Chapter 13

I don't know if palisade is the right word for the sides, that hold up the bridge. If anyone knows the right word, I'd love to change it.

The trio were still inside the cargo wagon in the next morning each of them lying on the top of a hay cube. Jin who lied with his back against the room turned his back down and felt down on the ground waking up with the fall.

"Ouch," Jin wailed, then sat up on the ground looking out of the open gap to see a green landscape with pine trees as the train was passing by. Jin leaned his back against the hay cub he had fallen off before and crossed his arms behind his head sighing. Jin glanced at Yi, which lied on the hay cube on the other side diagonally to him and across from the open space. Jin noticed the girl had been sleeping with her head over her arms, making him smile ardently and he got up on the top of his hay cube again now lying on his belly, then lied his cheek on the hay with his eyes directed at the open gap, where he could recognize that their train was slowly curving, soon he could see the sun far on the horizon being mirrored on the lake that appeared on the landscape. Jin was amazed by the sight he had at the moment, then he gazed up at Yi, which was asleep, then he reached his arm to her feet, but before he touched it he warped his face unsure if he should wake her up or not. Jin took his arm back and dropped it beside the cube looking down at the floor.

"Why am I hesitating?" Jin questioned himself, then looked back at the girl again, then he sat up looking at Kai, which was resting. "You're acting like a real doofus Jin" Jin told himself, then noticed Kai lifting his head up looking up at the raven-haired boy. "Sorry boy, I didn't mean to wake you up" Kai gazed at the boy normally, then Jin moved closer on his cube to the dog. "Do you think I stand a chance with her?" Jin questioned the dog, which moved his ear forward at him, making Jin raise his left eyebrow unsure what that meant. "Yeah it's weird, I don't have anyone here to talk about this topic, beside you," Jin told the dog, which put his tongue out for panting, then Jin held his hand in front of the dog for him to pick up Jin's scent, then the dog approached the boy and lied his head down on his lap, rolling his eyes up at the boy.

"Nice boy" Jin complimented patting the canine on the head. "Maybe….I should give it a try in telling her how I feel. What do you think, boy?" Jin asked watching Kai lick his nose and raise his head up at Jin. "Well many things can go wrong on this trip…..I mean, I'm not frightened of spending the rest of the trip with Yi together and having the pain from her having reject me, if that would be the case….honestly that would be terrifying." Jin mentioned with a shocked face at the thought of it, while Kai widened his eyes while holding his ears pointed. "Yeah, you're right. Maybe I should wait a little longer?"

"Wouff" The dog barked loud.

"What? Bad idea?" Jin asked observing Kai look behind the boy, then Jin looked back to see the hay cube of Yi suddenly near the open door of the wagon setting the boy in panic. "Yi!" Jin screamed in terror, causing the girl to wake up and cry as she noticed, where she was and she could see their train was passing over a bridge, which was far away from a lake, where the bridge stood.

"Get away from there!" Jin yelled racing at the girl, which got down from the cube which from her jump slide out off the wagon falling down into the lake. Yi's sock got stuck on a metal bar, that was attached to the body of the vehicle, then Yi tried to pull her leg up, but she couldn't.

Jin grabbed Yi on the sides of her belly to help her up, but he also noticed Yi's long sock was attached to the bar.

"My sock is stuck, I can't get up" Yi warned, then Jin placed his hands down on her leg and tried to remove it from the bar.

"Why you're wearing socks in the summer?"

"My feet are always cold" Yi mentioned watching Jin trying his best to help her out.

"Gosh, now there's a thread attached to the bar" The boy complained, then Yi looked back at Jin to see how he was doing then she wide her eyes in shock. "Oh no"

"What?" Jin asked looking up at the girl.

"We're going to collide with the bridge's palisade!" Yi blurted out anxiously, then Jin looked at the side to see how close they were getting to the palisade, then Jin leaned his head down and bite the thread off managing to free Yi, then Yi looked to the danger zone along with Jin and the raven-haired boy pulled Yi on her arm to fall down at the lake along with him.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Yelled the two teens during the fall into the lake.

"Keeeeeeeeepp youuurrrr feeeeet dowwwwwnn!" Jin cried trying to stabilize himself in the air, so did Yi try which quickly got in the correct landing technique afterward both teens splashed into the water and Yi stuck her head out coughing hard.

"We did it Jin! We're survived!" Yi cheered looking around her looking for her friend, which didn't appear at the surface. "Jin? Jin?!" Yi called for the boy, which she couldn't spot anywhere, afterward, she stuck her head in the water to see Jin falling into the deep and Yi plunged into the deep following the boy, that sank toward the pole of the bridge and before he crashed against it Yi picked the boy under his arms, then bounced with her feet on the metal shoving herself away from there while carrying the friend with her.

