Into the Wind by Ginger Zee

Author:Ginger Zee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2019-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

“Helicity. Helicity, wake up.”

Helicity groaned and opened her eyes a crack. Harsh overhead lights made her vision swim. She squinted to bring the person in front of her into focus. “Suze?” she croaked. “Suze. Where am I?”

“The hospital,” Suze replied. Her elfin features were pinched with worry, but she managed a smile. “Well, the couch in the waiting room of the Bolivar hospital, to be exact. How are you feeling?”

Helicity licked her parched lips. “My head is pounding. My throat is killing me. And the smell from this couch is making me feel sick.” She struggled to sit up.

“Easy does it,” Suze advised, quickly sweeping her arm around Helicity’s shoulders to steady her. “There. Better?”

For a split second, Helicity was better. Then it all came rocketing back to her. Not just the derecho, but the wailing sirens, flashing lights, and urgent voices of the first responders. Questions. Answers. More questions. A blanket around her shoulders. Her sodden beach bag rescued from the dinghy and thrust in her hand. And blood on her feet and legs. Trey’s blood.

She seized Suze’s arm. “Oh, God. Trey!”

Suze covered Helicity’s hand with her own. “He’s okay, Helicity. They transported him to a hospital near Lake Livingston. He lost a lot of blood and will need a ton of stitches. But his mother says he’s going to be fine. Mia will be, too. She’s here, getting checked out.”

“And Sam?”

“Right behind you.” Sam came around a corner with a bottle of water. Exhaustion had punched deep circles under his eyes. Like her, he was still wearing his dirt- and blood-streaked clothes. “Here. I thought you might need this.”

“Thanks.” Helicity drank thirstily, then wiped her lips and looked up at him quizzically. “The last thing I remember is getting in the back of your car with Mia after the police officer dropped us at the Valdezes’ cabin.”

Sam gave a little laugh. “Yeah, you both fell asleep while I was calling Suze. You stayed asleep when I carried you in here. Mia got the star treatment with a wheelchair ride.”

Helicity flushed to her roots imagining Sam holding her in his arms and silently gave thanks that she’d put on her cover-up before getting into his car.

Suze told her she’d called her parents. Helicity was about to ask if Andy knew what had happened when she saw her brother walking down the hallway. Shoulders hunched and hands shoved deep in his pockets, he seemed unaware of them.

“Andy!” she cried. “Andy, over here!”

His head snapped up. “Helicity?” Confusion contorted his features. He glanced around and hurried over, then stopped short, his eyes widening. “What the hell happened to you?”

Now it was Helicity’s turn to be confused. She knew she and Sam looked like they had been through war. And they had, in a sense. But wouldn’t Andy know why they looked so wretched?

“The storm,” she said in bewilderment. “The derecho. I—we—were caught in it.” In the cabin, she’d been too laser-focused on the immediate trauma to think about the bigger picture. But now the reality of what had happened—and what might have happened—sank in.

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