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XXxSARAHxXx : Hey! Well I just decided I needed a change, you know change is very good for a person, it makes you think – which can be a very hard concept for me, especially when I'm out riding on a potential killer horse lol – ignore me, I've fallen off one too many times lol. Anyways thanks for your support and review- it's very much appreciated. CHEERS DARLIN'!!!!

KATIE : Hey Kt, hows it going Spadge! I know I totally respect life guards, cause they're like, life savers lol. Listen though, I went to the seaside the other day, good old Bridlington, and was walking on the promanade with my mate, and we saw these two lifeguards. Well as you can imagine I made a bit of a comment to my friend about this one guy in particular not looking like David Hasselhoff, but more like Pamela Anderson, so she just had to go up to him and ask this poor innocent bystander, who he thought he looked more like Pamela or David – he gave us such a weird look, then wandered off – I mean how rude, he could have at least answered our question. Then later on, they have speedboat rides, and the boats just happen to be red and yellow. Well me and my friend climbed in the yellow one. We went out on it and my friend just shouted out – "You know Sarah, you could jump out of this boat now, and do a Pamela Anderson, but you don't have knockers to keep you afloat like her" – I mean how embarassing. So now I've probably just bored you half to death with a little pointless story lol. Well you see, I always prefer Connie to accept Guy's girlfriends, as life is far too short to hate people you don't even know lol. Right my two songs um – SOME PEOPLE STAND IN THE DARKNESS, AFRAID TO STEP INTO THE LIGHT, SOME PEOPLE NEED TO HELP SOMEBODY – sorry it's so short, but I'm really rushed for time cause I'm going to the pics with mi mate. I promise I'll sing more next time. Thanks for your review and support – it's so appreciated. CHEERS DARLIN'!!!!

Chapter 6

CONNIE'S P.O.V

Charlie really had put me in a spot now. I was sure he was clicking onto mine and Adam's big secret. I was beginning to think that the time to tell them was getting closer and closer by the second. Not only was he making me and Adam uncomfortable and tense, I could tell looking at Russ and Averman that they were nervous too. Afraid that they could say the wrong thing and give us away. Averman tried changing the subject a few times, but for some reason Charlie always brought us back to dating thing. I looked at Adam and nodded, he seemed to agree with me and winked supportively at me.

"C'mon Adam, what's this mystery woman like"? Julie was obviously teaming with Charlie in his effort to unveil who his girlfriend was.

"Ask her yourself, she's sat across the room from me". He said bluntly.

Everyone turned and looked at me. I suddenly felt very uncomfortable, the kind of uncomfort you'd imagine to be if you were suddenly sat buck naked in a room full of your old high school friends.

"Hi, I'm Adam's girlfriend". I said, not really knowing what else to say.

"Well, that's erm". Charlie began, I closed my eyes, expecting some sort of outburst from at the very least one of them. "That's great". He finally said.

"Huh". I muttered shocked.

"It's about time Cake Eater, you've had a crush on her since we were 10". Guy joined in.

"What no, disapprovement"? I asked in utter shock, though there was no malice in my tone.

"Why, should we disapprove"? Julie asked.

"What she means, is we both imagined you to be a bit weird about it". Adam clarified exactly what I meant.

Of course after that, we had non stop talk about why we had kept it a secret for so long. Then we decided to watch some of the home videos, Averman had made over the years, with running commentry. But there was the odd one or two where I was the camera person, filming the games they played. The very last one, was one I didn't even know we had. It was of me running the gauntlet in rookie school and then last years iron woman competitions. I sat there amazed at everything I had done. At the time, it hadn't seemed as difficult, but actually sitting back and taking note of what I'd had to do shocked me. When we had watched all the home videos, the guys decided to leave, and I headed straight off to bed, having an early start in the morning. I arrived bright and early at the headquarters where Barney was waiting patiently by the side of a truck for me.

"Morning sleepy head". Barney chuckled as he climbed in the drivers side.

"Hey I'm early". I argued good naturedly.

"Doesn't stop you from being half asleep". He began driving.

ADAM'S P.O.V

You have no idea how much relief hit me, when the guys responded positively to the news about me and Connie. I know it made her sleep easier that night. The following morning, I hadn't even heard her get up, and there were no traces that she had been in a rush to get ready for work. Not long after my getting up, Russ and Averman had joined me. We began chatting easily about last night events, and I couldn't thank them enough for their support and keeping mine and Connie's secret. We just hung around a little, before attempting to tidy the apartment, which to be perfectly honest didn't take us very long, probably because we got bored with it and began rushing. During mid morning, Charlie, Julie, Guy and Louise arrived. It was during the time that we were deciding how to spend the rest of the day until Connie came home, that the phone began ringing. Russ leant over for it and answered it. Slowly the smile on his face began to drop. The seriousness of his expression, got us all to fall into silence, trying to guess what could possibly be wrong.

"Yeah, we'll come down straight away". He said putting the phone down and turning to face us. "Connie's been in a car accident". He told us. He needn't have said anymore, we all simply got up and headed out.

