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They were asking questions, and some of them I knew, others I didn’t I told them about Trevor’s brain injury and the seizure he’d had a feeeks earlier They asked about ht of the sain I wasn’t sure They wanted to knohere ere froe, any other pertinent medical history

He was a boy I liked A boy I thought thatin love with I knew that and not much else Pretty pathetic

And then they said they were taking him to the hospital

By this ti he said made any sense, and that terrified me Alone and afraid, I scooped my cell from my purse and hit the first saved number

When he picked up on the second ring, I could barely speak My teeth were chattering, and I was shivering so badly that I nearly dropped e?”

There was a long pause, and by this ti so hard that I could barely see, and I scrubbed athair from my eyes as I tried to keep up with the EMTs

“Everly, are you okay? Where’s your mother?”

But I wasn’t okay I was so far from okay that I didn’t think I’d ever find e, and I need you”

“Calh the phone “Tellto be all right”

“I’ Trevor to the hospital, but I can’t ride in the ambulance and I don’t think I can drive and I think he just had another seizure and I don’t…I don’t knohat to do”

“I’m less than a minute away, Everly Hold on”

And he was His war things I couldn’t really understand By this time I was nearly incoherent, so I didn’t take the time to ask the questions Or wonder about the fact that I spied Kirk Davies, his old college friend, watching us from a few feet away

I would wonder about thes could come later

Chapter Twenty-three

Trevor