My Deliberate Mistake by Claire Svendsen

Author:Claire Svendsen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Thriller, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781482304534
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2013-03-27T13:00:00+00:00

33.

Lights flash across us in the dull dawn. I look up, shielding my eyes from the rain, and see Noah’s truck barreling down the drive. He jumps out and comes running over, Charlie jumping round his heels in excitement.

“What are you doing here?” I say.

Noah looks from Mark’s battered, naked body to my shaking one. He runs back to the truck and grabs Charlie’s dog blanket, throwing it over Mark before putting his jacket around my shoulders.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” I say, even though I’m still crying. “We have to get him to the hospital.”

“We can’t,” Noah shakes his head.

“But your truck,” I scream. “We have to get him out of here.”

He puts his hand on my shoulder but I flinch away from his touch. I only want Mark, nobody else.

“A tree came down behind me as I drove in. It’s blocking the exit,” he looks from Mark to me. “Ana, there is no way out. We’re trapped.”

“Call an ambulance,” I cry.

“There is no signal.”

“No. This can’t be happening.”

“It’ll be okay Ana,” he puts his hand on my shoulder. “Don’t worry. We’ll get out of this. I’ll make sure of it.”

“But what about Mark?” I sob.

Before he can answer, Norma comes back with a bunch of people. Mike and another guy carry an old door awkwardly between them.

“We can use this as a stretcher,” Norma says. “Mike and Carl found it in the back. It’ll work, won’t it?”

I look up at her with bleary eyes. Her words, tossed about by the wind, mean nothing to me. She might as well be speaking a foreign language. We can’t put Mark on a door. We have to get him to the hospital. He needs proper medical care and he needs it now. Without it I know he’ll die. I shake my head.

“Sorry Ana, but it’s the best we could do,” she shouts. “We have to get him back inside.”

I look desperately at Noah, needing him to take charge with his no nonsense cowboy logic. I need him to fix this.

“It'll have to do,” he says.

They place the door on the wet ground next to Mark, feet squelching in the puddles of rain. I don’t want them to move him or touch him. I hold onto his head but Noah gently pulls me out of the way.

“Come on,” he says softly. “Let us help him.”

Mike helps Noah position the door closer to Mark.

“Some summer school huh?” he says. “This shit isn’t what I signed up for.”

Natalie hovers in the background crying. “Me either,” she says. “I want to go home.”

I hate her. Hate that she’s being weak when I’m the one who loves Mark. That she’s trying to make this about her when I’m the one losing everything.

“Well you can't,” I snap. “You’re stuck here like the rest of us so just shut up about it all ready.”

“Come on,” Noah says. “On the count of three we'll slide him over.”

They slide Mark onto the door, his wet body slipping easily on the wood.

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