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Chapter Twenty-Six

On our way home, we decided to go and tell Damon’s mother, Alisha, the good news. The whole way there, Damon was bouncing up and down in his seat with excitement. Seeing him this happy made my heart swell. “Damon what do you think your mother will say?” I asked.

As I began wondering if she would be mad or happy with us, as we were not married yet and with her being a strict Roman Catholic they did not believe in baby out of wedlock. “Sheena, she will be over the moon, she has always wanted grandchildren” he replied excitedly.

Feeling a little relieved, I gave him a smile. Staring out the passenger window, I thanked God for everything, as I know deep down that there is definitely someone out there helping me otherwise, I would have died years ago, I thought to myself.

As soon as Alisha’s house came in sight, I began to get nervous. Although I loved her like a mother, I was still worried about how she was going to react with the news. Pulling up onto her drive something felt wrong. I had a knot building up in my stomach as Damon cut the engine off. He went to open his door but I quickly reached out and stopped him. he gave me a questioning look, ”Sheena she is going to be so excited with us having a baby , please will you stop worrying so much” he said, before he leaned in and kiss me on the cheek. Holding on to him tightly, I whispered into his ear “Damon something is not right”. Leaning back a little, he started to study my face, and then started laughing. “Damon please, I am serious,” I told him more firmly. He shut up almost immediately, when he seen how serious I was.

That is one thing that Damon had learned about me, when I had a bad feeling about something, nine times out of ten, I was always right. However, right now I hope I am wrong, I thought to myself. He looked out the windows, scanning everywhere. I followed him and could see nothing; nevertheless, I still had a bad feeling. “Its clear” he told me as he opened the door of the car, he stepped down onto the ground and closed his door, before making his way over to me. He was just opening my door when men came running towards us. They starting shooting at Damon, without thinking, I quickly leaped over in to his sit, giving him room to jump into mine. Starting the car up, I pressed my foot right to the floor, before Damon had even managed to close the door. “Sheena” he shouted as a car pulled out of nowhere trying to cut me off. I swerved out of the way just in time. I kept dodging the cars and trucks as they came at me, while Damon kept firing at them. My heart was pounding in my chest, but I ignored it, as I needed to concentrate on driving.

 Seeing a clear run in front of me, I pressed my foot right down. The car took off so fast, that every thing around me became a blur. It was as if my body was reacting on its own accord, as I felt numb. Speeding up the country road it had looked like we had finally lost them, then a car from the other direction swerved onto my side of the road making me swerve out of its way. My car toppled over and began rolling, I screamed out to Damon only to see him unconscious and smothered in blood.

 I began to panic as everything around me was now going in slow motion.

My head crashed against the window as we were rolling down a large mud bank, the window smashed, the glass flying everywhere.

The air bag from the inside of the steering wheel fully inflated, it was crushing hard against my chest making it hard for me to breath. However, I tried to keep my focus on Damon, as I tried to blank out all my surroundings, but it was so hard as my body was being violently trashed about inside the car.

The came to a stop, I was hanging upside down with only the seat belt holding me in. Looking around frantically at my surroundings, I noticed the car was only balancing on a huge boulder. I kept my body as still as I possibly could, as the car continued to rock back and forth.  Trying my hardest not to make a move, knowing that if I moved the car could topple over. I could see the big drop under the boulder, nervously I tried to take my phone out of my pocket, but as I reached down a sharp pain shot through my arm. Shifting my eyes down to my arm, I noticed it was broken. I tried to reach down with my other hand, and as I reached my pocket, the car started to drop a bit. Hearing the metal scraping and crunching against the boulder, I froze. As soon as the car found its balance, very slowly I continued to reach my phone. Gripping onto my phone for dear life, I slowly started to take it out of my pocket.

Seeing the screen made me relax a little, I tried to bring my broken arm up so it could hold the phone, so I could dial Lee’s number in with my good hand. However, hanging upside down, with the air bag into my chest was not helping me at all. The pain was too much for me too handle, but I knew I couldn’t stop, as our lives now depended on me.  Biting hard down on the inside of my mouth I managed to hold the phone, but made sure my other hand had hold of it as well, as if I were to drop it we are going to die, I thought to myself.

Pressing the green button, I was happy to see that Lee was the last person I had called so with my good hand I pressed the call button again. Hearing it starting to ring my heart stopped, but it went straight to answer machine. “DAM” I shouted to myself. Trying to blink the tears out of my eyes that were starting to blur my vision I tried again, but the same as before it went to his voice mail. I tried to get Cherelle’s number up, which luckily for me I had also rung her this morning, so pressing the call button I prayed that she would answer. On the fifth ring Cherelle answered, she started to rant on and on about where I was, when I screamed down the phone at her managing to shut her up instantly. After I explained everything she stayed on the phone as she used her house phone to call Lee, with in seconds, I could hear Lee telling Cherelle that he was in his car and on his way with an ambulance and a back up team.

Cherelle kept talking to me; shock was starting to take over as I was struggling to keep my eyes open. Nevertheless as soon as I went quite Cherelle would scream at me making me open my eyes again.

