| Kara took a breath and stepped outside. Just as she closed the door, the sky started to clear up. She would've sat down, but the step was dripping wet so she just stood, in awe, at the brightness of the stars that night. A calm, peaceful feeling set in her and she walked to her car. Kara let the top down to her covertible and inhaled the fresh air that had been washed through with the downpour of the earlier rain. It had been awhile since she really noticed and paid attention to the wide road and its surroundings that she drove down everyday. It was gorgeous, strange to say, as highways go: the bright streetlights that were posted every thirty feet -more or less-, the swaying palm trees that were planted in between each of them, and the almost blinding reflectors that seperated the lanes. Although Kara was taking her time noticing everything around her, she didn't notice the blinking sign that was warning her of the slippery roads ahead. Things were a blur from that point. All that was remembered was the crashing of the waves about a mile to the left of her car and then the slowing headlights of the car that appeared from nowhere. Kara woke up and looked to her left where she saw something that scared her to death. She was sitting in the passenger seat of her car staring at herself. She, herself, that was up against the airbag and bleeding. She hopped out of the car and walked over to the body, which was Kara, to wake herself up. Kara went to put her hand on the body's face, but it just glided through. She looked dodwn at her hands that semmed almost see through. "Oh my God," Kara said under her breath, "Am I dead?" "Not exactly," A voice said from behind her. Kara spun around and her eyes grew wide. "Justin?" "In the flesh," he replied. Then looked down at himself and laughed. "Well, not really." Kara walked up to him. "Can I hug you?" She shook her head. -That sounded incredibly stupid- she thought. Justin held his arms out and Kara fell into them. She turned and looked at her body that was still in the car but now being also watched by the driver of the car she rear-ended. He was frantically talking on his cell phone. "What do you mean that I'm 'not exactly' dead?" Kara asked not facing Justin. She couldn't stand it. He didn't seem like the old 'Justin' that he used to be. Or maybe it might just have been that she wasn't the old 'Kara' that she use to be. But as Justin hesitated to answer her question, Kara decided that although they might not be the same people they were a year ago, she loved him more than ever now that they were together again. Just like the song- she thought. -This is what the song is about- Kara smiled and turned towards Justin who was smiling his old goofy smile. Chapter 8 |