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 the

then- my thoughts drift

death, he's still inside my head-inside my

cruel ghost that

regret the words he

Or will he celebrate-

and

water?

I tried.

I tried so hard to love him,

had met first-before

could have loved

have made

still have looked at

with hate-like I

all at

flooding in, stealing the last bit

escape my lips,

no one will

cold isn't just a feeling

presence, suffocating, dragging

fades at

The fight leaves me.

want to

water

water is life, but right

every breath in me.

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

thing I

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

I storm out of the house

I heard her

my name but I couldn't bring myself to look back. My

thread, and if I didn't

driven

Normally, I wouldn't go within

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

now, I wish

sent flash in my mind-burning brighter than

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

I wanted to rip it off her-burn it

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

harder and just the thought of her

I can't give

myself, because I can't

is getting

My phone buzzes.

at

I decline the call.

is still breathing is because I know she didn't insist

the whole house wired-cameras, mics,

paranoid. I don't give a

my Mercedes, I grip

torn between driving off or going back-dragging her out

throwing her over

for making me lose my mind like

"Fuck."

against the wheel,

Then-my phone rings again.

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I let

Leah.

clench my jaw before

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