Chapter 12
DAY 30
Jackson POV
All of us were sitting around the fire when I went to get the water jug to fill it up. It was gone so I asked, "Guys, does anyone know where the water jug went?"
"Yeah, Lilly went to fill it up." Taylor said.
"Oh, I'll go help her." I said. I walked down the path and looked down further and did not see Lilly. I kept walking and I saw her laying on the ground. Seeing her helpless on the ground made me sick. I ran over to her and knelt down at her side and felt her forehead. She was burning up.
"I NEED HELP!" I shouted loudly so everyone could hear me. Then I moved onto Lilly. "Lilly, can you hear me?" Her clothes were sweaty and wet. Her forehead was extremely hot but had no sweat on it. Her cheeks were bright red. I put my head down by her mouth to see if she was breathing. She was. I heard footsteps and saw Nathan and Eric running toward me with the girls following.
"What happened?" Nathan asked sitting on Lilly's other side.
"I don't know, I just found her like this." I said. "We need to get her to a shelter." I said. I picked up Lilly's head and back and Eric picked up Lilly's legs and feet. We walked quickly back to the shelter. Since not everyone could fit, Daley, Taylor, Eric and I were in the shelter with her.
"Okay, so she's hot, not sweating, unconscious, bright red, she didn't drink any bad water, she's on her period but it wouldn't cause this…" Daley said.
"Heat stroke." I said
"How do you know?" Daley asked me grabbing the first aid kit.
"My little brother got this once. Everything is the same except he didn't pass out." I said.
"I got it," Daley said pulling out the first aid book, "to care for a heat stroke victim remove all sweaty clothing, move the victim out of the sun, pour water on the victim, fan the victim, call 911, and let the victim drink water."
"Well then, take off her clothes." Taylor said pulling on her shirt.
"Woah, not with me in here." Eric said. Stopping Taylor from taking off her shirt.
Taylor POV
"Just deal with it. She has a sports bra on." I said. Eric could be so immature at some times. I pulled her orange t-shirt up and over her head so just her sports bra was on. Daley started to take off her shorts when Eric said
"Okay, not that too. It's bad enough we have to take her shirt off."
"Eric, this is an emergency! She could die!" I said ignoring him. Daley quickly unbuttoned Lilly's shorts and pulled them off. Luckily for Eric's sake she was wearing plaid boxers.
"Eric, go get some water bottles and plates." Jackson said. When Eric jumped out of the shelter Melissa came in.
"How is she?" She asked. She scanned Lilly's body realizing she had no clothes on.
"She has heat stroke." Daley snapped. When Eric came back Jackson grabbed the water from him and started squirting all over Lilly's body. I also grabbed water and squirted it all over body her too. Daley, Eric, and Melissa took the plates and started fanning her. This is when I got worried.
"Why isn't she waking up? She needs to wake up!" I shouted almost crying.
"Taylor, just keeping squirting her!" Daley shouted getting worried too. I saw Eric pick up the first aid book and when he read something his eyes got really big.
"Eric, what is it?" Jackson asked.
"umm, it says, if a person becomes unconscious from heat stroke they need medical care right away. If they do not get medical care it can lead to death." Eric said. I stopped squirting and I started crying.
"No! She can't die! She's like my best friend here!" I leaned over to Daley who took me in for a hug who was also crying. Jackson put his fingers down on her neck and looked up at us with a worried look.
"Her pulse stopped." Jackson said. This is when I knew what to do.
"Jackson, when I tell you to breath for her, give her two breaths." I said. I started doing compressions on her 1,2,3,4…30, "Breathe Jackson!" Jackson hesitated for a second then bent down and pressed his lips to hers and gave her 2 breaths. We continued this cycle for 120 seconds. The entire time all the girls are crying and the boys are hugging them trying to comfort them. "Breathe!" I said. Right when he put his lips on hers, her hand moved.
"Stop!" I yelled. I checked her pulse and she had a pulse. I rolled her onto her side and she slowly opened her eyes. "She's breathing." I said. She opened her eyes all the way and looked confused.
"Wha…happened?"She said in her weak voice.
"You had heat stroke and then passed out. You're going to be fine." I said. I looked back at everyone outside the shelter who was smiling even though they still had tears in their eyes. I gave Jackson a hug and after about 5 minutes Lilly was able to sit up. We sat her up slowly and she started drinking water. She didn't care that she was almost naked she just cared that she was alive.
"Thank you. Taylor you saved my life with CPR. Jackson, if you didn't find me, I probably would have died. Thank you to everyone really." Lilly said. She sat up more but when she did she fell over and Jackson caught her.
