The Accident Short Story example essay topic

The 'Accident' The pick-up bounced jarringly down the old dirt road. The driver sat up straight in the front seat, checking over her shoulder every few seconds to make sure that her cargo hadn't fallen out. She wasn't sure why she had done it, but the fact was, she had and she did not want to get caught. There was no way she could tell anyone, not even her best friend.

What was she supposed to do? Go to the police? Tell them that it was an 'accident'? She wasn't sure how you 'accidentally's tabbed someone 6 times in the back. It had partially been his fault too.

If he hadn't made her so mad, she wouldn't have jokingly gotten the knife out of the kitchen drawer. 'I'm going to kill you', she had said. But she didn't really mean it. Did she? Their argument got more heated, until he was screaming at her. And then he hit her.

She was too shocked to say anything. He had always been so gentle. She stared at him for a minute, and then he turned around to leave. She's not sure what came over her at that minute, she doesn't even remember what she was thinking.

But she does remember jumping on him, and knocking him to the floor, and then taking her knife and plunging it in and out of his back. She had no recollection of what happened for the next 10 minutes, perhaps she blacked out, but when she finally stood up, she knew what she had to do. She walked out to the garage and got a tarp down off the shelf. Her father used it to cover the wood pile, but she figured he probably wouldn't notice it was gone for a while. She took the tarp back into the kitchen and rolled the body on to it, checking to make sure that she didn't get blood onto anything that would be noticeably stained. The large pool of blood on the floor would be a problem, but she'd take care of that when she got back.

She finally managed to get his body into the back of her truck. He had been a fairly good sized boy, and it was a struggle for her. She made sure that it was secure in the back, since the gate didn't always close right. She didn't want any accidental spills in the middle of the road.

She walked back into her house to get her keys and jacket, but the idea of locking the door suddenly seemed funny to her. Now, she was one of the 'bad people' her parents had always warned her of when she was a little girl. Driving through town was strange to her. It was a Friday night, and many of her friends from school were out on the streets. She waved and smiled at everyone, like usual, and even chatted with the kids in the car next to her when they were stopped at a red light.

Just heading to the grocery store, she told them, to pick up some snacks for when he comes over later. She almost didn't feel like she was lying either. She did drive by the grocery store, but she kept going, driving out towards the lake. She had gone up there with him numerous times, and they both loved hiking through the woods.

In fact, that's how they'd found this old dirt road that she was driving down right now. She knew that it lead to an old dock with a row boat that someone had forgotten about a long time ago. The boat was still safe though. They had rowed out to the middle of the lake in it the last time they were here. She reached the end of the road and pulled up right next to the dock.

The body had been bumped around a lot, and the tarp had partially come undone, but thankfully it hadn't fallen out. She pulled it down and dragged it in the dirt, over to the boat. Now this would be the hard part. He was the one that usually did the rowing, and all that 'dead' weight wouldn't make it easy for her. She managed though, and about 20 minutes later she was out in the middle of the lake. She stood up, which wasn't easy to do in such a little boat, and opened up the tarp.

Looking down at his face, so calm and restful, she felt remorse for a second. But that quickly went away when she remember her anger and the reason she was there. Using almost all of what strength she had left, she lifted his body up over the side of the boat, and under the light of the moon, she watched it sink down into the black, murky water.