Welcome to Case Closed. You're listening to Every Time I Go on Vacation Someone Dies by Catherine Mack, narrated by Elizabeth Evans. Let's pick up where we left off last time. Chapter 18 The medicinal properties of P

Help! I yell, and start to swim in a panic toward where Allison went under.

Shake is behind me, like a shadow.

I get there right as Allison's surfaces with a grimace on her face,

and then she starts yelling

bloody murder. What is it? Allison, are you okay? A jellyfish, she yells. I got stung.

Try to hold still, shake says. That thrashing can't help. Allison grits her teeth and steadies herself, but the pain is written all over her face.

Oliver swims up next to me, his hair wet, water clinging to his shoulders.

I told you I can't help describing him in romance novel terms.

If I could turn it off, I would.

What's happening?

She was stung by a jellyfish, I say. Be careful.

It seems to occur to shake for the first time that if Allison got stung, he could too.

He starts to glide away from us slowly on his back, his hands making small movements at his sides.

Coward. Meanwhile, Oliver swims around Allison and slips his arms under her armpits. Try to stay still. I'll swim you

back to the boat. Allison nods calmly, but she has tears streaming down her face.

Oliver turns her around and starts to swim backward, passing shake with a few powerful

kicks.

The swimmers from the other boats have kept their distance, forming a loose semicircle around

the mouth of the cave, and the rest of our party have reversed course and climbed back into

the boat.

Everything looks so calm, but my heart

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