So I got keen readers would have noticed that the chapter has changed slightly and this is because the plot changed slightly, enjoy :)

Michael's eyes were empty, the cheerful glint that used to make them shine and sparkle was gone. The oceans waters had made his usually warm skin freezing cold and even his hair had deflated into a messy, wet tangle that stuck to his face. Evelyn continued to try and resuscitate him despite knowing it was futile. When she finally stopped she pulled him closer to her and hugged him harder and tighter than she had ever done before, hoping that somehow she'll squeeze the life back into him. Her hot salty tears were camouflaged in the sea water.

"You promised you would never leave me" she whispered to him "Please...please don't leave me! I need you"

Evelyn placed him back on the sand. She pushed all of the hair from his face and closed his eyes. Evelyn sat watching him. She felt responsible, she felt like she had caused his death. She wished she could be the one lying in his place.

Then suddenly he sat up! He was coughing and spluttering as water fell from his mouth and he gasped for air. Evelyn tackled him, pushing him back to the ground. More tears came pouring out of her eyes only this time they were tears of joy. She was hugging him, clinging onto his wet clothing with dear life.

"I thought you had gone!" she said through her tears "I thought you had left me"

"There's nothing on this earth that could keep me away from you" he said hugging her back only he sounded serious "Nothing"

Evelyn guessed if she had just been resuscitated she wouldn't be jolly and over the moon. She was just so relieved to have her Michael back. There was so much that she still wanted to tell Michael. She wanted to take him to meet her parents, to see her house, to go on holiday with him. She wanted to have him with her forever.

"You understand what's happened, right?" he asked, his voice still hoarse "You know what happened to me?"

"Of course" she said not sure why Michael needed her to confirm that she knew "I was so worried! I thought you were dead! I thought...I thought I wasn't ever going to be able to see you again. I can't ever lose you Michael"

Michael looked worried all of a sudden like Evelyn had said the wrong thing. Perhaps he was confused after everything that had happened. It mustn't be the clearest of things to happen to you. Michael stood up and offered his hand out to Evelyn which she immediately took.

"Let's go for a walk"

The beach was surrounded by grassy hillsides and a little gravelled path that lead around the beautiful grasslands. Every so often were a sign that explained the local wildlife and flowers that lived in the area. Evelyn was not paying attention to the signs however. She was staring at Michael, drinking in his appearance. He was like an angel; he almost seemed to be glowing in the early morning light.

"I really need to talk to you" He finally said "I'm not sure how easy it is but I need to tell you. You won't like it but...you need to know"

"Well, start from the top" she said "I promise I won't get mad"

Michael grimaced "I'm not worried about you getting angry"

Evelyn couldn't understand what urgent news Michael might have to tell her. Surely after everything that had happened there wasn't anything to say. But after everything she had been through, she would listen to Michael waffle about the dullest subject in the world and would find it captivating. His survival was a miracle and she would never take him for granted again.

"Start from the top" he said to himself "Firstly, I need to apologise for everything I had done over the years. I never set out to hurt you; I was only having a joke. It's only now that I realise how much of an idiot I had been. If I could go back and change anything in my life it would be that. I wish I could have been your friend rather than your enemy"

"I know" she said snuggling into his wet jacket "I know how sorry you are, you don't need to tell me"

"That's not all though" he said smiling "We haven't been dating for long but I am sure what we have is real. I don't think it could ever be broken. I will never leave you, nothing could ever, ever, keep me away from you. Not heaven or hell could keep us apart"

"I love you" she said "I don't tell you enough but I do and I need you to know that without you...my life is pointless"

They were heading back towards the beach now. Evelyn could see red flashing lights from near the shore. She was curious and wanted to see what was happening but Michael stood in front of her blocking her line of sight.

"I need you to be strong for me" he said as a tear fell from his eye "I don't know what's going to happen now but...but I promise I won't leave you. I could never leave you. You won't always know I'm there but I will be"

"Michael I don't understand"

"I'm dead Evelyn" he said as another tear broke through "Over there is an ambulance and they are loading my body into the back of it"

It hit her like a wave. She crumpled to the ground and everything she had been feeling earlier with the dead Michael in her arms came back at her. Why? She couldn't stop asking herself why. It wasn't fair! How was she still talking to him?

"Hey, I had a good life" he said kneeling beside her and pulling her into a hug "I had more detentions than most of the seventh years! I just need you to do something for me. When you next go past a mirror I want you to look in it and see just how beautiful you really are"

"I'm not going to see you again" she sobbed "Am I?"

"Of course you will" he said hugging her "Before you go to sleep each night thinks of me and I'll be there in your dreams. As long as you remember me I'll never truly be gone"

"I don't want you to go"

"I have to" he said kissing her on the forehead "Goodbye Evelyn, you have been the one for me"