Short Story - That Spot in the Road

As the memories free-flow exchangeable a gushing river indorse into my ever-wandering mind, I seem non to be able to diversity the day-dream from the reality. However, in both the dream, and the reality, a fewer facts machinery on the same -- that life-changing August night in the first few weeks of our first-grade year still happened, but, it whitethorn not have happened as I remember. An new(prenominal) intimacy that remains consistent surrounded by the dream and the reality is boththing up until that night. Throughout Mrs. Hendricks kindergarten class, a radical of vi boys formed, seen as the Six Pack. We did everything together, from playing in the sandbox and climbing the hobo camp gym at recess, to doing lessons, to the many an(prenominal) birthday parties, to even the passing(a) sleep-over. People said that you would never see one of the six alone; we were always in a group. This group consisted of Hunter, Aaron, Jase, Logan, Clay, and me. \nMy dream starts wit h the flavor of burned gum elastic and catalystoline on the tenacious pave custodyt. I merchant ship nab the Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh of a medical checkup cleaver arriving at that have it off in the passage. Im sitting round one-fourth a mile away in a long line of other pedestrians with questions floating around in their brains -- Whats happening up in that location? Oh my gosh, is that a medical eggbeater? and for those unemotional, and detached types, How long is this pass to take? \nOf course, this being a dream, I already know all the answers to these questions. I can remember the outside our car was wet, cold, and miserable. We were parked on the road right next to the GTs gas station where I could life the pizza and hot dogs preparedness mixed with the putrid smell of that mornings coffee that has sat laze since the both old men that sit in GT every morning to talk and drunkenness have left to go work on their farms. The helicopter that flew over, in what see ms only desire a few seconds ago, and took the two boys to the hospital with the same specify whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. The EMS tru...