We ran into the woods, his hand pulling mine through the snow. The sound of security guards flooded the bridge. I looked over my shoulder to see them shine their flash lights towards us.
"Duck!" I yelled and pulled Alex to ground.
I hit my back and felt the air come out of me, through the sudden cloudy tears I looked at the light shine just above us. Alex was on top of me hunched over. He looked around and made sure it was safe to get up and keep going. He looked down and smiled at me, his perfect pretty boy teeth. This kid has no go damn imperfections.
"Nice call... I never realized how beautiful your eyes were. You have those baby doe eyes" He said staring into them.
He wouldn't break eye contact.. what do I do?
I knock him off of course.
"Yea, they used to sparkle, but then I watched my mom and dad's heads get avulsioned. You know... when I was a "baby doe"." It's weird how I can say that with no remorse.
No more talking happened when we continued to walk. I liked it this was, dead silence in the brisk moist air makes me happy. Calm. Non-psycho. His cabin came into view and my stomach started to be fluttered. I haven't been here since the death of my parents. His parents were here, and they haven't seen me in years. They tried to take me in, but I wouldn't let them.
I stood still and started to feel the memories race in my head and then my body go down. The laughter of the dictator after the slaughter of my parents. The orphanage I refused to leave until i was visibly old enough to take care of myself in my own home. Abandoning my best friend when he needed me the most.
"Noel?.. Noel!" I felt a shake on my shoulders "Come back Noel! Come back!"
The visions turned into young Alex screaming for me. Tears down his face as he cried my name and I just looked at him through the window.
"I'm sorry Alex. I can't" Things faded and I felt my heart stop.
The silence started to come back, Alex started fading, and the darkness started to kick in.
Then I felt something hit my chest really hard. I shot up and gasped in what felt like a first breath out of the womb. A figure is kneeling over me, and I noticed what it did. A cardiac-tic thump, to reset the heart.
"Alex we have to get her in the house now, she's might be going back into cardiac arrest. Help me pick her up." It was an older voice.
Two arms picked me up and dragged me into the cabin, it was warm. The couch they sat me on was warm too. So was the hand holding mine. The black figure is back, and I saw what looked like the shadow of an AED.
"Noel sweetheart. Your heart rhythm isn't normal. I need to use the AED just in case you slip under again. It's going to hurt." Said the figure.
From being in a medic class I know what they can do and how much they can hurt if someone is some what conscious. I shivered as I felt someone cut my shirt, but I shouldn't worry since I'm about a negative A cup. The pads were cold, but the hands weren't. I blacked out for a second.
Shock Advised.
"Clear!" I heard.
Then it hit, my whole body felt like it had just been injected with every energy drink in the world. The burning in my chest and the pain in my body. The thing is... it didn't hurt.
The light started to fill in and I could see who the dark shadow. It was Alex's dad. He rolled me into the recovery position. I coughed and started shaking again. I started to gather what the hell just happened and started focusing and pushing myself up.
"Noel you shouldn't." I felt hands try to push me down.
I warded them off "Don't I'm fine."
The hands disappeared and I opened my eyes, I saw Alex in front of me.I turned my head to see his dad taking the pads off my chest.
"Thank you Richard." I said grabbing my soaking wet shirt "damn."
"Here." I looked back at Alex. He handed me his shirt. "I'll grab you some pants from upstairs."
I watched his shirtless body run up the stairs, he wasn't the most muscular guy, but he was toned. I looked back at his dad and just stared at him. I was extremely out of it, eye squint and mouth barley shut. Staring.
"Noel, you are only 16 years old, almost 17. But you're not going to live to see that number if you keep abusing cigarettes and pain killers." He gave me that stupid ass glasses tilt stare.
"I'm not abusi-"
"Don't try to lie. I was number one in my medical class and number one in the barracks. I can tell you took a dosage of pain killers and made your body go through stress which caused your heart to over load." He kept going on but I stopped listening. oops.
Abuse is a dumb word, how can I abuse a trip from reality? He doesn't get it, he's just another communist junkie. I remembered why I hated him but loved Alex's mother. Where is she?
"sorry to interrupt your lecture Richard." he paused mid sentence about some bullshit. "but wheres Janice?"
His face saddened and his fist gripped "She left."
"what?" eye brows were raised.
Tears brimmed his eyes "I found her in bed with another man, someone from the forest. She smuggled him in and he smuggled her out..." I stopped paying attention again.
I just asked where she was and this man is surpassing his anecdote limit. Heartless I know. Feeling woozy I got up from the couch and made my way towards the stairs. Not sure if he finished his story. Not sure I care he saved my life. Oh well, I'm not here to be nice.
"I'm sorry to hear that Richard." Then I made my way to Alex.
