AutoPilot

You know when you keep repeating something you do for a while, it becomes a routine?

That means your mind goes on autopilot. That would be exactly what happened to Reah. Her routine was to wake up, brush her teeth, take a shower, and eat breakfast, get her phone, drop her daughter at her school, and go to work. Everyday was so similar.

That morning, she did all those things, she looked behind the car and saw her daughter wasn't there from the mirror, meaning she had dropped her off at her school already and went to work. It was a really hot summer day, more than 90 degrees and she was sweating in her business uniform.The steering wheel was hot to the touch when she drove to her workplace. When she got there, she reached for her phone, when she suddenly remembered she left her phone at home, still charging. Reah's mind had left a illusion that she had got her phone, since she got used to that. Around lunchtime, she reached for her lunch when she found it wasn't there. She thought she brought it already. When she was driving home...

Reah could smell a really horrible smell coming from somewhere inside her car. Ignoring it, since she was almost at home, Reah pulled into her driveway. When she got home, her husband asked where her daughter was.

" Curses, I forgot her at the day care!" Reah muttered.

Running back to her car, she turned the car on and drove to the day care. When she walked up, she read a sign on the door saying they were closed today. Wait... this wasn't here this morning!

"Where could she be!?" Reah thought to herself, panicking.

Then it hit her. The phone on the counter, the sweltering heat, the wheel that was hot to the touch, the horrible smell in the car. She had never dropped of her daughter. Her daughter had fallen asleep in the car, so when Reah drove past her Daycare, she hadn't said anything.

She could remember that horrible smell, like decaying flesh. And when she looked at that rear-mirror, her daughter was still young, so she was short. If she was lying down... she wouldn't be able to see her through the mirror. With trembling hands, she opened the door of the backseat...

She was hit with the strong smell decaying flesh, and in there.... laid her daughter. She hadkilled her daughter! She had no food, no water, no air, and it was blistering hot outside. Her daughter had been burnt to death sitting in the hot car for hours. Letting out a cry of horror, she wanted to run away. Every instinct in her told her to run away, though she didn't. Reah felt horribly guilty, as it was her fault for forgetting her daughter in the car. She walked closer, until she saw the arm of her daughter twitch...