Ren Stevens emerged through the front door of her high school, her eyes scanning the student parking lot for her brother, Louis and her prized possesion; her car. Ren caught sight of him, sitting on the hood of her car, his girlfriend, Tawny and best friend Twitty standing in front of him, laughing as he appeared to tell them some sort of joke. Ren rushed over to where her car was parked, her temper rising. She reached her car, biting her lip to prevent bursting out in front of the whole school at Louis. Louis looked up, laughing as Twitty sprayed silly string all over him. He saw Ren approach her car, and before she could even say a word he shouted out to her happily.
"Hey Ren, what's up?" Louis smiled, taking Ren's hand in his, giving her a sloppy handshake.
"Louis! Off the hood of my car, now!" Ren yelled, hauling Louis roughly off of the hood. She carefully inspected the paint, checking for any scratches or dents.
"Ah come on Ren, I was just sitting on it." Louis said as he ran his hand over the hood.
"Don't touch it!" Ren exclaimed, slapping his hand away.
"It costs an arm and a leg to get the paint re-done." she added.
"It's fine Ren, now keys." Louis replied, holding his hand out.
"Here, but remember, you do anything to inflict any sort of damage to this car and you will wish for the rest of your life that you never won that bet." Ren warned, roughly placing her car keys in his outstretched hand. Ren regretted it the moment she woke up that morning that she had made the bet with Louis. Louis had bet her the night before that if he was able to convince their mother to pick up take out on the way home, something she rarely did, and eat some, then she would have to allow him to drive her car home after school. Reluctantly she got into the back seat next to Tawny, who over the past two years, had surprisingly enough became one of her best friends. Ren kept her focus on the scenery passing by and not on Louis' bad driving. Why had she done something so stupid as to agree to this bet? Louis had just finally got his lisence two weeks ago and was hardly experienced enough in her opinion. To top it all off, he had decided to take the long way home, along the cliff that was next to the ocean. She always felt nervous going around the sharp bend, not because of the height but because of the large, sharpe, and jagged rocks at the bottom of that cliff. Her attention was drawn away from the window as she came to realize that Louis was driving way above the speed limit, and a very steep curve was just ahead.
"Hey Louis slow down a bit, the speed limit is only 50 and your pushing 120." Ren warned, a bad feeling washing over her.
"Oh come on Ren, can't you take the speed?" Louis asked with a laugh as he slightly increased his speed.
"Ren's right Louis, slow down." Tawny said seriously as she tightened her grip on the seat.
"No you too Tawny. This is nothing eh Twitty?" Louis asked with a wicked smile. The bend was getting closer and closer.
"Louis pull over, I'm driving the rest of the way home!" Ren exclaimed, leaning forward in her seat. They were approaching the bend at a deadly speed. Suddenly out from the other side of the bend came a large van. Ren's eyes grew wide as she realized that there was no way that Louis was going to be able to avoid colliding with it.
"Louis!!!!!" Ren and Tawny screamed as they felt the car get struck on their end by the van and sent flying off of the cliff. Ren felt sick as she saw images fly past her as she felt the car roll several times in the air before coming down on the rocks. The sound of crunching metal and screams was deafening as Ren felt the space were she had been sitting closing in. She opened her eyes but all she could she was twisted metal and sparks. She turned her head to her right, pain coursing through her whole body as she did so, but to her satisfaction saw Tawny who was still consious. Ren tried to look around some more but the pain in her neck was excruciating, however from the position she already had her neck in she could frightenly enough see her legs sticking out up near her face. This scared her more than anything else, she was never that flexible before.
"Tawny." She choaked out, the smoke from the car burning her throat and eyes. Tawny looked over to her and somehow managed to reach her hand over to her.
"Ren, are you okay?" she asked, blood dripping from her head. It took Ren several seconds to register what Tawny had just asked her, her head was buzzing and her whole body was throbbing. Her vision was blurring and she could feel the burning sensation of little shards of metal digging into her skin.
"Yeah, I'm alright....." Ren muttered, her mouth filling with blood. She felt like she was drunk, the words in her mind were mixed and made no sense. She closed her eyes and was enveloped into a world of darkness, but before she lost total consiousness, she could hear Tawny scream her name and the sound of sirens off in the distance.
