Chapter 12- Drowning Water Lilies

"Hey Nicole," Jordan said pulling her out of the water.

Nicole was confused because she had thought they had been in the ocean. But now she was inside of a cave, where fresh water flowed inside. Nicole placed her hand to the side of her face. Was she dead? And if she was then was Jordan too! She would never forgive herself, if he died because of her.

Nicole turned to him, and then stared back at him with big eyes. "Are we dead!"

Jordan smiled, He then pulled off his shirt which was dry, and then wrapped it around Nicole's arms.

"Jordan are we…"

Before Nicole could worry any more, Jordan placed his hand against her lips.

"We're okay," He said.

Nicole's eyebrows furrowed low over her eyes, "Then where are we?"

Jordan moved his hand away from her lips, and then trailed his hands through her damp chocolate tresses.

"Jordan…"

"We're okay," Jordan looked around.

"Then where is the beach, and Zoey, and Chase and…"

Jordan shrugged, "I'm not sure, but I do know that you have to hold onto me…and hold onto me tight."

Nicole bit her lip, "I was dying, I couldn't breathe and…"

"I'm coming for you, and I still am…you have to hold on Nicole," Jordan reached for Nicole's hand.

Nicole smiled, "Am I dead already."

"No, and you're not going to die…because I'm not going to let you." Jordan looked down as water lilies traveled down the freshwater coming inside the cave. He pulled one out and then handed the flower to Nicole.

"Aww thanks, I love lilies, because they are so pretty, and so…"

"Hold onto this, I'm looking for you, and I'm not going to give up until I find you…"

Nicole tucked the flower behind her ear, "So this is like an alternate universe kind of thingy, and as long as I'm alive here then I am alive in real life?"

Jordan nodded, "Yeah…but you're not going to die."

"What if I do…"

Jordan leaned forward to kiss Nicole.

Nicole's sentence was caught in her throat, as Jordan pressed his lips against hers. Giving her a warm tingly sensation throughout her body, and a little air to keep her alive a little longer.

"Watch them Nicole," Jordan said.

"Watch what…" Nicole asked confused.

Jordan pointed down to the water lilies. "As long as they stay afloat, you're clinging on, and fighting to live until I get to you…"

"And when they drown?"

Jordan stared back at Nicole sadly. "Hold on,"

Before he could leave, Nicole grabbed his arm. "Don't leave me yet."

"I have to…so I can find you in the 'real world'."

Nicole pulled Jordan into another bittersweet kiss. "I'll hold on as long as I can."

Jordan cupped her face in his hands, "You have too, because I'm coming for you."

Nicole kissed him once more, "I know you will, because you never let me down."

He squeezed her hand, and then brought her hand up to his lips. "I'm coming Nicole…I'm coming."

Nicole squeezed onto his hand as he tried to go.

One water lily shriveled up, and then sunk into the water.

Jordan let go, and started to run. He disappeared. Leaving Nicole alone once again, and clinging onto life.

Another water lily sunk to the depths of the stream.

Nicole bit her lip, as she watched her hope disappear right in front of her eyes.

Jordan surfaced again. He took in a mouthful to last him about two minutes and then went back under. He was frustrated and panicky, because Nicole could be anywhere. She could be going deeper and deeper by the second, or else she could be dragged outwards…or even worse, both. He tried to clear his mind as he searched the murky water for Nicole. Swimming with expertise, Jordan sunk down lower. He was getting deeper and deeper in. The tides were dragging him out as well. But he couldn't give up now, not until he found her. Every muscle in Jordan's back ached from being tossed around by the waves. His arms were burning, and his legs felt as if they couldn't kick anymore. But he pushed himself.

Nicole clenched her fist. In her dream Jordan had told her to hold on. She was trying, but every second she turned around the water lilies kept on disappearing. There was only two left which meant, it was probably the end. Nicole's eyes slowly fluttered open. He had told her to hold on, and even though he hadn't physically been there, she had felt his lips on hers, and she felt as if he was there with her.

She swallowed in a mouthful of sea water. Nicole gagged at the awful taste. She closed her eyes as she started to choke violently. She couldn't die yet. Because if she did she would never get the chance to tell Jordan that she loved him.

Nicole tried to swim upwards. She glanced up at the turbulent water above her head. She had to at least try. Even though she felt weak, she tried to bring her legs to carry her up to the surface. She choked on more sea water. Nicole gagged even harder this time. Her stomach ached, and the energy that she thought she once possessed was failing her again.

"Nicole,"

Nicole turned away from the last water lily as it sunk underneath. "Does that mean I'm dead?"

"No," Jordan wrapped his arms around her.

"But it's gone, I thought you said…"

"I came right on time." Jordan whispered holding her tight.

Jordan dived underneath once more. He could make out Nicole underneath. Allowing himself to sink under, he had her in his arms in seconds. Jordan pushed himself up with Nicole tightly in his arms. They surfaced, heads breaking the waves as they crashed down on them. Jordan gasped for air, as he swam back towards the beach. Once he reached shallow water he brought Nicole in his tired arms, and ran towards Zoey, Chase and some other on lookers.

"I called an ambulance." Chase said worried.

Zoey placed her hand to her mouth, "Oh migod, Jordan is she breathing!"

Chase protectively wrapped his arm around Zoey.

Tears were starting to well in Zoey's brown eyes. She clutched onto Chase's shirt, and then rested her head against his cheek.

"She needs space!" Jordan yelled.

Nicole was white as a sheet, and unresponsive.

