"Of course your alive!" Kendall replied softly as he flashed me a fake smile, his eyes told me he was nervous.
"Why are you here?" I asked remembering he was off to talk to Mackenzie.
"It doesn't matter about that just yet... let's try and get you out of here shall we" he replied rubbing the side of my arm that he could reach as he looked uncomfortable, half in, half out the driver's side door leaning over to me.
I nodded.
"Okay I'm going to go round and try and to get to your side alright... we will have you out in no time" he promised.
"Okay" I replied in a whisper. I watched on as he crawled backwards out of the driver's door and then clung on to the tree out side as he made his way up the embankment to get to my side of the car.
I must of blacked out again as the next thing I knew I heard Kendalls voice in my ear once more.
"Sheri?" He whispered softly by my side.
I forced my tired eyes to open but they wouldn't. "I'm here" I replied regardless.
"Okay I'm going to try and get you out... put your arm around my neck" I heard him say. I then felt my arm being moved for me as Kendall wrapped it over his shoulders. I felt the pain gnaw away in my hand as my arm was moved.
"It hurts!" I moaned out.
"I know... I know" Kendall said gently as he tried to keep me calm. His own appearance still looked painful from his fight with Logan. Expect he knew exactly what my body felt like.
Kendall then tried to lift me from the foot well. Pain from my chest and my ankle burnt through my veins.
I screamed out in the unendurable agony that shot through me, waking every sense in my body. "STOP!... fuck please stop..." I howled out.
This feeling was too much. I was breathless from the effort of dealing with the torturous stabbing as pain raged through me like a tornado.
Kendall placed me back down slowly.
"I'm going to phone an ambulance Sheri okay" Kendall said.
"Have you... not done that alr..eady?" I said sobbing.
Kendall took my good hand and stroked it softly as a way to say sorry.
"I panicked" he whispered.
I looked up to him, he wouldn't take his eyes from me as his other hand took his phone from his pocket.
I gripped his hand tighter. "Don't leave me will you" I asked emotionally.
"I'm not going any where unless you tell me to" he replied as he placed the phone to his ear.
He flashed his smile at me, the killer dimples the best medicine I had received so far as they reminded me of happier times.
"Ambulance please!" I heard Kendall say in to the phone. I looked up at him again, his eyes scanned my crumpled broken body as I still lay slumped and uncomfortable in the foot well.
He had a sad look in his eye that I wanted to go away.
"A car accident!" Kendall said in to the receiver. "Yeah one passenger... female, she can't move!" He said calmly. "Yeah she is awake"
I listened to his voice the tone was relaxing, it sounded like silk.
"Er... hang on." Kendall replied to whoever he was talking to. "Sheri where are we? What's the road called?" He asked.
"It's... the baron farm estate. This isn't really a road it's... erm.." I said taking a deep breath. "It's baron copse... just a track road used for forest machinery... tractors..." I said trailing off, taking another deep breath. My chest was so tight. "...That kind of thing..." I finished.
Kendall gave me another reassuring smile. "Baron copse, It's a track road leading off from baron farm estate" Kendall repeated to the telephone operator.
"Yeah... Okay... yeah I can do that... thanks" he said then slipped his phone back in his pocket.
"How long?" I asked.
"A few minutes" Kendall replied. I knew he was lying, Logan and I lived in a small town that only had one doctors surgery in it, the nearest hospital was miles away.
"That's good" I replied, not wanting to worry him further by letting him know.
"Did you want a drink Sheri? I have water in my car. It's parked up just there" Kendall said pointing up, out of the gully.
I gripped his hand tighter. "No, please don't go anywhere" I replied.
Kendall smiled. "I won't leave you" he whispered.
"How did you find me?" I asked. The breeze from outside blowing the homely scent of Kendalls hair towards me.
"I went to your house, wasn't sure if it was the right one so phoned Logan. He said what had happened. Said you were injured and that he told you to run. I searched everywhere in those woods Sheri. I thought I would try down this track just incase... saw the back end of this heap of crap in the air... you woke up pretty much a few minutes after I got down here" he explained.
"I..." I narrowed my eyes as I tried to think it through. "I don't understand how you are here so quick?"
"I haven't slept, just kept on driving" he whispered taking his hand from mine and swept my hair from my face.
"What's the time then?" I asked knowing that Kendalls Honda wasn't capable of fantastic speeds.
"Just coming up to 1:30pm" he replied.
"Fuck!... I've been here almost 12 hours?" I replied. "Did you get hold of James?" I then asked.
Kendall shook his head. "It just rang out... He likes his sleep huh" Kendall said with a chuckle.
I smiled. "Yeah he does... why did you carry on driving to Texas? I thought you were going to see Mackenzie... talk to her atleast?"
Kendall gave me a smile as he rubbed his palm gently through my hair. "Don't worry about all that now... your dad was lucky he wasn't around, I would of fucking killed him!" He then said reminding me of what horrors I had done.
Silent tears began to fall from my face.
"Sheri its okay, I promise he won't ever hurt you again!" Kendall soothed taking my hand once more.
"I.. I killed... him. I... hit him with... an iron!" I sobbed.
