Out of the Blue

Flash Fiction


Out of the blue, my life was over. I died in a car, on a May night. I died in an accident when the car driven by my sister’s boyfriend went and crashed into a tree. My sister’s boyfriend was drunk. My sister was in the same car, but she survived, because she was sitting in the back, while I was sitting in the front- the right side, that when it hit the tree, crumpled like paper trash blown in the wind. My sister was drunk too- too intoxicated to drive, but not sober enough to realize her boyfriend was also too intoxicated to drive. She told me, her twin sister, to get in the front, because she was afraid of vomiting over the front of the car, where it would be harder to clean up than the back. We were coming back from a party, just two 18 year olds. I was also not exactly sober that night, but not as far gone as my sister and her boyfriend.

Out of the blue, my sister’s life was over. Yes, she lived, but because of my unexpected death, she faced many questions. Her boyfriend lived, and was held more responsible than she, because he had been the one driving, although she had let him, and not been sober herself. He went to prison for awhile. He and my sister broke up. My sister missed me, and lamented the errors that had led to my unexpected death. I watched, saddened, but I did not blame her. She also missed her boyfriend, but her family threatened to disown her if she did not break up with him, because they held him responsible for my death, even though really, it had only been a tragic mistake. She forgave him, and blamed herself.

Out of the blue, years later, my sister sees her ex-boyfriend walking down the street. She has not seen him since the night of the accident. She still loves him, and isn’t currently with anyone else. He feels the same. Unexpectedly, their paths come together again..or do they? Up in the blue, watching over my sister, I hope they find together, redemption on earth. To show them that I wish that, I draw my sister’s eye just then to the blue flower on a weed growing from the pavement. From weeds can come beauty.