Here is the fourth chapter. Let's see how the girls managed the crash…
Kelly heard a ringing sound in her ears and she could smell wet grass and gasoline. Her neck felt a bit stiff and her head quite heavy, but the rest of her body seemed fine. She fought to open her eyes, her head not totally back in the game yet. Kelly heard a low moan on her right side and suddenly her head was clear as crystal.
- Bri, you okay? Kelly whispered.
Kelly didn't know why she was whispering, maybe she was afraid of not getting an answer. It was dark inside the car, the only light came from the moon and added a silvery touch to the surroundings. Kelly leaned closer towards the moan she had heard.
- Bri? Kelly whispered a little louder this time.
- I´m here, in one piece I think. Sabrina said.
Kelly hadn't realized that she had held her breath until now when she let it out in big relief.
- No, I changed my mind, make that two pieces instead. Sabrina said with pain in her voice.
- What! Kelly screamed this time.
- Oh, it is just my arm, I think it´s broken. Sabrina said.
A cough was heard from the front seat and the figure in the driving seat stirred round a bit.
- Jill, you all right? Kelly asked.
Jill tried to get a grip on her feelings and thoughts whirling around in her head. What had just happened? It all came back to her in bits, the dinner, her driving, Kelly's scared eyes in the rare mirror, Kris shouting at her. What had she done? Risked the life of her friends and sister, were they all right? She had heard Kelly talking, and Bri she thought. But she had not heard Kris, Jill's heart froze.
- Jill? Bri said with worry in her voice.
- Kris! Jill screamed.
- Kris, you awake? Jill´s voice was only a whisper now.
Kelly looked over at the passenger seat, and a knot immediately started forming in her stomach. Kris was sitting "to still" she thought. And her seat looked to small, Kelly hadn't realized it earlier but now she saw that the passenger side of the car was pushed in by a tree.
- Kris, Kris, oh my god, what have I done, shit. Jill talked fast and pushed the words out.
Bri leaned forward and stretched out her good arm and put two fingers on Kris´s neck. Kelly felt as if the following seconds were the longest she had ever endured.
- I can feel her pulse, Sabrina whispered.
- We have to get her to a hospital. Jill said with tears starting to fill her eyes.
- I go and try to get help. Kelly said and climbed out of the car.
-We have to wake her, we have to get her out of the car. Jill said.
- No, we shouldn't move her, if her neck is damaged we could make it worse. We have to wait for the paramedics, and keep a close eye on her meanwhile.
Jill felt her hands shaking like crazy and her heart hammer in the chest. The adrenaline was gone, this was something else, it was fear. Jill carefully grabbed her sister's hand and squeezed it, come on Kris she whispered, wake up. Jill moved her other hand to Kris face and stroke her gently over the chin and then over her other chin. Jill felt something warm and wet on her hand. Blood. The passenger window was broken and Kris was covered in fragments of glass.
- Bri! She has a cut in her head, above her eye, its bleeding a lot. Jill heard the panic in her own voice.
- Try to stop the bleeding, put something against the cut. Sabrina answered, while trying to control her own breathing, her arm hurt like hell.
Jill took her scarf of and carefully pushed it towards the cut. Kris had to be okay, she had to wake up. What was taking Kelly so long, when would the paramedics arrive?
Sabrina tried to block out the pain she felt in her arm. And she was worried about Kris, how long had she been out of it now. It felt like to long, or was it just minutes? Seconds? As long as she was breathing and had a pulse the best they could do was to wait until the paramedics arrived. Sabrina tried to focus on her surroundings to ease both the worry and the pain. She took in a deep breath, it smells a lot of gasoline here she thought. Then she realized that she also heard the sound from the engine, it was still running.
- Jill! Turn the engine off! Sabrina screamed.
But it was to late, a second later a flame rose from the engine hood. Jill and Sabrina looked at each other, the didn't need to say anything, they both knew that they needed to get out of the car, and fast. The door on Sabrina's side, behind Kris, wouldn't open and Kris´s door was jammed against the tree. Bri moved over to Kelly's side in the backseat and together Jill and Sabrina started to move Kris out of the burning car. Jill held Kris´s upper body and pulled Bri tried to use her good arm to move Kris´s legs from inside the car.
Kelly was still up by the road. She had stopped a car and the driver had helped her to call an ambulance. She looked back down at the car and her heart skipped a beat when she saw flames rising from the hood. Kelly started to run towards the burning car that held her friends, the driver that had helped her tried to stop her. He screamed after Kelly that it was to dangerous and that the car could blow up. Kelly didn't hear him, alls he could think of was her friends.
- I can't get her legs out, the car is pushed in and her legs are stuck! Bri shouted
- Try harder! Jill shouted back. She tried to keep Kris´s head and neck as still as possible.
Sabrina tried again but this time she used both of her arms, not just the good one. The pain was sharp and immediate, Sabrina felt as if she would threw up any second and her vision blocked out. I can´t do this she thought, but I have to. The smoke had started to thicken inside the car. Sabrina forced herself to keep pulling at Kris leg´s, when she thought she was going to pass out Kelly suddenly was right beside her. Together they were strong enough to get Kris´s legs free.
Jill felt like if everything happened in slow-motion. She dragged her little sister away from the fire, next to her Kelly was supporting Sabrina who looked like she was in great pain. Jill could finally hear the sound of sirens from an ambulance in the distance.
Kelly turned around and looked at the car which now was completely consumed with the flames. She looked over at the Munroe sisters, Jill fighting to get Kris as far away from the burning inferno as possible. Kris looked like a ragdoll in Jill´s arms and Kelly wondered if Sabrina was fit to walk on her own so Kelly could go and help Jill. She didn't get the chance to ask Bri. A loud bang was heard and the four girls were thrown to the ground by the force of the explosion behind them.