What Changed Her

Chapter Ten

All of a sudden I could see and it was like I was woken up from a nightmare, I gasped for air and sat up on the shore. I watched like I was a bystander as my body was carried towards the ambulance. I looked to find my family and they were no where to be seen. When I looked back at my body I was sure I was halucinating. The two lifeguards working on me looked like Finn(a friend from summer camp) and Jimmy but I knew it wasn't. I just saw them because of my current condition.

At this point I was completely shocked at how my body was so still and unmoving. Not even a sign of my breathing. Not wanting to be left behind I hopped in the ambulance right before the lifeguard, who got me out of the water and looked like Finn, climbed in and shut the doors. The EMTs jumped into action as the ambulance started to drive away. One was holding a mask with a bag connected to it to my face and looked to be breathing for me. The others immediately started working on my body, charting the various injuries. I had a variety of fracture limbs; I had a possible fracture of my skull and a concussion. They weren't sure about internal injuries either. Not to mention the 20 jellyfish stings all over my body. One of the EMT's checked my lungs, which he said, had fluid in them and he suspected a few broken ribs. They took my vitals and got me in a stable condition they asked how much longer. To which the driver replied five minutes.

Sitting there watching myself breathe I started to get very tired and as I tried to fight it I was dragged further into the darkness. The last thing I felt was uncomfortable pressure on my chest and lifeguard telling me not to do this to him. After that it was if I was asleep but not. Surrounded by this black smoke, which left me unable to breath and the pressure turned into a constant feeling, like I was drowning again.

Finn's Point of View

As soon as I saw Terry and Steve walk past my post in the medical room I had the worst feeling in my stomach. Nothing good ever happens when I see those two. But nothing shocked me more than to see who was following them with a look of distain on her face. It had been so long I thought I was dreaming. Immediately I dialed the number I knew by heart hoping that it hadn't changed in the past few months. I waited as my phone rang hoping to hear a voice at the other end.

"Hello?" By the baritone of the voice I knew the number hadn't changed.

"Dude you aren't going to believe who's in Florida right now and is on my beach!" I was still shocked myself.

"I don't have time to play games-"

"It's Hannah," I quickly cut him off before he got mad.

"No she can't be in Florida she wasn't supposed to be here for another week!"

"Dude, its May 24th."

"That's... No it can't be... God it is! How quickly can I get out of my shift?"

"Its not like she'll actually see you. Just make sure you stay away from her or all this has been for nothing."

At that point there was a lot of screaming I blew it off as the college kids who had ran by while I was on the phone. But the nib nose on the other end couldn't leave it alone, "What's the screaming about?"

As I turned around I saw a body go flying through the air and hit a boat opposite of the one that hit it, "Oh shiz," I grabbed my floatation devise and a back board, "I got to go some chick just got hit by a boat! You need to come in now!!"

I ran faster than I ever have with the adrenaline running through my veins, dropped the backboard on the shore. I dove into the water to go save this girl because no one was able to because they were all shocked or stupid but I didn't have time to decide. As I dove down to retrieve the body I had to doge a swarm of jellyfish and that in itself made me worry about this girl. I finally made it to her and I was scared to death to grab onto an arm the had a scar that no one had other that one of my closest friends from a camp I went to the last summer I was with my mom before she died of cancer. As I surfaced I didn't know what I was, more furious or scared. How could they let this happen? Never again will I let Steve and Terry on this beach. Before swimming away I told one person to call 911 and everyone else to stay put or get off the beach so I could get her to the hospital. As I made it to shore there stood the one person who could be more affected by this than me.

"Just help me get her to the ambulance then pretend you never saw her. Go back to the medical room and fill out my paper work." I comanded.

"You expect me to be able to do that?!?!" He bent down and stabilized her neck. I saw his hands linger on her face. "I can't believe its her, I haven't seen her in 6 years..." At this point we were at the ambulance and he was crying.

"Neither have I. Leave, now or you're fired!" I knew that was a low blow but it's what I had to do. I jumped in and shut the doors of the ambulance and recapped the accident for the EMTs as they checked over Hannah's body. Finally, they got her into a pretty stable condition and at were about five minutes away from the hospital.

I was watching her breathing when I noticed it slowing immediately I checked her pulse and saw it doing the same. "Oh, no you don't, Hannah, you can't do this to me!" At this point I was doing chest compressions while the EMTs started to get the defibrillator and radioed in to the hospital to notify that the patient is possibly coding. As we pulled into the hospital we were able to get her pulse back but she wasn't anywhere near stable.

Not knowing what to do I walked to the waiting room. And of course there sat Steve and Terry.

"Oh Finn thank you for saving her! How can we thank you?" Terry the forever annoying one came and hooked onto my arm as I entered the room.

"I wouldn't say I saved her," I tried to put as much sorrow in my voice as I can so maybe she'd leave me alone.

"But I saw you know who at the beach and he said she was stable and was going to be fine." The look on Terry's face made me just want to deck her because she is so stupid.

"She coded right before we got here. I did all I could. But they had to shock her three times before we got her back and they weren't going to try the third time but I begged them."

"Oh god! Does he know?" I knew whom she was talking about and I was furious she even asked that.

"No. And it's going to stay that way so he keeps his distance. You know if he heard that he would be here in a second!"

"Well, I think he should know."

"And I think you are stupid, but we all have our problems so, start by worrying about your own."

With that I turned and left the waiting room. Hannah's mom asked the I would call and notify Ben which I found ironic, before my mom died I was good friends with Ben and I always teased him for looking like Jimmy so, he knows of all my childhood shanaigans. As if I have to say it was a very sad reunion. I left the hospital after arranging to be the first called with any improvements on Hannah. But I knew I couldn't stay there I had to make sure certain people would stay away.

With a person like Hannah I wasn't sure how all of this was going to work out. I just hoped it would.