I quietly tip-toed out of my room trying to make as little noise as possible. I snuck up the stairs from my room in the basement to try and find what I was looking for.
There next to the door on the keychain were the keys to my dad's car, a Mercedes C class.
Of course, I already had a car of my own, a regular Honda, that I got the day I passed my permit test. But there was no way I would drive that old car around, imagine what my friends would say. I mean Josh already had a Tesla and he doesn't even have his permit yet!
I took the keys with me as I snuck out of the main door of the mansion.
I walked as quietly as I could towards the car, using my phone's flashlight as a guide to light the way.
When I finally made my way across the front lawn and the garden to reach the parking space I realized that my parents weren't even here. My dad was a hospital director and my mom the vice director. They had built the business from the ground up and still worked very late hours sometimes. I could tell they weren't here because the Jeep, which my dad liked to drive around, was missing. They would probably come back home together.
With a quick flick of my wrist, I checked the time on my Rolex it had been a 15th birthday gift. 1:17. Good, that means I still had some time to meet Josh and Allen, the plan was to show up at 1:30.
I quickly used the remote to open the front gate so I could get the car out. I didn't worry about subtlety anymore, not with my parents both at work.
I carefully drove out of the gate, trying not to hit the statues at the entrance of the Manor.
While I did have a little experience driving, it was just a few hours, so I wanted to be careful.
I drove out into the road that connected the mansion to the surrounding homes and sped off towards the highway. After a few minutes of driving and following the GPS on my phone to the address Josh had given me, I wasn't as tense as before.
I pressed down on the accelerator as the car purred and zoomed down the freeway. Within minutes I was at the meeting spot we decided, the parking lot of a close-by pizza place.
I checked the time again, 1:28. I was here on time but my friends were nowhere to be seen. I waited an extra 5 minutes before angrily taking out my phone to text the bastards. We had been planning this for weeks, they couldn't bail now.
I spam called Josh and Allen's numbers for what seemed to be an eternity until I finally got a text back.
'Sorry dude, can't make it today. Little cousins are over, they'll for sure snitch if I leave my house rn.'
Dammit. Dammit. That fucker. I threw my phone on the floor as hard I could and instantly regretted it.
Not because I cared about the phone. Fuck that, I could always get another one. But because I still needed the GPS to get back home.
I quickly ran to where my phone had landed and picked it up in a hurry to check the damage.
I let the breath I had been holding when I realized it was fine, just a crack on the case.
I walked towards my car in anger, I had risked getting caught stealing it just for my friends to cancel.
I quickly entered my address in the GPS and sped off towards my house. I was going well above the speed limit, but I didn't care. The cold night wind hitting my face helped me cool down.
After I got off the highway I sped down the road towards my house, at this point I wasn't really paying attention to the road in front of me, I knew it by heart. My thoughts were still filled with my friends ditching me, at least tell me beforehand if the plan was canceled.
BOOM!
A wave of pain shot through my head as I crashed into the steering wheel of my car. My vision blurred as I felt the blood start to pour down from a huge wound on my head.
I tried to open my phone to call for help, but my finger couldn't hold it steady as it fell from my hands to the floor of the car.
I slowly got out of the car and looked around for anything that could help me. At this point I couldn't see anything anymore, the blood poured down from my head into my eyes as I felt my vision go black and I collapsed next to the side of my car.
Little did I know there was another boy that had also fallen to the floor mere feet from where I stood.
He too, just like me, had taken his last breath and it was all my fault.
He deserves car crash hell instead of isekai.
I’m not crying. Who cares about some dumb boys anyways ;-;
The cold night wind hitting my face helped me cool down.
Damn, how did you feel the wind hitting your face inside a C class Mercedes ? Mercedes have lots of dampener, you can barely hear the road noises, let alone a mere road wind.
is the windshield on the window broke ? Or he's just too stupid to differentiate between real wind and air conditioning in the car ?
Blob Neutral
For me you are like Stan Lee in the Marvel movies you appear a little in each one....
A few hours of experience driving and already on the freeway? Damm but the crash near home is realistic.
Are you sure it was your fault I don't think you did anything wrong by think it would be a chill drive.
Always those weird people crossing the road at 2am. Smh.
No speeding m8
I hope you were sarcastic...
@Issei No I am being 100% serious killing someone because of being careless for a few minutes should not call for punishment unless the punisher is being unreasonable.
@Lowly-Peasant He was the one who took a car he wasn't even meant to drive, (his parents didn't give him permission), he could've ridden in his Honda but nah, he wanted the fancy ride, he didn't even have much experience driving apparently! By that point, it was obvious he was gonna get in an accident. The thing is not only with his reckless decisions he killed himself, but he also killed a boy on the street. He was already careless when he left to meet up with his friends at 1... It was nice he was driving carefully when he went to the spot to meet, but after that can't say much.
tldr: He wasn't careless for a few minutes, he was careless since the time he decided to leave the house at midnight in a car when he doesn't have experience driving.
Btw, here in Australia, you need at least 120 hours of driving experience and a few other conditions to fulfil before you can get a P license with which you can finally drive on your own without another person guiding you.
