Chapter 6: Friday Night

Nessie's POV

The week went by quickly and soon it was Friday. Friday night and I had nothing to do of course. I never did. I was perfectly okay with that to be honest.

My idea of a Friday night was ordering pizza and watching movies. Mom and her boyfriend usually went out on date night on Fridays and EJ was always at one party or another doing god only knows what.

Sometimes I'll go out to the bookstore but that's it. One time I went to the movies by myself on a Friday night and I encountered my bullies there. Let's just say I had to endure weeks of teasing and taunting for that.

So instead I chose to remain home. I was watching TV when I got a phone call from my aunt Shirley.

"Hello?"

"Nessie can you please do me a huge favor?"

"Sure what do you need?" I asked her.

"I have to go out of town for the next two weeks on business. I need someone to watch Winston for me. Can you do that for me?"

Winston was her Beagle. I had watched him a few times before already and I loved it.

"Sure. When do you want me to go get him?"

"I leave tomorrow morning so if you can come get him tonight that would be great" she said.

"Okay I'm on my way now" I said

"Thank you Nessie" she said just before hanging up.

I grabbed my coat and my keys and I left the house. When I was in my car I cranked up the heater because it was freezing.

Twenty minutes later I was at my aunt's house getting the dog and all of the stuff that I would need.

Just as I was about to drive again I got a phone call. I was even more shocked when I saw that it was my brother calling.

"EJ what's wrong?" I asked him in a worried voice. He never called me.

"Nothing" he said harshly. "Can you just come pick me up, please? I want to go home but I don't think I should drive"

That was very unusual for my brother to call me and ask me to do anything for him. He usually just stayed over there the whole night drinking the entire time.

"Yeah, sure" I said. "Just give me the address and I'll go" I said.

"I'll text it to you"

As soon as he texted it to me I punched it in my phone. Turns out the destination was less then ten minutes away.

As soon as I got there I called my brother but he didn't answer. I tried again and got the same result. So instead I had to get out of the car and go search for him.

I had to push and shove my way through several people. I was purposely tripped and laughed at a few times as well. This was a danger zone for me considering that all of my bullies and tormentors were here.

After about 10 minutes I finally found my brother. It was obvious that he had been drinking but not enough to get completely drunk.

He didn't say a single word until we had gotten to the car.

"Why do you have a dog in the car?" he asked me.

"Because I was asked to watch him for the next two weeks" I said.

"Oh" he said.

"Can you please tell me why you wanted me to come get you?" I asked him.

"Will you just shut the hell up and drive!" he yelled.

I sighed and started the engine. My brother really didn't care for me at all anymore. I had already known that so it shouldn't bother me so much when he treats me that way. Yet, it still did. I didn't get it.

I did the best I could to shake my emotions and drive.

I was on the freeway traveling at about 70 miles an hour when I first realized that something was wrong. I could see red lights up ahead. Meaning someone had stopped for whatever reason. When I hit the brakes though nothing happened. The brakes were not responding at all.

It all happened really fast. I crashed into the car in front of me, the person behind me then crashed into me. I was thrown against the car dashboard. The last thing Ifelt was pain and then I felt nothing anymore.

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