Hey All! Sorry it took so long, but school just started for me and I've been really busy with AP and IB classes. So this chapter will be at the bridge.
Chapter 2.
Peyton was not the only one having troubled thoughts storm her mind, Lucas wasn't feeling too composed either. He was about 15 minutes away from the bridge where Haley and Nathan were waiting for him to bring them their plane tickets. The day had been interesting to say in the least. His mother was pregnant, and so was someone else according to one of the many identical purses he had found a pregnancy test in. He remembered Brooke trying to find her own purse and wondered if the test was hers. "No" he thought aloud, shaking his head, "She would have told me." But there was an uncertainty to the thought and he realized that it was possible that she wouldn't have told him, not while they were in the place that they were currently. And then there was this whole thing with Peyton. he had accidentally let slip to Brooke that they had kissed while they were trapped in the library. He felt horrible that he'd come between them again. Peyton was his good friend and he loved Brooke more than life itself, so he wasn't sure what to do.
His thoughts were interrupted when his eyes caught sight of the fast approaching bridge ahead of him. He saw the car Haley and Nathan had been driving, not yet noticing that something was wrong. But as he got closer he saw someone on the edge of the bridge, and seeing the white wedding dress he realized who it was. Haley James Scott was kneeling at the edge of the bridge screaming at the top of her lungs and Nathan was no where in sight. Lucas skidded the car to a stop, jumped out and ran over to her. "Haley! Haley, what's wrong? What happened?" She was in complete hysterics. "Limo, Cooper, Rachel, over the bridge. NATHAN! PLEASE, NATHAN!" "Lucas" she sobbed "You have to help him. Please, oh god." Looking down at the water, Lucas could just make out one end of the limo, and he couldn't see Nathan, Cooper or Rachel at all. "Haley, call 911" He only hesitated for a split second longer before ripping his jacket off and taking a running jump into the murky water.
Lucas hit the water and felt a shock wave roll over him from the freezing cold water, but he didn't pay much more attention to the cold, all he could think about was Nathan, Cooper, and Rachel. Were they still alive? What the hell had happened? He swam as quickly as he could over to the limo and ducked underwater. Once under, he opened his eyes and tried to see through the dense water. He had landed near the back end of the limo, where the windows were tinted, and it was impossible to see inside. Damn it! He thought desperately. He began swimming towards the other end of the limo, and when he got near enough, he saw two figures in the front seat. Unmoving. He tried pulling open the door to the limo but it wouldn't open. Nearly pressing his face against the glass he was able to make out red hair. Rachel. He needed to get that door open. He was running out of air. He tried to pull the door open, but it wouldn't budge. His lungs felt like they were about to burst. He needed air. He pushed himself upwards until his head broke the water and began coughing and gasping. Taking a few more deep breaths, he prepared to go under again. As he was dipping his head under water, he heard something. It sounded faint and muffled but it was definetly a voice.
"Help me" the voice said, so muffled that it actually sounded like "helelp mere" as if the person were gargling. "Or underwater" thought Lucas. "Haley!" the voice yelled, muffled, again. Nathan, that was Nathan's voice! It sounded like he was inside the limo too. Lucas took one last deep breath and ducked under again. Opening his eyes he searched for a way to get into the limo. He saw that the sun roof on of top the limo was open. Swimming around to the opening, he hesitated. What if we can't get out of there? He thought. The he remembered that the back end of the limo was raised up out of the water. There might be an air pocket. But there might not be, his mind argued. It was just a risk he would have to take, he decided as he pushed himself through the sun roof and into the limo. He concentrated on swimming in the direction of where he thought the air pocket would be while looking around for Nathan. His head broke the surface and he was face to face with Nathan. "Luke, Cooper"- "I know" Lucas cut in, "We've got to get out of here and get them out so come on." They both took a breath of the limited amount of air preserved in the pocket and Nathan followed Lucas back in the direction he had come from. Lucas spotted the opening and motioned at Nathan to go. Nathan shook his head no and pointed towards the front seat of the limo. Nathan wanted to get Rachel and Cooper out from inside, but Lucas couldn't see any way of getting into the front. Lucas pointed and shook his head, trying to get Nathan to see that there was no way in. But Nathan shoved Lucas aside and pushed open the little door that the drivers used to speak with the people they worked for.
Nathan put his head and arms through the little gap and when he pulled back he had Cooper. He pulled Cooper up and out through the sun roof and Lucas did the same with Rachel. Lucas was having a hard time getting Rachel out of the water, her dress had gotten caught on something and Lucas was running out of air again. He pulled hard and ripped off about 2 inches of the bottom of the dress. When Lucas emerged from the water, he was feeling extremely dizzy. He barely got Rachel up onto the river bank where Nathan was trying to help Cooper. Neither Cooper nor Rachel were breathing. "Lucas, we've got to perform CPR" Nathan said to him frantically. But to Lucas, his words sounded far away. Was he going deaf? Then his vision blurred and began to tunnel. He heard Nathan ask if he was okay, then he fell backwards, back into the water. And everything went black.
So? Did that turn out to anyone's liking? I hope I didn't make it too long. It may have seemed like he was underwater for a long time but really it was a very short amount of time. What do you guys want to see next? What should happen to Lucas? Which people have confrontations at the hospital? Should Cooper and Rachel live or die? Let me know! I will try to update as soon as possible but I've got tons of homework so it'll probably be 3 days between chapters, except maybe on weekends.
-Hilary Christine James-
