Page 93 of The Legend
“JesusChrist!” I screamed throwing my phone down the hallway when it kept ringing.Immediately I fell to my knees outside the door to the trauma room they pusheddad into. I lost it in Spencer’s arms, sobbing uncontrollably.
Deathhovers over every turn when you race, waiting. But you never think it willhappen to you or to someone you’re close with. At least I didn’t. Even afterRyder, I still had a false pretense to what it even meant. Now, it wasn’t justhovering, it was suffocating us.
The partthat bothered me the most, here were two people, two legends. Rarely, in anysport does an athlete reach the commanding levels that they had reached.
But theyhad and now their lives hung in the balance attached to machines.
Machineswere breathing for them, machines were beating their hearts.
All wecould do was waiting; wait on time and wait on a machine.
Thousandsof devoted fans, family...theentire world waited.
15.Red Flag – Sway
Red Flag –The flag displayed to stop the race.Usually displayed for acrash.
My night wasordinary.
And whenyou live the life we had for so many years, the ordinary days were nice.
Arie, Lexiand I were having a movie marathon with Emma, Alley and Nancy. It was nice tohave the girls together with one little addition, Casten. Being grounded wasthe reason but he apparently had a big date this weekend with a girl but whenhe saw we were all cuddled up on in the movie room, he joined in on the fun. Heloved girly nights but swore us to secrecy that this would not be told to hisbrother or cousins. We’d never rat him out though. Casten was great for girls’nights.
We startedwith simple girly movies likeHow to Lose a Guy in Ten Daysand thenmoved on to scary ones per Lexis’ request. I couldn’t understand why anyonewould want to watch a scary movie, in particular, theParanormalmovies.
Thosescared the living shit out of me, if that were possible to actually scare shitfrom your body. I was nearly convinced after that.
Sometimeafter midnight, I sent Jameson a text to see how the main went. I thought forsure I’d hear from him once they got back to the hotel after the first night ofracing.
An hourlater, still nothing.
It wasabout 1:30 Thursday morning when Alley’s phone began vibrating.
We alllooked at it as though it was some sort of bomb. We did just watch those damnParanormalmovies.
“That’sstrange...” Alley pickedup her phone off the leather ottoman at our feet. “It’s Carl with Simplex.”
“Oh jeez,who’d he punch now?” I teased knowing my husband’s temper when it came toracing sprint cars. “Let me guess, Brody?”
Lexi pipedin. “No, he’s in Vegas this weekend.”
Alley andI both looked at her in surprise. They claimed they weren’t seeing each otherbut that statement didn’t sound like it.
Alley smiled,holding back her laughter when Lexi realized the slip.
Holdingthe phone to her ear, Alley answered. “Carl, it’s one in the morning. Thisbetter be serious.” She laughed. Carl had recently replaced Marcus when heretired. We use to joke that he retired because of Jameson’s temper.
Arie wasasleep, her head rested on my lap when her cell phone started ringing. ThenLexi’s followed by Casten’s. Their friends were texting them and calling.
Somethingwas strange but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Lexireached for her phone and then screamed, “Oh my god!”
All of usperked up including Nancy who’d been asleep with a blanket over her head forthe last three hours.
“What’swrong?” Nancy asked jolting up in the leather chair, the blanket covering herclung to her face so it took a moment for her to untangle herself.
Lexi’sface was white.
