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

thoughts drift to my

at the brink of death, he's still

ghost that

he regret

Or will he celebrate-

of his life into his arms and disappear

water?

I tried.

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

if we had met first-before Leah, before

have loved

have made a

he still have looked at me the way

with hate-like I was

at once. My body jerks, my mouth opens in a

flooding in, stealing

escape my lips, floating upward-like

one

cold isn't just a feeling

presence, suffocating, dragging me deeper into

world fades at the

The fight leaves me.

don't want

water doesn't

is life, but right now, it's my

every breath in me.

claims me-filling me, consuming me-until there's

I feel is

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

I storm out

I heard her

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

if I didn't

have driven me to

Normally, I wouldn't

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

I wish I

in my mind-burning

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

off her-burn it to

poison I can't get

heart pounds harder and just the thought of her

I can't give in to this

myself, because I can't have

of chasing is

My phone buzzes.

glance at the

I decline the call.

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

house wired-cameras,

I don't

into my Mercedes, I grip

between driving off or going

her over my shoulder,

for making me lose my mind

"Fuck."

wheel, raking a hand through

Then-my phone rings again.

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I let out a frustrated

Leah.

clench my

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