Cobalt
2010-06-10, 04:47 PM
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This couldn’t have ended much worse than it did.
I’ll recap the events that transpired over the course of the last few hours:
It was a going away party for a friend of ours from school (we’ll call her Sarah, for the sake of privacy) at a local pool. Friend and I arrived at about noon, maybe twelve thirty or so, and Sarah herself showed up with a few more people at maybe one o’ clock. We spent the day till about 3:00 messing around and having fun, till one guy, we’ll call him Max, decided that we’d be having even more fun with… I don’t know, like, tubes or something for the pool. It was something stupid, I know that much. I’m thinking he was just trying to get some time with Sarah away from everyone else; they seem to have a thing for each other, which the rest of us make fun of them constantly for.
Anyway, Max took Sarah to head to a store somewhere nearby to buy a few of these things and we don’t hear from them till maybe 3:30-40. Apparently, they got in a car accident. Max was driving, so we all assumed the worst (he drives waytoo fast, trying to make turns at 45 mph), but when we asked him (his cell phone didn’t break in the wreck) he said that the other car hit him. He doesn’t lie, so that’s probably what happened. But I’m suspecting that he was hit mostly because he was showing off to her or something, zooming through an intersection, but I don’t know for sure, though; we didn’t see any accident’s on the ride home.
Well, after hearing that they were in an accident, the rest of the group, save for me and two others, decided to head off to help them. I mean, all of us wanted to go, but they were a bunch of idiots and decided to leave all their stuff at the pool, said someone needed to stay and watch it, picked the three of us, and left without giving us a chance to say anything. Now, let me explain why this is a major problem: The pool is for locals and their friends only. They sell keys to the three foot high gate to residents of the apartments nearby. I live nowhere near there, but I count as a friend of a resident, and can stay so long someone has a key and can vouch for me. There are no guards or a pay booth, by the way- if you have a key you can just walk in, or if you feel like trespassing you can hop the fence and jump in. Now, the rest of the group left and had all their things with us at the pool. The entire group, them, Sarah/Max, and us three that stayed behind, were all using one key to get in and out. This was a mistake. The group that left after the car accident took the only key. You need the key not only to get in; but to get out as well. The only way, the only way, for us to leave was to hop the fence. Which is very heavily frowned upon here, even if it’s just to leave the place; how do they know if you didn’t just hop the fence to get in and that’s the reason you hopped it to get back out? Anyway; With about three bags worth of towels, phones, etc. we sat there for about 15 minutes before we realized that they could be gone for hours, and we had no way of leaving. And of course, some chick was eyeing us like we were planning a robbery from across the pool the second most of the group left. During the 15 minutes, we called the group that left a few times and ended up with the following knowledge of the situation:
One- We don’t know anything about the other driver involved in the accident.
Two- We don’t know if everybody is alright.
Three- Sarah has no memory of the situation, and was taken off in an ambulance.
She has amnesia. That tripled the horror factor. This could ruin everything that she had planned; we don’t know if it was a mild concussion, shock, or if she actually lost brain cells. She was planning on going to study in Japan for a year. This could potentially stop that from happening. Despite having nothing to do with it, I’ve never felt worse my entire life.
Well, about ten minutes after we received this information, along with a few other facts about life, we decided that we couldn’t stay; we stuffed everything into the bags people brought with them, tossed them over a fence, prayed that nobody saw us and called the police thinking we were trespassing, and walked to our friend’s apartment nearby. Nobody stopped us, but it was a frantic walk over there, let me tell you. After about another half hour, one of the friends (who is my neighbor and is how I ended up going to the party) managed to get their mother to drive down to the third friend’s apartment, pick us up and drive the two of us home. The third friend’s dad, whom he called while we were waiting at his house, didn’t seem very happy that his son had jumped the fence at the local pool. We left before he got there.
To sum up, I went to a party, the hostess Sarah leaves with almost-boyfriend Max and gets in an accident, ends up with what we’ve been told so far is freaking amnesia of an unknown degree. I hopped a fence to get to a friend’s home and awaited pick up without knowing if Sarah is even alright, and effectively left that friend’s house with an angry father coming to yell at him for… Basically nothing. Add to that that a few electronic devices broke at said party from exposure to water, my iPod among them; this was a really bad day. And it started out so great...
I don’t even know if she’s conscious right now. And I have absolutely no idea what’s happening right now to the driver (Max), or even the other people who went to check on them. It sucks.
