Louis heard the car hit her through the phone.
He heard impact, and the next thing he heard was nothing else. He knew when the phone hit the dashboard because Sophie’s voice stopped sounding from the phone. It was replaced with open air and distant sounds he could not make sense of.
He panicked immediately. "Sophie."
Silence.
"Sophie." He screamed, grabbing his keys.
He took off immediately, running past every red light that could stop him and the intersection she mentioned in passing.
He could not call her back himself because his hands would not leave the wheel and his mind kept replaying the moment she got hit over and over again on a loop.
He dreaded the silence and how her words disappeared mid-sentence. He didn't want to believe it, so he kept praying to whatever God he ser
