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“No, Tye, no.” I coughed and spluttered, not able to take my eyes from the scene in front of me and I let the numbness wrap itself around me.
22
Everleigh
My head hurt. The noise felt like a jackhammer hitting against my skull as my eyes fluttered open. I raised my hand to my forehead, feeling wetness against my skin. I rubbed it between my fingertips in confusion then looking at my hand, realized it was blood. Blood? What the fuck. My head swam and I struggled to focus. My senses were going wild as I felt the cold wetness soaking through my clothes and I smelt the pungent aroma of burnt rubber and tarmac, mixed with a thick clogging of smoke.
What had happened? I couldn’t think, my brain wouldn’t work.
I felt the hard body and arms wrapping around me, but I didn’t flinch. They felt familiar in the fogginess of my mind. Two voices eventually came into my focus; they talked together and the words came in, allowing the memory of what just happened to flood back in.
“D ...Dawson….” I said in confusion.
“I’ve got you,” he replied shakily. As I lifted my head up, I noticed Del crouched by his side, looking as white as a sheet. He looked like he’d seen a ghost. “Keep looking at me, baby,” I heard Dawson say.
“He’s right,” Del replied, grabbing Dawson’s shoulder.
“Dawson?” I asked cautiously.
“Everleigh, just don’t look, trust me…” His voice broke as he spoke. “Please.” Instinctively though, I looked forward and oh my God, I wished I could take back that glance.
I froze as I saw the vacant eyes looking directly at me. A scream tore from my body and I began to shake. I couldn’t move. I wanted to look away, to close my eyes, not to see those blank eyes staring back at me, but I couldn’t. I just screamed over and over again, until Dawson blocked my view from the image ingrained in my brain.
“No, no, no, no, no!” I yelled. “No, not Tye, no, please Dawson, no!” I screamed into his body.
“Baby, I know,” he sobbed, tears dripping from our faces.
“Let’s get the EMT’s over, I see the ambulance arriving now,” Del said before he left us to get help.
“What happened to him, Dawson? The car was coming at us, not him?” I asked, my voice barely audible as I felt the shock settling in.
“Tye pushed us out the way, baby. He saved our lives.” Fuck, the shithead gave us his fucking life. I couldn’t believe it, he’s actually gone. I knew Tye had just gotten mixed up with Stone and couldn’t see a way out, but fuck, if he’d come to us, this wouldn’t have happened. Stone made him feel he had no choice.
“Where is Stone?” I whispered.
“Baby, I’d say dead after that impact.”
Then we heard it. I couldn’t believe my ears and by the look on Dawson’s face, he couldn’t either.
“FUCK YOU! Fuck every single one of you.” It was the unmistakable screech of Stone. How was he not dead? “You can’t get rid of me that easily,” Stone shouted menacingly, looking over at the pair of us, then to Del.
The police had him cuffed to the gurney as they followed the EMT’s, pushing him toward an awaiting ambulance.
“It doesn’t matter what you say, Stone. With the evidence we have and the recording of your confession, you won’t be seeing the light of day for a long time,” I said before hearing Dawson’s parting words to his father.
“Oh, and Dad, thank you for bringing me back to Everleigh.” He kissed me softly as another EMT crew arrived and Del directed them towards us.
“Over here boys, these two need help!” Del shouted, waving his hands.
“Everleigh, first,” Dawson said with an edge of panic. “I love you, Belle.”
“I…I love you too, Dawson,” I replied.
23
Dawson
The EMT’s insisted that we went to the hospital after they check Everleigh at the scene of the incident. Incident, that’s what they called it when they radioed it through. I wanted to scream and shout at them that it was murder. Pure, cold-blooded murder but I knew it wouldn’t help the situation.
