*Honk* *Honk*
The honking sounds startled Cynthia, and she instinctively relaxed the hands that had tightened on the steering wheel while she had been unaware. She was pulled out of her thoughts, surprised that she was at a red light, and struggling to reconcile herself with the memory of herself stopping her car, as she had not even been aware of that.
Her heart sped up from the adrenaline her body released at that moment, and she had to force herself to press the gas pedal with no abrupt movement.
It took her a moment before she managed to return to normal, at least somewhat, and she breathed deeply a few times, just for sake of it, just to recompose herself.
