Chapter 5

CPOV

White. That's all I could see. Something wasn't right, I started to panic. I got up to run but couldn't move, I was frozen with my knees to my chest and my arms wrapped around them.

I looked at myself still struggling to move when I realized I was wearing a short dress, it was the color of blood.

What the… ?

"Oh no. Are you all right?" I froze. It was him.

Since I was un able to move I thrashed around on the inside. Coming from the left side I saw him move to in front of me. I noticed every time he took a step he left one black footprint, it was like he had paint on the bottom of his shoes.

"Oh babe what happed?" Henry looked deeply concerned. "Here, let me help."

He gently placed two fingers on my left shin. Purple light fluttered from his fingers to surround where he was touching my skin. Then the light faded, as if drifting under my skin.

He did that with my right shin and then my knees. I had lost the panic I had before and felt totally safe. When if was done with my knees he looked up to me.

"Try flexing your legs." I ending up just stretching them instead. I was so glad I could move! Yeah!

"Umm.. What about my arms?" I smiled shyly.

"Oh right." He smiled. Henry closed his eyes and put two fingers from each hand onto my temples. Then he traced them down my cheeks, neck, across my shoulders then down my arms.

"Try that beautiful." I moved, completely, my whole body.

"Thank you!" I smiled down at my moving arms, then something accrued to me… wasn't my arm suppose to be broken?

Before I could say anything Henry held out a hand. "Come here I want to show you something."

Lost in his eyes I grabbed his hand it was surprisingly warm.

"This white is frightening me." I said out loud with out thinking."Well that's what I want to show you. You see my footprints?" He asked

"Yes?"

"Well watch this." Henry lifted his hand up and waved it once. As he slept through the air a pattern formed. Like the top of trees.

"Now you stand here" he said standing behind me. He took one of my hands in his and held it out in front of me.

" Now imagine the lake behind the house." He whispered in my ear. It sent chills down my spine.

As I imagined the lake he swerved my hand back and forth, as he did my image of the lake appeared, but only in a rectangle. It was like it was a door way in this world of white.

"Well," he said gesturing to the door way, "ladies first."

I stepped in but he didn't let go of my hand, as he followed behind. Once we were both in the doorway to the whiteness disappeared.

"Come on!" He smiled pulling me towards the lake. We jogged over onto the deck thing that lead into the water. "Isn't it pretty?"

I wasn't listening, there was something in the water. It was a bright blue glow they held its place right underneath the water.

I walked and walked and walked, and then suddenly I fell off the deck.

"NO!" Henry yelled. Then black.

Freezing water swarmed in around me. I had no memory of how I got here, where ever here was.

I was panicking, trying to swim up, but which was is up? I couldn't see, I was blind in this water. I was freezing, and I was only one handed.

Suddenly after flailing around in the water I needed air. Involuntarily I sucked in a breath, water snaked up my nose and through my mouth. My lungs where on fire, then black.

DPOV

I jumped in after Chloe. I hadn't gotten to the deck fast enough before she walked right into the lake. Had she been sleep walking? Was it that ghost? I didn't care I had my mind on one thing.

Get Chloe out of the water.

Once underneath I could only see because of my enhanced senses, that's how dark it was.

In front of me Chloe was twisting and turning. I swam towards her but right before I got to her she suddenly went limp. Panicking I grabbed her around her middle and swan up so both of our heads were out of the water.

I swam as fast as I could and jumped out of the water. On land I laid Chloe down flat on her back. She wasn't breathing.

NOT GOOD.

I tilted her head back and pinched her nose. I swooped down and brought my lips to hers blowing in a deep breath. I pumped her chest. Nothing happened.

I began to get shaky, my hands wouldn't stopped jerking sideways and back again. I did the same thing I did the first time.

This time she jerked forward and began to cough up water and began to actually breath. As soon as she was done I held her tight to me and did not let go.

I was still really shaken, and was shaking. I could have almost lost Chloe. My eyes began to water and I didn't care.

She held onto the front of my shirt resting her head in my chest, she was shaking violently also.

CPOV

I held onto Derek's shirt with both hands. He had his arms around me and was shaking. Had I almost drowned? That was a stupid question. I began to shake to, not only was I freezing, but I almost died and I have no memory of how that happened, I was scared.