|
She slammed her foot on the brakes and squealed to a stop. What had just happened? She glanced over her shoulder at the spot where the small wall that ran along the side of the road had a huge hole in it, she stared at the tyre marks that ran to the edge of the Canyon and then vanished. "Oh shit!" she said. She turned back and stared at the empty stretch of road that ran ahead of her. What now? Her mind raced, practically laying out her entire future, police, court, prison. She shuddered then taking a deep breath she cautiously opened her door and stepped out. "Calm down Sandy," she told herself, "Panic and your as good as dead." She walked slowly back to the broken wall and nervously peered over the edge. The canyon was deep and the jeep was gone from view but a long trail of wreckage left a path to it's location. "Oh shit!" she said again, this time her voice trembled as she spoke. "Hello?" she called, her voice echoing below her, she glance to her left and right but she was still alone, "Are you alright?" she called quieter now. Nothing. No sound but the echo of her own voice. [I'm a murderer] she though then told herself off for doing it. "It was an accident," she said as she walked back to her car and reached into the back grabbing her phone, "It wasn't my fault.....entirely, I mean they obviously shouldn't have been driving at all," she made her way back to the wall, "I can't be held responsible, it was driver error or whatever they call it," she punched numbers into her phone, "Honestly, it wasn't my fault." A voice asked her what the emergency was. "There's been an accident," she told the female voice, "A car went over the edge of Partridge Canyon," The voice asked her for her name. "Karen Gibson," she said, so the bosses wife got a phone call from the police, so what? Stupid bitch never liked her anyway. "Look it's gone right into the canyon, a green jeep, one occupant, come and find it and do whatever it is you guys do you can't miss the spot it's the bit with the big hole in the wall!" She hung up and once again peered over the edge. She didn't like the drivers chances. "Sorry" she said then walked to where her car was waiting and sat on the wall, she put the phone down beside her and rested her head in her hands. She sat that way for several minutes, before she realised if she stayed any longer she'd still be there when the ambulances arrived. She stood up and jumped into her car, slamming her foot on the gas, then easing slightly when she reminded herself that that was how she got into this in the first place, but still she drove as quickly as she could away from Partridge Canyon and towards the safety of her house. When she finally pulled into her driveway she realised she was shaking all over, she left her box in the car and hurried into the house slamming the door behind her and falling back against it. She was breathing heavily now and she had to slide down the door to the floor before her legs gave way beneath her and did it for her. She thought she was going to pass out, for a second she was certain of it, but she closed her eyes and took several deep breaths and eventually the feeling passed and she pulled herself to her feet. "What's done is done," she said as she made her way up to her bedroom, "There's nothing I could do now even if I wanted to," she walked into her bedroom and threw her coat onto the bed then lay down beside it, "No point in ruining two peoples lives is there," she yawned as she stared up at the white ceiling of her bedroom, tiredness had swept over her like a tsunami and she was at it's command and it was telling her to sleep. Reluctantly she closed her eyes and then everything went black.
|