I was woken up by a loud knocking noise. I immediately sat up on my bed. Everything was blurry. I squint my eyes to get a better vision.
Someone was at my door at 3 am? I quickly got up and slowly started walking towards the door. I remove some of the curtain with my finger on my window near the door to see who was outside my door.
I see my friend Bhaskar standing outside, panting, as beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
I quickly open my door as he lets out a sigh of relief.
"Hey, what are you doing here at this hour?" I say
"Don't you sleep with your phone? It kept ringing but you didn't pick up." He says as he supports himself using the frame of my door.
"I had kept it on silent before going to sleep. What's going on" I say as I open my door further and gesturing for him to come in.
"There is no time. We have to go" he says in a breathless manner.
"Can you at least tell me what happened" I say as I grab a bottle of water from inside and hand it to him. He takes a sip and says
"There has been an accident at the highway. I just got a call from Anurag a-and he, he said that his breaks had failed and he needs help. We have to go now!"
My eyes grow wide with fear as I hear this and rush in to get my car keys and my phone. I open my car and sit on the drivers seat as Bhaskar sits on the passengers one. "Didn't" you bring your car?" I say as I start driving. "No, I got a cab. Drive faster, or we might loose him" Bhaskar's voice breaks on the last word as I hit the gas paddle.
The highway is not far a way from my house, and in the dead of night, there are no cars or people so it would take even lesser time for me to get there.
Just near the highway Bhaskar tells me to turn right. "But why?" I say with my eyes furrowed in confusion. "Just turn right, trust me " he says as I do so. Far away, with the help of my headlights, I manage to see a car, Anurag's car. It had hit a tree and flipped over. I park my car in front of his and rush out to help him.
I see him with his head resting on the seat, as if his neck had snapped, as blood flowed down his head but was he alive. I open the door and cut the rip the seatbelt and start pulling him out slowly trying not to get the shards of glass on his skin further in. But miraculously I heard a soft grunt from him half way out. This time I pulled him out as carefully as I could. The adrenaline was full on pumping in me. It was like some weight had been lifted off my shoulders. But to my surprise I see someone else beside him. That person's body lies limp, lifeless. I head back in to the car and turn the guy over to see who it was, but my heart sank in that moment as I see Bhaskar on the seat, all bloody, eyes wide open. Dead.
In horror I halt back and hit my head on the car door as I fall back. I look at my car and run for it but when I reach it and look inside, it was empty. Nobody in sight. I run back to Anurag with a lump in my throat and then it clicks in my mind, I check my phone to see if Bhaskar had called me like he said he had done, but find nothing. I look back into Anurag's car for one last time, before the sun begins to lighten up the sky.

Written by-
Sreeshti@25
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Her Daddy cool
(Who is not on Wattpad)