Come Fly With Me by Helen Rolfe

Author:Helen Rolfe [Rolfe, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

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With weather conditions making it unsuitable to take the helicopter up, the crew had been out in the rapid response vehicle this morning on three jobs and by the time Bess and Noah got back to the airbase, they were both keeping everything crossed that that would be it. They’d stayed out in the field after the first call, not knowing where they’d go to next, but with a couple of hours left on shift and the cloud lifting, Maya had sent a message to them on the road – any other calls would be responded to in the helicopter – and so they headed back to base.

Luckily for them, the remainder of their shift wasn’t too demanding and it gave them a chance to give the rapid response vehicle a decent clean. It was seriously muddy and Bess explained their last job that had seen them trek into a farmer’s field to get to a patient who had had hay bales topple over onto him. He’d been trapped beneath. Noah and Bess had been there to help with more adequate pain relief using the stronger drugs; Noah had gone with him in the ambulance to the nearest hospital with Bess following on to pick him up.

Maya flicked water from the sponge she’d used on the vehicle’s windscreen in Bess’s direction when Bess moaned that she was too hot as she finished scraping off the last of the water from the glass with the squeegee.

Bess gave a squeal. ‘I shouldn’t yelp. That was nice! But roll on autumn; far too warm to be working in this weather.’

‘What are you on about, girl?’ Noah, who was using a chamois leather for the roof to buff it to a shine, called across the vehicle’s rooftop, ‘Make the most of it, won’t be long before we’re all moaning at how cold we are.’

‘Definitely don’t wish summer away,’ said Maya.

Bess emptied the dirty water from the bucket onto the grass beyond the parking bays. ‘I bet you can’t wait to see Isaac when he eventually gets here.’

Maya smiled. ‘I really can’t. It’s a shame he’ll be home for such a short period before his second year at university starts, but I’m pleased he’s got work; it’s good for him.’

‘Has he talked his dad out of the Ireland idea yet?’

She’d told Bess all about it and Noah knew after the other night, but it still felt weird answering the question in front of both of them. ‘What do you think?’

‘That Conrad is one stubborn man.’ Bess threw the pieces of heavy-duty wiping paper they’d used to clean the rapid response vehicle’s hubcaps into a rubbish bag. ‘Why can’t Conrad do something closer to here? Isaac will get to see you too then, catch up with his friends, everyone is a winner.’

‘But then Conrad wouldn’t get one up on anyone else, would he?’

When Noah stayed behind to vacuum the interior of the vehicle, Maya and Bess loaded up buckets, cloths and as much else as they could take in their arms and went back inside the hangar.

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