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A bright red car came on them. 40 metres to before impact.
Sho's hand slid from her mouth as he gaped at the red bolt hurtling towards them. He wasn't doing anything but staring. Could he be anymore useless than that?
She pushed him away from the driver's seat and took his place. She tried to get the car started but stupid Shotaro had taken the key out of the ignition.
35 metres to impact.
"Open the door and get out of the car, Sho! If you don't get out, I can't get out and we're both going to die! The lock is jammed on this side!" Those words woke Sho up. I'm too young to die! Too handsome and too young! Kyoko yelled at him, slapping his face.
30 metres to impact.
He fumbled with the lock and scrambled out of the car, heedless to the girl trying to scramble out behind him. Kyoko tried to follow but her blouse got caught on something.
25 metres to impact.
"Sho, help me! I'm stuck! I can't get out!" Sho continued to dash for safety. I swear I will get extra revenge on you for this! This just shows how little you love me! Selfish brat, Ren would have got me out first then run! Kyoko thought furiously. She stalled for awhile, realizing that she had just thought about Ren, then snapped back to the situation in a split second. "SHOTARO YOU IMBECILE HELP ME, DAMN YOU, I'M STUCK!" Finally, Sho spun around and ran back. He reached his hand out to pull her out.
15 metres to impact.
"Sho, I can't move my leg either! It's caught in the seat belt!" Sho uselessly tried to free her.
10 metres to impact.
She started to panic. He started to panic. They both broke out in cold sweat.
8 metres to impact.
"Kyoko! Stop moving! I'm trying to get your blouse loose! It's almost loose!" Sho fumbled desperately with the seat belt.
5 metres to impact.
"It's done! You're free!" Sho, being the idiot that he was, forgot about her leg that was stuck and spun around to run again.
4 metres to impact.
"Sho! My leg's still stuck!" Sho completed the turn, making a 360 degree turn and yanked her leg out of the seat belt.
3 metres to impact.
"Yes! It's out!" Sho yelled. He grasped her hand to pull her out of the car.
2 metres to impact.
Sho pulled hard. And Kyoko slipped out of his sweaty-palmed grasp, as he landed on the sidewalk.
1 meter before impact.
"KYOKO!"
"SHO!"
Impact.
Kyoko was falling, falling, falling…
Through a dark tunnel filled with sparkly lights…
The world had exploded into thousands of millions of sparkly colors. Kyoko reached out to touch one but she felt nothing.
"So pretty…Those colors are so sparkly…so pretty…Am I in Fairyland? Must…find…Corn…his wings…should be…fully grown…" Kyoko whispered. She heard a voice, a rough, unfamiliar voice.
"Victim is conscious, but delusional!"
She heard the siren of an ambulance.
She blurrily saw Sho's worried face.
"Kyoko! I'm so sorry! Don't die on me…Please…Don't die." Tears were streaming down his face and his voice was cracking. Why was there blood on Sho's face? He covered his face in his hands. They were bloody too…Sho seemed fine…Why was there so much blood…? So much blood…
"Don't…curse…me…" she hissed.
Then she lost sight of everything, and fell through the sparkly tunnel faster and faster, until the colours began to fade…and fade…
Then the sparkly colors disappeared altogether and everything went black as she lost consciousness.
"Kyoko! Kyoko, please don't die…Please, Kyoko…" Sho was pleading. It was the first time that any of the paramedics in the ambulance had seen Japan's newest and currently, top singer, so desperate.
Regretfully, Kyoko had lost consciousness before she could see and hear Sho reduced to this state.
