[center][h2]  [color=00a651]The Drunk Driver[/color]  P1 [/h2][/center]

Haley heard voices and noises all around her but her eyes were too heavy to open. Within seconds she was gone again. Fire and rescue handed her off to the medics as soon as she was free and they loaded her into the ambulance quickly. She felt herself slipping in and out of consciousness several times on the way to the hospital. The voices kept shouting things but her mind was too foggy to make them out.

The surgeons rolled her into the OR and she barely remembered a bunch of people with medical masks over their faces. The mask over her own face made darkness overtake her quickly. Several hours later still feeling as if her eyelids each weighed a thousand pounds she fluttered them open. Her mind still felt muddled but the thought ...MOM!... kept flashing in her mind. There was a nurse in the room by her bed marking something on her chart. 

Haley opened her mouth to speak and realized that something was in her throat. She started choking and the nurse undid the tubing and took it out so she could speak. [color=f49ac2]"Well hello there Haley. It looks like you made it out of surgery well enough and without complications."[/color]

FIRE! her throat was raw. Probably from the tube she thought. Her eyes watered as the pain across her chest and hip set in. She forced her voice to speak even thought it hurt like hell. [color=ed145b]"What happened?"[/color]

The nurse handed her a cup of water. [color=f49ac2]"All I know is that you were in a car accident. You were hit head on by a drunk driver."[/color]

Flashes started zipping through her brain. She remembered the car coming across the divider at them. In an instant her body had been jerked hard against the seat belt, the airbag had gone off and hit her in the face but her head had hit the door window. She vaguely remembered seeing her mother's body lying partway in the car on top of the steering wheel. One of her shoes was on the driver's seat and she had seen her mother's face. Eyes open but vacant and her neck was tilted at an angle that could not sustain life. As these memories and more appeared she was handed a box of tissue by the nurse. The nurse was sympathetic as she stayed with her for several moments before leaving to check on the next patient in recovery. 

Haley cried until her meds made her drift sniffling back to sleep.