Zach looked over across Aunt Celinda at his two year old sister Jamie in her car seat. She was sound asleep, her mouth open and her eyes buttoned shut. Up front, Aunt Teresa was driving, and Mama was resting in the front seat next to her, her hands rubbing her big round belly. Mama had a smile on her face; she was always so happy and smiling now. His and Jamie's new baby sister was coming soon, and Mama had stopped going to work a month ago to get ready. They'd had a wonderful day with Aunt Teresa and Aunt Celinda. He looked out the window, sleepily, and yawned, feeling contented and safe in the cozy warm darkness, with his favorite CD in the player. His eyes started drooping shut.

Mama's sudden scream jerked him awake; he looked up just in time to see a pair of headlights speeding right into and through the windshield - before the world seemed to explode around him in a rain of shattered glass and blood. He sat dazed in his carseat… Jamie was screaming in terror as Aunt Celinda frantically unsnapped the harness on her carseat. With baby Jamie screaming in her arms, Aunt Celinda unsnapped his seatbelt, and staggered to the side of the road, carrying him and his sister away from the wreckage. As Zach looked over her shoulder he heard sirens were sounding in the distance… and the car horn was blaring.

Zach screamed for his mother - - but though her eyes were open, she didn't seem to hear him, but just sat staring, with a trail of blood running from her open mouth, before the EMT's surrounded the car. One of them shouted to the policeman who ran to the car. "Fatal accident… drunk driver in the other vehicle, unharmed… " as Aunt Celinda clutched him and Jamie to her, sobbing.

THE END