Rushing out of the house he snatched his keys off of the washer before pulling the door shut with a loud bang. While racing through town on his way to the mid-afternoon meeting that he was already late twenty minutes for he quickly texted his wife to check up on her and the kids.
He slammed forward as the brakes screeched and the car suddenly halted. The front nose of the car collided with her legs making them fly over her head, turning her body around. She let out an enormous grunt as her skull slammed into the windshield shattering it. The sound of her body tumbling down from the top of his car made him cringe. Bits and pieces of the windshield scattered across his lap and the inside of his BMW. Droplets of blood splattered all over his khaki pants from the gashes in her head. Sitting there for a moment not knowing what hit him, he completely froze up and all thoughts escaped his head.
“What did I just do?” he thought out loud. He reached for the phone dialing 911, but no words came to him.
A woman laid on the rocky road saturated in blood. Her beach blonde hair turned a deep red like the inside of a cherry. Her two little girls turned around and ran to her aid from the opposite side of the street. Their tightly curled blonde hair bounced off of their shoulders in the wind. One held her head screaming her lungs out in horror and the other listened to her heart beat. Tears came streaming down their petite faces soaking their matching pink bear sweaters.
In the distance he could hear a faint siren creeping closer. He continued watching her body, raising every time she took a breathe. The moment she stopped moving tears came crashing down his face while he buried his head in his lap. She twitched, struggling to hold onto her life giving him hope, but it slipped away out of reach, as if it was impossible to grasp.
“What am I going to do? She's gone!” he cried out as he watched civilians pry the children off of her when the paramedics arrived with their sirens blaring. His heart sunk to his feet as he watched their souls crush while parting ways with the most important woman in their life.   With ease, he cracked the car door open. Still staring at her body he raised himself out of the car, brushing off the shreds of glass.
“Daddy!” the girls yelled out as they ran over to seek comfort in him. He picked both of them up choking back his tears as he turned around to walk away. He glanced back over his shoulder, and there she was, laying on the road with blood puddled around her. Emergency vehicles and their flashing lights blocked the entire intersection surrounding her and the car, still in the same place.  The white blanket covering her body had shades of red seeping through.