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“Oh my God. Mel!” I heard Lena shout as cold water enveloped my body. I came up sputtering, teeth chattering.
“Take my hand,” Gabby said. I did, and Lena grabbed onto my arm, pulling me back into the boat.
“Co…co…co…cold,” I chattered out the word and sank down to the bottom of the boat to get out of the wind.
“I am so sorry, Mel,” Gabby cried. “Are you okay?”
I shook my head. Tears stung my eyes, but I doubted that they noticed since I was soaking wet. “My ankle hurts. It hit the side of the boat.”
“I can’t believe I shoved you in the lake. God, Mel, I’m so sorry,” she said again, and I nodded. I knew she hadn’t done it on purpose, but I was freezing nonetheless, and my ankle was throbbing.
“We have to get back. Mel will freeze to death if we can’t get that motor running,” Gabby said.
They both tried to start the engine again, but it was no use. With the force of the wind, we drifted farther away from where we’d started. The chance of anyone finding us was slim.
My head swirled and my stomach twisted into a knot. “Oh, no,” I cried and leaned over the edge, losing all the cheese and salami I’d eaten earlier. This baby didn’t seem to care much for the cold water any more than I did.
I sat there shivering. Lena sat beside me and wrapped her arms around me. “You’ll get all wet,” I said.
“That’s okay. You need to keep warm.
Gabby sat on the other side of me and scooted in close, wrapping her arms around me also. It helped. A lot.
“Let me see your ankle,” Gabby said.
I lifted my pant leg and she took off my shoe and sock. My ankle had a small cut on it, but other than that, it wasn’t swollen.
“It doesn’t look too bad. Does it still hurt a lot?” she asked.
“Not t…too much,” I stuttered.
I looked up for a second. The clouds were darker, and several more had accumulated over the past several minutes.
“Was that a raindrop?” Gabby said.
“Oh, no,” Lena groaned as rain belted down on us. It was so sudden, as if someone up in the sky held a giant bucket over us and dumped it out right on top of our heads. And, if that weren’t enough, lightning bolted through the sky, making the three of us jump. I may have let out a scream. Three short seconds later, thunder roared, reminding us that we were alone and scared in the middle of a lake on a little metal boat, not really even a boat, more of a dinghy, with a bad motor. God, I was going to die pregnant. I wanted Asher.
