Sammy in Holland (Single Wide Female Travels #3) by Lillianna Blake

Author:Lillianna Blake [Blake, Lillianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01D1SF2NC
Publisher: Sassy Women's Fiction
Published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I steered the bicycle out of the park and onto one of the main roads. In Amsterdam, bicycles had the right of way, and since there were so many, riding on the road seemed safe. Once we got the right pattern going with our pedaling we began to fly down the road.

Max was quiet behind me. I didn’t like that I couldn’t see his face, but I thought he would be more comfortable in the back. As we rode further along the road there were many sights to see. I slowed down to look at some of the architecture of the old stacked buildings.

“How are you doing back there, Max?” I took a look over my shoulder.

“Sammy! Eyes on the road!”

The brief glimpse I’d gotten of Max revealed to me that his skin was quite pale and his hands were curled around the handlebars very tightly.

“Don’t worry, I’m going to take good care of you, Max. Nothing bad is going to happen.”

I continued to pedal, only a little bit faster. I wanted him to feel the wind as it blew through his hair. I wanted him to experience that sensation of weightlessness that came with a good coast on a bicycle.

The faster I pedaled, the narrower the road seemed to become. I tried to slow down a little but we were on a hill. As my heart began to pound faster, I realized that I might have been going too fast and underestimated just how much weight was on our two-person bicycle. Even though I slowed my pedaling, the bicycle still raced down the hill. It gained speed with every second that passed.

“Sammy! Too fast! You have to slow down, please!”

I could hear the strain in Max’s voice. I didn’t want him to think that anything was wrong, but something was very wrong. The brakes seemed to be doing nothing to slow us. At the bottom of the hill I thought things would calm down, but instead the bicycle continued to race forward.

There was some traffic up ahead—traffic that had no clue a tandem bicycle was about to collide with it. I had promised Max that nothing bad would happen. Now we were both going to end up in the hospital—if we were lucky enough to make it through.

As the bicycle hit a bump I gulped back a cry of fear. I clung to the handlebars and wondered just why I’d insisted on riding a bike.

The bicycle lurched to the left. I tried to correct it and only ended up tilting to the right.

“Sammy! What are you doing?”

I didn’t have time to think about how upset Max was. All I could see was the traffic we were about to crash into. With nowhere left to go I turned the bicycle hard to the left. At least we would be out of the traffic pattern, even if we were bumped and scraped up. However, what I didn’t account for was the canal right beside the road—the beautiful canal that I’d made a wish into just hours before.

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