Counting Stars

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"Mikey! Get the hell in the pool!" Jake yells, causing Mikey to cast a playful glare his way.

"No way fucker, waters freezing" Mikey replies, taking a step away from the pool, "ladies first"

I scowl at Mikey, "we both no that rule is complete bullshit in this case, now stop being a pussy and get the hell in the water" I joke, gesturing to the pool, "before I push you"

Mikey raises an eyebrow at me, "ok then" he mutters, finally jumping into the pool.

"Yay! Me second" jake exclaims, jumping in right after mikey, only to land on top of him.

"Ow! You Fucking idiot! I'll kill you" Mikey roars jokingly, and with that said, the boys start to try to duck each other under the water.

I let out a laugh at this, because let's be honest, it's quite amusing.

I hesitate on jumping in, taking a quick glance over at zach, who looks more depressed than usual, and trust me, he has major depression.

Literally, sense he was like, 10 or something.

"You okay?" I ask, taking a seat next to zach on one of the shity plastic white chairs.

He jumps at my voice, ovbiously he was zoned off into his thoughts before I interupted him.

"Fine" he mutters, looking everywhere but my eyes.

"Honestly zach.." I sigh, shooting him a worried look.

"Seriously savanna, I'm fine, please go Have fun, don't let me hold you back" he finally says, this time turning to me, pulling on literally the fakest smile I ever seen.

"You know you suck at lying right?" I ask, raising an eyebrow at him, "cause that was literally the worst attempt at a smile I Have ever seen"

Zachs fake smile drops, the clear frown returning to his face, "well, I gotta try" he says quietly.

"Why, do you feel like we will judge you or somthin?" I ask

Zach shakes his head and sighs, "it's just- I don't no- I feel, like if I don't attempt to be happy, then people will ya, judge me..."

"Zach" I sigh, "you've been threw alot, you Have a lot on your mind, and knowing what you've been threw, there's no way in hell you could think posstive all the time, so it's ok, you don't Have to fake around us, Expecially me, I love you for you, and I want you to feel comfortable" I say, smiling lightly at zach.

"I love you to" he murmers, his head ducking, turning to smile lightly at me.

"Why won't you come swimming though" I wonder aloud.

Zachs tenses, shooting me a wary look

"I really don't wanna talk about it...."

"Can you swim?"

"Ya, I just d-don't like doing it"

I simply nod, leaving it at that, when I notice the walls rising.

All of a sudden zachs eyes go wide, staring blankly at the water

"Zach, are you okay?"

Zach jumps at my voice, looking at me, his eyes fearful.

"I wanna go back to the room" he whimpers, staring at the water, and his breath begins to increase.

"Zach?" I ask, his breathing only increases more, his eyes squeezing shut.

"G-get me outta here" he whimpers, hugging his knees, starting to shake.

"HeY, zach" I say, begging to panic.