comes over and takes a seat next to me. “Listen, I know there is nothing I can do or say that’s going to make a difference, but I promised your daddy that I’d watch out for you.”
“Let’s cut to the chase. I need to know about the accident. How did this happen to my family?”
He takes a deep breath and clasps his heads together in his lap. “I got a call while patrolling about two cars that had collided and one went off the road and into a tree on highway 292. I was only a few minutes away, and when I arrived on scene, they were both alive. Badly injured, but conscious.”
Hearing him isn’t making things any better.
“We worked with the fire department to get the doors off and get Tina and Kennedy. As soon as we got them out, we rushed them to the hospital.”
“And what about the other car?”
He tips his hat, and looks at the woman from earlier, standing about twenty feet away.
“The other driver was intoxicated. Our guess is he was going too fast around the ben and they collided.”
So a drunk driver did this? They took away my entire reason to live?
“Who was it, sheriff? I have a right to know,” I say, standing up with white knuckles.
“The suspect just got out of surgery.”
My eyes go mad. “You’re telling me the guy who did this is still alive while my wife and daughter are dead?”
