Jac stared at Jonny, watched him until he was out of sight. That saying was wrong; out of sight, out of mind- she couldn't stop thinking about him, or her baby. Jac knew she was once again become hypothermic. She tried to keep thinking straight, she couldn't let herself become delirious. She looked at Elliot who appeared in a slightly less worse condition than herself. Then Jac looked down at her bump.
What she wouldn't give for her little one to kick her organs now. She wanted to know that her baby, or 'it' as she commonly referred it as, was okay. It had to be because she'd promised Jonny. And that was one promise that she intended to keep.
Her and Elliot had been standing in the pouring rain for what seemed like hours but was really only 15 minutes and they were beginning to give up hope. She could see that the water was still rising; it was nearly up to the top stair now and Jac's icy, numb legs were starting to give. Her legs were freezing as the harsh winters wind blew on her dripping wet trousers. Jac still had their phones in the carrier bag which she had zipped in her coat, just above her bump. It couldn't go below that because otherwise it would zip up because it was too tight.
Above the extremely annoying pounding of rain on Jac's waterproof hood, she could hear something. A motor. But she ignored it. She kept on imagining the sound of a motor, she had even hallucinated that the boat was right in front of her and Jonny was there holding his hand out to help her. But this time was different, it was getting louder. Jac looked around the river, that was now never ending in width because it had flooded so far. Everywhere was covered in water and the only way she could tell where the original river path ran was where the traffic lights or bus stops just peaked out of the top of the water.
Then it came. Jac could see the orange shape in the corner of her eye. She was to scared to look incase it disappeared again because she was imagining it, but she had to look. Jac turned to see that it was going at an average speed along the debris congested river, dodging floating pieces of cars, trees and benches.
It was going from the left to the right; they obviously hadn't seen them. Jac tried to scream or shout but nothing was coming out. Anything that she could muster was muffled by the rain. But Jac looked at Elliot and they knew that they had to get their attention.
"Help! Please." They shouted desperately. Jac saw the men on the boat looking around them, trying to find the source of the sound and Jac was beginning to give up hope as none of them was looking at them. But almost as if Jac had wished it to happen, she saw one of the point at her. It took only seconds before the boat was turned around and headed towards them.
Jac could feel goosebumps taking over her arms and legs as she felt overwhelmed with joy. Her face was so numb that she couldn't smile at all but then she couldn't remember where she was or why she was here. She saw the boat coming closer and closer but did nothing. The last thing she remembered was everything went hazy and then she felt comfortable at last. Elliot panicked as she fell unconscious but he could barely move fast enough to catch her as she fell. Luckily she landed on the top step but as he froze, two of the three life guards from the boat jumped out into the icy water.
One of them picked up Jac and all Elliot could do was mumble, "She's pregnant." They noted his words and as one of them swam against the current, his feet only just touching the ground with the water up to his chest, carrying Jac. The other man guided Elliot back to the boat.
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