A Last Ride. Plot #3.

A boy and a girl in a car. The boy is driving the girl back home. They are school mates, and he's in love with her, but he haven't told her. He planning to say it during this very particular drive, but the girl doesn't live far away, so time is running out. He has already been trying to tell his love to her for months, but always ended up thinking 'this is not an appropriate moment, I'll tell her later'. His father has been telling him again and again to act promptly before it’s too late, and yet nothing happened.
But today is the day! Ernesto has finally decided to take his chance and reveal his love for Maria while he would take her home after class... During the whole drive he’s almost launching himself, and each time she tells some random comments and he thinks ‘later, later’. But time is running out.

One block before reaching her home, he takes a deep breath, holds his courage, and get ready confess his love for her. He closes his eyes one second, thinking that it’s now or never, but he’s pulled out of his dream when a truck hits the car right on the front. Next second Ernesto is feeling like in a dream, his vision is unclear, the blood is battling his temper, there is a whistling noise in his ears. He doesn’t understand what’s going on. There is this awful whistling that doesn’t stop. He wonders why some people are yelling outside of the car. He turns his head toward Maria and gets even more startled: she is sleeping! He calls her “Maria, what are you doing”, but she remains motionless. “Maria!”, nothing. And then, only then, he starts to understand what’s going on when he sees a strain of blood going from the corner of her mouth. Then all the yelling outside the car start to make sense, and Ernesto comes back to reality, the reality of a car crash in which Maria dyed.

The message: never put to later what you can now do.