Why Me?

Chapter 4

Sophia:

          I was just walking out of the door with Allie, who was driving me home, when I saw a huge cement pillar rolling down the hill straight towards the school building. Then I saw Noor, standing right in the direct path of the pillar. I gasped and began to run forwards. I was all the way on the other side of the parking lot and I knew with a sinking feeling that I would never get there in time. Then suddenly, Drew, Noor’s weird friend, ran with lightning speed towards her and grabbed her. He jumped, and the pillar rolled right under them. I watched them land hard on the cement sidewalk and then they just lay there.

          Right when I was thinking that they were both dead, Drew jumped up and began waving his hands around wildly. Then he hugged Noor hard. I watched as she tentatively hugged him back. She wasn't a hugging type of person. I was about to make my way towards her when I saw Jasper. He had his hands stuck deep in his pockets and he was looking unconcerned. Knowing him, he probably wanted everyone to die. He walked past the truck without a word and made his way towards Noor. I followed. I didn't get there in time enough to hear what he was saying since he only said a few things to her. When I got to her, Noor looked shaken. She was trembling and she was ghostly pale.

          “Oh my god!” I said immediately, “That was so scary!  I don’t know what I would do if you hadn’t jumped aside in time!”  I didn’t acknowledge that Drew was the one who had saved her life, but it didn’t seem to matter.  As long as she was alive. 

          “Yeah,” she said, looking paler by the second.  How pale could she get?

          “At least you’re okay, right?  Are you okay?  Did you get hurt?” I started to worry that she had hit the ground too hard.

          “Yeah,” she mumbled, looking at something in the distance.  Yeah, she was okay, or yeah, she got hurt?

          "Noor?” I waved my hand frantically in front of her face.  I looked to see what she was looking at, but it must have been invisible because there was just a wall there.  I turned towards Drew.  “Is she okay?  How hard did she hit the ground?”

          “Oh, so now you notice me standing here,” he said, rolling his eyes and crossing his arms.

          “Kid, just give me an answer!  Look at her!  She’s, like, about to pass out!” I screamed at him.  Just then, Noor’s legs gave way and she fainted.  Drew and I reached out to catch her at the same time but then pulled away at the same time, thinking the other one was going to catch Noor.  She hit the ground.  “Now look what you did!  Noor?  Noor?” I shook her, trying to get a response from her.  At least she wasn’t dead, because her chest was still rising up and down.

          “It’s not my fault!  And she was pale because of something Jasper said to her, though.  He whis-”

          “What did he say?” I instantly demanded.

          Drew looked at me for a few seconds as if he was ready to just slap me.  “You didn’t let me finish.  I was going to say, he whispered it to her, so I couldn’t make out what he was saying.”

          “Oh...”  I looked down, fumbling with my hands.  What could Jasper have said that would get Noor so freaked out?  I hated that creep.

          Just then two medics with stretchers came out of the blue to take Noor away.  I noticed just then that while I had been thinking about what Jasper might’ve said, police and ambulance had arrived.

          “How did she pass out?  Was she hit?” asked one of them, sounding rather calm for the situation.

          “No.  Well, yes.  I mean, she hit the ground and she was fine and suddenly it was like she was pale because I think someone I mean yeah somebody came and said something and-”