Kendall looked at me for what seemed an eternity. "You couldn't of Sheri" he said his eyes moving as if he was piecing the pieces of a jigsaw together. "There would of been police... or tape or... something at your house? It was just an ordinary house, no one was there. Besides, Logan said he called the cops back to see what happened after they were sent out. They said that your father said you had ran off with a boy after a small domestic... the police spoke to him Sheri... you didn't kill your dad" Kendall said now looking at me like I was insane.
"B..but... He was lying there... I saw him... He was just lying on the floor" I explained.
"He isn't dead Sheri... unfortunately!" He added.
Silence succumbed the horizontal car as this news sunk in.
"I had sex with James... last night" I whispered out.
I could see the words pain Kendall, but he needed to know.
"Sheri you don't have to do this... let's just get you patched up first. The heart to hearts can wait" he replied.
"Okay..." I agreed closing my eyes once again.
"Oh no you don't!" He said loudly. "I'm under strict instructions to keep you awake" he said.
"I'm so tired" I replied
"I know, you can rest but you can't go to sleep okay... keep talking to me Sheri... talk about anything... talk about..." He rambled trying to think of something.
"Warm bubble baths" I said with a weary laugh. "The things I would do to be in a bubble bath right now"
"With your little rubber ducky?" Kendall mocked with a chuckle, he made me laugh which hurt my chest.
"I would prefer a hot guy" I teased.
"I'm sure you won't have any problems trying to find a hot guy to share a bubble bath with you Sheri" Kendall said raising his eyebrows.
I smiled and raised my hand to his face. "These things are massive!" I said sleepily as I ran my thumb along his brow.
"They are" he smiled at me.
I closed my eyes once again.
"Sheri!" Kendall said, snatching me away from my daze.
"I'm not sleeping" I said slowly.
"Open your eyes then" he replied, I could detect the relaxed sarcasm in his voice. I knew then I wasn't in danger of dying. He was too calm. I just felt like I was dying because of the pain.
"Your a work Trojan" I moaned. My eyes feeling so heavy.
"I know but you are hard to wake up once you pass out... keep talking" he insisted giving my hand a gentle squeeze.
"I can't think of anything" I replied.
"Sing me a song then" he suggested. "Keep your mind busy, the ambulance won't be long now I promise" he said.
I sighed, but the look in his electric green eyes showed he meant business.
"Make it... count, Play it safe, dont look.. back, Don't hesitate." I said more in words than in a lyrical sentence.
"That's my girl" Kendall smiled "keep going..." he encouraged.
My mind couldn't remember the other parts at this precise moment in time. So I skipped to the chorus. "Cmon shake it up! Whatcha... gotta lose? Go and make your.. luck with.. the life you choose, If... you.. want it all, Lay it on the... line. It's... the only... life ya.. got, So... ya.. gotta... live it... big... time." I got out but needed to stop as I couldn't breathe well.
"That was perfect" Kendall whispered. "Did he hit your face?" He asked as I saw his eyes flutter to my cheek.
"Yeah... he hit me with a stick too... got my neck" I replied in a wheeze.
"I can't believe the police believed him if he told them it was a small domestic" I said narrowing my eyes.
Kendall shrugged. "Well I think Logan will be paying him a visit once he is here" Kendall said.
"Please tell me he isn't on his way... He is too poorly" I replied.
"He discharged himself, left with johnny to come back here" Kendall confirmed.
I could hear the siren of the ambulance coming.
"Promise me something" I whispered to Kendall.
"Anything" he replied.
"Don't let Logan near him... He cannot keep a cool head... Promise me you will make Logan see sense and not go near my dad... it will just make it worse... let's face facts, I'm gonna have to go back in that house with him at some point" I said.
"Sheri you can't go back there... not after this!" He said.
The ambulance arrived before I could argue my case that I had no where else to go, but I think Kendall knew that already by the way his eyes looked at me.
I saw a paramedic approach the car.
"Hey!" The guy said peering in through the driver's open door "Who do we have in here then?" He added as he looked at me.
"This is Sheri" Kendall replied.
"Hi Sheri! How old are you?" He said, with his reassuring smile.
"16" I whispered out.
"And your a bit stuck in there are you?" He asked.
"It hurts too bad to move" I replied.
"Okay well my colleague is just on her way with some gas and air for you... so sit tight and we will have you checked over and out of there in no time" he said placing his medical bag in front of me.
"You okay?" Kendall asked in a whisper.
"Yeah... don't leave me" I replied.
Kendall didn't leave my side until I was as high as I kite on gas and was ready to be lifted out from the car by the two paramedics.
Unfortunately for me the gas only made my head fuzzy, it did nothing to take the edge off the pain, and even more unfortunately for me the two paramedics wouldn't listen to my cries to stop moving me like Kendall had.
As I was pulled from the car, I howled and sobbed in pain, my chest felt like it was stabbing me.
It only got worse as my upper body was turned to finally be free of the car. The sharp jab of pain that suddenly hit me, left me unable to breath.
The panic that I then felt was so severe. Chaos soon erupted around me, only raspy hitches of air were leaving and entering my body. My head felt dizzy and light but the tightness in my chest so painful.
"What's wrong with her!?" I heard Kendalls voice, it had lost all traces of calm now.
I couldn't keep my consciousness going any longer to hear the reply. A hazy fog took me away as my eyes closed not being able to breathe.
author note: thanks to everyone who is reading, and to musicrox14 for the review. Will update tomorrow 8th sept. thanks for reading!