I Crash Into The Only Tree Around
*Jacklyn's POV*
I yawned. Of the three sites, mine was the farthest away from the hotel. So I had to pack my stuff up- again, and started a drive down to the site. I've been driving for hours, which probably isn't smart. What can I say? I'm my fathers daughter. I briefly wondered what Avis and Josh were doing. I grinned a bit as I remembered how I watched her slowly drive away and slam on the brakes a few times.
After that, I had gone back to the hotel to re-pack my things, throw them into the cab of the truck along with some camping gear that Eddie had given me for when I got there and tossed those into the bed of the truck.
Now, the sun had set and the stars were out. I'll admit it- I wasn't used to this many stars. I come from the DFW area. Big city's with lots of lights on all the time tend to block out the stars so it always fascinates me when I see them.
So, naturally, when I was gazing up at the stars and not paying a lick of attention to the road, is when trouble happened.
One moment I was glancing up at the sky, leaning slightly over the wheel to see better out the windshield, then the next thing I know, something flashes across the road. I don't know what it was but as a reflex, I jerked on the steering wheel and drove the car right of the road.
At that moment I had been driving through some plains so now tall blades of yellow grass whipped across the bumper of the truck and blocked the light of the headlights so I couldn't see what was ahead of me. That's when I saw the towering stone structures that were getting closer by the second.
I shouted, though I doubt anyone heard since I'm in a truck in the middle of nowhere. I closed my eyes, bracing for impact when all of a sudden- I felt no impact. Have you ever had that feeling in a car when your bracing yourself for something like a rough stop or jerk or when your expecting the driver to go left but they go right and your body just freaks of for a few seconds? That's what it felt like. I opened my eyes to see that I was no longer in a plains-filled area, but a wooded one and on a wide dirt track.
I sat there in the drivers seat with my mouth wide open and the wheel turning loosely in my hands. Just when I was starting to get a grasp on what was going on, the truck hit a large stone in the road, jerking side ways off the road and barraging through the trees. Great! If it's not one thing, it another.
Veering left, then right, then sharply left again, I weaved through the trees, wincing each time a branch scraped against the truck. Maybe luck was starting to take my side now since the trees were thinning and it was getting easier to steer, even if I was far from the road. Nope, just kidding. Luck abandoned me when I shot out of the forest, and into a field. So naturally, that's when I crashed into a tree. I mean I saw it there and I guessed I thought that I wasn't going fast enough that if I braked really hard I wouldn't hit it. Or that the tree would get up and move out of my way, one of the two.
I fumbled around awkwardly with the seatbelt and flooded out of the truck once I opened the door. I didn't hit the tree hard enough to deploy the air bag, but hard enough to do so damage. I staggered to my feet and looked around. I was in a field of what looked to be wheat in a place where the sun shined too brightly for my liking. Wait what? Wasn't I just driving in the middle of the night?
My last thought before blacking out due to whacking my head on the steering wheel was: why the heck would there be a tree in the middle of a field of wheat?
That and angry shouts echoed in my head with the blurry vision of a pitchfork being waved in front of me.
Least I think it was pitchfork...
•Sorry for taking so long to update. School is a pain :/•
~SO
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