Hallelujah can barely breathe through the pain of each step. Rachel is panting from the effort of holding Hallelujah up. Still, when they get closer to the clearing, Rachel manages to call out: Jonah! Help!Theres a rustling noise up ahead. Twigs snapping. And then Jonah appears. His face is in shadow, but his voice is worried: What happened?I turned my ankle, Hallelujah says. Im okay.Shes not okay, Rachel gasps. She cant put weight on it. Can you carry her?Jonah doesnt hesitate. He wraps one arm around Hallelujahs waist, and then he scoops up her legs with the other. In a single, fluid motion, shes off the ground. She holds on to his shoulders. For a second, she thinks about how strange this isto be held like this, to be held by Jonah.
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