I faintly hear yelling off in the distance and try to figure out where it’s coming from and who is yelling my name. Wedged between the console and Raegan’s seat is my lit up phone.
“Help! Please help us,” I breakdown crying as I try to reach over and pull it out. My body starts to succumb with everything that’s happened, and I’m afraid shock is going to settle in soon.
“Sutton, where are you? Was that gunfire? Sutton!” I hear the panic in Havoc’s voice.
“We’re hit…” it’s all that I can manage as my breathing picks up. I’m scared I might pass out from hyperventilating.
“Where, Sutton? Where are you?”
I take a peek over the seat and look around the front of the car as the water trickles in faster and see Raegan slumped over the steering wheel.
“No, no, I think she’s dead! They killed Raegan, Havoc!” I scream and then look over at Trick’s body. He’s so riddled with holes, his eyes are open wide, but vacant.
“Where, Sutton, goddamn it!”
I have no idea where we are. All I see is water.
“Water…Havoc, we’re in water. We’re sinking fast.”
“Water?”
I continue to search the windows and then see the bridge, and then my memory comes back to me.
“The bridge. Raegan’s bridge,” I call out then feel my body start to shiver harder.
“We’re coming, baby, hold on.”
The line goes dead, and I hear a moan. Raegan! I gently lean forward and bring her body back against the seat and head rest. She continues to moan, l love you, Kane but doesn’t open her eyes. We need to get out of this sinking ship.
Raegan doesn’t look like she weighs that much so I should be able to maneuver her out and can get to the shore until the guys get here. If we try to wait until help arrives the car will be under, and Raegan won’t survive.
I quickly unclip her seatbelt and try as gently as possible to move her to the backseat with me. The water has now gotten up to our calves. We need to move faster. She’s probably in a lot of pain from being jostled around, probably doesn’t feel good, but she’ll thank me later. Through her moans of protest, I get us both through the back windshield, careful not to let any glass snag her already injured body. From the light of the full moon I can see her shirt’s covered in blood and only pray that she’ll make it to the hospital.
I push up away and from the trunk of the car and place her on her back with my hand under her head to keep the water away from her mouth. I silently thank my father for the one good thing that came out of that mission trip from hell. I taught a lot of the village children how to swim in the local ponds. After I search around, once I’m wading in the cold water, I see both shores and they both appear to be equally far. Making a decision, I start to kick my feet toward one of the sides securing Raegan the entire time. It’s a slow process with no life vest, but I’m trying my best to keep her as safe as possible.
My body is exhausted from the events of tonight and from the coldness that the water is putting on me, I feel as though I could easily slip into a deep sleep. Off in the distance, I hear talking and am about to yell out, when I’m stopped dead.
“Do you see them?” an unfamiliar voice asks.
“Dude, there’s no way they survived the bullets and the crash.”
“I want proof!”
“There! See the car is sinking down. See the headlights, no one survived.”
The roar of motorcycles off in the distance has them scrambling. I pray it’s the calvary with help. The shoreline looks so far away as time passes.
“Let’s go!” one yells and the sound of feet running start to fade into the night.
It’s quiet once again and as I look up I can see stars plastered over every inch of the sky. The moon is bright tonight, I feel my eyes starting to get heavier and heavier. Sleep. Yes, I’ll just relax for a bit until Havoc can get here to save us.
Before Havoc can make the call, Sutton’s name comes across the screen. Thank god one of them is responsible. Raegan and I are going to have one hell of a conversation when I pick her ass up.
The face that Havoc makes has me on edge. He quickly pulls the phone from his ear and puts it on speaker.
“Are you hit?” Sutton asks someone.
Who is she talking to? And hit with what?