It had felt as if I had been hanging here for hours, where realistically I knew, I wasn’t, listening to Cherelle going on and on about nothing strangely felt good. I felt the car moving shifting my gaze over to Damon I could see he was gaining consciousness. ”Damon don’t move,” I screamed out at him, hoping to God he would listen to me. His eyes sprung open, our eyes locked,” Damon if you move even a little bit we are dead do you understand?” I asked him sternly. I could see he was going to nod his head,” Don’t nod, you are going to have to try and talk ok?” I said, I could hear Cherelle panicking through the phone. “Cherelle we are fine, Damon has just regained consciousnesses and I just needed to make sure he doesn’t move,” I explained. Hearing her taking in a deep breath, I knew she was calming down a bit. I could hear the sirens coming in the distance, and Cherelle must of too as she started to shout at me.

I kept my eyes on Damon making sure that he stays awake, “Sheena, Lee has just told me that they have spotted you,” I left out a deep breath feeling a little relieved, but knowing we were not out of this yet still had me panicking.

I could hear people running down towards us all shouting orders at each other. Just hearing them shout and scream at each other made me feel safer. “Damon help is here, just stay awake a little longer baby,” I said feeling choked at how bad he looked. ”I am trying” he replied in a faint whisper.

Trying hard to listen to what the rescuers were saying, the only bits I did catch on to made me panic, as they don’t think they were going to be able to get us out without the car toppling over the edge. My heart pumped so fast, that it was starting to make me feel dizzy. “Cherelle I need you to tell Lee, that I am not going to be able to hang on much longer” I said in a defeated tone. “Sheena you have been through a lot worse than this, just hang on a little longer ok?” she said well more liked ordered, “Ok, I’ll try my best” I replied, but feeling totally exhausted.

As I stared over at Damon I could see he was in a lot of pain I slowly reached my hand over to his and held on to it. ”Damon not much longer now, you’re doing great,” I told him with my voice cracking, at seeing him so injured. He gave me a small forced smile, but his eyes told me the truth as they showed an unbelievable amount of pain.

Cherelle kept talking to me and I kept talking to Damon as we all tried to keep each other awake and calm. I heard some one approach the side of me; slowly I turned my head round so I could see whom it was. “Lee” I shouted, in pure relief. “Hey you two can’t leave you alone for a minute can I “he said while laughing. I could tell it was fake, but I did not care just seeing and hearing him was enough for me. I watched him look over at Damon, and by his expression I knew he realised we did not have long. As even, I could tell that Damon’s injuries were so serve that his life was at risk. Seeing the pained shocked expression on Lee’s face I quickly started talking to him to bring him back to reality. “Sorry” Lee mumbled as he stared at me. “Its ok Lee, please just get us out of here,” I pleaded to him, as I felt the exhaustion taking over me once again. He nodded his head and started to look around for ant route of escape.

Lee left us ages ago and I was starting to lose hope, Damon’s eyes were opened however, he had not said a word to me in ages. Nevertheless, by the look of the amount of pain he was in I did not blame him. As long as he stayed awake that was enough for me, I told myself.

Hearing the sounds of what sounded like heavy chains dragging along the ground, had my heart racing again in hope. “Sheena, listen to me carefully ok?” Lee shouted from behind the car. “Yes” I replied nervously as I waited for his instructions. “We are going to hook the car up with chains, you will feel it move slightly, but make sure you don’t panic as we are going to need you both to stay perfectly still, do you understand?” he shouted out. Quickly glancing over at Damon, I checked to make sure that he was still awake. Seeing that he was still awake helped me to relax a little. “We understand” I replied, as I gripped tighter onto Damon’s hand.

“Sheena we will start on the count of three, one- two- three” he counted. I felt the car move, I left out a scream and I closed my eyes tightly. I could feel the car rocking back and forth, my body began shaking like mad.

Feeling the car moving slightly, I started to panic even more. ”Sheena,” Damon called, I opened my eyes, as my heart started beating frantically, as this was the first time Damon had spoken in ages. “Yes Damon” I replied, as tears started to well up in my eyes. “I love you” he struggled to get every word out.

My heart broke, as this wasn’t how it was meant to be. Today was meant to be the start of our lives as a family, it was meant to be Damon and me celebrating on the news of the pregnancy on our first baby. Why oh why does life always through something at me, why can’t I just be normal like everyone else WHY ME? I screamed out in frustration as I left the tears flow.

 “I love you too Damon, we are going to make it out of here, do you hear me, stay with me Damon just a little bit longer please?” I pleaded as the tears continued to stream down my face. Feeling the car jolt back hard, made a lump build up in my throat, making it hard for me to breath. Damon tugged lightly at my hand, our eyes locked, and I just kept my focus on Damon, as I tried to blank out all the noise that was coming from behind the car.

“OK it worked Sheena the car is now hooked up ready to be moved, we are going to start now to pull you back up here ok?”, Lee shouted with so much excitement, that he even made me feel excited too.” Ok we are ready when you are,” I shouted back.

  For the first time in hours, I had actually believed that everything was going to be all right, Damon, me, and our unborn baby were going to make it.

I could hear the tow trucks engine roar as it started to move us away from the boulder. We were moving so slowly I was getting irritated, I just wanted to shout out to them to go faster. Nevertheless, knowing they were the experts at this, I kept my mouth shut.

Seeing we were moving further and further away from the edge calmed me down, we are nearly out of danger. I thought to myself. Then I heard a loud crash and felt the glass from the back windscreen coming flying towards us, slashing gashes all over us. I began screaming out as the car started to move back towards the boulder. Looking over at Damon I seen he had fallen unconscious again, I screamed out to Lee hoping he would help me. I tried to feel for Damon’s pulse, but the car started to speed up, rolling back towards the edge. “LEE HELP!” I screamed out.

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