A Summer to Never Forget

On May 15, 2011, I graduated from Cecil College with an Associate's Degree. I left the school and took some pictures by the Chesapeake Bay. Following pictures, I went to my parents' house and waited for them to get ready to go to dinner. The restaurant (the Chesapeake Inn) we were going to go to was having a wedding that evening, so we decided to go to dinner at TGI Friday's. We had dinner, which was barely bearable. My sister, best friend, step-dad, mom and I all had dinners we had to return.

My sister, best friend and I had decided we were going to go to the beach for the night and the following day and we left dinner to get our belongings and head to the beach. We stopped at my best friend's house and then stopped at my house; we left my house and decided we were going to take the back roads to my sister's house. It had just started raining. We turned onto Frazer Road in Newark, DE and stopped at a stop sign. We stopped at the stop sign and then went around a corner.

My car started hydroplaning and drifting toward the ditch. I swerved the car and then swerved back into my lane. Everything sped up and the next thing I knew there was smoke in my face and what looked like a big deflated balloon in my face. "Is everyone okay!?" I asked and I heard my best friend and my sister say, "Yes". I got out of the car and walked around to the other side.

My best friend was the first one I saw and she had some blood on her arm and a big red mark on her neck; my sister was complaining about her chest hurting badly and I was limping around. We'd landed in the yard of a nurse and she came rushing out saying she'd called the police and the ambulance. Everything moved quickly. The ambulance came and got my sister on the stretcher. My mom showed up with my step-dad. I was on the stretcher. I was in the ambulance. We road to the hospital; we sat in the hospital from 8:00pm until 1:30am.

Everything was painful. I associate driving with accidents and rain with accidents and the beach with accidents. The first time after the accident that I drove, I was scared and am every time I drive. I don't think summer will ever be the same.