Well, here we are again! Here's Chapter 2! Just as a warning, my word pad doesn't have spell check on it so if there's spelling errors, please don't chop off mah head. I went through and I think I found all of them, but if not, i'm sorry. Enjoy! Oh, and review! :)


Chapter 2

On his way home, his mind kept wandering back to Allison. He liked talking to her and he liked the way she listened attentively as he talked.

The drive home seemed to go by faster than his drive up there. When he got home, his father had finished cutting the grass and he saw shadows moving in the living room. He pulled into the driveway and got out. He walked in and saw his mom and dad looking at family albums. He watched them for a minute, laughing and reminiscing. His mom looked up and saw him,

"Oh, hey, Ben. How was lunch?" He nodded,

"It was good, I met Jeff's friend, Emma and Emma's friend, Allison."

"Cool." His mom said. His dad piped in and asked,

"Do you want to come look at these pictures with us? They're hilarious." He thought about it for a second,

"How about tomorrow?" His dad nodded and they went back to looking and started laughing again. Ben went to hang up his keys when the phone rang.

"I got it!" He yelled to his parents. He answered the phone,

"Hello?"

"Ben! Is that you?" Whoever it was, was yelling on the other end. He held the phone away from his ear,

"Yeah, who is this?"

"It's Emma! Ben, please help us!" He realized she was crying. Help them? What was she talking about? He shook his head,

"What? Emma, what happened?" She was crying hysterically and he heard Allison in the background, crying and talking to the police on the phone.

"Emma, what happened?" He asked again, starting to panic. He heard Allison hang up the phone and say the police couldn't get there for another hour. He was getting impatient,

"Emma! What is going on?" She was still crying and he heard Allison say,

"Emma, give me the phone."

"Ben, is that you?" She was crying as well.

"Yeah, Allison what happened?" She was sobbing as she began the story,

"We left Ruby Tuesdays and- and we stopped at a red light and it- it turned green and Jeff was in front of us." She took a sharp breath and continued,

"He started to go but his truck ran the red light." She started to cry harder,

"He hit Jeff going 70 miles an hour." Ben's stomach dropped.

"The police said they can't get here for another hour." He ran his hand through his hair and rubbed his face,

" Allison, where are you?" She was still crying,

"We're about twenty-five minutes away from the Ruby Tuesdays, on Highway I- 40." He was already reaching for his keys,

"I'm on my way." She sighed,

"Thank you so much, Ben." He hung up the phone and grabbed his keys, running out of the door. His parents looked up and called his name, but he didn't have time to stop and explain. He ran to his truck and hopped in. By the time he got in his truck, his parents were at the door. His mother called his name and his dad asked,

"Ben! What is going on?" He put the truck in reverse and stuck his head out of the window and yelled,

"I'll explain later!" He backed out of the driveway and sped towards Burgaw.

Thankfully, the traffic wasn't bad and he drove ten miles over the speed limit. He reached the Ruby Tuesdays in twenty minutes and he accelerated to fifteen miles an hour above the speed limit. He began to see smoke ten minutes later and there about five cars in the road. He saw Emma's car on the side of the road and he saw a black truck completely smashed in the middle of the road. Then, he saw Jeff's truck turned upside down, next to a telephone pole.

"Oh, no." He whispered.

When he got closer, he pulled off the side of the road and ran towards the crash. He saw Allison and Emma standing off the road, looking at Jeff's truck- there were about five men standing around it. He ran over to Emma and Allison and Emma saw him first.

"Ben!" He looked at her and her eyes were very red and swollen, her mascara running down her face.

"Ben, please help him!" He looked at the truck and asked,

"What's going on?" She shook her head and he put his hands on her shoulders,

"Emma! What happened? What's going on?" Allison had reached them and he saw her eyes were red and swollen like Emma's. Emma looked at him and said, sobbing,

"That truck ran the red light and hit Jeff's truck. His truck ran off the road and hit the telephone pole." She started crying harder,

"They can't get him out."

He looked at Jeff's truck and realized why all of the men were standing around it- they were trying to figure out a way to get him out. He sprinted toward Jeff's truck. One of the men looked at him,

"Who are you?"

"I'm here to try and get him out. What's wrong?"

"We can't get his seatbelt undone and his legs are pinned underneath the stearing wheel." One of the men said.

"And this power line is shaking quite a bit. We're worried it's going to collapse and electrocute everyone here." Another man added.

Ben bent down beside Jeff's truck and looked in the broken driver's side window. He saw that Jeff was unconscious. He remembered he had a pocket knife so he took it out and began cutting the seatbelt off of him.

" It's no use, i've already tried that." One of the guys said behind him. He continued cutting it and a couple of seconds later, he got it. He turned around,

"Guess you're not as determined as I am."

