"Go Faster, Zack!" Bailey called with a laugh from the backseat where she was sitting with her legs across Cody's lap. In the front seat, Maya was leaning across the centre to cling to her boyfriend. It was their last spring break as students of Seven Seas High and they were living it up to the fullest. Kurt had paid for the four of them to hire a car and drive down the west coast to Florida and fly back home in time for school to start. As the best driver out of the four, Zack was to do most of the driving and he was currently occupying the driver's seat, laughing at something Maya was whispering in his ear.
"Hold on!" The normally logical and calm Bailey and Cody laughed and did as told as Zack pressed down harder on the accelerator. The excitement of Spring Break had taken over and the only thing that was in their head was the sound of laughter.
The car they had hired was a convertible and since the weather was so nice, they had the top down and the girls had their arms up, waving them around in the breeze. A while ago, Maya had turned up the radio, pop music blasting from the speakers. Behind them trails of laughter and music floated in the air. It was like a scene from a movie.
"Hey Maya, turn it up!" Cody called hearing his favourite song come on and Maya briefly let go of her boyfriend to do as asked. They began to sing along at the tops of their voices, interspersing it with laughter, being the carefree teens they were.
They sped down the highway, leaving the ship and the rest of their friends far behind them, heading to a week of fun and laughter. Not one of them had a care in the world and so they didn't have a reason to believe anything would happen when a truck coming from the opposite direction began to glide slowly over into their lane. Feeling daring, Zack decided to play chicken, pressing down harder on the accelerator as Maya closed the roof, not wanting to smell the diesel from the truck as they went past, urged on by the other three laughing and cheering. Taking his eyes off the road for a second to grin at his girlfriend never should have been such a life changing event but that was all it took for him to not realise that the truck wasn't moving away and they were too close, going to fast to avoid a collision.
Three separate phone calls were made that night from the brightly lit scene. It seemed a hundred floodlights were directed towards the small convertible that was partly buried underneath the huge truck. Inside the truck, a paramedic was still attempting to calm down the driver who had apparently fallen asleep and only woken when he felt the impact of the car hit the truck. Four ambulances sat waiting to scream off with the teens from the convertible once they were freed from the wreck. From the outside it already seemed bad for the trapped teens. The car was completely totalled, the roof caving in and glass from all the windows scattered everywhere. There was no sound from inside at all and paramedics feared the worst.