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?

blend with

my thoughts drift

at the brink of death, he's still inside

a cruel ghost that refuses

Will he regret the words he said before

Or will he celebrate-

arms and disappear on some perfect honeymoon while I rot

water?

I tried.

hard to love him, to be enough.

had met first-before

could have loved

it have made

he still have looked at me the way

with hate-like I was

becomes unbearable, like fire and ice all at once. My body jerks, my mouth opens in

no air-only water, flooding in, stealing the last bit

escape my lips,

no one

isn't just a feeling

dragging me

world fades at

The fight leaves me.

want to

water

but right now, it's

every breath in me.

claims me-filling me, consuming

thing I feel is

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

darker-something venomous-as I storm out of the house

I heard her

I couldn't bring myself to look back. My control

if

have driven

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

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

now, I

pictures Luca sent flash in my

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

barely there. I wanted to rip it off her-burn

It's a poison I can't get rid

pounds harder and just the

I can't give in

myself, because I

chasing is getting to

My phone buzzes.

at the

I decline the call.

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

house wired-cameras,

I don't

Mercedes, I

or going back-dragging her

over my shoulder, and

it's red for making

"Fuck."

wheel, raking a

Then-my phone rings again.

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let out a frustrated

Leah.

clench my

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