Your New Best Friend by Jayne Denker

Author:Jayne Denker [Denker, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2017-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

If this were a normal evening, Hannah and I would sort this mess out—what to do about my feelings for Conn, whether or not to share my suspicions about Sasha with him. But this, apparently, is no normal evening.

First Hannah's reply is drowned out by a bloop, bleep, and then a few buzzy honks from an emergency vehicle trying to work its way through the festival crowd. I don't have time to wonder what's going on before my phone starts ringing. I struggle to get it out of my purse.

Then the words in my ear don't make sense. I don't realize I'm frowning in confusion until Hannah asks, "What's wrong?"

"Uh…" It's as if I'm not sure. I should be, yet oddly enough I have to think about it.

"Melanie?"

"My…my dad," I finally manage to say. "It's Officer Pauline. She says he…I…um…have to go."

"Wait. What?"

I'm already making my way back up the pier toward town, Hannah scurrying to keep up with me.

"Melanie! What did she say?"

We're back at the food truck area quickly enough that I don't have to answer her. The scene speaks for itself.

"Dad!" I shout, pushing through the crowd that's gathered.

I can see his face twisted in pain as the paramedics lift the gurney into the back of the ambulance. He has a cannula for oxygen, and he's swathed in thin white blankets up to his neck.

"Wait!" I shout to the paramedics. "That's my dad. What's going on?"

There's a light touch on my shoulder, and I turn to find Sasha giving me her serious-doctor face. "Melanie. I need you to keep calm."

Which only makes me want to punch her. "Tell me what happened."

"Conn's parents called me. They were with your father. He wasn't feeling well. He collapsed just as I got here from the inn, and I called 9-1-1. He's in a lot of pain."

"Is it his heart?"

"I don't want to diagnose him without tests."

There's some confusion as to whether I can ride in the ambulance with him or not. Then I find myself being led to Hannah's car while the ambulance makes its way back out of the crowd, so agonizingly slowly I want to start pushing people out of the way myself. I keep glancing back as Hannah tugs me along.

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