Jadea
“C’mon Jadea!”
“C’mon! You can’t die!”
“Wake up!”
I was in and out. I heard their voices, both in my mind and spoken out loud as they worked to save me.
For a moment, as I was floating in between awareness and the peaceful serenity of darkness, I almost allowed myself to drift back to sleep.
But the pain that sliced through my chest wasn’t about to let me go that easily.
I heard the crack of my sternum as someone started chest compressions and the immediate pain that lanced through my upper body. Warm lips covered mine and someone breathed into me. Right as the compressions started again, I felt the water spewing out of my mouth and I gasped for air, my eyes blinking open to stare up into the pastel colors of dawn.
“That’s it, Jadea.” Garret encouraged, pulling me up into a s
