Chapter Fourteen
"Cassandra, Cassandra, wake up." Cassie slowly opened her eyes. Her mother had her hands on Cassie's shoulders and was shaking her awake.
"I'm up, I'm up, what is it?" Cassie sat up in the bunk bed in the R.V.
"Get up, get your coat and for gods sakes hurry." Cassie got up and grabbed a black hoody at the end of the bed. Only after she pulled it over her head did she realise it wasn't hers. It was Greg's.
"What's up?" Sandy was walking by Cassie and answered her question.
"A forest fire started, we have to evacuate and get to this centre." Cassie followed Sandy hot on her heels.
"We can't the boys aren't here. What if they are trying to get to us before we have to leave! What if they are hurt?"
Cassie's mum turned on her heel to stare at her youngest daughter right in the eye. "Cass, I know it is scary but Greg, Rick, George, your dad, they are all going to be fine. But we are still in the danger zone so we have to leave and you aren't helping."
Cassie nodded. Sandy, Cassie's mum, Nicola, Teresa and Cassie got into the Park Ranger's vehicle. Christen and Rick hadn't come on the trip.
Cassie watched the R.V. shrink into the distance.
Cassie had never been religious. But at that moment she was praying that Greg was okay.