No one knows what happens when you die, if they say they do they're misguided or trying to sell you something…
It was the day of the playoffs, Riley's team had won by one point with her scoring the winning shot, the team all went to get pizza after the game but there wasn't enough room in the minivan so riley had to get a ride from her dad. On the way to the pizza place downtown it started raining heavily making the road almost impossible to drive on, Riley was up front in the passenger seat and when her dad crossed an intersection she was blinded by the headlights of some drunk driver that thought he could skip the light… then realising he couldn't, failed to stop on the wet tarmac..
Riley was killed almost instantly, blood force trauma to the brain, with relatively little time to suffer the fatal injuries she wasn't around to see the aftermath, the 6 car pile-up or the blazing sirens, the fire crews and the paramedics, her father only suffered minor injuries, a concussion and some scrapes and bruises, he was momentarily knocked unconscious from the impact but awoke with a start in the darkness of thick smoke to find his little girl, whose life was just beginning, not waking… not breathing… not living… a single tear crept down his cheek as he watched his daughter die. Meanwhile her mind was in a blind chaos, all non-essential personnel fizzled out of existence almost instantaneously while the 5 emotions, joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust remained in headquarters while Riley's mind crumbled to pieces around them, the control panel had gone dark and her senses had stopped transmitting to the control center, the emotions were plunged into darkness, all of the islands fell to pieces one by one and the memories faded away, what were once orbs of vivid colour that stacked the halls of deep storage as far as the eye can see was now a dark dimming abyss, the headquarters was the only building left and the emotions started to panic as it began to break down before them.
Riley's mother was starting to worry about when they were going to arrive,
"They must have hit traffic?" she wondered quietly as she leant on her car out in the parking lot
"Rains getting pretty bad I hope they're ok" another one of the mums walk up
"You ok Jill? Where's riley all the other kids are going in?" she asks
"I don't know maybe they hit traffic, I am getting a little worried though Karen do you think somethings happened?"
"I'm sure they're fi-"she was cut off by Jill's mobile ringing
"Hello… accident? What accident?... what do you mean hospital? Yeah ok bye." After a long a pause "Sorry Karen I have to go to the hospital"
"Everything ok Jill you look like you've seen a ghost" Karen looked at her surprised
"I'm fine bu… I really gotta go sorry they said there's been an accident and Riley's in hospital" she said as she shoved her phone into her bag and grabbed her keys with shaking hands. She started the car and screeched away towards San Francisco general.