"Nicole, you're not going to die on me," Jordan said tilting Nicole's head back, and then immediately doing CPR on her. He did his chest compressions, and then brought his lips against hers, so he could give her his air.

Nicole still didn't responded.

Jordan did another set of chest compressions. Water dripped down from his dark brown hair as he emerged himself into saving Nicole's life. She didn't respond again, so he brought his lips onto hers, and gave her another mouthful of air.

Nicole started gagging, while Jordan's mouth was still on hers.

Jordan pulled his mouth away, and spit out the salt water, Nicole had just given him.

"Nicole!" Zoey screamed.

Chase hugged Zoey relieved.

Zoey wiped at her tears, and then kissed Chase on the cheek in excitement and joy.

"Nicole," Jordan said softly.

"Jorda…" She coughed again.

Jordan helped Nicole to sit up. Before he could say anything else to her, Nicole threw her arms around him. "You saved my life again."

Jordan nodded, "I know,"

She kissed him on the cheek, "I was this close to death, the lilies were drowning, and you told me to hold on, and I was but I was so…"

Jordan smiled, "Lilies?"

Nicole blushed, "Yeah, in the alternate reality dream like thingy you…um…" She looked around in confusion as Zoey, Chase and some other bystanders watched her curiously. "Actually, I don't know what I'm talking about…"

"Oh migod Nicole, I'm so glad you're okay!" Zoey exclaimed hugging her best-friend.

Nicole hugged Zoey back, but kept her eyes on Jordan.

He smiled back at her, and then looked down.

Zoey let go, "I'm never letting you swim again."

Nicole nodded, "Yeah, but even if I do, I know Jordan's going to be right behind me."

Jordan nodded.

Nicole sighed as she watched him longer. The sun was shining brightly right behind him, and was setting a soft halo around his body. He was really her angel, because he had saved her life to many times to count.

After a while, the crowd died down. The ambulance had come and gone, because Nicole turned down a trip to the hospital, and now she found herself walking over to Jordan. During all of the excitement he had returned back to his lifeguard chair, and was staring out at the sun.

Nicole stood beside him. "The sun is beautiful isn't it."

Jordan nodded, "But the horizon is even prettier, the pinks, blues, and yellows mixed together are amazing."

"Yeah, and so are you."

Jordan sighed, "No, I'm not."

"Yeah, you are. If I owed you for every time you saved my life, I would be in some serious debt."

"You better be lucky I'm free of charge." Jordan said quietly.

Nicole hugged him.

Jordan smiled. "I'm not as perfect as you think I am."

Nicole closed her eyes, "Yeah you are. Honestly I don't think God could have made a man so perfect."

Jordan tilted his head backwards, "I'm glad you're okay."

"Me too," Nicole said softly. "You know something's wrong when I suddenly start making sense, maybe losing all that oxygen made me smarter?"

Jordan shook his head. "The old Nicole is back."

Nicole grinned, "I guess so,"

"Ahh! Get this damn kid away from me!" Meadow screamed running past.

Jordan and Nicole focused on Meadow who went running past, as a kid followed close behind with a never ending supply of hot dogs and an army of seagulls.

"Woah, that's funny." Jordan said.

Nicole sat down next to him. "Yeah, do you want to know about the water lilies? It's really weird I know, but they kept me alive...and you did too."

"So tell me about these lilies?"

Nicole smiled, "It's crazy, but I had this dream when I was drowning that you were telling me to hold on, because you were going to come and save me. At first I was scared because I thought you weren't coming back, but when the last water lily went under, you came right on time. Doesn't make much sense huh?"

"So that's all that happened in the dream? Drowning water lilies…"

"Well more happened, before you left me we kissed," Nicole whispered.

"We did,"

Nicole nodded, "It helped me to hold on a little bit longer, whoever said dreaming was a waste of time lied."

"We kissed huh?"

Nicole nodded once again, but remained silent. "Yeah,"

Jordan placed his hand to his chin. He couldn't understand his feelings for Nicole, because until he met her, he thought that he was gay.

(Hey guys thanks for the reviews. And don't worry I'm not trying to destroy Jordan and Nicole, I just wanted to give their relationship some angst…but not until they get a little more something going. Nicole isn't going to know for a while, and he really does like her. Also, MeadHo will get attacked some more, and Dana and Logan will be back next chapter. With school starting soon, I might update once every week…MIGHT or MORE, but we'll see, school starts the 29th…so can't wait…SARCASTIC…now onto my thank you's!

(Pink Positivee, Mellerties, evilangel14, Midnight Princess15, Bam roudney hawk, gossipgrl11593, BluAngel340, hersheys-kisses, and Random Fan, thanks for the support, your feedback is very appreciated!)

Classic Rock n Roll Fan- Bonfires, towers, and MeadHo…all the recipes to another fricken hilarious story! I was laughing so loud as usual with this one, and I laughed even harder at MeadHo dartboard with Lindsay Lohan's picture…that's all you need for a MeadHo dartboard! I'm still laughing, keep on writing your stories, because they rock and so do you.

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Ludaverse- Tell me what you thought…lol, and the "Ho" song for MeadHo, I think you got that right on target. That bat story was funny…sounds like something Dana should do to Meadow.

Tinkaroo09- Great idea Jess! I think I might use that next chapter because Zoey, and Chase were barely in it, and Sawyer wasn't in it at all.

Mrs. Logan Reese- Keep wondering because Quinn's experiment will include Zoey, Chase, and Sawyer, and Dana and Logan! Best Fricken writer award goes back to Natalie!)