My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

I was no longer interested in this conversation, so I angled my body to walk around her.

Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed my arm. Thoroughly annoyed, I frowned at her. "What else do you want to say, Miss Zanes?"

She smiled insidiously. "I have plenty to say. Since you are so calm about everything, then you might be calm about death too, am I right?"

With that, she changed her grip, intending to push me into the pool.

I didn't know how to swim. I twisted away and forcefully pinched her arm to let me go.

She jerked back in pain, and the momentum drove her away from me, towards the pool. So because of inertia, what was supposed to be me falling into the pool, turned into her falling instead. She fell in with a loud splash, an oddly pleasurable sound.

A beautiful woman falling into the water garnered a certain amount of attention. Not that the woman in question enjoyed the attention.

helped her to stand, as the water was not deep. When her feet touched the floor, she realised that the man was holding onto her chest. Mortified, she

man was mad at being yelled at. He went from trying to help the struggling woman, to pushing her back

the people surrounding her watched on in amusement. No one made a move to help her get

speak, to stop the man from acting too rashly when I

to being obeyed. The man snapped to his senses

the water and

been thin and slightly transparent. After a thorough

leering eyes. Having lost some of her dignity and respect in front of Hendrix Roberts, she burst

off his coat, and draped it over her shoulders He said, "Go back to your room and change your

tightened her grip on Hendrix's coat. Suddenly, she turned to look at me. I did not like the gleam in her eyes. She yelled, "Arianna, are you satisfied? Are you happy to see me in such a pathetic state?" I was shocked speechless.

would you still hold onto him? If you don't want to treat him nicely, then why would you stop me from treating him nicely? How can you be so overbearing? Why would you still keep him by your side? I just wanted to say a few nice things about Mr. Roberts