Suicide Hotline € Lashton

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Luke stood there watching the small body plummet into the water. Luke quickly sat him phone down and jumped into the icy water. He was determined to save this young stranger he had just spoke to over the phone. He drifted closer to Ashton who had blue lips and crimson water around him.

Luke grabbed Ashton and quickly swam to the surface while his lungs began to scream from the lack of oxygen. Luke broke through the surface seeing a few bystanders had thrown down a rope to pull them up.

As Luke stood back on the sidewalk right beside where Ashton had jumped he laid Ashton on the sidewalk. He wrapped Ashton in his jacket as the five or six men and women who saw the young boy jump were calling 911. Luke placed his hand around the boy's wrist and felt nothing. Then Ashton's neck: still nothing.

"There's no pulse." Luke said as he started chest compressions. The woman began to yell at the 911 operator as Luke tilted Ashton's head back to clear his airway. Luke connected his lips with the blue lips of the lifeless Ashton and began CPR.

As the ambulance pulled up Luke heard something that almost made him cry.