Max's POV
We just graduated! Fang and I are now on our way to the beach for a graduation party. We've been dating since June of 7th grade, that's a long time (I mean sure we had fights and broken up, but we don't count them since it was never longer than three hours). We met at the beach, actually almost 6 years ago, and have always loved it there. There is this rock that makes a small cave big enough for us to put a blanket down and take a nap, until high tide that is. I love it there, it's where we met and where he asked me out.
Flashback
I was at the beach with my mom, Valencia Martinez, dad, Jeb Martinez, and sister, Ella. Ella and I were making a sandcastle when some pale, freckled kid falls on it. "Oh my god! I'm so so so so sorry! I didn't mean to I swear!" he said. Ella started crying because we had been working on it for almost three hours.
"Are you blind or something?" I yelled at him, "Look what you did!" pointing at Ella, but when the boy started crying I stared at him confused. "Why are you crying? It's not like you worked on this for three hours! No wait, that would be us!"
My parents were walking over, along with some lady who I assumed was Mr. Dream-Crusher's mom, since they looked alike. "Maximum Martinez! What are you doing?" My mom yelled at me.
"He wasn't looking where he was going and he fell into our sandcastle!" I defended myself. At this the boys mom picked him up and brushed him off, while whispering very softly to him.
"Sweetie," his mom started, "he didn't mean to do it, he didn't actually see your sandcastle."
At this I shout, "HOW NOT? It was huge!" Gosh, was she that stupid?
"Darling, he is blind, so no matter how big your sandcastle is, he couldn't see it."
With that I felt like a bully, and walked over to him and gave him a big hug, but only for about two seconds before saying, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have assumed."
When I look over his shoulder I see four other kids, two are small, like eight-years-old maybe, both blond with blue eyes, one is a girl, the other a boy. Next to them is a girl, who is mocha colored, she's about eleven-years-old, with beautiful light brown eyes, similar to hot chocolate with milk added in. The last person I see is, wow, he has black hair, wearing black trunks, olive-toned skin, and his eyes look like black holes, but not scary, more like beauty that would keep you looking at it for hours.
The kids mom sees me looking and calls them over. "We are new to the area so you don't know them. This is Iggy," she pointed to the sand-destroyer, "this is Fang, he was adopted," pointing at Mr. Eyes as I will call him, "this is Nudge, she was also adopted," pointing at the hot chocolate eyed girl, "last but not least, Gazzy, and Angel, they are twins," she concluded pointing at the last two kids.
"Where is their dad?" I asked since no one mentioned him.
"He's a Marine, specifically a Lieutenant General." She says this with a lot of pride.
"Really? How long has he been a Marine?" I was so curious, I've been thinking about joining the military for about a year. My school had a veteran come in and speak and since then I've been hooked.
"He's been a Marine since he was 18, he's been in the military for almost twenty years." Again there is so much pride in the air that you might just be able to cut it into tiny pieces, bottle it, and sell it.
The rest of the day was spent with Iggy, Fang, and me hanging out, while Nudge and Ella talked about boys, the twins played in the sand, and our parents chatted away until about 8 p.m.
End Flashback
We just graduated, and we are going to the same college. Not purposely though, Fang and I had a game, we weren't allowed to talk about, or know what colleges the other applied for, and then after we both got our letters, we would say it at the same time. We both got accepted into LU! My dorm assignments are getting sent in about a month, I'm so excited! I hate school, but with Fang there, it will make it better.
I fell asleep, since it was about an hour drive there and I was super tired, since I stayed up all night so wracked with nerves, I was beat.
"MAX!" I wake up instantly, only to see a terrified Fang, bright headlights only feet away, then… Nothing.
Time Reverse (Fang's POV before the accident)
Graduation was amazing! I am finally out of there! We are headed to a graduation party being thrown by some of my friends, at the beach Max and I met at. Speaking of Max, when I look over, she's passed out. She is so beautiful.
I continued driving, and we were about ten minutes away when I see a semi on the opposite side of the road, it looks unstable. A few seconds later it veers into my lane, head on, I try to avoid it, but there is a car full of fellow graduates who were following us here right beside us. I realize unless I want to hurt more people, there was only one option, slamming on the breaks, I shout "MAX!" I woke her up, but before I got to say 'I love you' for the first time, I felt the jerk of the belt, followed by crunching metal. The radio is playing still, the song is "Airbag" by Radiohead.
