Cough by Druga Jacqueline

Cough by Druga Jacqueline

Author:Druga, Jacqueline [Druga, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-22T18:30:00+00:00


Stokes didn’t know whether to follow and help or to stay put looking dumbfounded on that sidewalk. He knew pretty well what was going on in that house.

He thought back to the day at the Dollar Barn. They day of the accident.

“Help me get some of these people out,” Chief Wells told him.

“Absolutely,” Stokes replied. He followed the chief.

“If you can move!” Chief Wells shouted. “You need to get out of the store. It isn’t stable. A support beam is done. Please make your way out.”

It was just after Wells had said that when Stokes heard the whipping sound and saw the wire snap from the ceiling.

The woman, Macy, was there. Her son was to her side. Stokes was closer to the boy and lunged out to grab him the second the ceiling collapsed.

“Mom?” Thomas cried. “Mommy!”

“She’s okay. She’s okay,” Stokes told him. “That’s not heavy. She’s okay.”

“Can you get him out to safety?” Wells asked Stokes.

Without verbally answering, Stokes nodded and lifted Thomas into his arms. He stumbled over the debris with the boy clutched within his grasp. He focused on the exterior light of the street. The sunlight was his guide

The boy kept calling for his mother over and over and Stokes, every step of the way, found himself reassuring the child that she would be okay. Even though, he wasn’t quite sure she would be. But he didn’t want the child to panic. He reached the end of the store and set him down onto his feet. He had every intention of walking the boy outside to get him medical attention if he needed it. But there something he had to do first. Stokes crouched down to the boys level eyed.

“Look,” Stokes said to the child. “Are you all right?”

Thomas nodded.

“Just scared, right? Well, your mom is going to be just fine.”

“Okay.”

Stokes turned Thomas around to face the window. “See all those people out there?” While Thomas looked out Stokes reach behind him for the air injector gun. “I’m going to take you out there. And get someone to watch you. While I go back and help your mom.” He lifted the air injector. “Does that sound good?”

“Yes.”

“Good.” On that word, Stokes pressed the tip of the air injector gun to the back of Thomas’ arm.

“Ow.”

“What’s wrong?” Stokes asked.

“I think I got bit by a bug.”

“Let me look.” Stokes pointed. “Yep. Looks like a bee sting. You aren’t allergic, are you?”

“No.”

“Let’s get you out there.”

Stokes lifted the boy once more and carried him outside taking him to the first paramedic he could see. Although he was confident the boy was fine, he instructed the paramedic to just check him over and then Stokes went back inside and searched out the mother and others who needed help...

Stokes reflected on that day as he stared at Macy’s home.

He started to tell her. He was ready to tell her that her son was going to be fine. But how could he? How could he with a clear conscience tell her



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