Because I didn't have to work for two days and I couldn't possibly hang out because my friends are on-duty (not to mention that I'm dead broke)- I will have this chapter –fast update!

"Cagalli, I told you not to go that far!" Kira worriedly swam towards her as she began to move away from him.

She wasn't swimming away, but the tide is rising and the current is pulling her away from the shore.

Shinn and Meyrin were already there, and they went to Kira.

"Don't worry about her," Shinn said. "The three of us are here. She won't drown."

The water begins to cool- then it's painfully cold.

Cagalli was enjoying her dip into the almost-icy waters. Meyrin swam towards her.

"Enjoying yourself?" she asked.

Sensing something odd about the person speaking to her… or something that she might have felt back then which she couldn't remember, Cagalli started to swim away.

"Hey… I'm not trying to scare you!" Meyrin began to catch up with her, but as soon as she did, Kira held her back.

"She doesn't like you." He was quite straightforward.

"Oh… I'm sorry."

"Not your fault," Kira replied.

Her image was starting to go farther… and farther… until… it was gone.

Kira panicked.

"Cagalli!" He plunged himself into the cold waters, trying to find her.

Meyrin screamed for help. Shinn was already underwater, looking for Cagalli.

They couldn't find her.

Meyrin went to Mir and Dearka.

"She… she's gone!" She was sobbing.

"Bull shit!" Dearka instructed Mir to get a flashlight because the water's too dark. Meyrin hurriedly went back to the shore to look for Athrun.

Kira was looking on the right side- Shinn on the left.

"Damn it! How could she disappear so fast?" Shinn swallowed a lump of air and then went down again.

Kira's mind was numb. He couldn't believe this was happening.

"No… please…god no!" He was searching for her. He didn't bother going to the surface for some air. His lungs were beginning to feel heavy.

Not long after, it was Athrun who's running towards the sea. Meyrin was crying, as she ran after him.

Mir borrowed a flashlight from a nearby rest house, and she gave it to Dearka.

The small light from it wouldn't help. Dearka told Mir to take Meyrin to Luna, and told her she must stay on shore.

"We couldn't possibly rescue two people at a time." Then he's off.

His body was already numb as the water almost freezes.

"Shit!" He couldn't dive anymore, his nose were beginning to sting. Shinn suddenly recalled the day he saved Stellar from drowning. This day, it looks like he wouldn't be able to do that to Cagalli.

Then, a piece of clothing floated in front of him. Her shirt.

Shinn grabbed it.

"No."

Kira's lungs were collapsing. He's too far from the others, but still, he couldn't find her. He went to the surface to breath. Tears were beginning to fall from his tired eyes.

Athrun was underwater… searching.

He couldn't see anything, or feel anything. But he refused to go on the surface.

"If you were to die… I'll follow…But not NOW!" His mind screamed.

The sea heard it. Was it his will that made it happen?

A soft flesh… He held it. It was still. It was her hand. Athrun grabbed her and swam to the surface.

Dearka saw them. He focused the light towards Athrun as he swam towards the shore, covering Cagalli's half- naked body. Shinn saw them and called out to Kira.

They were on-shore. She was unconscious. Dearka was looking away as Athrun removes his shirt and put it on Cagalli.

He felt her pulse. Almost none.

He gave her some air… pumped her chest to induce breathing.

Another try… and then another.

A deep breath came out. Then, lots of water.

Kira was running towards her. Shinn's feet were faltering… he collapsed just as he stepped on the dry sand.

Cagalli saw the face of her rescuer… then… tears fell. It came from Athrun.

He kissed her temple and then her lips as he embraces her.

Kira saw it. He stepped back- farther.

She wasn't blinking. But she felt the warmth… once again. This was how it felt like back in the garden. She remembered him as the one who stayed with her when she was alone.

She couldn't understand anything. What he truly means to her.

Then she saw Kira.

Athrun helped her as she stood. She moved towards Kira.

Kira stepped forward, anticipated her fall in his arms.

She did fell. She wasn't crying, nor speaking.

"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…" Kira was uttering such painful words as he embraces her.

Shinn was once again, lying on the ground- looking at the sky.

Maybe his eyes were tired. Or is she really there?

He saw Stellar, dancing in the heavens. He blinked once, then twice. Her image was still there.

-The effect of salty water.