New Girl in Town by Nancy N. Rue

Author:Nancy N. Rue
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan/youth Specialties

chapter nine

“What’s going on?” Celeste said. “Is she choking?”

I didn’t answer her. I just pulled Bonnie close to me and held her tight against my chest.

“It’s okay, baby” I said. “Just try to calm down. I’ve got your medicine in my bag—”

Which was in the car.

“Go get my backpack!” I said to Celeste. “She’s having a reaction and she needs her meds!”

Celeste sprang up, but Richard grabbed her arm. “I think you better get security,” he said. “She’s not breathing.”

I pushed Bonnie out at arm’s length and felt every one of my own vital functions stop. Her face was turning blue, and her eyes were drifting, as if we were losing her. I shook her, but I only felt her going limp in my hands.

“Go!” Richard shouted at Celeste.

She took off, screaming, “Somebody help us!” at the top of her lungs. Richard took Bonnie from me and laid her on the floor. I watched in stricken horror as he stuck his finger in her mouth

“What are you doing!”? I said.

I tried to push him out of the way but he brushed me off and put his mouth over Bonnie’s. Her chest rose, but I knew he was doing the breathing for her. All I could do was rock back and forth and say over and over, “God, help! Please help! Please help!”

I kept saying it, in various degrees of panic, as a security guard arrived, took one look at the scene, and called for an ambulance. By then, we’d attracted a crowd. The guard took charge of keeping people from getting too close with their gawking, and a woman in scrubs pushed her way through and offered to relieve Richard. They took turns breathing for Bonnie until the paramedics arrived.

I was practically screaming at that point. Two of them got oxygen on Bonnie and lifted her like a rag doll onto a stretcher. One of them, a woman, came to me and wrapped a blanket around me, which I threw off as I tried to scramble up and go after my sister.

“We’re going to Bay County Hospital,” the woman said. “You kids have a car?”

“I’ll bring her,” Richard said.

“I want to be with Bonnie!” I shouted at all of them.

But the paramedics had already taken off at a dead run with the stretcher.

Somehow, we got into Richard’s car, and I used Celeste’s cell phone to call Mom at work. She and my dad showed up at the hospital only minutes after we arrived, but they charged past me and disappeared into the bowels of the emergency room, leaving me between Celeste, who was as pale and stiff as an icicle, and Richard, who put an arm around each of us and kept saying, “She’s going to be fine. They’ve got her on oxygen.”

“What just happened?” Celeste said. “I mean, we were just walkin’ along talkin’ and all of a sudden she stops and she goes, ‘My tongue’s getting big, Celeste.’” She rolled her eyes. “I thought she was playin’, so

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