Winter Sky by Patricia Reilly Giff

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff [Giff, Patricia Reilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-385-37193-3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

One ambulance pulled away with the security guard, but Pop lay on the ground, surrounded by the other firefighters.

The engine lights kept flashing; the radio crackled. Danny, Jesse, and Izzy bent over Pop. Izzy’s helmet and mask were off. Her face was filthy.

Siria pushed her way over, bumping into people, whispering “Sorry.” Jesse tugged at her shoulder. “Siria! Just stay back. Wait.”

She scrambled away from him, darting around everyone until she was squeezed in as close as she could get.

Helmet off now. Blue eyes. Streaked face.

He was alive!

Her heart began to beat again.

He saw her, too. “Right as rain, Siria,” he whispered. He reached up and took her hand, squeezing it hard. “Remember …”

It was easy to read his mind. He’d said it so many times: It’s the rescue I love, Siria. It’s making a difference that helps me want to do this.

“I love you, Pop.” How odd her voice sounded.

An EMT put boards around Pop’s leg, shaking his head a little. Siria’s own knees were shaking. She sank down next to him, and Danny’s arm went around her. “He’ll be all right. We’ll just take him to the hospital and they’ll check him out.”

The crowd was leaving now. Willie wound up the hose and the engines pulled away. Mrs. Byars leaned in, her eyes soft. “I could take Siria home with me.”

Siria shook her head. “I’m going with him.”

Izzy nodded. “Of course she is.” Pop smiled a little. “You heard my girl,” he told Mrs. Byars, who smiled back.

Easy as that.

They slid the stretcher into the ambulance and Siria climbed up and squeezed into the small space across from Pop.

She kept his hand in hers as the sirens began again, and watched his eyes closing as the ambulance pulled out. He didn’t even ask what she’d been doing outside in the middle of the night.

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