Andre looked over at Beck and Jade. Beck was shaking her and begging her to wake up. Andre hated to see his friend struggling, but he was so exhausted. His muscles were trembling. He was in shape, but come on, you try swimming miles and miles in a stormy ocean!
"Beck come on bro, you need to get some sleep. You're losing it." He said, and it was true. Beck's eyes were red from the salt, but definitely twitching. He couldn't stop repeating "Come on Jade, wake up, wake up. Please Jade. Wake up." And all sorts of that stuff. Andre was an optimistic guy, but he had little hope for Jade at this point. They were assuming she had gotten knocked out by a Jet Ski in the waves, and then was tossed around underwater for a while. She must've swallowed quite a bit of the stuff.
"No. I won't sleep until I know Jade's ok." He said it sharply and there was no room for Andre to protest. He felt badly, Beck was his best friend.
"Alright, well you may as well let me help you then." Andre said, and he dragged himself over to them. He put his freezing fingers to Jade's neck, and was happily surprised when he felt her pulse. It was faint, but definitely there.
"Ok so I'm assuming she took in a lot of water," Beck said "So we are going to need to get it out. Is that what C.P.R. is for?" Damn it, why hadn't he paid attention in health?
"Yeah, it seems like our best bet." Andre said. He really wished he knew how to do this properly. "Ok well I mean, I'm guessing you'll deal with the mouth to mouth action and uh I'll pump her chest?" Andre honestly was just going off what he had seen in movies.
"Yeah, yeah that seems right." Beck said. He was just as unsure. But what other options did he have? So Andre pumped 3 times then Beck opened Jade's mouth and breathed into it. They repeated this 4 times before Jade suddenly started violently coughing into Becks mouth. He pulled back and water gushed from her lips, but she kept trying to gasp for air.
"Keep going!" Beck ordered Andre. Each time he pressed down, more water spewed out of Jade's throat. Beck started to wonder how much more there could possibly be, but it just kept coming. He felt horrible as he helplessly watched Jade in pain. He decided to try something else, so he propped her into a sitting position and started thumping her back, causing her to choke out even more torrents of salt water. Finally after what felt like forever, the water stopped flowing. Jade continued to cough and hack for a few more minutes until she could breathe again. She just sat there breathing, enjoying the oxygen in her lungs.
"Babe are you alright?" Beck asked, his brown eyes wide with concern. He was still holding her upright, and he tightened his grip on her, despite the aching soreness in his muscles.
Jade attempted to say something, but all that came out was some mangled squeak. Her hands flew to her throat, which was raw and scratchy from the rough salt. She moaned out in pain, but that only made it hurt more, so she clamped her lips shut tight. With her mouth shut, she looked around her at the cave they were in. The last thing she remembered was being hit on the head by something hard. Jade was quick to realize what had happened from there, taking in the bedraggled appearances of Andre and Beck, as well as the storm still raging from the opening in their rock shelter. She shivered then, though she was still in Beck's arms. All three of them were only in bathing suits on a cold, damp rock floor in the dark, on top of the fact that they had already been soaked to begin with. Well isn't this just fucking dandy? Jade thought to herself, well she didn't really have the option of saying it out loud anyways.
All of sudden, there was a massive bolt of lightning. The light brought Jade's headache that had previously been a manageable ache to an excruciating level. She could feel the acute throbbing where the Jet Ski had slammed into the back of her skull. Jade knew complaining about it wouldn't do her any good, so she just bit her lip and lay down to go to sleep. She quickly shut her eyes to avoid letting Andre, and especially Beck, from seeing her tears. The cave floor was literally hard as a rock, and Jade winced as she put her head down onto it. Beck must've noticed something was wrong then, because he lay down beside her, and pulled her in so her head was on his chest. She twisted around to give him a small smile in thanks, but she knew he saw the pain in her eyes. She didn't want him to worry anymore; he had already risked his life because of her for God's sake! So she snuggled her head delicately into his bare chest and closed her eyes, but she couldn't fall asleep through the pain. She wished she were still unconscious.
Anything would be better than this.
A/N: Phew, drama hahaha idk where I'm getting this. Also for the future, I have no idea what I'm talking about as far as survival techniques and whatnot, so just bear with me! Love it? Hate it? Let me know!:)