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HINDSIGHT, Isabel Cantelli decided in hindsight, sucked She ca to avoid a chip her SUV spin out of control
She probably shouldn&039;t have been digging for her dropped cell while she was happily singing "Ca sixty on a dirt road She probably should have let that little dude fend for hiht wasn&039;t fifty-fifty It was, at the moment, zero-one hundred
But shoulda, coulda, woulda wasn&039;t going to help her now She and her Nissan were flying into Grand Lake at an alar speed
Isabel braced herself for the swan dive they were about to accoraceful The lake, which she&039;d found o, was about to kick her in the ass
So h, none of the ones she expected when she knew she was about to die Her life didn&039;t flash before her eyes; the life she hadn&039;t lived yet did
Terror, fear of the pain of dying, that all flashed But the sadness of what she hadn&039;t yet achieved was occupying her brain
Her car hit the lake hat felt like a nuclear blast And the air bag had exploded on her, practically trapping her in her seat When it finally deflated, she tried to unbuckle her seat belt, but for soo Since herhad been down, the car was filling up ater and sinking fast
Unless a miracle showed up, there was no way she would survive She was on her way to dying, and it was terrifying Her heart beat desperately, and she knew that wasn&039;t going to last long She apologized to her heart for letting it down She apologized to her liver for notit as much as she could have over the years What a wasted chance But even though she thought of friends and family, Isabel&039;s life never passed before her eyes, like so
Her focus, as her chest squeezed painfully, was all of the things she hadn&039;t accootten howone was that she&039;d never found love Lust, sure Attraction, sure But not that elusive thing called true love To look at a man and know, absolutely, they were meant for each other
There were many others on her list, but she sure would have liked to experience the feeling of being desperately in love
Woulda Coulda Shoulda
And then, suddenly, she felt alive again And she knew, just knew, that soiven a second chance