Life Threatening

I was at the back-center seat of the car when I saw the explosion. I did not know that the car, the fourth car in front of us and the one I was staring directly at, was to explode the next second. We were in a car pool going to basement parking of Megamall Building B. On my right, my friend, Edward, was ready to open the door and run. On my left, my younger brother, Sean, was silent and actually frightened. My friends, Bongster and Grace, in front were thinking of the next best thing to get us out of the area.

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What we saw and heard were enough to drive several things in our minds. Will the fire spread and hit us? Will it be too late to get out? Will the handy fire extinguisher be not enough? Will the crowd not cooperate and clear the way out? Will the five of us be the last persons we will ever see?

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It was just an ordinary day but no one knew it was going to happen. Fortunately, it was not our time yet, not anyone's time in fact. No one was hurt. However, it left us vigilant. I learned one thing about cars and it is one of those things a person already knows but does not value enough until that time when he/she needs it badly. Good maintenance is a relatively cheap prevention of overheating vehicles and eventually untoward incidents.