Hopeless

Chapter 16

"Jackie!" I scream at her. "Why?"

"This is part of training." she saya calmly "the longer you wait the farther he will fall into the earth. Right now he is about 7 feet down and dropping about an inch more every minute."

I frown. Knowing that he is about 5 "9 and I 5 "3 I have a very unfair advantage. Imediantly, I run over to where Flint is.

"Are you ok!?" I scream when I reach the end of the whole.

"Get me out of here please Bailey! It keeps falling and it's getting hot!" you stammers. He looks really stressed. He has tears of sweat dripping from his sweet blonde hair and panick in his eyes.

"I will I promise!" I say and run to where a pike of sticks lie on the ground. Faintly behind me I can hear him say "I trust you." and my heart sinks. It would be horrible if I failed. If I failed, I would fail myself and him. So I didn't waste any time. I choose the longest stick immediantly and run over to where he stands. He is now two feet lower than where I saw him last and it had only been five minutes at the most.

"Hey! What happened?" I scream to Jackie

"Sorry." she smirks "I am not in complete control."

I ignore her face and how come she speaks when something like this is happening. Slowly, I lower the stick in the hole. He grabs the very end of it and I try to pull him up, but I can't. He's just to heavy.

"I can't!" I shreik "I'm sorry I just can't!"

"You can!" he says trying to encourage me, but he drops another foot and all hell breaks loose. Now about 9 feet under the ground he's walking in circles with even more panick in his eyes. I can't think so I do something stupid. I jump in after him.