Wrong Turn
by Ida Brown
Ch.1 Wrong Turn
A lonely twisting road… Snaking
back and forth through desolate land and deep canyons… a quiet calm night. The
rain soaked road shone like a black snake reflected in the moonlight… It’s
sinister body slithering along the hills and canyons. The mouth of the snake
waiting to swallow whole and devour whatever fell in its path.
I was just getting back from
visiting a friend’s house in Seattle on Saturday. I had been driving at night.
The weather was really crappy. It was dark and the road was really slippery. I
was visiting my friend Eric in Seattle who had just graduated from high school
and we were out late celebrating… Now I am driving down this winding road in
the middle of the state trying to get home to Spokane… It is just pouring down
rain and I can hardly see anything! I haven’t seen a car or a house or anything
for the last 2 hours… Who would ever be out on a night like this! The rain was
coming down so hard I could hardly see… I kept seeing dead deer carcasses on
the side of the road… It wasn’t raining when I left. Sure as soon as I start
home it does this… “I muttered to myself”.
I kept on driving as though my life
depended on it. Thank god I didn’t drink much at Eric’s party… He did enough of
that for both of us. I couldn’t stay as
I had to get back to school Monday for the last week of my junior year in high
school. As I continued down the road the rain started to slow down and the road
returned to this dark black abyss with only my dim headlight as a reminder that
there was life on this road, meaning me, that and the dead deer. I was thinking to myself, Eric, it’s a good
thing we were best friends growing up or I wouldn’t be out on a night like
this. The things we do for our best friends…
The road was endless. Mile after
mile of winding road, it was driving me crazy. I was so tired… I could feel my
eyes getting heavy… Why did I stay at the party so late… Probably the pretty
blond that seemed to like me and was talking up a storm… Eric was his usual
charming self surrounded by girls hanging on his every word. My mind was
drifting and I was just thinking that maybe I should pull over when a deer
darted out in front of me! I slammed on the brakes! Its glowing eyes met with
mine for a second in front of my headlights! It scared the shit out of me! I
had to stop for a few minutes and collect myself. “Death by deer, what a way to go John. I told
myself. ””And I didn’t even get a chance to call that pretty blonde back!” I
decided that I would try to drive just a little longer, but much slower this
time so that I had more warning if a deer decided to kamikaze on me… I started
up the car again and proceeded ever so carefully down the road when my
headlights spotted something off to my right in the ditch… It was a flash of
some color…. I slowed down and stopped. What the hell was I doing? “I said to
myself” “It is fucking late—3:00 in the morning, I am tired, and I want to go
home!” “I should just keep going,” But something was pulling me back. Something
telling me to look off the road. Like a giant hand had grabbed me and was
pulling me back and taking my foot off the gas pedal.
So I backed up to where I thought I
saw something. It was so dark and the hill off the side of the road was steep.
I stopped and looked through the window… I could just barely make out some dark
object with maybe a greenish color? It was pretty large… “Shit, I fumbled in
the dark for my flashlight; at least I think I had one. I had borrowed the car
from my Aunt Ida and she usually kept one in her glove box. I found it and I
stumbled out the driver’s door. Thankfully the rain had stopped and there was a
full moon out, but the clouds were covering the moon so that it barely peered
behind the clouds. I slipped and fell on my ass a couple times on the wet
ground as I tried to look over the edge… I pointed my flashlight down the steep
incline… It was a car…
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