RESCUE - Part 2

Chapter 12 - mankini

Mouse and I were at home, waiting for our time to go to work to come round, I sat watching TV when the lights started to flicker and the TV turned itself off...okay...I'm not gonna lie, I panicked...slightly...and my first instinct, was to grab some salt and make a salt line...so that's what I did, I made a salt circle, no nasty ass ghost was getting me! And that's exactly when mouse came downstairs, "Charlie what the hell are you doing?" He raised an eyebrow motioning to the circle "I'm...Erm, well the lights started to flicker....and...well the TV just turned off and...Erm" "Charlie...no sane person automatically thinks I know, I'm gonna waste half a pot of salt and make a circle that isn't going to protect me from any 'ghost' that may or may not be here" he folded his arms "how would you know?! Huh?! Huh?! You a hunter now are you?!?" He looked at me..."Charlie..." The lights began to flicker again I went to grab the salt, mouse snatched it from my grasp "NO!" "Mouse.." "YOU, you have lost your salt privileges!" "Lost my salt pri-....now who's the crazy one!?" "Charlie....get ready for work" he took the salt with him as I got changed into my lifeguard uniform. When mouse came back down stairs, I had his car keys and mine "whoever gets to work last...wins!" "Shouldn't it be whoever gets there first?" "Okay...but rules..." He folded his arms "okay go!" "You have to stick to speed limits!" "Obviously" "okay...ready...set...go!" I threw his car keys into the dogs bowl, and darted to my car.

I won, of course I won, as i strolled into the lifeguard tower head held high, Maxi, Jessie and whip stood there "what you so happy about?" "Whip smirked as I placed my bags away "I won!" "She cheated!" Mouse came storming in "Awww is someone a sore loser...." I rubbed his cheek "I'm sorry what are we missing?" The lads looked at us "I challenged him, the first one to get to work won, I won..he's a sore loser" I smiled at mouse "so what's his punishment?" "It's a two parter..." I smiled at maxi "okay, first part, you have to go get a coffee and cake for every lifeguard working today from that amazing cafe up the road" he tutted loudly and walked back out of the tower, as soon as he was out of earshot the lads crowded round me "what's part two?" They leant in "part two...is very bright..." I smirked as I grabbed the binoculars.

Mouse came back after half an hour and plonked the stuff on the side "you know that woman has a thing for me!" He took a long swig of coffee "aww, so cute" "what?!" "You're blushing" I rubbed his cheeks as I took my cappuccino "you're disgusting Charlie she's about 60!" "And clearly has a thing for strapping....youngish...handsome men" I was close to his face "hmm, well I guess so...she has good taste" he came closer "hmmm she does...shame you're taken, I guess I'd better watch my back when we go in there huh?" "Yeah I guess so" his lips brushed mine "yo Charlie! I think it's time for part 2" I pulled away from mouse and looked at maxi who was smirking widely "why do I have a feeling I ain't gonna like part 2?" "Because you 'ain't' sweetie" I put my coffee down "right....part deux, you have to run down the beach..." "Yeah cuz that's so har-" "wearing this" I held up a bright green, far too small mankini "not happening" "it is so happening, if you don't I have something far worse" he looked at me, "knowing you...ill take the mankini" he snatched the green thing and went into the changing room.

He came out shortly covering himself with a towel "are we ready?" "Wait...you're not recording me" "I'm not no...but whip, maxi and Jessie are, get running white ass" I snatched the towel from him, and twisted it, before whipping his white behind and chasing him out the door, it didn't take him long to get there and back, certainly getting attention from beach goers, he came back to the tower and flopped onto the chair "well done sweetie you did good" I kissed his cheek as maxi suddenly jumped up "what's wrong?" "You hear that?" and before any one of us could figure out what this noise was.....the building around us, collapsed, sending us and everybody else in there crumbling to the floor...

I couldn't make any sense of it, I could hear a car horn, people shouting, things tumbling, and the smell of smoke was overwhelming, I could see mouse just a metre or so away "mouse.." I croaked "mouse?!" "Charlie..." He gasped for air as I pulled my foot free sending more debris falling around, I crawled over to mouse, his leg trapped under a rock "I'll get this off!" I wiped my eyes as I hauled off this big lump of concrete that crushed his foot "thanks Charlie...are you okay? Can, can you see anyone else?"  I tried to look around, I could see a hand of whips, his wedding band was the only thing I could recognise "whip??!!"  "Yeah I'm fine, maxi fine, Jessie is unconscious but, we've got him okay, you okay? What the hell happened?!?" I started to shake, ignoring my cut hands and sliced leg "we're okay, I don't know...I think, maybe a car ran into us" "stay calm chick, don't panic, we'll get you out" I nodded as tears ran over my cheeks "Charlie..come here" mouse pulled me into his chest "this is like my worst nightmare" I laughed softly "tight spaces....god I hate tight spaces...." My breathing got worse, and a panic attack was threatening to show as I laid my head on mouse's chest and he wrapped his arms around me tightly.

