A few days later, Paris was back on the softball team.
It was a cold March day in High Point, North Carolina. The girls on the Wesleyan Academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice. stamping their feet to stay warm. Eighth-grader Taylor Bisbee shivered (发抖) a little as she watched her teammate Paris White play. The two didn’t know each other well—Taylor had just moved to town a month or so before.
Paris was the queen of the softball court. with super skills of playing softball and strong leadership—almost all the players respected and followed her. Seemingly, Taylor’s coming challenged the current situation as Taylor was said to be one of the best softball players in her former school. Feelings of professional jealousy overwhelmed Paris, so most of the time, Paris just led the team to win the match, leaving Taylor alone on the bench.
The girls wore training hard. Emma tried her best to make a good throw, which might seem foreign to someone just starting to learn the game. Anna kept her are over her shoulder when she was throwing the softball. Suddenly. Paris fell to the ground and started shaking, with-her eyes-rolling back. Taylor realized it was an emergency.
It certainly was—Paris had suffered a sudden heart failure. Without immediate medical care, Paris would die. At first no one moved. The girls were in shock Then one shouted out, “Docs anyone know CPR?”
CPR is a life-saving technique. To do CPR, you press on the sick person’s chest so that blood moves through the body and takes oxygen to organs. Without oxygen the brain-is damaging quickly.
Amazingly, Taylor had just taken a CPR course the day before. Still, she hesitated. She didn’t think she knew it well enough. But no one else came forward. They were all at a loss. Taylor was scared, too. But she knew it was the difference between life and death.
Taylor got up the courage and ran to do CPR for Paris.
Yours,
Li Hua
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