Death's Invitation

So it was just a normal day. Finish work, hop in my car, drive home, goof off or re-watch some episodes of my little Pony until I go to sleep and then do it all over again. Just a casual day. Well, I suppose we haven’t counted the fact my bestest friend passed on recently in a faint accident yesterday. But it was just going to be a normal day today as always, right?

I sighed as I went down the elevator to the underground car lot, my co-worker in the elevator with me put a empathetic hand on my shoulder, “Thanks” as I sighed again.

“No worry’s. I know what your going through, I too had a friend pass away a while ago.”

“Oh, sorry to hear about that.”

“Don’t be, it was a long time ago and I’ve moved on from it, but I’ll never forget him, I hope you don’t forget about your buddy either.”

“Trust me, I won’t.” I put on a little smile to make him feel like his attempt to cheer me up wasn’t in vain.

Then just like that, the elevator trip was over. We stepped out and waved as we split off to our cars. As I entered mine, I sat there for about ten minutes letting my thoughts and emotions run wild. Then I snapped out of my quick trance, put my key in the ignition, and drove off.

As I continued to think about my friend while I was on the highway, I joked to myself, “Heh, at least if something happened to me now I’d at least have someone to meet up with.” I let out another small giggle mixed with a sigh. But little did I know something would happen, and the way I meet up with my friend, lets just say, isn’t the way I would most expect.

The weather wasn’t quite the best and it was raining quite heavily. Soon, a logging truck in front of me spun out of control, I tried to stop but some of the logs the truck was carrying fell off and smashed right into me.

I then spun out too, my car decided to roll, I blacked out as it started to all slip away, but I didn’t feel too worried during it all, because I could see what was about to happen and I remembered what I had just said earlier. But as it all went away, it all came back, and it hit me in the head like a ton of bricks!

I groaned as I opened my eyes and with what little lighting there was, it looked like I was somehow in a cave. Besides the massive pain in my head, I... I felt ok and unharmed!?
I tried to stand up but my feet felt extremely weird and also numb and I fell back down. So I tried to get up on all four. It worked, and it... felt... somehow natural? And my hands did feel a little weird too, but Besides that, I saw a way to get out of the cave and made it.