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Chapter 4
There was a lot of noise.
Even if it sounded like she was underwater, there was a lot of noise.
Her eyes felt so heavy that she didn't even attempt to open them for a couple of moments. If anything, she wanted to go back to sleep.
Or at least she thought she had been asleep.
Instead, the noise around her just got louder and louder until she recognised what it was, with her eyes opening sharply.
She wasn't surprised to see the roof of the ambulance as the surprise had already been taken away by the sirens that had probably disturbed her deep sleep. The grogginess in her muscles made her whole body feel so heavy that she felt stuck to whatever she was lying on. Did they have beds in the back of ambulances?
The noise was the first thing that she had registered.
But she wished that it had taken her longer to register the oxygen mask that was attached to her face.
Because the moment she realised, it just got heavier and heavier, like it was trying to suffocate her rather than help her to breathe. If she hadn't felt as groggy as she did, then she would have realised that she was probably having a small panic attack as the trauma from the aftermath of the fire hit her once more. Because she had woken up from that to find an oxygen mask stuck to her face and machines around her, beeping.
She reached up to try and remove it.
She needed to breathe.
She couldn't breathe with it on.
But her hand took its time getting to her face.
And was easily knocked out of the way by the paramedic looking after her.
She was sure that she had looked up at the young girl with such confusion.
"You fainted, Rachel." Was the first thing that she heard the paramedic say. "Because of the carbon monoxide that had been released into the caravan, we needed to get you properly looked after as we don't know how long you were in there and how much you have inhaled."
It took a moment for Rachel's brain to process what the paramedic had said and what that meant. The problem was that she was being dragged in again. And she wasn't certain that the 'no' actually left her lips as she slipped back into the darkness.