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

thoughts drift

of death, he's

ghost that refuses

me? Will he regret

Or will he celebrate-

of his life into his arms and disappear on some

water?

I tried.

I tried so hard to love him, to be enough.

if we had met first-before Leah, before

could have loved

have

would he still have looked at me the

with hate-like

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

stealing

escape my lips, floating upward-like

one will

isn't just a feeling

presence, suffocating, dragging me deeper

fades at the

The fight leaves me.

want to

the water

is life, but right now, it's my enemy and

every breath in me.

consuming me-until

I

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

storm

I heard her

my name but I couldn't bring myself to look

and if I didn't rush

driven

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

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

now, I

in my mind-burning

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

to rip it off her-burn it to ashes along with every other thing in

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

heart pounds harder and just the thought

can't give in to this

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

chasing is

My phone buzzes.

at

I decline the call.

is still breathing is because I know she didn't insist on keeping him around. She doesn't know

whole house

it paranoid. I

into my Mercedes,

torn between driving off or going back-dragging her

throwing her over my

making me

"Fuck."

wheel, raking

Then-my phone rings again.

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time, I let

Leah.

clench my

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