not alone ♡ o2l fanfiction

Chapter 26 ~ Part 2

I swim as fast as I can. I can hear whistles blowing telling me to get out. I'm so close to the little boy, but it feels like he's drifting farther away.

Finally I grab his arm and swim back. Life guards are already taking him from my arms. They lay him on the beach and I hear a scream and a mother running toward the boy. He opens his eyes very faintly. I kneel down next to him. He looks at me and says "thank you" while taking his last breath. I start balling my eyes out. So does his mother.

I look down and notice that he was holding my hand the entire time. The sight of that made me cry harder. Before they take him away, I kiss his forehead. They take him away, the mother following.

Sam takes me home while the others stay. When we get home I run upstairs and cry into the pillow, letting the makeup stain it. Sam rubs my back whispering cute, sweet things. After I stop crying for the moment, I just scream into the pillow, them muffling my loudness. Then I just have my face in the pillow, thinking. I sit up looking at Sam with my tear-stained face. He laughs a little, but a serious laugh. I fix my hair and decide to take a shower to get the salty water and tears off my body. I get out of the shower and wear some of Sam's sweat pants and sweatshirt. I try to keep my mind off of it.

I can't help to feel a presence following me. I hear whispers, but I don't think about it thinking I'm remembering the little boys voice replaying in my head. That's when I hear a plate crash to the floor, knowing Sam was upstairs and no one else was home.