"Roxy? Roxy? Are you alright?"
Roxy winces as she attempts to fully open her eyes. Ugh, where is all this pain coming from? She hears her friend calling out beside her.
"Denise? I'm here. I'm right here. What happened?"
"Oh, thank goodness you're awake. Oh my gosh, Roxy. Look at your dress. It's turning beat red."
Denise pulls a handkerchief out of her purse and applied direct pressure to a 3 inch gash on Roxy's chest. Then, for the first time since the explosion, she takes a look around. People were scattered on the floor. For the most part, everyone seemed to be alive. Then, she sees one body that appeared lifeless near the entrance.
"No! Amanda! Roxy, keep applying pressure to your wound. I have to go help Amanda."
She was instantly by Amanda's side making an initial assessment. After hearing no breath sounds or finding a pulse, she begins CPR.
"One, two, three, four, five…"
Roxy lifts her head off of the cement. It takes a minute for the room to stop spinning. She figures she must have hit her head pretty hard. She reaches up to feel a giant goose egg starting to form.
"One, two, three, four, five…"
What in the world is going on? Why is someone counting like that? She turns her head to see Denise and is almost sick to her stomach at the source of the counting. Then, she realizes Denise wasn't her only friend in there with her.
"Claudia Joy? Roland?"
It took her a moment to locate them in all the chaos. Both appeared unconscious but living. Just then, what remained of the doors to the bar was smashed in, and numerous paramedics rushed onto the scene. Roxy just kind of scoots herself out of the way. She's obviously one of the not-so-injured at this moment in time. She feels like an outsider looking in…like everything is a dream, so surreal. She watches as the paramedics literally have to pull Denise off of Amanda to take over, Denise sobbing. She watches as paramedics lift both Claudia Joy and Roland onto gurney's…neck braces and all. Then, a wave of dizziness envelopes her, and she feels her body drift to the floor.
"Ma'am? Are you okay?"
"Huh?"
"We need another gurney over here!"
And that's the last thing Roxy remembers hearing before slipping back into darkness.