highway

 One day a family was driving down the highway.  Dad and mom in front with baby, and two little girls in the backseat.  It was a hot day and the windows were down.  The radio was playing softly.

The oldest little girl was scooted up in her seat looking out between her parents of the front wind shield of the car.  (no one wore seatbelts back then)....She noticed a little dog running onto the highway....she screamed at the dog, and the dad reached up behind him and pushed her back onto the seat...she saw another car hit the dog....killed it.  She screamed and cried, the dad told her to shut up...she was so focused on the dog that she did not at first notice the person running onto the street to save it.....until....

 she felt a bump/ thud on the front of the car....her dad had hit the bystander who was trying to rescue the dog....she saw the person fall and roll....she heard her mother yelling....the dad turned up the music really loud and told the mom to shut up...The little girls were so scared, they both got down onto the floorboard to hide....

She remembered the dog yelp, she remembered the sound of the "thud" against the car, she remembered the loud static radio, she remembered silently crying....

He did not stop the car to see if the person was alive....he kept driving.....just fucking kept driving.......

S