When we got to the hospital, I went into the receptionist who told us she'd get us a nurse. A young red headed nurse came out and lead us through the ER. We found her sat on the edge of a bed with another nurse treating her. She was wrapped in one of those grey blankets that you find in every first aid kit, the nurse was dabbing at her leg, of which was covered in blood and had a huge cut, that was quite deep.

"Are you ok"? I felt a surge of relief, when I saw her. She nodded gently, but I could see pain in her eyes. I sat on the bed next to her, wrapping my arm around her shoulders and pulling her toward me before kissing her forehead.

"Ouch, watch it". She winced as the nurse dabbed away at her leg.

"I'll leave you alone for a few minutes, while I got get something to cover that up". The nurse excused herself.

"What happened"? Averman sat at the other side of her.

"I learnt never to jump out of a speeding truck". She tried laughing it off, but I knew things ran deeper than she'd like to let on.

"You jumped out of the truck"? Charlie asked, his going wide.

She nodded and ran her fingers through her hair, revealing a cut on her forehead that had been stitched. The more I looked at her, the more I saw more cuts and bruises. She was also shivering, probably not from being cold but probably from shock. I began rubbing my hands on her arms.

"Barney was driving, we were coming down from point dume, there had been a load of kids up there, having motorcycle races. He tried putting the brakes on, but they didn't work. The truck started going faster and faster, and it was either jump or go with the truck over the cliff".

"Have you seen a doctor"? I asked. She nodded. "What did he say"?

"I'm ok. I just need my cuts cleaning up then I'm free to go". She answered as the nurse came back in. "How's Barney"? She asked.

"Barney"? The nurse replied, obviously unsure of who she was referring to.

"Yeah, you know the other lifeguard I came in with"?

"Oh right, I'll just do this then go and check for you", The nurse answered, then quickly applied a bandage around her leg before disappearing off somewhere. 5 minutes later she returned. "He's doing ok. Just a few cuts and bruises like you, but he's broken his knee".

"Can I see him"?

"Yeah, C'mon". The nurse smiled.

We all watched her go, eagerly following the nurse. See Connie and Barney are very close. Barney was the one who trained Connie up. See after rookie school, all rookies have to spend the first month with a more experienced guard, well Connie and Barney were put together, and they'd been close ever since, and it helped that they worked together quite a lot too.

Half an hour later, she returned, and I could tell she'd been crying. But I didn't ask her anything about it, knowing it was probably delayed shock, and seeing Barney had more than likely set it off. She nodded, in answer to Russ' question about heading home. By the time we got home, she seemed to have calmed down, and was no longer shivering. Wearing only her bathing suite with the blanket wrapped loosely around her, she disappeared off to get changed reappearing 10 minutes later dressed in a pair of jeans and one of my sweaters, making her look as though she was cold. We all tried chatting as we normally would, and soon she had joined in, the colour in her cheeks were now coming back, from the pale colour it had been earlier. As Averman was making us all some coffee, later that afternoon, there was a knock at the door.

"Oh hey, yeah, um come in". Averman opened the door, revealing Connie's boss Mitch.

"Hey". Connie stood up. "Erm these are my friends Charlie, Julie, Guy and Louise. And you know Adam, Averman and Russ". She quickly introduced her. "Guy's this is my boss Mitch". We all quickly passed pleasentries.

"How are you"? He asked.

"I'm doing ok. Just a bit shocked, but yeah, I'm ok".

"Good. Well I know you're on holiday for a few weeks now, but I don't want you to come back until you're 100% ready to". He said, and I couldn't help but wonder what he trully meant.

"How do you mean until I'm ready"? Connie asked, obviously as confused as I was.

"Well, the accident, it wasn't really an accident". He did'nt take his eyes off her. "Someone messed with the brake pipes. They were rigged to rupture, when excessive force was put on them".

"Someone tried to kill us"? Connie almost stuttered, folding her arms almost in a defensive manner, her eyes were wide with disbelief.

"We don't know as yet whether it was you and Barney they were trying to kill or anyone who happened to have the truck. Did you at any time this morning, leave the truck unattended"?

"Um, once, I think. We were on point dume, we got out of the truck to warn off a group of kids heading up there with motorcycles. They were ok about it and left, so we got back in the truck and carried on, because there had been reports of even more races up there". She told them.

"How long were you out of the truck for"?

"10 minutes at the most".

"Ok. Um. Don't worry about it ok, it sounds like those innocent kids you were warning off set a trap to help their friends who were still racing, nothing personal so to speak". She nodded along with him. "Just take it easy". He rubbed her arm, before leaving.

"You ok"? I asked, getting up, and going to her. She shook her head and started crying.

"We could have been killed. They could have killed us". She allowed me to guide her back to the chair I had been sat in.

"Hey shh, they didn't ok". I talked gently to her, running my fingers through her hair.

Eventually she stopped crying, but just sat there with me, as I continued running my fingers through her hair and rubbing her back.

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