by Carole Haynes

Created on: August 11, 2010

Looking around, i don't know where i am, and i feel a little light headed. The car isn't moving, but the engine is running; I had to reach over and turn off the ignition. I remember the party, and being told i shouldn't drive myself home, but "I didn't drink that much " i had said. What time is it i thought to myself, my watch wasn't on my wrist, and i didn't know where it was. Happily my cell phone battery hadn't died out. It's 8 a.m. I have to call my friend, i was supposed to be home around 1 a.m. she must be worried.  The phone rings but no one picks up. "Damn" i said. I sit back in the seat, looking around i see only grass, the road, about a few feet away. On getting out of the car my legs hurt, but i can still stand. I rest on the car a little, then i notice the front left-side light had been busted; I move around to the back of the car; "Oh my god." I said to myself. There's a trail of blood and it leads from the street. My head starts to hurt, I couldn't have had an accident, i just couldn't I thought. I walk towards the street,and stood there waiting for some kind of traffic, there wasn't any for fifteen long minutes. I realised then that I'm on one of those lonely stretch of road that leads out of Providence, I must have gotten lost.  I have to call someone; my head hurts. I dial 911 on my cell phone.

Waking up i try to speak but could only whisper "where am I" some one put a straw in my mouth and told me to drink. " You're at Providence memorial" he said. "Don't worry everything is going to be fine, the police just need to take a statement from you when you're more alert. "  The police oh no, the police, those words  were spinning in my head. "Did i hit someone?"  what he asked "Did i hit someone?" i said again. "If you're up to it, there's a Detective Stewart outside."  I nodded my head  The detective came into the room; "Ms Henry you're a very lucky young lady," he said. " We found you through your cell phone locator, five miles outside of Providence, 'what were you doing so far out?"  "I must have gotten lost" i said  "Did i hit someone?"

 "Not anything human, just roadkill."  Roadkill i asked, "Ms Henry you ran over a deer." Although sad about the deer, I was so relieved it wasn't a person. After the detective left, I went over in my mind, everything that happened that night up to now, was i drunk and didn't know it? I could have killed somebody, even a child. "God I'll never drive drunk again, ever.' 

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