Yi reached the shallow of the water, then she placed her arms around Jin, then Yi used her legs only to swim forward while carrying the friend.

"Hold on Jin, we're almost on land" Yi assured a little worried swimming straight to the land, where she recognized a person sitting with a fishing rod at the edge of the lake. Yi saw the person and cried out loud to call the person's attention.

"Help!" Yi exclaimed earning the attention of an elderly woman, that looked at the lake wondering from where the sound came from and saw Yi approaching. The woman dropped the rod and got up from the ground and observed Yi arriving with Jin, then the woman got into the water and helped Yi push Jin on the ground, then Yi gazed at Jin in shock from seeing him unconscious. Yi moved Jin's head aside, then looked all over his body trying to figure out, what's the next step.

"CPR! I need to do CPR!" Yi mentioned placing her hands together over Jin's chest, then looked up at his face, which didn't move a muscle yet and Yi gulped frightened about the situation.

"You have to thrust hard my girl"

"And…...what about mouth to mouth breathing?" Yi asked looking at the senior, which moved Jin's head up a little then she opened the boy's mouth and she leaned down at his face, then stopped and retrieved her head back.

"Wait a second," The woman said placing her middle finger and her thumb into her mouth to remove her denture making Yi wide her eyes in surprise.

"Uh….."

"Keep this somewhere my darling" The senior babbled and started breathing into the boy's mouth, making Yi warp her face at how estranged she felt at seeing that. "Press on his chest" The woman ordered and Yi placed her hands over her friend's chest and thrusts firmly on the body while counting under her breath. The woman observed Yi working on the chest compressions, then after a short break she did again the mouth to mouth breathing Jin starts to breathe and cough while the two rescuers watched the boy sat up while coughing hard.

"Argh damn it…." Jin complained holding his hand in front of his chest nearly ending in tears from the coughing, then he looked at a relieved senior and an overly happy Yi, which embraced the boy tight.

"Thank god you're alright Jin" Admitted the girl lying her hand under his chin, while Jin looked with wide eyes in surprise at Yi's reaction.

"Did you save my life?" Jin questioned the girl, which nodded.

"I was terrified as I saw you didn't appear on the surface, but I'm so happy that nothing more happened to you" Yi confessed making Jin smile, then he looked down at his pants, where there was a denture standing.

"Uhm why is there a denture on my pants?" Jin asked, then the woman picked the denture up and placed it back into her mouth again.

"I couldn't perform a mouth to mouth breathing with those in it," The senior mentioned followed by a chuckle, making Jin wrap his face in disgust at the imagination of the woman performing CPR on him.

"Did she?" Jin asked his girl friend, which grinned at her friend in an apologetic manner and Jin twisted his face as he was about to cry, then he sank his head into the lake again, which confused the woman as she saw Jin doing that.

"What is he trying to do?" The woman asked looking at Yi, which shrugged her shoulders although she knew exactly why Jin was doing that. Yi pushed Jin by his collar away from the water, making him sit down on the ground still shocked about before.

"Just forget about what happened, just focus on your well-being now," Yi noticed tapping on his wet shirt.

"I still need to get a check-up at the hospital"

"You're crazy"
"No, I'm serious. The first two 48 hours are critical after a drowning incident. I could get pneumonia, an infection or even a heart failure"

"Okay since you're in the medical school and know about that we can pass by the next clinic, we find on the way" Yi promised the Chinese boy.

"Thanks," Jin told the girl, then got up while helping her up gently.

"You two arrived at a good time here. I've caught fish to make my home-made fish noodle soup," The senior mentioned holding up a Tupperware, where she had put fish in it.

"We sort of didn't even have breakfast" Jin mentioned looking at Yi.

"I can make you two pancakes, if you want," The elderly woman offered looking at the two teens. "You can dry your clothes at the fireplace a little"

"Too bad I left the suitcase in the train" Jin mentioned earning a nod from Yi, which then widened her eyes as she realized someone was missing.

"By the way, where's Kai?" Yi asked and looked up at the bridge along with Jin.

"Maybe he stood back in the train" Jin mentioned seeing Yi sank her head down in sadness, then Jin placed his arm behind the girl. "We will get him back, don't worry" Jin assured and looked at the senior while keeping caressing his crush's back.

"Come on you two, I'm going to show you, where I live," The senior asked walking further followed by the two teens.