"You might want to take it easy." Jackson said. Lilly looked around and everyone was staring at her. "Why don't we give Lilly some privacy." Everyone nodded and walked out of view of the shelter. Jackson and I started to get up but she said,
"Wait, you two stay." She said. Jackson still had his arm around her and she was leaning against him. I sat closer to Lilly and she leaned her head on me. "Thank you." She said and slowly drifted off to sleep.
DAY 35 (sorry I'm skipping but I have to)
Lilly POV
It's been 5 days since I almost died. Well, technically since I didn't have a pulse I was dead. I haven't been doing much lately. I mostly lay in the shelter. Just last night I was able to come out of the shelter and sit around the fire with everyone, and when I did, Taylor and Miley were on my sides helping me walk and Jackson was behind me making sure I wouldn't fall. But other than that I lay in the shelter all day because I can't do anything. Each person takes a shift staying with me to make sure I'm okay. I enjoy talking the most with Jackson and Lex.
I love talking to Lex because he is like the little brother I never had. We would talk mostly about me being Lola Luftnagle and Miley being Hannah Montana but I still loved him as if he was my brother.
I loved talking to Jackson because we had such calming conversations. He was my best guy friend on the island and he seemed to get me. He seemed to get how sometimes I would get jealous about having a famous pop-star for a best friend and not having any siblings and stuff like that.
I just woke up to find myself alone in the shelter. I sat up just enough to see everyone outside the shelter. When they saw me sit up Daley got up and came and sat next to me with a water bottle and some food.
"Here, this is your breakfast." She said.
"No thanks, I'm not hungry." I said. She set the food down near the door of the shelter and we sat there in silence. "Wait, isn't it Jackson's shift?" I asked her because I wanted to talk to him.
"Yeah, he's just using the bathroom. He'll be right back." She said. Then seconds later Jackson appeared in the doorway.
"I'll take it from here." He said smiling at me. Daley understood the hint from Jackson.
"Well, I'll let you two talk." She said getting up and winking at me. He came in and sat down next to me leaning up against the wall.
"Can you help me with something?" I asked him.
"Sure, what do you need?" He asked looking at my eyes. His eyes were the color of the ocean. A calm, peaceful, beautiful ocean. I got lost in them for a minute then snapped out of it.
"Oh, umm, well, I want to walk down the beach." I said nervously expecting him to say no.
"Are you sure you're up to that?" He asked me
"Yeah, I've done nothing for 5 days. I want to walk." I said.
"Okay here I'll help you…you're gonna need it." He said laughing. I sat up and sat with my legs crossed. He then took both of my hands in one of his hands and put his other around my waist.
"On three. 1,2,3" He said. With that I pushed with all my might and he pulled me up and I was standing. He didn't remove his hand from my waist he left it there and took his other arm and held my right arm with it.
"Ready?" He asked me.
"As ready as I'll ever be." I said. We walked slowly out the shelter and down to the fire pit when everyone was shocked to see me up.
"Lilly what are you doing?" Miley asked me.
"I'm going for a walk." I said.
"No you're not, you're going to make yourself worse." Miley said.
"Miley's right, you shouldn't go." Daley said.
"I want to go." I said.
"Well you can't!" Miley said sternly.
"Why not? Because you say so? Miley, you're always telling me what to do, where to go, who to talk to, and I'm done with listening to you. I'm going whether you like it or not." I said turning to walk down the beach. Miley grabbed my arm causing my to wobble but Jackson had a firm grip on me.
"Do you want to hurt us more? Just stay here and rest, now." Miley said. I went to say something when Jackson said,
"Miley, I have her. Nothing is going to happen to her. I won't let go of her." He was looking her straight in the eyes. She took a step back and said,
"Fine, do what you want, hurt yourself more by doing this. But when you hurt yourself don't come crying to me." She said in a bitchy tone. She turned and walked into the shelter. Jackson turned me to go so I followed him. We were at the bottom of the beach right before the water when I broke down. I started crying my eyes out. We were out of sight and hearing range of everyone so I didn't care. I started crying hard. Jackson kept his arm around my waist but turned and stood in front of me putting his other arm around my waist as well.
"Lilly what's wrong?" I just looked at him and he pulled me into hug him. I was crying into his shirt. He didn't seem to care. We sat down on the sand slowly and I was sitting on his lap so that he could support me because I didn't have the energy to support myself. He just looked me in the eyes and I looked at him in the eyes. I still had tears coming down my cheeks but then he took one of his fingers and wiped the tears away and we just sat there looking at each other until, he lean in and kissed me.
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