Pretty Little Liars: 17 Years Later

Chapter 26

Hanna Rivers *POV*
I can't undo my seatbelt! Neither can Spencer, we both look to each other for help but there is no chance we could. I looked behind me to see my beautiful boy trapped in this deadly car as the water is rising higher and higher. Emily was trying unbuckle Danny's seatbelt before her own. Everything was silent but so deadly, that's the saying right? I was dying from drowning... Suddenly, I saw Spencer had managed to unbuckle her seatbelt she quickly made her way over to me. She held a hair grip in her hand and held it up to me to say that is how she was undoing it. She was fiddling about with my seatbelt for about 5 seconds, it was the longest 5 seconds of my life! I couldn't BREATHE! Finally, I was free and I pulled a hair grip out of my hair so I could help Spencer unbuckle the others. I could now hear ringing in my ears, it was getting louder, louder and louder... I was busy unbuckling Daniel as Spencer was in buckling Ralph. At the same time we unbuckled them both. I looked to Spencer to signal to her to go with them up to the top of the water to make sure they are safe. She shook her head, she didn't want to leave me and Em. I looked to her again to tell her to go. I saw her still unsure, following Daniel out of the drowning car and dragging an UNCONSCIOUS Ralph. I saw Em was loosing her breath, and so was I, but I had to save her. Em looked at me and tried to make it easier for me to undo it withy hair grip but it wasn't working. Suddenly, Emily pushed me away. She was trying to tell me to give up, but I couldn't. I was loosing my breath and my energy. I had been underwater for about 2 minutes now. I then saw Spencer swim back towards us, this time she wasn't leaving until we were safe. She saw I was loosing my breath and told me to go, but I wasn't budging. We both undo the seatbelt and help Emily out, I am surprised that I would last that long underwater. We pulled her out of the falling car and dragged Em to the top of the surface. I looked down just before we got to the top to see the car falling at a rapid speed to the bottom of the lake. I also heard a big clatter as it hit the bottom. We finally reached the top and I took a deep breath in as I could breath oxygen and so did Emily and Spencer. Thank God Emily didn't drown. That would be the worse thing ever, an ex swimmer drowning in a lake... I swam over to the side where I saw Danny standing. I got out as well as Spencer and Emily. I looked over to see my son lying on the ground, half dead.

"Ralph!" I shouted running over to him as I was dripping wet. Spencer and Emily wandered over slightly slower but still running.

"Spencer! Why didn't you stay with him?" I shouted as I blamed Spencer for my unconscious son.

"I was too busy saving your LIFE!" She shouted back in anger and frustration. I sat down with my son, his head on my knees.

"Well are you going to call 911?" I cried, I had uncontrollable tears speeding down my cheeks. I saw Spencer whip out her phone from her back pocket.

"Wow, its still alive? She said very confused, I couldn't concentrate on why her phone was working, I was more worried about the well-being of my son. I looked over to Emily as she was holding on to Daniel tightly to make sure he was warm, even though none of us were.

"Hello? Can I have an ambulance please!" Spencer shouted over the phone as she sniffs between every word. I could hear the conversation extremely clear.

"Yes, of course ma'am, where do you live?" The woman on the other side of the phone said.

"I'm not at home! I'm at Rosewood Lake! By the highway!" She shouted in anger and a bit of sarcasm, as this is Spencer we are talking about. I didn't really hear the rest of that conversation as Spencer walked around the lake to the road so she could signal the ambulance. I got my phone out of my pocket and called Caleb.

"Caleb!" I said as he answered the phone straight away.

"Hanna, are you alright? Did you find Aria?" He said very worried. Until that point I forgot why we were in the car in the first place.

"No, I'm not alright. We didn't find her and we drove straight into a lake!" I said sarcastically and crying straight after.

"Hanna, where are you?" Caleb shouted over the phone.

"Rosewood Lake, by the highway." I said a little bit calmer as I sniffed up my tears.

"Is Ralph okay?" He said concerned. I didn't know what to say, I didn't really KNOW.

"Of course he's not! He probably had a fit when he was underwater, as he is unconscious right now!" I cried and shouted. I saw Emily look over at that point. I haven't told any of the other girls about Ralph's problems. Ralph was a fragile boy, he had epilepsy. He wasn't that bad now as he has medication but I guess it doesn't help when he is panicking underwater, drowning is his all time fear.

"Hanna, stay there, I am on my way. Have you called 911?" He shouted very upset.

"Yeah, Spencer did and she is waiting for them by the road." I said, suddenly he cut off. I sat there holding on to my baby boy. Ralph will always be my baby boy no matter how old he gets. Whether he is 2 or 14! He's my baby boy! I looked over to see Spencer running back with 2 medics. I think they were the same 2 medics from the fire.

"You women bring a large amount of work to this town, don't you?" He said while smiling to me. I looked to the blonde haired guy.

"Jason?!" I shouted as I saw him helping my son.

"Yup it's me, Hanna!" He shouted as he was very busy giving Ralph oxygen.

It wasn't long until Ralph was in the ambulance and on his way to the hospital. I told Jason I would meet him there as Caleb is on his way here and I promised him I would stay here. The girls looked to me on total confusion still as they both heard what I said on the phone to Caleb about Ralph's seizures.

"What did you mean when you said to Caleb that Ralph might have had a fit?" Emily questioned me. I looked to her with sadness in my eyes. Suddenly a car pulls up to the side of the road. Along with a beep of the car horn. Thank god, it was Caleb.

"Where is Ralph?" He asked me.

"He's on his way to the hospital." I said sternly and gave him the look to tell him the girls didn't know about his epilepsy.

"Well, I don't know how all four of you are going to fit in here..." Caleb said as he changed the conversation. Caleb was sat in the car with Toby, Mike and Mona.

"I guess we are all going to have to squeeze in! Won't we girls?" I said while looking to the girls who still looked at me, suspiciously.

"Yeah, I'll sit on Toby's lap," Spencer said enthusiastically and winked to me as I giggled.

"Danny can sit on my lap," Emily said calmer and looked to Daniel and smiled.

"Where are you going to sit, Han?" Caleb said to me smirking. The other girls were already getting into the car.

"I guess I will have to sit on Mona's lap then!" I smiled to him to try and wind him up. Him and Mon didn't see eye to eye but have learned to tolerate each other, for me of course. I jumped into the back as I sat on top of Mona's lap and we both laughed as I almost crushed her completely.