Mouse POV
I don't know how long it had been, we couldn't hear any emergency services at all until I heard Charlie sniggering "Hahaha" Charlie giggled to herself, hiding her pain as usual "is Charlie laughing?!" Jessie called "what on earth are you laughing at you mad woman?" She took a breath as she laid on top of me just lifting her head up "when...when the ambo comes, just just remember what you're wearing" she chuckled again, her whole body shaking as she coughed from the smoke and dust "AHHH shit." I laughed at her, still in my bright green mankini, "my foot....its gone dead" she began to move "Charlie stay still!!" Things began to crumble around us "it's okay ive done it" she laid back down again until we another loud scraping noise echoed around the rubble left of the tower, the car was moving, sending bits of wood, metal and glass falling over us, I covered her head the best I could stopping anything from landing on her until we both suddenly shouted out in pain as a metal rod pierced through Charlie and into my stomach she lifted her body up trying her best not to move "ch...Charlie don't move" her face went pale, her eyes dull, the pain on her face so obvious "mouse" blood spilt from her mouth onto my chest "mouse...." She began to choke, I could see the rod, luckily she couldn't "it's okay, listen ambo is here, Charlie it's okay, it's okay" "mouse, it hurts ahh...shit is...is that my blood?" "Yo what's happened??!" Whip called through "we, Charlie's hurt, I mean I am but whip mate she's in a bad way, can you see the ambo?" "Yeah they're coming now, hang on, Charlie you're okay chick hang on" "hang on, I'm fucking impaled with a metal rod where the fuck do you think I'm gonna go RYAN!?!" She yelled as more tears rolled down her dusty cheeks "good Charlie, you keep swearing like a trooper" "oh don't worry about it I will!!" She swallowed as she looked at me "we don't have the best of luck do we...." She smiled weekly at me "sure we do!" She raised her split eyebrow "okay...maybe we've had our fair share of bad luck" "fair share?....fair share?!" She laid down on my chest "Charlie keep talking to me..."

We laid there for another ten minutes or so, we could hear shouting, they'd managed to get someone out, and from what whip could see they hadn't made it...then we heard summer, screaming "MUM!! DAD! OH MY GOD IS THAT MUM, SOMEONE TALK TO ME!" She'd obviously seen the body being taken away "mouse reach into my pocket and get my phone" she said weekly I did so, and passed it her, "r....ring summer" she dragged on I nodded and rang her number 'dad!? Oh my god dad! Where's mum?! I've just seen a body, they wouldn't talk to me...shit dad where are you are you okay?' "I'm fine kiddo, just a bit stuck" 'dad where's mum?' "I'm with her....she's...shes okay" 'don't lie to me dad...' "She's been stabbed with a metal rod, were fine chick we'll be out shortly" suddenly we saw daylight. And several ambo crew...."okay mate how we doing" "just peachy" Charlie rolled her eyes as she flopped her head "the rod is through us both..." "That's okay we've got cutters" "I need you to take mouse first...." "Charlie no!" "Please...take him first, we, can sort me out afterwards, he's fine, get him out now, then come back to me" she didn't give me much choice, within seconds she'd lifted herself up and pulled the edge of the pole from my stomach and rolled onto her side as the ambo crew helped me out, as I looked back, Charlie was laying there, metal pole through her lower stomach "guys she's unconscious! LET ME GO!!! GO HELP HER!" I was taken to an ambulance where summer came running with Flynn and Alex "dad!" She flung her arms around me "they've got everyone else out, except mum" summers eyes filled up as there was suddenly a mass amount of people who began to rush, they brought Charlie out in a bed, the rod they'd cut smaller, as they loaded her into the ambulance, "I'll drive us you go with mum" summer kissed me as she disappeared, we got ushered into the back of the ambulance and the driver drove off full speed, Charlie had a hold of my hand and squeezing it to tell me she was okay "mouse..." "Yeah Hun?" "I love you" "I love you too" tears rolled over my cheek "hey mouse..." "Yeah babe?" "I cheated this morning" she smiled at me slightly "yeah?" "Yeah....I unclipped your engine, I had to...I had to make sure I won" she swallowed as the the crew kept an eye on her stats, the looks they gave me were enough to tell me they were low "hey mouse...." "Yeah chick?" "I haven't shown you my new tattoo" "new tattoo?" She didn't answer me "Charlie.." "Yeah, dedicated to you" she smiled, which soon fell, her hand slipped from mine and the crew then surrounded her, nobody answering my questions as the ambo sped up and the sound of the sirens echoed around in my head.