Beginner's Luck by Alyssa Brugman

Author:Alyssa Brugman [Alyssa Brugman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781864715538
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2012-03-14T08:35:58+00:00

18 Concussion

Shelby jumped down from the tree and slithered down the rock face, her boots scrabbling as she used the vine to lower herself to the bottom. At the foot she grabbed the torch from where it had settled under a bush.

Lindsay was laying flat out – arms and legs splayed. Omigod, she's dead!

Shelby knelt on one knee and shone the torch on Lindsey's face. There was a graze along her cheekbone. Lindsey's eyes roved around, almost rolling in their sockets.

Phew! Shelby thought. At least she's still alive.

Lindsey blinked fast, scrunching her eyes, and then she opened them again, looking up at the sky.

''Zis this Far North Queensland?' she asked. Her words slurred together.

'It's me, Shelby.' She shone the torch on her own face briefly and then pointed it back towards her friend.

Lindsey smiled. 'Hello, I'm Lindsey.'

'Yes, I know.'

'I'd like to go home now.' This time her voice was clear, almost prim.

'You fell down and banged your head. You probably shouldn't move . . .'

But she was too late. Lindsey sat up suddenly, bending from the waist. Her lip curled back as she drew air in through her teeth. She touched the back of her head and winced.

'Are you bleeding?' Shelby asked.

Lindsey giggled. It was a horribly squeaky gurgling sound. 'Silly! I can't see.'

'At all? Are you blind?' Shelby asked. She waved her hand in front of Lindsey's eyes.

Lindsey started to shake her head. Then she stopped, pressing her fingers to her temples. 'No, dummy, I can see you, but I can't see the back of my own head.'

'Let me look,' Shelby said. She shifted around on her knees and shone the torch on Lindsey's skull. There were some leaves and twigs stuck in her hair, but Shelby couldn't see a wound or any blood.

'There's nothing there. Why did you think this was Far North Queensland?'

'Who did?' Lindsey asked.

'You. Just then you asked me if this was Far North Queensland.'

'No I didn't. You must be thinking of someone else,' Lindsey replied.

'Lindsey, there's no one else here.' At least she hoped not. 'I think you have concussion. Can you move?'

Slowly Lindsey wriggled her right arm and then her left. 'Yep. That really hurts.' Shelby shone the light onto her legs. Lindsey wiggled her left foot and then she started to move the right. 'Yow!' she squeaked. 'Not good.'

'Can you move it at all?'

Lindsey tried again. She grunted. 'I don't think so.'

Shelby didn't know what to do. At Pony Club she'd been taught to make the person lie as still as possible until the ambulance arrived, just in case they had hurt their neck, but there wasn't going to be an ambulance out here.

'Lindsey, what's at the end of the path?' Shelby asked. 'Is there a house? Does it come out at a road?'

'You wanna what now?' Lindsey touched her temples again.

'Who lives in the doll's house?' Shelby asked.

Lindsey grinned at her, with no recognition in her face at all. 'I don't know. Is it a joke, like a knock-knock?'

'Where were you

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