The Inscribed Incident
Prologue
As I stepped out of the eye doctor's office, I slipped on my winter coat. I had just gotten my eye exam and for the first time I got eye drops but in my eyes that dilated them. It burned at first, like, a lot. However, the burning only lasted a short amount of time. The optician told me that my eyes would be sensitive to light for a while due to the fact that my pupils wouldn't change sizes. Did this stop me from wanting to head over to the Gamestop across the street? No it did not.
The second I stepped outside I was instantly blinded from the sun and I squinted my eyes to see. Didn't help much. This still didn't deter me. I've always been a bit stubborn… well… maybe more than "a bit." You see, I could barely see at all. I was, and most humans are, use to my eye changing at the sudden increase of light, but because of the eye drops my pupil didn't change at all and thus I was eternally blinded no matter what I did… unless I waited for the drops to wear off, something that will happen in about 2-5 hours. Did I feel like wait around 2-5 hours just so I'd be able to cross the street for a video game? No, because what could possibly happen in the 10 seconds it would take me to cross the street?
As I made my way closer to the road, squinting all the way, I heard a group of kids playing nearby. They emitted screams, yells, shrieks, and other various forms of noises that I made while I was their age. From what I could tell they were throwing snow balls at each other and at one point it sounded like one of them shoved a good hand full of snow down the back of another's shirt. I chuckled at this, when I remembered about a time I did it to one of my best friends.
I got to the edge of the road looking at the video game store right across from me. I tried looking both ways before I crossed but I was, yet again, blinded by the sun. I was getting pretty irritated with not being able to see at this point and started walking across the road without trying to look either way any longer. I heard the sound of children's laughter get louder as I crossed the street, so I assumed that the children were on the other side of the road, playing. I got closer to the center of the road as I felt the asphalt covered with ice in that area. I started placing my feet more carefully making sure that I used the firm steps that I use when I walk on ice so as to make sure I don't fall on my back.
I started to get a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen to me and I started to get worried that I was going to get hit by a car. I was having regrets on coming out onto the road when I could barely see what was in front of me. I felt my head heat up and I started sweating, my breaths became desperate, and my pace started to speed up, making it harder for me to get good traction on the ice. I nearly fell on my face and back a couple of times due to my increased pace and when the bad thing finally did happen I felt like a fool for speeding up when I did.
I was hit in the face by a snow ball. Not only this, but due to my faster pace and how I was caught off guard by the snow ball I ended up slipping in the middle of road, right onto my back. I heard the children laughing at my expense and I couldn't help at laughing at myself a bit as well. I mean it was absolutely absurd at the possibility of me getting hit by a car. I was rather obvious after all in my black winter coat. I slowly got to my feet, making sure that I wouldn't fall again from the ice, and wiped the snow from my face. I took a careful step towards the other side of the road when I suddenly heard a screeching to my right. I turned my head to see the front of a car heading right toward me and because of the ice it was incapable of stopping. I raised my right arm in instinct to stop the car. It collided with my arm, my side, and continued to barrel into a nearby telephone poll. I was flung into the air, in the meantime, and came crashing down into the pavement with a heavy thud. I felt a massive pain in my right arm and hand, as well as a pain in my leg. I was about to try to stand up when the telephone poll fell down close by me. I felt a dull pain start in my foot and make its way up the length of my body, causing great turmoil in my mind. I couldn't make sense of anything. The world was a giant, messy blur in my mind, and finally I blacked out. In my pocket I felt my phone vibrate. It had just gotten a message.