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Owen

***Five years earlier.****

The sound of the truck hitting the side of my smaller car was deafening. My body felt like it was floating as the car flew through the air rolling several times before coming to a stop. Glass was everywhere. My whole body was in pain. Every airbag in the car had deployed. One hit me head-on, while another came from my left side. It all happened so fast. One second, everything was going so well. We were laughing and singing along with the songs on the radio. The next, the world seemed to end as everything went silent. The last thing I remember was hanging upside down inside my flipped-over car, blood flowing down into my eyes as everything went black.

When I open my eyes next, I am in a cold room with mint-colored walls. The only sound was of the machines connected to all the wires connected to me making beeping sounds. The room was dark except for the glow of the same machines that showed I was still alive. I tried to sit up, but moving proved to be ver