?WINGLESS AND BEAUTIFUL?
?EPISODE 59 ?
I was so engrossed in my thoughts I didn’t realize that
somebody was standing behind me. I didn’t have time to
think or even turn around.
I felt hands on my back and then a strong push that made me lose my balance and sent me
flying out into the water.
Panic gripped me. I knew that once my entire weight
sank into the water, I would be helpless to go back up.
I just hoped that somebody realized quickly that I would not be coming up for air soon.
The water was cold and dark. I couldn’t see a thing even
if I opened my eyes.
I waved my arms and legs around me and struggled to come up on my own but I was only sinking
lower and lower.
Suddenly, I felt strong arms wrap around my waist,
pulling me securely above the water.
I wrapped my arms around the person who caught me, thankful enough that I. didn’t have to struggle too much or too long.
Somebody jumped in the second I fell off the dock. I knew it could only be Chaise. He was the closest person to me, apart from the person who pushed me in.
When we emerged to the surface, I looked up and found
Hunter looking down at me, his arms were wrapped tightly
around my tiny waist.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
His voice was so familiarly gentle, I wanted to cry. He
sounded like he did before he left.
I couldn’t find my voice, so I nodded.
“I got you,” he whispered so softly only the two of us
heard that. He swam towards the ladder.
He gently guided me until I could grip the handles securely. He slowly let me go so I could pull myself up the stairs.
Chaise and Denise were standing at the top, waiting for
me anxiously. Chaise pulled me up to the deck and Denise
wrapped a towel around me. Hunter followed soon after.
I took a couple of breaths to steady myself as I realized
how scared I was. Chaise put an arm around my shoulder
and gave me a gentle squeeze. “Are you okay?” he asked,
and I managed to nod.
Hunter walked past us with a furious look on his face. He
went straight to Mica and pointed a finger at her.
“Next time you push people into deep waters, make
sure they know how to swim!” he said in a booming voice.
Mica looked dumbfounded. The rest of Denise’s cousins
were quiet too and they genuinely looked scared of Hunter.
“You don’t know how to swim?” Denise whispered to me.
I didn’t answer.
“Touch her again, and I’ll make sure you’ll regret it for
the rest of your life!” Hunter said in a threatening voice,
even I felt scared.
Hunter turned around to look at me. My eyes were
welling up with tears.
Mixed emotions were running wildly inside my chest. I could still feel the fear and the panic that I felt when I fell into the water.
I felt happy and broken about the fact that Hunter saved
me. He spoke to me so gently, the concern on his face when
he said he got me was genuine.
For a short moment, I was
reminded of the boy he used to be, the boy who used to
love me.
“How did you know she doesn’t know how to swim?”
Chaise asked Hunter in a cool, careful voice.
Hunter stared at us for a moment. My heart pounded
inside my chest while I waited for his answer. I was waiting
for him to finally admit that he remembers me.
He turned away from us and replied in a sober voice, “If
she did, then she would have joined you all when you were
in the water, wouldn’t she?”
His voice was steady, emotionless and his response was nothing but logical. It
frustrated the he..ll out of me.
Hunter walked away from us and disappeared into the
house. When I met Mica’s eyes, she looked away from me.
“What were you thinking?” Denise asked her angrily.
“Do you guys have a problem with Alice?”
The girls looked down on their feet, unable to answer.
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