i got in a car accident last night
It was the single most frightening moment of my life, I was driving home from a figure drawing class when my brakes stopped working, and I completely lost control of my car until it slammed into a telephone pole and stopped. I was alright, and thankfully hadn’t done too much damage, but was sobbing and frantically searching for my phone to call the person who lived the closest to where I was.
I bet you can’t guess who was there two minutes later, wearing a t-shirt and slippers in the rain at 11:00 at night, hugging me, making sure everything was ok, and holding my hand the entire time. he waited with me for two hours, while the police, fire department, and tow trucks came, even though he had been writing a 15 page paper, and gave me a ride home, and would hear none of my apologies, being positive and supportive and wonderful throughout everything, even though he had every reason to be just as upset as I was, because he had just found out that morning that someone he knew had died in a car crash.
I didn’t get home until almost 1 am, and somehow made it through school, a stats test, and a french presentation with the worst headache I’ve had in a long time. I got home to discover that my mom had taken care of my car, and that she and my dad had decided to split the cost so I wouldn’t have to worry about working extra hours or picking up another job (a small miracle in itself, because they almost never even speak with each other).
In a strange way, I feel like the luckiest person in the world right now.
