Life Changer

A Story by ModifiedMama

This is true story. About a month ago i had gotten into a car accident. And this is what i remember. My brakes took a s**t on me, and thats how it all happened.

"Oh s**t!"

I screamed to myself as i approached a red light and drove through it.

"What the hell is going on?" I thought as i continued to yell and scream to myself. I looked behind me, put my blinker on, i tried to get into the far right hand lane. I looked back in front of me, "F**k, No, S**t, No NO NO!" i slammed my foot on my brakes as hard as i could, nothing happened. Raising my butt out of my seat to press the brakes down to the floor, still nothing happened. Screaming at the top of my lungs, beginning to panic, but it was too late. I Heard the metal from my vehicle and the vehicle in front of me crash together, the sound of tiers skidding, and things breaking..

"OMG! NO! What the f**k, No, No!" Tears streaming down my face, feeling a burning sensation on my skin. But i didn't care. I looked in front of me, i saw this woman trying to get out of her car, i opened my door not caring how i was to run to her to see if she was okay. "No, I am so sorry mam, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!" I said to her over and over again, "Are you okay?" Looking down, seeing nothing but blood, lots of blood everywhere. She tried to get out of her vehicle, but she was unable to. Her bone was popping out of her wrist, so much blood. I continued to cry, i felt like i was about to have a heart attack. A lady came up to us and started to work with the lady that was hurt in front of me. I called 911, I could barley speak. I was so torn up, i had a hard timing speaking to the lady on the phone who had answered my emergency call. I handed the phone to the nice lady that came to help us. "I'm sorry," those were the only words i could find to say. In my head all i could think about is if this poor old lady would be okay.

After i found the words to say to the lady who had answered my call, i told her where we were located and that we need an ambulance. I had only thought that me and this old lady had been in the accident. More tears came streaming down my face, "i'm so sorry," i spoke into the phone once my fiance had answered his phone. "I'm so sorry babe, i just.. i got into an accident."

I could hear the tears he was about to cry as he answered me, "Are you f*****g kidding me?"

"No, babe the brakes quite working, i hit the car in front of me at the stop light..."

"where are you?" he said, "dude i need to leave, Mel just got into an accident, i have to go get her." I heard him say this to his co-workers, trying to find someone to give him a ride to where i was at.

Next thing i know there were cops, ambulances, and fire trucks. Everyone was questioning me. I couldn't help but cry, and still nothing i could say would help, all i wanted to say was how sorry i was. I never meant for this to happen. I couldn't think of why this had to happen to me, i'm only 17. One of the fireman had came up to me to help me relax, i don't think i had ever cried so much in my life before. "Are you okay mam?

"Yes, i.. i'm just worried about her. I want the old lady to be okay.."

"She will be okay, you need to worry about you. Are you hurt? Do you need help? Have you called your parents yet?" My parents.. i had forgotten all about them, i was only thinking of my fiance at the time. Since he was the only one close enough to me to care about. But i had to inform my parents, they are still responsible for me.

"I'm okay, is it okay if i call my parents?"

"Of course, go ahead and call them, try to calm down, things will be alright." I grinned at him, at least someone was being nice about this. I called my parents and they of course freaked out. They were just happy that i was okay. They told me things will be okay, but i couldn't help but think everything sucked from here on out. Why would things be okay, i just got into a car accident, one that was caused by me, i would be the one getting sued, paying for my own mistakes, taking car of my car that went to s**t on me. What could possible be good about this situation. I stayed on the phone with my parents, up until i saw my fiance running over to me. I could only imagine how hurt he was from all of this. I told my parents i call them later since he had gotten to the scene of the accident.

"Holy s**t, what the hell happened?"

"I.. i already told you.. i didn't know what to do, and before i knew it i hit this car.." Even more tears started to stream down my face. I grabbed onto my fiance and help him so close, what if i never got to see him again? I didn't wanna let go, i could hear in his voice how sad he was and how badly he wanted to cry. But like the strong man he is, he held back those tears and helped me through the rest of the accident. One of the officers asked us to move onto the other side of the car where they had blocked off the traffic.

"There is 3 cars involved,"

"wait what?! I thought there was only me and the old lady.." my heart began to drop, i never even realized there was anyone else. And suddenly this man walked up to us, and he had been involved in the accident too. "4 cars were involved?!" All i could think of was how much trouble i was in.

The poor old lady with the broken arm and a man in one of the other vehicles was taken to the hospital. The more i thought about all of this the more i cried. I was just lucky that no one had died.

"Mam, here you go," one of the officers had handed me back my license and a paper that had their report onto it. He had explained to me that i had to go to court in one month and what i needed to bring with me. I looked over and a toe truck began to toe the cars away.

"Thank you officer," that's what i said even though he was a complete dick about everything.

"What are we going to do without a vehicle now?" i looked at my fiance trying not to cry anymore, "we will figure it out later babe, let's not think about that right now." The toe truck man asked us if we wanted a ride anywhere, so we just had him drop us off across the street where there was a few shopping centers for us to wait until we had a ride home.

We had been on and off the phone since we got dropped off at the shopping center, with my parents, my insurance, just with everyone. Once we got some time to just relax we had called his mom, while he had talked to her he began to cry. All those tears he tried to hold back, he couldn't anymore, he told his mom he doesn't want anything to happen to me, and how badly he never wants to lose me. It made me cry, seeing him cry is the last thing i wanted to see, knowing he wasn't okay breaks my heart. But all in all, he was okay. He was just so scared that something would happen to me and he would lose me forever. Then of course, the car accident had to happen on the day of our anniversary.