"Now, how are we going to get him out?" Someone asked. Another one yelled that gas was leaking out of the truck.

"We can't be near here if this power line collapses."

"We need to get him out- fast."

The telephone pole started to creak and they all looked up at it. They began to strategize how they were going to get Jeff out. They decided that the smallest guy, who's name was Harrison, would crawl in the truck and get down to where Jeff's feet were pinned and try to get them free- Ben would be standing there to pull him out. The rest would keep an eye on the telephone pole. While Harrison crawled in to the truck, Ben looked over at Emma and Allison.

Allison was hugging Emma, obviously trying to comfort her. But, from Ben's perspective, it looked like Allison needed comforting, too. She saw him looking and they simply stared at each other for what seemed like forever. When their eyes met, it seemed like everything else disappeared. His thoughts were interrupted by Harrison yelling from inside the truck. He turned to him, wondering if Allison had felt what he felt.

"Ben, try and pull him out!" He reached down and and grabbed Jeff's arm, trying to pull; he couldn't get him.

"He won't budge!" He yelled back.

"All right, hold on!"

Above them the telephone pole began to creak loudly. They all looked at each other and they knew that it was about to collapse.

"Come on, hurry up!" One of the men yelled.

It creaked again and began to wobble, slowly at first, then wobbling more and more. Everyone started to yell and the men yelled to hurry up, then they ran away, yelling that it was going to fall. Ben started to panic, but he wouldn't leave without Jeff or Harrison. Finally, he heard Harrison yell,

"Pull him out!" Ben pulled Jeff's arms and he began to wiggle free. He heard someone yell behind him,

"It's going to fall!"

He pulled Jeff's arms one more hard time and it was enough- Jeff was free. He pulled him out and set him down on the road. He turned back around and helped Harrison out of the truck. The telephone pole then began to topple over. They quickly grabbed Jeff's arms and each put one of his arms around their necks. They ran towards the crowd of people and he saw Emma put her hand over her mouth and Allison point toward them and yell,

"Ben, watch out!" The crowd of people screamed and Ben and Harrison ran even faster. Then, it finally collapsed. It fell on Jeff's truck and it electrified the road that was covered in gas. It then exploded and Ben and Harrison jumped forward, falling on the ground.

Ben looked at the wreckage from the ground and, a few seconds later, a fire truck and a police car showed up. A couple of men came and helped Harrison stand up. Emma helped another man drag Jeff away and Allison came with someone else to help Ben. He saw Allison and the man running towards him and, when she got near, she knelt down beside him,

"Ben! Are you okay?" He nodded and the other man helped her pull him up by the arms. He turned around and saw paramedics surrounding Jeff, with Emma kneeling beside him.

He was laying on the road and Ben and Allison ran over to them. One of the paramedics was giving Jeff C.P.R. Emma was kneeling beside him crying hysterically and he saw Allison out of the corner of his eye put both of her hands over her mouth and whisper,

"Oh, no."

He saw a couple of more paramedics roll a gurney over to Jeff. They loaded him onto it and put an oxygen mask over his mouth. Ben went over to them and asked what was going on. They told him that they had to take him to the hospital and that he was most likely going to be fine, but only family members could ride in the ambulance.

He turned around and rubbed his face and noticed that his sleeve was bloody. He looked at Jeff's truck and it was up in flames with firefighters busy trying to put it out. He saw Allison comforting Emma and he decided to leave them alone.

A paramedic approached him and asked if he was okay. The paramedic saw that his sleeve was bloody so he took out a bandage and rolled up Ben's sleeve. He taped it up, asking Ben multiple questions about his injury. He saw a police officer approach Emma and start talking to her. He led her away and left Allison by herself.

When the paramedic finished taping up his arm, he excused himself and walked over to Allison. She saw him approaching and she gave a weak smile and crossed her arms.

"How are you doing?" He asked. She shrugged her shoulders,

"Not so hot." Her eyes were still red and swollen, but she had stopped crying. He nodded,

"Yeah, stupid question." He motioned over his shoulder,

"The paramedics said that they were going to take him to the hospital. I think i'm going to head over there, do you want to come with me?" She thought about it,

"I would, but I think I should stay with Emma; she's really shaken up. She doesn't need to be by herself." He nodded,

"Yeah, you're right."

"We'll probably head over there as soon as she finishes up with that officer though." He nodded,

"Okay. Will you be okay until she gets done?" She smiled,

"Yeah, i'll be fine."

"All right, well i'm going to head on, okay?" She nodded,

"Okay, i'll see you there, i'm sure."

He nodded and then turned around and went back to his truck. He was worried about Jeff but the paramedics had assured him that Jeff would be fine. The paramedics wouldn't lie about that, right?


Well, there's Chapter 2! Hope you enjoyed it! Please review! So I can know if I should continue or not... :D