"Will You Marry Me?"

He woke up looking at the dark sky. It was evening and the stars were beautiful. He could see the street lights glitter. He wanted to stand up but he couldn't. He couldn't feel anything. He knows his limbs are still with him yet he couldn't tell them to help him up. He tried to move his arms. Same thing. After a couple of tries, he stopped trying. He liked the view anyway. What are the chances of you laying in the middle of the street during rush hour and marveling at the beautiful sky and get away with it, he thought. Good thing he could still move his eyes. For a moment he wondered. He just didn't understand why.

Shattered glass lay everywhere, even on him. His clothes are torn. His face is ripped with wounds. A puddle of blood formed just behind his neck down his back. He could feel it. he knows he is dripped yet he doesn't know what it was made of. He could smell the stench of rust and burning gasoline up his nostrils down his lungs. He could hear but with a faining ring in his eardrums.

"I didn't touch him!i was driving right behind him and it just..." the woman stopped and just burst into tears and disappeared into her car.

A focused light suddenly flashed before his eyes with a faint face of a man behind it.

"Buddy! Can you hear me? Don't move. I'm a dcotor."
The man whose face he didn't recognize told him. Believe me I tried moving, he thought. the man shoved his penlight back into his breast pocket and felt his pulse.

Another woman ran towards them. "let me help! I'm a nurse!"
She took off her jacket and made an improvized c-collar and gently placed it behind her neck, carefully as she could just like an expert.

"You have a phone?" the doctor asked. "I already called."

"what's your name?"
"Lila!"
"Lila, my name is Sam. I'm a doctor."
"Buddy! Can you tell me your name?"

He tried to answer. He wasn't surprised that he failed again. He was getting used to the feeling. The doctor searched for his pocket and found a wallet. as he opened it, a glass fell from it.

His name was Henry dawson, 21 years old who lives uptown.

"Henry, my name is Sam and I'm a doctor. I have Lila with me. She is a nurse. I want you to look at her and stay with her."
"Lila, stay with him as I check on the others."

The doctor went to the wrecked car and check on two women and a man who lay lifeless inside the carnaged coffin. A woman of her twentys has half her body through the windshield and into the dashboard. No pulse. The doctor could tell that she had a beauty much like of Naomi Watts before she was shoved into her state. The remaining two, both man and woman, elderly, were tucked at the back seat. No pulse as well.

Sam went back to Henry and Lila.
"He is loosing a lot of blood and his pulse slowing down." declared Lila.
"Where is the fucking ambulance!"

A crowd gathered around the scene watching in horror as the doctor and nurse trie to save the life of the boy. Some were crying. a couple were hugging each other as most of them offered a prayer of their own to pull this kid out of this misery.

"Forgive me. Forgive me."
Henry mustered with all his might. It felt like a scream to him yet it only came out as a whisper, barely audible for everyone to hear.
"It wasn't your fault. I was driving right behind you when your front tire blew." Lila said in a much comforting voice.

He tried once again to move. Much to his surprise he could. He felt the gravel under his hands. He was trying to look for something. Sam noticed this and looked at his hand. He was surprised to see a ring near Henry's pocket. It must have been what fell from his wallet, Sam thought. Sam then helped him and put the ring in his hand.

"Will you marry me? Will you marry me Athena?" Henry asked while looking at Lila.

Both Sam and Lila had question marks on their faces. Both then looked at the carnaged car at looked at the girl in the front seat, shoved into the windshield.

"Will you marry me?", he asked again as more blood flowed. his pulse failing him.

"Yes. I will" Lila replied as tears flowed down her cheeks.

Henry smiled as he finally was able to ask the question to his love. It was Athena he saw saying it as stars danced in the sky behind her. How lovelier could the moment be.

And Henry took his last breath.