Page 53 of Her Brother's Billionaire Best Friend
Half an hour later, we were back at Riker’s Point. I was shaking and sweating. I’d been jogging with Kyle the entire way, making sure to cushion his body, not to put his ankle under any stress. As the point came into focus, I looked down the wide valley and saw a tiny dark shape moving up the hill.
“LAURA!” I said, and waved. The dark figure broke into a run, before Laura was climbing up the valley towards me.
“Oh my God,” she said, breathing hard as she ascended the hill. “Oh my God. Where is he? Where is he?”
David sprinted up there too. “Kyle,” he said, and made eye contact with me. I hadn’t forgotten David’s unkind words to me at the party, but I gave him a look of understanding. Not now. There’s no time.
“He’s fine,” I said, setting Kyle down. Laura knelt by his side.
“Oh baby,” she said, “are you okay? How do you feel?”
“I can’t really walk,” Kyle murmured.
Laura looked at me, desperation in her eyes.
“We’ve got to get him down,” said Laura. “I’ve parked the car at the bottom of the trail. We can get him to Freetown.”
“We can’t go to Freetown,” I said. “They’ve got a clinic there but no ER department. We need to get him to North Point Ridge.”
“That’s two hours away!” said Laura. I could see her shoulders taking, hear her ragged, panicked breaths.
“No it’s not,” I said, and pointed into the sky. “Look.”
Laura stared into the blue expanse above, shielding her eyes from the sun. There was a tiny black shape drifting down between a wisp of clouds. As it came, I began to hear a roaring noise in my ears. Instinctively, I put my hands over Kyle’s ears to shield him from the sound of the chopper.
“You called the helicopter?” she asked, and looked at me, disbelieving.
As the chopper came lower it roared louder and louder, and the boys clapped their hands over their ears. The blades span as it came down towards a hillock by Riker’s Point, the trees bending in the wind, pebbles scattering, a deafening howl as the ‘copter settled on the grass.
I lifted Kyle up again, and stepped over the ground. I got to the chopper and leaped up in one smooth motion. I placed Kyle gently onto the seat, and clipped him in. He looked up at me, and for a moment, our eyes met. The same eyes, the same color, the same shape.
“You’re…” I said, but there was no time to think about it. I turned around and lifted Laura into the helicopter. She turned to say something to me. But whatever it was, good or bad, I didn’t want to hear. I was too angry with Laura to want her to thank me, and too worried about Kyle to waste a moment.
“Go,” I said, and slammed the door shut. I stepped back as the chopper began to lift again. In a few minutes, it was nothing but a tiny dot in the sky, heading north over the valley and into thin air.
In the moments that followed, there was nothing but silence and heavy breathing as I stood on the mountainside.
“Woah,” said Joel. “Hey, mister. You think I can go in that some time?’
I turned on the boys.
“I’m sure that can be arranged,” I said.
Their faces lit up.
“After I have a little talk with your parents, that is.”
Chapter 17
Laura
“He’s going to be absolutely fine,” the doctor told me, once I’d been forcibly ejected from the room by one of the orderlies. I’d wanted to stay by Kyle’s side while he was examined, but they’d given Kyle a minor sedative.
“I’m sorry for being such a mess,” I sobbed. “I was just so worried.”
“I can understand. Your son fell forty feet, Miss Solomon. That’s no joke. If your friend hadn’t gotten him out of there when he did…”
I breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, I couldn’t relax. Kyle’s ankle was broken, and he was going to need a cast. But aside from that and a bad case of shock, he was fine.