Carley’s Almost Last Thought
“Tell me what happened, Carley,” Stephen said, his eyes staring into hers sympathetically.“It was like my life flashed before me,” Carley said softly.
Her mind was like a puzzle. All the pieces were scattered about, and she was having some difficulty putting them together.
“Did you think you were going to end up hitting her?” Stephen asked as he touched her arm gently.
Carley’s mind flashed back to what happened only an hour before. She was driving home from campus and a woman in a red Jeep pulled out right in front of her. Carley pushed down on her horn and swerved as quickly as she could while slamming on her brakes. The car squeaked and smoke came out from her tires. Carley could smell the burning rubber scent right away. But she didn’t hit the Jeep. She was perfectly fine. It was a miracle.
“What went through your head, Carley?” Stephen asked as his friend tried to organize her thoughts.
He then snorted out a small chuckle.
“I bet you thought about your final exams, huh? That would be like you. You’re about to die, and you still worry about your grades.”
“No,” Carley said. “My finals didn’t cross my mind.”
“Okay, what about how much you hate your job?”
Carley stared at the ground and choked out a small chuckle herself.
“No, Stephen, I didn’t think about how much I hate my job.”
“What about your novels?” Stephen asked. “I bet you were worried that if you died they would never get published.”
“That never hit me.”
“Hhhhmmm … did you think about how if you died you would never officially graduate from college?”
Carley shook her head in a “no” response and looked up at Stephen.
“You know, I could have thought about my grades,” she said. “I also could have thought about my final exams and graduation and how much I hate my job. But I didn’t…”
Stephen looked at Carley curiously, and she sighed as she recalled her exact thought right before she thought she was going to plow into the red Jeep.
Carley bit her bottom lip in apprehension.
“Stephen,” she said. “The thing that crossed my mind was you.”
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