@Issei Um this still doesn't warrant any punishment, he was just being a normal kid going out with his friends and wanted to take his dads car nothing to warrant his extreme punishment there but a grounding, "It was obvious he was gonna get in an accident" are you stupid or something how does someone driving a faster car make you guaranteed to get into an accident if that was true the car wouldn't be street legal. Now lets mention what the f*ck is a young boy doing out in the middle of the night, his death can be partly attributed to his parents carelessness and his own. Lets also mention that hitting someone at night is almost always the pedestrians fault because nobody in there right mind would expect someone to be walking in the middle of the road at night much less a little kid, my mom hit a killed a drunk guy crossing the road at night. Luckly, there was a cop car nearby who saw the whole thing so it wasn't her fault and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a law in place to excuse cases like this as nothing more then an accident.
@Lowly-Peasant He was gonna get into an accident for his lack of experience, "how does someone driving a faster car" never said anything about a faster car, only said he wanted the fancy ride. His parents probably gave him a Honda to let him get used to driving. But you did make a point in the end.We don't even know what the hell a pedestrian was doing in the middle of the street.
But, he was speeding remember?
I was going well above the speed limit, but I didn't care.
at this point I wasn't really paying attention to the road in front of me
This is why the speed limits are there, so if a random wacko appears in the middle you are able to stop or alert them by the horn. Unfortunately, he wasn't paying attention to the road either, so there wasn't gonna be a good end for him either way...
@Lowly-Peasant
Please, this entitled kid only had a permit and mentioned how little experience he had, which seem too little to even have that but loose rules. Still, He didn't even have a provisional license, so should have been restricted to daylight hours driving and preferably adult supervision. Then there's all the driving laws he actually broke.
Being a kid is hardly an excuse. The other kid at most was possible of negligence of not wearing highvis clothing, which not many people do. The driving one wasn't paying attention anyways when he came zooming round the corner.
@Lowly-Peasant
"killing someone"
"should not call for punishment"
Lmao, what a society that would be. Manslaughter is a felony in real life. Imagine being woken up by the police at 4 am to tell you that your son has been killed by a reckless teen driver. Have some f*cking empathy, what do you expect the police to do? "Oh boys will be boys, just try not to kill anyone again next time." Killing someone is permanent, no way to take it back or repair it, all possibilities ended. Irrelevant of intent, every action you take has a consequence, and if your actions directly lead to the death of another human being, the consequences must be equally severe. To say that someone should receive no punishment for killing someone because they were "careless" is beyond delusional, it is borderline comedy.
@YeetOrBeYeeted Accidental murder is not punishable ret*rd.
@Lowly-Peasant At least not prison or jail.
@Lowly-Peasant Huh? Pretty sure it is? Well depends on which country you live in I guess but in most countries, it is punishable with prison for at least 12 months on top of fines & probabtion.
@Issei Prison no, fines yes, probation maybe but mostly as a formality.
@Lowly-Peasant lmao imagine being this confidently incorrect and calling someone a ret*rd. Literally half a minute of research shows the facts, according to federal law:
"The base sentence for involuntary manslaughter under federal sentencing guidelines is a 10 to 16 month PRISON sentence, which increases if the crime was committed through an act of reckless conduct. The minimum sentence for involuntary manslaughter committed with an automobile is higher still, although judges may use a certain amount discretion in those cases."
I hope this guy responds, I get a chuckle out of each of his comments.
@YeetOrBeYeeted Do you not know how small time charges are actually handled? Almost always the judge will not send you to prison or jail but solve the case in court if the case is fully laid out and deemed to be non severe.
It's why there is a judge in the first place.
@Lowly-Peasant Some wish that could happen... Unfortunately, the only people that get away with "accidental murder" are those peeps with connection & all. But for the common public, these are the rules.
@Issei Um, what would be the point of sending someone that committed this kind of crime to Prison be?
@Lowly-Peasant Your ignorance of the criminal justice system is rather impressive. I gotta say, it almost feels like all your information comes from a tv show or something.
In criminal courts, judges only preside over the cases, ensure that procedures are followed, and RECOMMEND a set of parameters for the sentence. Actual decisions on guilt or innocence, as well as the final decision on the sentencing are all done by the jury. At most, the judge has the power to rule that a jury is unfit to make the decision, at which point a new jury is chosen and the trial is done again. The judge DOES NOT set the sentence. Even then, all this is besides the point, by law the bare minimum legal sentence is 10 to 16 months in prison. The jury would then decide, based on the context and circumstances, how that number should be increased.
The most that a person could do to prevent a multi-year stay in prison, if charged with manslaughter, is take a plea bargain with the prosecutor. This means that the accused pleads guilty immediately and avoids the court case. This, however, still means that they would need to serve the minimum required punishment, which would mean time in prison anyways.
@Lowly-Peasant Basically, not get into dangerous situation where an "accident" can kill someone. In this case, (the book's case) it would serve the protagonist to drive carefully and always pay attention if he is on a road.
@Issei Jail and prison are way to much a month in jail would be fine but anything more would be overkill.
@Lowly-Peasant Fair. Anyways, we can agree that accidental at the very least deserves some jail time. I hope you haven't taken much offense on this heated argument, take care!