Chapter 3
A woman and young girl were falling. Drew reached for the girl, but he couldn't get to her. She and the woman fell out of sight…
The image wouldn't leave Drew's eyes. They had fallen…as May had just a while ago.
'I tried…' he thought 'but trying wasn't enough'.
Drew stood frozen where he had stood when May had disappeared, Max's eyes where big with fear. Both stood there for ever, it seemed, until they heard a familiar voice.
"I could use a little help here!"
"May!" Max cried in relief as he ran to the edge to see his sister. Drew slowly followed him, snapping out of it as he walked.
"Max! Help!" Max looked down at his sister. She was holding a thin branch growing out of the side of the mountain.
"Wow, you're really in a pickle…aren't you?" Max commented. He reached for May, but his arm wasn't long enough.
"Drew? Can you reach her?" Max looked up to see that Drew was next to him.
"I think…" the image Drew had finally gotten out of his head had come back, but he wasn't going to let that happen again. Not after…
"Drew? Are you ok?" Drew looked down at Max; May had asked the same question.
'Is it that obvious the answer is no?' he thought.
"Yah, I'm fine." Drew got down on his stomach, where Max was, and looked at May.
"Wow…your brother's right. Hmmm, poor May," May recognized the sarcasm in Drew's voice and immediately became irritated.
"Now is not the time for sarcasm Drew!" May yelled "Incase you haven't noticed, the only thing keeping me alive is-," thin lines came out from the branch in the rock, while a snapping sound filled the air.
"Uh, now would be a good time for…help!" May cried.
The roots on the branch broke away, May screamed, Max yelled out to his sister, and…May felt something catch her hand. She made the mistake of looking down.
May watched the branch fall, fall, fall…out of sight.
"Wow…" she whispered. She looked up to see Drew holding on to her and Max cheering.
"What the…Drew?" she asked in astonishment. Drew didn't seem to hear her, it looked as if he was debating whether he should do something, whatever that was, or not.
"Go Drew!" Max kept cheering.
"What now?" May asked. That's exactly what Drew was thinking.
"What do you mean?" Max asked.
"I mean, how am I going to get back up there?" May answered.
"Oh…" Max said.
"Well…" Drew started.
"What?" both May and Max asked.
"Well I could, but, hmm." Drew looked a bit uncomfortable about what he was going to say, "First of all, May?"
"Yah?"
"Do you trust me?"
"What?"
"Do you trust me?" Drew asked again.
"Well…hey! What does this have to do with-,"
"Just answer me!"
"Uh, yah I guess. Why?" May looked up at Drew. He squeezed his eyes tight, as if he just had something very sour. Then May felt her hand being released.