Kajal's+Historical+Fiction+Piece+-+The+Accident

**__12/21/09__** **__Period 2/3__** **//The Accident//** Click… Click… Click. Beep. Selena’s hand fluttered across the keyboard of her new Droid as she hopped in the limousine after a concert in Albuquerque, Mexico. She had sent a text to her best friend for life Demi saying she’d be late to Katie’s party. Demi had responded with a quick ok, and Selena closed her phone and dropped it into her coach handbag. She gave her driver, David, permission to leave the parking lot, surrounded by a myriad of crazy fans. David gave a mumbled reply. She strapped on her seatbelt just as David turned the key in the ignition and started the car. Selena decided to call Tracey Block, her backup dancer and see what she was doing, and how she was doing, and how she was feeling. Poor Tracey had broken her foot while attempting to do a back flip and had recently gotten the flu!!! //Ughh//, Selena thought. Stupid voicemail. “Oh well, I’ll call her tomorrow.” She said to herself. //Hmm//, she suddenly thought. //We’re going awfully fast!// “Hey David! Do you mind slowing down a bit?!?!” Selena exclaimed. When David failed to stop the car, Selena started to scream louder and louder. “**DAVID! DAVID! STOP! PLEASE!**” she yelled in dismay. Tears appeared at the brim of her eyes. “Please!” she whispered. She grabbed her phone and dialed 911. The operator answered in a flash. “Hello. How may I help you?” the operator asked. “Hi. Please help me. My name is Selena. Something is wrong with my driver, and he won’t stop the car!” Selena screamed. “Ok honey. Calm down. Where are you headed?” “72 Gerard Street!” “Ok sweetie, the best thing to do is get out now! I’m sending dispatchers out ASAP!” “Ok.” Selena quickly hung up and grabbed her stuff. She tried opening the door, but to her discovery, it was locked!!!!! She gulped. “No. No. No. Please!” Selena moaned. Suddenly, she looked out the window and saw cars turning at the light in front of them. David wasn’t slowing down—he actually seemed to be going faster! “Oh God. Please no! Plea—” Selena’s yelling was drowned out from the sound of… Cars crashing. The limousine lurched forward, sending Selena flying through the front windshield. She hit the ground with a loud **//Thud!//** She looked around and suddenly felt the burning sensation in her head. Selena whispered to herself, tears in her eyes, “Please.” She then fell unconscious as wild pedestrians ran around trying to either help those injured or running away from the scene. The faint wail of sirens surrounded the background as Selena was rushed into the hospital. Once there, she could hear the doctors and nurses stripping her down and searching for any other injuries. Just then, everything became black… She woke up and looked around her in confusion. She found herself on a bench at some odd railroad station. Around her, men walked by sweating bullets and their shirts torn into shreds. Some of them were sawing away, probably expanding the railroad station, while others sat around chatting. She slowly walked around and suddenly saw women strutting around wearing dresses with bows at the chest line with puffy sleeves. “Excuse me, do you mind telling me the date???” Selena inquired, stopping an elderly woman. “Why, it’s June 21st, 1905, honey.” The woman responded. “What??!?!?!!” Selena gasped. “That’s impossible!! I wasn’t even born in the early 1900s!” She slowly calmed down and decided to leave and explore her surroundings more. She quickly thanked the kind woman and left. She walked into what looked like an area full of crops. Around her, Selena saw kids working perfecting crops, and women cutting and harvesting fully-grown crops. “Wow,” Selena muttered to herself. She thought, //Wow, it must have stunk to live like this.// She decided to observe other places. She kept speed walking and suddenly saw a gorgeous white carriage with light blue streamers along the border of the door. “Excuse me!” Selena yelped. “Where are you going?” The driver didn’t answer and just rode off. “Rude much?!” she screamed. She sprinted around looking for a city or farm or railroad or something to go to sleep at. After all, the sun was beginning to set and it began to get darker. She finally found a railroad station. To her amazement it was exactly like the one she had woken up in before! She lay down on the same bench and closed her eyes, tummy growling, and drifted off to sleep. The next day, she woke up again. She jumped up and looked around her in confusion. She was in a hospital bed! She saw her mother sitting on the plastic couch sleeping. She whispered “Mom wake up!” “Hmm? What?! Aghh! Selena!” her mother screamed. “Mom!” Selena exclaimed while hugging her mom. “Thank God, baby! Your awake!” her Mom, Maria said overexcited. “What happened ?!” Selena asked. “It’s a long story….” And with that nurses and docters piled in to check on Selena. “I love you Mom.” “I love you too honey.”
 * __Kajal Patel__**