Short story: Originally written by me

Turn up the music! I reached forward to turn the volume dial up, my hair was whipping across my face so hard I could barely see. All the windows were down and the wind was muffling the music. My sister and I were were headed to the beach for the first day of summer. Our graduation tassels were whipping in the wind too. We’d graduated yesterday finally after 13 long years of public education and we made it. We were pulling up to the big bridge and I sank down in my seat. I hated bridges, being over all that water with hundreds of other heavy cars. We were so into the music and feeling free that we didn't see the diesel truck 4 cars ahead blow a tire.We heard it and it was like the world stopped. The tire blowing threw the whole truck careening to the right. Its cargo groaned and two of the metal straps broke. The driver turned to the right, hard and then the truck tipped. It crashed to its side and broke the railing on the right side of the bridge. It kept sliding out and half the head was hanging off the side. But the cargo..it was now unattached a huge metal cylinder full of gas. It rolled off and began to makes its way right towards our direction. I don't remember if my sister said anything, if I screamed or even moved. The cylinder was coming straight at us and time seemed to stand still. It was crushing every car it passed like a pizza roller training dough. My sister tried to drive to the right to get out of its path but.there were 3 seconds before it reached us where I remember thinking, i'd just had a milestone in life but it wasn't supposed to be the ending, just the beginning of a new chapter. There were to many things I hadn't done yet, things I had yet to see.

I woke up to the sound of seagulls and felt a floating sensation. I smelled sea water and heard the muffle of voices. There were sirens in the distance and I heard the sound of urgency in the conversations around me. I opened my eyes and was burned by the brightness of the sun. I couldn't move my arms to shield my eyes. I heard someone say she's awake and the approach of footsteps. Finally the world came into focus. I was on a boat. I was strapped to a stretcher and I didn't see my sister anywhere. In the distance I saw a huge cloud of smoke and a blue platform. Suddenly it crashed back into my mind. The accident with the bridge. Where's my sister I whispered my throat was so dry I could hardly get it out. I said it louder this time and I kept saying it getting more and more frantically my voice finally taking a stronger edge. A young man about 20 leaned by my side shushing me gently. "Where's my sister, she was in the car with me shes..shes..my twin"

You were the only one in the car miss, your car fell from the bridge to the water. I guess you tried to get out of the cylinders path. We went in after you and pulled you from the car but you were alone.

His story pounded in my head. Gone?gone? She couldn't be gone the car couldn't have been empty. She was driving she was right there.

"Sis calm down, Idon't know what happened I don't know where..my body is but i'm not gone"

My head snapped up painfully, id just heard her voice. I looked from side to side I didn't see her, I knew I heard her! It took me a long time and a dramatic fainting episode till I grasped that somehow my twin was in my mind. The boatmen said I was alone,said they reached the car before it was submerged underwater so the would have seen her but she was with me. Eventually the men took me to a  bunk inside the ship. I had no injuries at all they said it was a miracle, I laid down and sleep came.

I woke up in a car. The wind was whipping my hair  and the smell of sea water was strong. "You were asleep for a long time sis." I looked over at my sister and heaved a sigh of relief. I looked ahead and say that we were approaching a bridge. Three cars ahead was a diesel truck.