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Chapter 4

Jen awoke the next morning with a huge headache. She sighed as she made her way into the bathroom. Staring into the mirror she shook her head. She had a feeling today was going to be a very long day. She heard some cheers downstairs and made her way towards the noise. She smiled when she realized they were just happy the storm was over.

"I guess we can actually go swimming today," Jen stated. This actually made her headache feel a bit better since the girl did enjoy a good swim. As she rushed up to her room, she paused in front of the bathroom staring into it. She'd thought she'd seen someone but it must have been her imagination. Then again, who knew what with the way her cousin was attacked the other night. Shrugging it off, Jen made her way into her room and changed into her bathing suite.

After changing, Jen grabbed her towel and rushed to the lake. Everyone else was already to the raft, including her cousin. Jen wondered how her cousin had gotten there with her injured hand then practically yelled at herself. There was a boat right next to the raft. Lily had probably ridden that. Lily wasn't one for swimming anyway. For some reason she'd always been afraid of water and Jen just found it odd.

She placed a foot into the water and smiled. It was nice a cool. She quickly rushed in and began swimming to the raft. When she arrived, she hung off the side as watched as her cousin stared wearily into the water. Shaking her head, she pulled herself onto the raft.

Lily let out a small squeal as she suddenly felt the raft move and looked over to where her cousin was. Lily crawled to the middle of the raft and planted herself right there, making sure to be no where near the sides.

"Lily, why are you so scared of the water?" Hilde had asked as she made her way over to the girl.

"She nearly drowned when she was just a kid," Duo had answered for her. "Can't blame her for being scared."

"Can't you swim though?" Hilde asked. "I've seen you swim."

"She can swim," Heero jumped in. "Doesn't mean she likes to. Leave her alone."

"But if she can swim how did she almost drown?" Relena chimed in.

Lily glared at Relena. "It's not cause I couldn't swim. I didn't start drowning… I… I was…"

"She was supposedly pulled under," Jen explained, finally remembering why her cousin was so scared of the water. Now that she thought about it Lily's fear wasn't all that odd. Jen had been there that day. She couldn't remember exactly where they were, but it was a lake much like this. Their family had been on vacation and her and Lily were playing in the lake. They'd swam out to the raft but they decided to just keep swimming around. When they'd decided they'd wanted to rest on the raft suddenly her cousin was fighting with something as she tried to stay above the water. Jen remembers her cousin finally being pulled under. Jadeite was the one who'd pulled her out. Since then Jen barely ever saw Lily go swimming.

Lily shivered from the memory and sighed. "I'm sorry."

"For what Baby?" Duo sat next to his girlfriend and pulled her into his embrace. "You have a good reason to be afraid of the water. No one's blaming you for anything."

"But…"

"Don't worry about it Lily," Wufei reassured her. "You just stay here, okay? Don't worry about the water. If you stay here you'll be alright."

Lily smiled and nodded. "Hai. Arigatou everyone." She laid back on a blanket as everyone else made their way back into the water. Lily placed some sunglasses over her eyes. She wasn't one for being in direct sunlight, but sometimes it was nice.

Jen was swimming a bit out from the raft, enjoying the feel of the water. She hadn't cared what everyone else was doing, but she was pretty sure they were all having a race. She suddenly stopped and blinked when she felt something brush against her foot. Looking around, she tried to see if anyone was missing above water. Maybe one of her friends was trying to play a trick on her. When she'd located them all she shrugged and figured it was just a fish. So she returned to swimming.

Lily was laying out on the raft, eyes closed, glasses still over her eyes. She hadn't heard anyone nearby her, but when she felt the raft suddenly move she sat up quickly and looked around. All of her friends were spread apart away from her. Maybe it was just the water. Shaking her head she lay down once again. There it was again. The raft moved. Lily pulled her sunglasses from over her eyes and stared at the water. There were a couple ripples here and there but maybe it was from the raft or something. Maybe there were fish under the raft. Lily leaned a little closer to the edge of raft to try and see what could be causing the movement.

Jen watched as her cousin was now leaning a bit closer to the water and wondered what was going on. She knew her cousin feared the water so what was it that had her attention? Deciding to go join her cousin, Jen dived under the water and stared ahead of her to where the raft sat. Her eyes widened in fear as she saw something swimming around the raft, but it was too fast for Jen to see exactly what it was. She watched as it dove deeper into the water and then started making it's way up towards the raft.

Jen appeared above the water sputtering as she watched in fear as her cousin was now leaning even closer to the water. "LILY!" the blue haired girl shouted out as she quickly swam towards her cousin.

"Huh?" Lily looked up to where her cousin was and wondered what the girl had wanted. Suddenly something slammed into the raft sending one side up and her into the water. The raft flipped up over her and she let out a scream as she felt something grab her from behind and drag her deep into the water. Lily struggled to free herself. Water filled her lungs as she was dragged deeper and deeper. It was just like when she was a kid.

"Lily!" Jen was halfway to Lily when she watched Duo dive under the water to rescue his girlfriend. Jen started praying that her cousin was alright. She wasn't aware of the figure that was now looming behind her. All she cared about was whether her cousin was alright or not.

Lily felt whatever it was dragging her finally let go, but now she was completely out of air and the world was growing fuzzy around her. She felt something take her hand and pull her into their embrace. Quickly they rose to the top. Lily clung to the person as she sputtered out water. She felt that person grab onto the raft and noticed it was Duo who was holding her.

"Duo…" Lily managed between coughs.

"Sh." He placed her on the raft and climbed up next to her, rubbing her back as she continued to cough up water.

"Is she alright?" Heero asked as he swam up to the raft.

"That was really weird," Quatre commented, also swimming up to the raft.

"Lily, are you alright?" Trowa asked, coming up behind Quatre.

Lily nodded to all her friends and leaned against Duo who just wrapped an arm around her. "Just stay here with me for now?" Lily asked her boyfriend and Duo nodded.

"Of course. Like I'm going to let you be by yourself after something like that."

Jen, who was still out in the water, was happy that her cousin was okay. Smiling, she started to swim over to them when something suddenly grabbed her foot and she was just pulled under water.

AN: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I JUST KNOW YOU LOVE CLIFF HANGERS!!!! Quickly runs away from all the angry people. REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!