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CHAPTER10
I’m going to throw up.
No sooner had Katie had the thought than her stomach cramped and twisted painfully, heaving all of its insides up her throat. Her mouth didn’t work, so the next thing she realized, she was covered with a hot, smelly bile.
Her arms felt weightless, and her eyes were glued shut. Her head pounded, and her stomach still felt sick. But she couldn’t feel her extremities. At all.
Even the contrast in temperatures from her chilled skin and the hot vomit didn’t make her eyes open. It wasn’t until the smell reached her that she managed to open them.
Then she squeezed them shut again.
The smell wasn’t just her vomit.
She was somewhere, a room filled with cages. In each cage was a person. She was in a cage. She’d seen all that through bars.
Jesus.
This didn’t make any sense. Katie needed more information.
She squinted her eyes open again, steeling herself for what she would see.
In the cage next to her was Shelley, slumped over in a puddle of her own vomit. Cassie was on the other side of her, awake but barely. Veronica, the girl they didn’t even know that well, was on the far side.
“What’s going on?” she asked her friend, her words slurred. “Is Shelley okay?” It was a miracle her friend could even understand her. She barely could.
“Plane,” was all Cassie managed as her eyes drifted closed.
That’s when Katie noticed the noises, the undercurrent of the roar that seemed to vibrate though the metal flooring. She noticed the walls around the cages as she looked around again.
Yup. It was a plane.
She remembered now. The limo ride that had fallen into their laps. Eddie being shot and killed. She looked around for Anna and found her on the other side of Shelley, also slumped over. Still unconscious, Katie hoped.
What else had happened? She couldn’t remember anything before the limo ride, only an acute sense of heartbreak. She had been incredibly sad. But why?
There was only a crushing sensation in her chest, threatening to drag her under again.
She had to get them out of there, but how? Her eyelids were so heavy, and her body still wasn’t cooperating with her. A sense of panic welled inside her as her eyes grew heavy.
I need to stay awake.
That was her last coherent thought before her eyes drifted closed again.
