HT100 Challenge #38 - Under the Influence: Wake-up Call
I'm not sure this is quite what Mav had in mind, but hey it's a drabble, it's a new year, and it's been a long time since I've tried my hand at one of these.
In stories, at least the ones with a happy ending, the drunk, spiraling out of control hero got a wake-up call. It was the near disaster moment that gave him the strength to change. But Tobias Beecher was no story’s hero. He’d gotten plenty of wake-up calls, all unanswered. So many near misses had screamed for him to see the danger in his mistress alcohol. He had refused to listen, and now he couldn’t stop listening. Every night, the sound of his car hitting Kathy Rockwell yanked him from his sleep. A life too late, he heard the wake-up call.