“How long is he going to follow us for?” I yelled as Austin turned the corner sharply, the honking fading then disappearing. He didn’t answer. As we headed toward the park, the light thankfully changed from red to green.
“He’s gone?” I sat up.
“Amelia, down!” Austin screamed, and all I saw was the front of the car speeding right toward us. He tried, but there was no getting away from it. My whole body jerked forward, my heading hitting the back of his seat, the glass shattering all around us as the car spun out, the tires screeching until we hit a tree.
Silence. Which didn’t seem right. There should be noise. I heard everything one moment, and in the next, everything was silent.
Reaching up, I winced at the blood on the side of my head. The silence slowly changed into ringing.
“Amelia.”
“Amelia!”
I looked to the front, but he wasn’t there. Austin wasn’t there.
Austin?
“Amelia!!”
There he was, to the left of me, already out of the car, his face covered in blood. “Amelia, I can’t get you out from your side. You need to climb through.”
Why?
When I looked, I saw nothing but the brown tree bark we had collided with, the car almost bent around it. The only thing blocking me from it was the air bag.
“Amelia, can you move?”
I didn’t think about it until I tried to. My whole side was numb. I couldn’t feel anything, and panic started to kick in.
“Austin, I can’t move. I can’t feel anything!”
“Amelia, grab my arm.”
“Austin!”
“Grab my arm!” He reached in, over my mother’s body, pulling at me. Bits of glass dug into and cut my arms as he pulled me out, cradling me. “I got you. You’re okay. You’re okay,” he kept repeating as he rushed away from the car, laying me on the grass. The sky is so blue.
“I’ll be right back. We’ll finish this right now, okay. You’re okay.”
I didn’t know what he meant, and I still couldn’t move any part of my body but my head, and when I looked, he was rushing back to the car.
He reached into the window like he was trying to get someone else as dark smoke poured out of the front of the hood. What?
Esther. He was pretending to get Esther!
Fire!
“Austin!” I screamed when what looked like a small spark set the whole car in flames, and rolls of black smoke, my vision kept blurring.
“You really are a pain in my fuckin’ ass.” Blocking my view was none other than Bo himself. “How about we go on a little trip?”
No. Please no!
NOAH!
Noah
What the hell?