Sandy

It's like party climax.

Everyone's a little bit drunk.

People are going off into the woods to hook up, going into cars to hook up, going out to pee, coming and going.

And it's just sort of mayhem.

And I was walking back to the fire, like along the road with my own hookup, who I'm going to call Danny for this little grease reference.

A car.

Started in the woods, moved to a car.

We'd hooked up a little a couple times leading up to this and had sealed the deal, I guess, and we're back.

coming back down the road we were immature we were like 18 so it was just that awkward post hookup feeling where you're like get away from me i don't know how to deal with this you want to see your girlfriends and tell them what just happened yeah you don't want to talk to him the next time we get horny in a few weeks then we'll talk yes exactly it was that vibe not my boyfriend as we're walking by we can see the fire and all of a sudden there's a huge explosion oh

All the woods are lit up.

It's like broad daylight.

You can see everyone all of a sudden and everyone just like freezes and then it's dark again.

And one of the other grads had been gifted a brand new SUV for her graduation and it was full of flames.

There was just like flames inside of it between me and the fire.

Pretty quickly, the car was engulfed in flames and the trees around it were starting to catch on fire.

Oh my god.

and people are just running around chaos a few people who could reach their cars got in their cars but then before anyone could really leave we could hear sirens i'm assuming someone at the party or maybe a neighbor or someone heard this and called i can't make it back to my car a five minute walk away and out this road that's a single lane dirt road for a few miles and we're all drunk

So Danny and I, we grab hands, just run away from the road, away from the fire, down this hill until we reach like a marshy area and we can't keep running.

We just hunker down under a pine tree, kind of like in the bushes.

We can still sort of see and hear what's going on on the road, but we're like out of view.