"Hey, J.C., when are we going to go pick them up?" Justin asked.

"We should be leaving right now, if a certain person would hurry up!" he said, looking straight at Joey.

"Hey! I don't want to look stupid!" he shouted back. "I might run into a fine chick."

"Let's go!" J.C. yelled to the rest of them. Lance, Chris, Justin and Joey walked out the door, with J.C. following them.

"So, who's going in what car?" Lance asked.

J.C. headed towards the 1972 Mercedes Benz (my car!!!) and said, "Lance, come with me."

"Yeah. We'll go in the Justin's car," Joey added.

Joey got in the drivers seat, and Justin came up. "Yeah right, get out, man." Joey got in the back, and Justin took the drivers seat.

The guys were going to pick up Lance's girlfriend, Emily for her birthday. When they got to Emily's house, they saw two other cars in the driveway. Lance got out, and ran up to get Emily. He came back with Amy and Madison, too. Amy ran to Justin's car, and got in, and sat with Chris. Madison sat in the front with Justin. Justin greeted Madison by kissing her, and saying, "I've missed you."

Madison laughed. "You saw me this morning! But, I've missed you, too."

"Well, a couple of hours feels like an eternity to me," and Justin kissed her again.

"What a lovely display of emotions," Chris told them. He turned to Amy, and said mockingly, "Oh, Amy, how I love you so! How I long to be with you forever!" Amy snickered, and kissed him.

"Shut-up!" Justin said. "Just 'cause I love Madison, doesn't mean you have to be idiotic."

Chris, Madison and Amy laughed. "Don't worry about it, Justin," Madison said.

In the other car, Lance and J.C. were singing 'Happy Birthday' to Emily. Emily was blushing, and holding her hands over her face.

"You know I hate that song! But yet, you do it anyway," Emily told them.

"It's just 'cause we love you," J.C. told her. He pulled into Gabrielle's driveway. "I'll be right back."

He walked inside, and saw Gabrielle was waiting for him, on her couch in the hallway. Gabrielle stood up, and kissed J.C. and told him how much she loved him, like always. They had been together for a year, and it was always getting better.

"The others are waiting, so we better go," J.C. told her.

They walked out, and Gabrielle got in the front, beside J.C.. "Hi, youguys," she said to Lance and Emily. Emily was sitting behind her, and Lance was sitting behind J.C.. "Happy birthday, Emily," she told her.

"Thank you," Emily responded. "It was annoying, because two of my friends told me that I was 'getting closer!'"

"Closer to what?"

"Closer to be able to drink legally. Not like I do anyway, because I have no interest in drinking. What's the point of getting so wasted that you can't do anything?" she asked.

"I understand your point completely. That's how I am, too," Gabrielle said. "And I'm 22."

Lance kissed Emily, and said, "It's a good decision to make, honey."

J.C. turned slightly, and agreed. "Yeah, it is a good decision."

Gabrielle turned back to the front, and suddenly eclaimed, "That truck is coming towards us!"

J.C. honked hishorn, telling the driver to get in his own lane, but it kept coming. J.C. swerved but didn't miss it in time, and as they all screamed, the truck hit the right side of the car.

Justin, in the other car, swerved out of the way, into a ditch on the right side of the roa, and looked back at the scene. "Oh my god! They got hit!" Everyone jumped out of the car, and rushed over to the Mercedes. Chris opened the drivers side door, and pulled J.C. out, as Joey did the same to Lance. Chris climbed inside the car, and started to pull Gabrielle out, but gasped as her head fell back. He almost threw up. **There's no way she could be alive!** he wildly thought. He pulled her out as fast as he could. "Get Emily out, and hurry!"

Joey climbed back inside, and pulled her out. Emily and Gabrielle lay on the ground, unmoving. Justin ran back to the Benz, (if you notice, I call Justin's car, the Benz, and mine, the mercedes, because they are both Mercedes Benz's) to get the cell phone. He called an ambulance.

Chris put his ear to Gabrielle's chest, and tried to hear a heartbeat, but couldn't. He saw Lance and J.C. looking on in bewilderment.

J.C. suddenly started to scream, and ran over. He grabbed Gabrielle, and pulled her close. Tears rolled down his cheeks.

Lance blacked out, and as Joey went over to him, Chris heard the ambulance nearing them. He thought to himself, **Oh my god! What's going to happen?!**