It wasn’t romantic, and it wasn’t anything I ever should have thought of again. We were both scared kids, and he was stuck under a truck, and my brain wasn’t working the way it should, so we held hands. I should have been looking for my sister, or my mom, or for help. I shouldn’t have been holding hands with some stupid boy who had never spoken a word to me before. The blood on his lip and chin was drying, and the blood from my head was dripping into my eyes. It stung, and I would rather focus on that rather than the excruciating pain coming from my head and wrist, so I squeezed my eyes shut as tight as I could. I heard another car drive up. I was still holding hands with him, and I didn’t want to let go. I couldn’t let go. My eyes were still squinted shut, and his hand was getting colder and colder. It was still soft and boney, but it was getting colder. I didn’t want to open my eyes because I knew he was dead. I was so sure he was dead, that I couldn’t even open my eyes to see if the car was here to help. The person in it got out of their car, but they didn’t come close to us. All I heard was the car door shut. I still couldn’t open my
It wasn’t romantic, and it wasn’t anything I ever should have thought of again. We were both scared kids, and he was stuck under a truck, and my brain wasn’t working the way it should, so we held hands. I should have been looking for my sister, or my mom, or for help. I shouldn’t have been holding hands with some stupid boy who had never spoken a word to me before. The blood on his lip and chin was drying, and the blood from my head was dripping into my eyes. It stung, and I would rather focus on that rather than the excruciating pain coming from my head and wrist, so I squeezed my eyes shut as tight as I could. I heard another car drive up. I was still holding hands with him, and I didn’t want to let go. I couldn’t let go. My eyes were still squinted shut, and his hand was getting colder and colder. It was still soft and boney, but it was getting colder. I didn’t want to open my eyes because I knew he was dead. I was so sure he was dead, that I couldn’t even open my eyes to see if the car was here to help. The person in it got out of their car, but they didn’t come close to us. All I heard was the car door shut. I still couldn’t open my