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

thoughts drift

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

a cruel ghost that refuses to

me? Will he regret the

Or will he celebrate-

his life into his arms and disappear on some perfect honeymoon while I

water?

I tried.

hard to love him, to be enough.

met first-before

could have loved

have made a

looked at me the

with hate-like

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

water, flooding in, stealing the last

lips, floating

no one will

cold isn't just a feeling

presence, suffocating, dragging

fades

The fight leaves me.

want

water doesn't

but right

every breath in me.

consuming me-until there's nothing

thing I feel is the

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

myself to look back. My

if I didn't

driven me to

air reeks of sweat and cheap perfume. Normally, I

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

now, I wish I

in my mind-burning brighter

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

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

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

pounds harder and just

give

why I'm losing myself, because I can't have her and

chasing is

My phone buzzes.

glance 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 give a

into my Mercedes, I

torn between driving off or going back-dragging

over

until it's red for making

"Fuck."

slam my fist against the wheel, raking a hand through

Then-my phone rings again.

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let out a frustrated

Leah.

clench my jaw

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