What I was feeling when Daisy hit Myrtle...

          The night when Myrtle died was one of the worst nights I have had in a while.  Earlier that day, I went into town with Daisy, Tom and Nick.  Daisy was going to tell Tom that she didn’t love him and she wanted to leave him for me.  Things, however, did not play out as I thought they would.  Tom and I got into a brawl of words and the evening went from bad to worse in the span of a few hours.  Daisy and I left town and headed back home before all the others did.  Daisy was distraught and nothing I could say would calm her down.  I was worried she did not want to be with me anymore because of the incidents that had occurred up in the plaza between Tom and me.  She wanted to drive the car to clear her mind, so I let her.  It was night time by this point and all the roads and houses were pitch black.  Daisy was speeding as she sobbed in silence.  We got out of New York and had just arrived to the Valley of Ashes.  Not many cars were on the road at this point and things were hard to see.  All of the sudden, I see this figure run out in the street that looked like a woman waving her arms.  Daisy didn’t stop or see the woman and kept going full speed ahead.  I grabbed the wheel from her and tried to steer out of the way from hitting the figure, but it was too late.  My heart stopped as I saw a woman crash into my windshield, shattering it, and then flying through the air.  I held Daisy who was screaming uncontrollably.  She kept her foot on the gas and kept driving as if nothing had happened.  I could not believe what my eyes had just seen.  I decided to take the blame for Daisy, she was too fragile and weak to take it herself.  I wanted to protect her with all my heart, even if it meant sacrificing my reputation and integrity.  At the moment of the incident, the only thing I could think about was how it was going to affect my relationship with Daisy.  I didn’t worry about Tom or Nick finding out the truth of what happened.  All I worried about was the woman I loved and what I had to do to keep her in my life forever.