Jumble Short story

Tonight is the night that everyone has been waiting for, a night that most people will remember until they are octogenarians.  Everything about this night was created for remembrance.  It was the perfect night.  Perfect, that is, until the incident.  The incident that would change the lives of many people. The incident that started with one fatal flaw.  This is my story.  My name is Toby.

Up until the incident, the night was fantastic.  I was having the best time of my entire high school career, which seems very hard to believe because I am very popular here at Oakland High. But tonight was the night of graduation, where everyone you use to love and be friendly with would soon be absent from your life forever. As the principle called each and every student’s name in my senior class, to extend them congratulations and luck, my best friend texted me saying that he wanted to go out with me after graduation.  Although post-graduation is usually family time, where your family floods you with congratulation, I agreed with my best friend that we should hangout after.  After throwing our caps in the air, and wishing those who I had spent the last umpteen years with good luck in their life, my friend James and me set out for a night of freedom and adventure.

Walking to my set of wheels, we screamed and shouted of freedom, as we no longer had to be confined to this hellhole of a school. I asked my friend where our destination lay and he replied, ‘where every the winds takes us’.

Strapping myself into my father’s car, I was quite worried that I was neither qualified nor legal to be driving non-members of my family. This indeed would be my first time driving with a friend, with me behind the wheel, because I had just (finally) gotten my license just days before.  My choice to drive was the fatal flaw that would change my life forever. Sitting there waiting for some sort of traffic jam in the high school lot to disperse, James blared the music until I couldn’t hear my own voice singing. After finally getting out of the parking lot, I headed to the town beach. With the music still blaring, utter blackness lay ahead of me, I was no longer aware of my surroundings or capable of taming them