This couldn’t have ended much worse than it did.
I’ll recap the events that transpired over the course of the last few hours:
It was a going away party for a friend of ours from school (we’ll call her Sarah, for the sake of privacy) at a local pool. Friend and I arrived at about noon, maybe twelve thirty or so, and Sarah herself showed up with a few more people at maybe one o’ clock. We spent the day till about 3:00 messing around and having fun, till one guy, we’ll call him Max, decided that we’d be having even more fun with… I don’t know, like, tubes or something for the pool. It was something stupid, I know that much. I’m thinking he was just trying to get some time with Sarah away from everyone else; they seem to have a thing for each other, which the rest of us make fun of them constantly for.
Anyway, Max took Sarah to head to a store somewhere nearby to buy a few of these things and we don’t hear from them till maybe 3:30-40. Apparently, they got in a car accident. Max was driving, so we all assumed the worst (he drives waytoo fast, trying to make turns at 45 mph), but when we asked him (his cell phone didn’t break in the wreck) he said that the other car hit him. He doesn’t lie, so that’s probably what happened. But I’m suspecting that he was hit mostly because he was showing off to her or something, zooming through an intersection, but I don’t know for sure, though; we didn’t see any accident’s on the ride home.
Well, after hearing that they were in an accident, the rest of the group, save for me and two others, decided to head off to help them. I mean, all of us wanted to go, but they were a bunch of idiots and decided to leave all their stuff at the pool, said someone needed to stay and watch it, picked the three of us, and left without giving us a chance to say anything. Now, let me explain why this is a major problem: The pool is for locals and their friends only. They sell keys to the three foot high gate to residents of the apartments nearby. I live nowhere near there, but I count as a friend of a resident, and can stay so long someone has a key and can vouch for me. There are no guards or a pay booth, by the way- if you have a key you can just walk in, or if you feel like trespassing you can hop the fence and jump in. Now, the rest of the group left and had all their things with us at the pool. The entire group, them, Sarah/Max, and us three that stayed behind, were all using one key to get in and out. This was a mistake. The group that left after the car accident took the only key. You need the key not only to get in; but to get out as well. The only way, the only way, for us to leave was to hop the fence. Which is very heavily frowned upon here, even if it’s just to leave the place; how do they know if you didn’t just hop the fence to get in and that’s the reason you hopped it to get back out? Anyway; With about three bags worth of towels, phones, etc. we sat there for about 15 minutes before we realized that they could be gone for hours, and we had no way of leaving. And of course, some chick was eyeing us like we were planning a robbery from across the pool the second most of the group left. During the 15 minutes, we called the group that left a few times and ended up with the following knowledge of the situation:
One- We don’t know anything about the other driver involved in the accident.
Two- We don’t know if everybody is alright.
Three- Sarah has no memory of the situation, and was taken off in an ambulance.
She has amnesia. That tripled the horror factor. This could ruin everything that she had planned; we don’t know if it was a mild concussion, shock, or if she actually lost brain cells. She was planning on going to study in Japan for a year. This could potentially stop that from happening. Despite having nothing to do with it, I’ve never felt worse my entire life.
Well, about ten minutes after we received this information, along with a few other facts about life, we decided that we couldn’t stay; we stuffed everything into the bags people brought with them, tossed them over a fence, prayed that nobody saw us and called the police thinking we were trespassing, and walked to our friend’s apartment nearby. Nobody stopped us, but it was a frantic walk over there, let me tell you. After about another half hour, one of the friends (who is my neighbor and is how I ended up going to the party) managed to get their mother to drive down to the third friend’s apartment, pick us up and drive the two of us home. The third friend’s dad, whom he called while we were waiting at his house, didn’t seem very happy that his son had jumped the fence at the local pool. We left before he got there.
To sum up, I went to a party, the hostess Sarah leaves with almost-boyfriend Max and gets in an accident, ends up with what we’ve been told so far is freaking amnesia of an unknown degree. I hopped a fence to get to a friend’s home and awaited pick up without knowing if Sarah is even alright, and effectively left that friend’s house with an angry father coming to yell at him for… Basically nothing. Add to that that a few electronic devices broke at said party from exposure to water, my iPod among them; this was a really bad day. And it started out so great...
I don’t even know if she’s conscious right now. And I have absolutely no idea what’s happening right now to the driver (Max), or even the other people who went to check on them. It sucks.