I open my eyes and I hear my favorite song playing. I sing along to One Direction, my favorite band. Except, something is a little off because I can barely make out the words to my favorite song, how odd? There’s so much noise I cannot escape. I can’t seem to make them out. I hear static, people talking, I listen closer. There’s so much noise that it’s almost silent. I remember I was on my way to visit my best friend in Wildwood. I wanted to surprise her for her birthday. I spent all night trying to convince my mom to drive down to the beach for the weekend. All these thoughts and I realize that I'm not moving. Confused, all my emotions rush through me and as I gain my senses I look around and I’m interrupted by a distasteful smell of something burning. Yet, as I hum along with the song that plays, I hear a faint scream from someone, “Aliyah, Aliyah, hurry get out.” I realize, just then, in the midst of my eyes blacking in and out that it’s my mother telling me to get out of the car. For a split second I’m confused, I look around but cannot see her. Somehow I’m snapped back into reality and all the sudden I feel hot, I feel rage. I look down and see airbags, I turn to the left worried for my mother but for some reason she’s out of my sight. I push the airbag, over and over again, annoyed that I cannot fully make out the image of my mother or understand what had just happened. It feels as though minutes have gone by but its been seconds. The awful smell penetrates through my nostrils and I become agitated as I cannot seem to get out of the car. I realize I’m wearing my seatbelt. I take it off and wince, something is definitely wrong with my shoulder. I move my legs to the right to get out of the car. Naturally, I reach for the door. I reach for the handle with my left hand but I suddenly fall to my knees unaware that the door was gone. I’m so puzzled at the fact I cannot remember how I got here, angry at the smell of burning rubber and smoke that doesn’t seem to dissipate. All of a sudden I’m standing outside so I start walking up the hill looking at two teenage girls running towards me with water and food. I think, “why are these people looking at me”? I wondered why their car was parked what seemed like an inch away from ours. I keep walking but never move. I realize my hips feel crushed. I feel the weight of my torso, my head, my arms, gravity. It’s almost impossible to walk. I stumble up the hill practically crawling. The girls' voices murmur but I cannot stop smelling smoke. Distracted, enraged, confused, and dazed I somehow make my way to a bench where I see my mother waiting for me. She doesn’t run up to me, something's wrong. Why is she so excited to see me? Why have we gotten out of the car? Something bad has happened. I realize this so I look back at the car and see my door completely destroyed and the front of the car is no longer round but flat. There’s glass all over the floor. I hear One Direction and remember the airbags. I look at the girls’ car but it seems intact. I look around and see a bulge of red. Across the street I see something moving. The car's door is completely imploded. There’s a woman and a man opening the window. No, they’re climbing through the window. All of the sudden it clicks. Memories come flooding. It was like deja vu. I see my mom driving and I look down at my phone. I pick the song my best friend loves to sing to. I look up and see a red car coming out of a gas station. I stare at it intently hoping they don’t pull into the road but something catches my eye. I jerk my head to the right to see the girl's car coming towards us quickly. My heart races, I remember the red car and as I’m turning my head back, everything stops. It finally clicks that I won’t be making it to Wildwood to spend the day at the beach with my best friend.