Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 30

Chapter 30 ~ Sinking

Chapter 30 - Sinking

ATHENA

I've read so many articles about drowning, but no one has ever given it justice.

No one ever explained what it really feels like.

They wrote about the silence, the stillness-but not the agony.

No one

warned us how the cold water would punch the air from your lungs the second you hit the surface.

The first thought that comes to my mind is that i can't swim.

I open my mouth to scream, but all I taste is water.

Panic explodes in my chest. I thrash wildly-arms flailing, legs kicking-

but the dress clings to my skin like a vice, dragging me

down. My hair fans out around me, floating like a dark halo as I sink deeper.

The muffled sounds of the party above me fade. With how loud the music is, no one will find me.

If only Alex would change his mind and look back, turn to look for me. Maybe I'll get a chance to live.

But every second that passes is a cruel reminder.

He's with Leah.

He won't notice.

No one will see me.

My lungs burn, a searing pain

growing with every second. The need to breathe becomes unbearable-

an animalistic instinct

overriding everything-until my body convulses, demanding air.

But there is none.

My ribs contract painfully, as if

trying to wring out the water filling my lungs. It hurts-God, it hurts more than I thought

possible.

I fight.

I claw at nothing, kicking harder-harder-

until my limbs grow heavy, sluggish. The pool lights blur, growing

dim as the weight

of my body pulls me down.

This is the second time I've fallen this month.

Was it the alcohol? Did I slip?

Or... was I pushed?

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Not that it matters now.

I think of my parents.

Would they be proud of me? Will they be sad when I

meet them again and tell them that I drowned alone in a pool and couldn't

become a surgeon?

with

then- my thoughts drift to my

the brink of death, he's still inside my

cruel ghost that

he mourn me? Will he regret

Or will he celebrate-

and disappear on

water?

I tried.

tried so hard to love him,

if we had met first-before

have loved me

have made

still have looked at me

hate-like I was

in my chest becomes unbearable, like fire and ice all at once. My

in, stealing the last bit

my lips, floating upward-like

no one

isn't just a feeling

a presence, suffocating, dragging me deeper

fades

The fight leaves me.

want to

water doesn't

water is life, but right now,

every breath in me.

claims me-filling me, consuming me-until there's nothing

thing I feel is

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

I storm out

I heard her

myself to look back.

if I didn't

would have driven me

air reeks of sweat and cheap perfume. Normally, I wouldn't go

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

I wish I

in my mind-burning brighter

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

off her-burn

skin. It's a poison I can't get rid of, a constant itch I

harder and just the thought of

I can't give in to this

that's why I'm losing myself, because

is getting to

My phone buzzes.

glance at the

I decline the call.

is because I know she didn't insist on keeping him around.

whole house wired-cameras,

it paranoid. I

Mercedes, I

torn between driving off or going

throwing her over my shoulder,

making me lose my

"Fuck."

wheel, raking a hand

Then-my phone rings again.

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let out a

Leah.

my jaw

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