Hazel Pov.
I can't believe how fast everything has been happening. Winter and Hope get along. Sawyer's gone, but coming home in an hour. When did life start moving so fast?
"Hazel, are you coming to help put up the streamers?" My dad yelled.
"Ya, I'll be right down." I yelled back.
We were decorating the aquarium for Sawyer's return and I was in charge of putting streamers up around Winter and Hopes pool while everyone set up around the outside of the building.
I was standing on the ladder taping up the streamers when Winter and Hope started splashing the water at me. So when I started to climb down the ladder I slipped and began to fall into the pool below.
I began to sink. Winter screeched. She tried to push me above water, but then I would just go back under. Hope would screech every once and a while. I would go in and out of consciousness. My head and back hurt like crazy. Then I heard a familiar scream, "Hazel! Clay! Winter!"
Sawyer. I knew that voice anywhere.
"Hope." I only had to say one word and she screeched.
"Winter! Hope! What's wrong?"
I heard footsteps.
I could feel my eyes closing.
"Hazel!" I looked up to see Sawyer's face.
"Sawyer." I said my voice weak.
"Hazel, stay awake. How long were you down there?" His voice was obviously worried.
I wasn't in the water anymore.
"About a hour." His eyes widened.
"My head hurts."
"I know. Just look at me and stay awake." He lifted me off the ground.
"Does anyone know your here?" I looked up at him.
"No, I came in through the back. Where is everyone?"
"Out front. I think."
I looked at his face. It started to burr and then darkness.
"Hello! Where am I?" I screamed into darkness.
Light appeared and I saw a face I never thought I'd see again.
"Mom!" I hugged her afraid if I let go she would disappear.
"Turn around." I let go of her and saw Sawyer holding me on the ground crying.
"I've missed you, Mom. Why'd you have go go? I need you. Sometimes I just feel so alone. Sawyer has been gone for forever and Dad is usually to busy." I cried.
"I know, but it was my time and I couldn't do anything about it."
"I know that mom, but it still hurts. Everyday I wonder if your proud of me and if your watching me, but I always think your to busy to pay attention. Dad always tells me that you loved me more than anything, but if never helps. I pretend to be fine. In front of Dad, it's like I'm hiding behind a smile. I know I'm not the only one that misses you, but I think I miss you the most. You left when I was 7. I didn't know that I was saying goodbye forever. No matter how much I cry and try to forget or move on it still hurts." I broke down in tears.
"I know it does, but keep fighting. Don't go into the light."
My eyes opened to appear Sawyer's crying face.
"Hazel, I thought you were going to to leave me." He cried.
"Don't worry, I'm not going into the light just yet." I smiled remembering what my mom told me.
"Come on. Let's go find everybody." He smiled and lifted me up again.
"I'm surprised that after how much noise Hope and Winter made no one bothered to check on them." He opened the door.
"Doctor Clay!"
"Sawyer, your- Hazel! What happened?" Dad asked franticly.
"She fell into Winter and Hope's pool and was apparently in there for a hour."
Hazel suddenly burst into tears.
"Hazel, what's wrong?" Dad looked at me worried.
"I saw mom."
"What? Did you hit your head?"
"Yes, but I really did see her. She told me not to go in to the light."
"Sawyer, set her down. We need to check her injuries." Hazel hissed in pain when they laid her on her back.
"What hurts?"
"My back and head."
"So you probably don't appreciate me laying you on your back."
"Not at all."
They rolled me onto my stomach.
"Hazel, stay here. Don't move."
A few minutes later, my dad and Sawyer returned with Ms. Nelson , but then my dad drug Sawyer away.
"Hazel, what happened? She looked at me worried.
"Well this is what climbing down a wet ladder can do to you."
"How about we go back to my house and get you cleaned up."
She helped me get to the car and then drove away.
"I guess your glad Sawyer is finally back home." She smiled.
"Ya, I'm my glad my family is finally back together."
"It seems like your glad he's home too."
"Ya, I guess. It's just just I wanted today to be perfect, but instead I almost drown."
"No matter what happened you to reuniting is perfect."
"I know that, but Sawyer is the only person that I don't have to hide behind a smile in front of."
"Here we are." She helped me out of the car and laid me down on the couch.
"Don't move, I'm going to go get some bandages For your back." She returned a few minutes later with a few rolls of bandages.
She began to roll them around my torso while I laid on my stomach. She brought me over to a chair while she unrolled the couch. She disappeared into the next room and I went over to lay down on the couch bed.
She returned a few minutes later with a thick blanket and a cold wash cloth. She began put the blanket over my body and put the washcloth on my forehead.
Before I knew it I faded into darkness.
I opened my eyes and saw Sawyer's face.
I looked at him with a blank expression.
"Smile." He looked at my face.
"No, with you I don't have to."