12. Blurs
"You don't get to just disappear for two years and come back expecting everything to be the way it was. So tell me, Maya, where were you?"
Previously on Starting Over Again
"Can I talk to Maya please?"
"S-sure."
"I missed you."
"I missed you, too."
"Please drop it, Riley, I'll tell you when I'm ready. Can't we just be friends again. I need you."
"You're my best friend peaches. You can tell me anything."
Any reply was cut off by the sound of a car getting closer and closer.
One of them was going to get hit, and she sure as hell wasn't going to let her get hurt. Running forward, she shoved the other girl out of the way mere seconds before her body collided with the front of the car, sending her flying through the air before landing lifelessly on the tarmac floor.
The sound was clear as day from inside the small café. The screeching of tires, the bang of something hitting metal followed by the screams of people.
Exchanging looks, adults, followed by Lucas and Farkle, dashed out the door and up the steps. Cory and Shawn were the first to arrive at the top of the stairs.
The second they saw the scene in front of them, they froze in their tracks, causing the other two women to run into the back of them.
The scene in front of them was horrific.
One girl was sat up, looking to be in incredible – but she was awake none-the-less – as she just stared at the girl that was sprawled across the floor.
Limbs were bent at different angles and blood was beginning to pool under her. Her head was turned away from them so they couldn't see the damage done to her but from the state of the rest of her body, it couldn't be good.
Passers-by had begun to crowd around the scene of the accident, the driver of the car looking horrified as he stood by his car door, phone in hand to call for help.
Topanga and Katy stepped around the two men and took in the scene for themselves, gasping at what they saw, "Oh my God."
As if they had been snapped back to reality, Cory and Shawn dashed over to the girl on the floor, dropping to their knees next to her while Topanga and Katy went to the other as Lucas and Farkle just watched on, not knowing what to do. Upon seeing her mother there, she turned up to her and just started full-blown sobbing, "It hurts."
"Where sweetie? Where does it hurt?" Katy asked as she moved down to look at her foot, clearly having been damaged in the accident. Looking up at the Topanga, she knew that it was serious just by looking at the state of her.
"My foot," She replied through gritted teeth before her eyes began to slip shut.
Noticing the girl's head beginning to become limp, Topanga shook her a little, "No, come on. Stay awake." But it was too late, she had slipped unconscious.
The pair jerked their heads towards the men when they heard Cory call out, "We need an ambulance now, she's not going to hold on much longer."
As they dropped by the side of the girl, the damage was becoming more and more apparent. Careful not to move her too much, Shawn lowered his head near her mouth to check if she was breathing.
His own breath caught in his throat for a split second before he heard a shallow, strained breath. "She's breathing – barely – but she's breathing," He sighed for a moment before instructing Cory to check her pulse.
"Weak, it's so weak," Was the feedback he got.
Shawn jumped up and moved to the other side of the girl, noticing blood pouring from the side of her head, "I need something to stop this bleeding, now!"
Someone who was standing by removed their scarf and handed it to Shawn, who folded it up so it would work as a temporary bandage until real help got there.
"We need an ambulance now," Cory called out after a few minutes, feeling her pulse dropping as time passed. "She's not going to hold on much longer."
As if he had summoned one, sirens could be heard in the distance. They got closer and closer before finally stopping, paramedics jumping out of the back and rushing over to the two separate girls.
Time passed and the four were forced to step back for the paramedics to do their work. Before long, they were strapped up and being loaded into the back of the ambulances. A woman stayed behind and looked at them, "Are you their parents?"
"Y-yeah, yes were are," Katy asked, her eyes rimmed red with unshed tears as reality began to sink in.
"We can take two of you with us to the hospital, one in each. Decide now – we need to get her in if there's any chance for her," She said before she turned and dashed towards the ambulance she arrived in.
Topanga was the one to push Shawn and Cory forward, "Cory go with Riley and Shawn with Maya. I'll close everything and we'll be there as soon as soon as we can."
Climbing into the back of the separate ambulances, the doors slammed and they were gone.
Farkle just stood on the side of the road, watching the scene unfold. Two of his best friends were in trouble, they were hurt and he didn't know what to do with himself. One of them was fighting for her life.
These were the girls he had met at Riley's Halloween party at the age of seven and had stuck with ever since. And then he had lost Maya when she moved away unexpectedly, tearing their group apart. And now she was back.
But now one of them was fighting for her life. He could lose her in a split second.
Lucas' hand pulled him out of his thoughts as he tried to direct him in the direction of Topanga's car.
It was when he felt something warm trickle down his cheek did he realise he had begun crying.
Oh aren't I an evil little bean? You thought you would find out who was knocked down in this chapter, didn't you? You don't know how hard it was not to reveal names in this but I did it. And I promise you that you will find out in the next chapter. But the question is, when will I post the next chapter? Haha the stories fate is in my hands. I don't really know if I like this chapter, oh well :S You lot blew up over the last chapter, something like twenty+ reviews! Thank you so much! So I have two questions for you; 1) who do you think got knocked over. 2) If I was to write something Boy Meets World (Topanga centric because she's my BMW queen – Maya's my GMW queen) would you be interested? It would be something dark – because that is all I ever seem to write in life. Let me know!