Chapter
6
Luckily, the
ambulances arrived a few minutes later. There were three of them. Kevin left
Angel and Brian when he heard the sirens approaching and ran out into the road
to signal them. The ambulances pulled to a stop on the side of the road and the
paramedics hurried out. There were three from each ambulance. Kevin remembered
Nick and sent three of them into the bus. He began to get worried. He hoped Howie
had gotten him breathing again.
Kevin showed
two more paramedics over to where AJ was still lying. Then he led the four
remaining paramedics over to where Brian and Angel were. Two of them went over
to Angel and began working on her. The others went over to Brian. Kevin knelt
on one side of Brian and squeezed his hand.
"I'm here
Bri," he said, hoping to comfort him.
"Is Angel
okay?" he asked.
"I don't
know," Kevin said.
"Go over
to her," Brian said. "I know she's scared." Kevin was touched.
Only Brian would be thinking about someone else when he had a pole jammed into
his body.
"Okay,"
Kevin said. He squeezed Brian's hand one more time and then headed over to
Angel.
"You're
gonna have to stay back," one of the paramedics said to Kevin. Kevin stood
back and watched as one of the paramedics attached Angel to an IV and strapped
an oxygen mask on her face. The other was bandaging her stomach. Angel was now
unconscious. Soon, they loaded Angel onto a stretcher and carried her to one of
the ambulances.
Moments later,
two more paramedics came wheeling AJ on a stretcher. He was in a neck brace,
but other than that, he looked to be okay. Kevin watched as the paramedics
loaded AJ into the same ambulance with Angel. Three of them climbed into the
ambulance. The other one headed back towards Brian. Kevin started towards the
bus, but stopped when he saw the three paramedics hurry out of the bus with
Nick on a stretcher. Kevin noticed they were hurrying a lot more than with AJ
and Angel. Howie hurried out of the bus behind them. His eyes were filled with
worry.
"How is
he?" Kevin asked.
"I gotta
go," Howie said. "I'm gonna ride with him. I'll see you at the
hospital." Then he hurried over to the ambulance where the paramedics were
loading Nick. Howie climbed in with them, and the ambulance sped off, lights
flashing and sirens wailing. Kevin had a bad feeling deep down inside of him
that something was seriously wrong with Nick.
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