Temptation(40)

“One spray dude, trust me.” I winked at him and he nodded back.

Thankfully the traffic was light on the Freeway, it wasn’t until I turned onto Kings Way that we came to a complete halt, the problem was the car behind me had not noticed the traffic ahead had stopped. I saw him coming in the rear-vision mirror so braced myself, the hit was hard, so hard it pushed me into the car in front and set my air-bag off. It happened so quickly, that if it weren’t for the big white balloon in my face and the loud noise from the impact, I may not have realised that it did just in fact happen. I sat there in shock and eventually gathered my head as a man came up to my window, I opened the door, it sounded awful but opened with reluctance.

“Are you ok?”

“Yeah.” I was pretty sure I was, I went to unbuckle my seat belt and get out.

“No stay there, I’ve called an Ambulance.”

“I don’t need an Ambulance, I’m fine.”

“No stay there, you’ve been hit quite hard.” Great this was just what I needed, I was going to be late and without a car for God knows how long, I reached for my phone.

“Alexis, is everything alright?”

“I’m going to be late Bryce, I’ve been in an accident, my car is fucked and they’ve called an Ambulance. I’m fine but…..”

“Where are you?” His spoke fast.

“I’m just on the Kings Way off ramp, not even 5 bloody minutes away…..”

“I’m on my way.”

“What? No, I’m fine…” He hung up, shit, I’m fine.

“I’m just pissed off…..” I started to yell.

“Pissed off that some dickhead wasn’t watching where they were going.” Screw this, I’m getting out. I stepped out of the car and had to steady myself, the man that had come to my window was by my side again.

“You really shouldn’t move Ma’am.”

“Thank you but I’m fine.” I could hear sirens and knew the Ambulance was not far away, I looked at my car, my poor car resembled that cube thingy from Transformers. My tailgate was well and truly pushed in and jammed, the bonnet had bent up and made its way closer to the windscreen and it was leaking radiator fluid. Fuck, this was going to be a pain in the arse. I was ready to go and give the guy behind me a peace of my mind, when I heard a Helicopter. I looked up and saw a chopper fast approaching and circling to land in the nearby vacant lot next to the off ramp. At first I thought it was a Medi-Chopper but soon realised it was ‘The Crow’. Oh No! He flew here, really? Talk about overreaction. I watched him jump out of the chopper and sprint up the ramp like a mad man, he ran straight up to me and cupped my face, I don’t know if I was in more shock from the accident or from this over animated dash to my aid.

“Alexis, are you ok? Are you hurt? Is anything Broken? You really shouldn’t be standing here.” Before I knew it he had swept me off my feet and was carrying me to the side of the road, where he placed me down.

“Bryce, what are you doing? Seriously I’m fine, stop making such a fuss, I’m fine.” People were now looking at me and the frantic Helicopter Pilot who just ran up an off ramp to an accident scene and rescued the damsel in distress.

“Where’s the bloody Ambulance?” He ran his hand through his hair and was clearly distraught. That’s when it struck me, the accident! The car accident, of course he was freaking out over the accident because of his parents and brother. Oh Shit, I should never have called him. Alexis you bloody idiot. I got up and grabbed his hand, he was searching around looking for the Ambulance.

“Bryce, Bryce look at me.” I turned his head to get his full attention.

“I’m fine, see? I’m fine.” His panic, started to slowly fade, he grabbed me and squeezed me tight.

“Shit Alexis, you scared me half to death.”

“I know, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have called you like that. I didn’t think, I’m so sorry.” He pulled back.

“Don’t be, shit if anything had happened to you, I…” He stopped mid-sentence.

“Alexis I’d die if anything happened to you. I, I lov…..” A paramedic interrupted him and knelt down beside me. What? Holly Shit, was he about to say the ‘L’ word? Oh fuck I hope not!





CHAPTER FIFTEEN



The Paramedic was a young man, with ginger hair and an Irish accent.

“Hi there, what’s your name Ma’am?” I loved Irish accents, I smiled at him.

“Alexis.”

“Alexis how are you feeling? Do you have any pain anywhere?” He started checking me with a mini torch, shining it into my eyes then away, then into my eyes again. Bryce was telling me he loved me, I’m sure he was in the middle of saying Love. Maybe I have concussion and he really isn’t here and I’m just imagining it, or maybe I’m day dreaming this whole accident. Now that’s a possibility, my day dreams have been just a tad vivid lately! I pinched myself. Ouch, that didn’t work. I pinched Bryce, he looked stunned.