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Prologue - Cars

It was regular day for her. Sun was shining, birds were chirping, the air was fresh. No running cars, no city noise, no nothing, just peace. Everything around her felt more alive today for some reason, like she could feel what happening around her. Her wavy black hair was a little damp, considering it was about 89 degrees outside. As she was walking down the road she felt the urge again. She leaned over and retched in the bushes, clutching her stomach intensely and pulling her hair back as she did. This was the fifth time this week she felt the sudden urge to vomit in the morning.

It'd initially started two days after she had went out to a party.

I knew I'd shouldn't have gone, she told herself. I'd only be getting myself in more trouble, and the Lord knows I dont need anymore of that in my life.

Mara was generally a good girl, she was just in the wrong places at the wrong time. Straight A Student, volunteer, your typical girl next door. Suddenly she heard a whining in the distance. From the edge of her view a black Honda accord, was racing down the narrow road. As it got closer, Mara couldn't tell if the car was heading for her, or beside her. It was narrow road, that during a summer day like this, nobody really traveled through or walked through for that matter.

The car was gaining speed, moving more and more rapidly towards her end of the road. Mara continued walking, trying not to look nervous. The car was close now, but then she heard a deafening booming sound. She stopped dead in her movement and peered up to look at the car that was now in the air flipping, on fire, heading straight for her.

There was no where to go, the car was gonna land on top her and she was dead. There was steep downhill mountain pass on the side of her where she was walking, and a wall on the other. That was it.

I'm gonna die here today, she cried

Just as the inferno of what was car was about to land on her, she moved her hands to shield her face.

Any second now, she thought.