girl next door

chapter 14

we got to the drag race and found a good place to stand. me being short, i couldn't see hardly anything.

"harry let me get on your back" i said.

"why?" he asked.

"i can't see" i said and he laughed. i hopped on his back and the drag race started.

i couldn't tell who was driving either of the cars though. one of the cars was about to cross the finish line when another car came out of nowhere and crashed into them both causing a blue car to flip over and a red car to roll on its side.

i finally realized who was in the cars. the red car was harrys cousin daniel. octavia's son, she's sawyer's sister. but the other car was jeremy's. 

i hopped off harrys back and we ran over to the cars. i didn't know what to do so i called 911. harry helped daniel and i for some reason helped jeremy.

"jeremy can you hear me?" i said looking through the window of the car upside down.

"r-river is that you?" he said.

"yes, jeremy can you move?" i asked.

"y-yeah i just can't get my seat belt off" he said. i panicked and climbed inside the car.

"can you hold yourself up if i get the seat belt off?" i asked and he nodded slightly. i yanked the seatbelt off and he got down slowly blood rushing down the sides of his head.

i grabbed his hand and helped him out when the ambulance arrived and put him on a pull away as well as daniel. harry and i both got in the ambulance no matter what they said about me not being family.

we got to the hospital and they took jeremy and daniel to different rooms. i felt something stroll down my cheek and realized it was a tear. why am i crying? i quickly wiped it away but another fell.

i looked over at harry and he noticed i was crying.

"hey what's wrong?" he asked pulling me into a hug.

"i-i don't know" i said hugging back.

"you didn't get hurt did you?" he asked.

"no just a little dirty" i said.

"daniels gonna be fine you don't need to worry" he said. i don't know if it was daniel i was worried about though. i think it's jeremy i'm concerned for. why? i don't know. i guess all these years of being enemies has made me care about him.

"harry i don't know if he's the one i'm worried about" i said hesitantly. he was about to say something when octavia rachel sawyer and my parents came running in.

"river are you okay? why is there blood on your hands?" dad asked in a rush taking my hand.

"it's not my blood i'm fine" i said.

"who's blood is it?" mom asked wiping my tears away.

"jeremy sheldons" i said.

"what? why is his blood on your hands?" sawyer asked.

"h-he was gonna die if i didn't get him out of the car i was helping him" i said.

"i'm proud of you" dad said hugging me.

"is daniel gonna be okay?" octavia asked harry.

"yes i got him out of the car pretty quickly" harry answered. i had stopped crying by then when cherry and bob ran in.

"where's my son?" bob yelled.

"sodapop, emma, have you seen our son?" cherry asked nicely.

"no but our daughters the one that saved him ask her" my mom said cockily and i rolled my eyes. not the time mom.