The Water Did It

"Emily, you don't have to hold on so tight," Aria said. We were up Spencer lake house for a relaxing weekend, or what we thought was meant to be relaxing weekend but instead it turned into the worst moment of my life. My girlfriend of nine months Hanna, which of course Aria and Spencer don't know about but Hanna almost drowned today, it was a heartbreaking moment.

When we had arrived at Spencer's lake house and we all mad a beeline for the water, sprinting off our clothing as we went before we were all down into our bathing suits and jumped into the water; trying to make the biggest splashes. We were splashing each other in the water, I was laugh giving Spencer a piggy-back in the water and that's when I noticed Hanna drifting off from us. When she was a good five metres from us, I stopped what I was doing to see what was going on because she hadn't swam back to us yet.

After I had become a swimmer on the swim team, I made sure that all three girls knew how to swim, well enough to get out of trouble if they ever were in trouble. Aria and Spencer seemed to notice my intenseness; they too stopped to look at Hanna. We all watched together as out of nowhere Hanna was pulled down into the water, she come back up but only to go back down again.

"Hanna!" I remember myself screaming as I dove into the water and swam as fast as I could over to her. Hanna had drifted away from us because she was floating, then when she stood up her foot was caught on some brunch and that's what kept pulling her down into the water.

"Sorry," I whisper out as I loosen my grip on Hanna but she places her hand on my arm to stop me. Staring into Hanna's eyes, I see the fear in them and I quickly wrap my arms even tighter around Hanna then before. I feel Hanna rest her head back on my shoulder, she had a towel wrapped around her wet body but she wasn't warming up because of it, it was because of my body temp.

I say to Hanna not caring if the others heard "Don't you ever do that to me again, I can't lose you not now, not now that I've finally got you." I deep my nose down into Hanna's shoulder and take a deep breath, I can smell the lake water mixed in with Hanna's coconut perfume and it was very intoxicating.

Spencer asked "What do you mean now that you've finally got her? You and Hanna have known each other for years, just like all of us." I could hear the confusion in Spencer voice; she wasn't being rude by asking she was just really confused.

Hanna spoke quietly "I'm too tired and cool to go into this now but Emily and I are more than friends, we've be dating for about nine months." Hanna then stood up from being I my arms, she told us she was going to go change into dry clothes and get ready to sleep.

Aria asked "Why didn't you tell us?"

I replied with "I know that you must feel betrayal or something like that but Hanna just instant ready for those questions right now, tomorrow morning will go over it more."

"Okay," Spencer said and Aria nods her head.

I say "Thank-you, I'm going to go change into more comfortable clothes and settle into bed with Hanna." Standing up from the ground, I went in the direction had been and I found Hanna sitting on the bed in one of the guest room beds. Hanna had changed her clothing already she was now wearing one of my sharks shirts and a pair of my running shirts, I loved when she wore my clothing and it just confirm to me a little bit more that Hanna was my girlfriend. Crawling upon the bed I move to be behind Hanna and I wrap my arms around her body.

I asked "How are you doing?"

"I know you love the water but I'm scared to go back in it," Hanna replied honestly with as she leant back into my arms.

"That's understandable, I'll help you become unafraid of the water but if you never wanted to go back in again I'll understand."

"Thank-you Em," Hanna said while reaching back with a hand to run her fingers through my wet hair.

"How did they take the news of us?" Hanna asked scared.

"Okay I think, I told them we'd answer their questions tomorrow. Right now I just want to get into this big bed with you and hold you until you fall asleep."

"I love the sound of that," Hanna said while sighing in happiness. That's what we did we slipped into the covers got settle into each other's arms, I held Hanna close to me that night I wasn't ever letting her go for a while. I've never been so afraid of the water before but seeing Hanna being pulled down into the water, is almost enough for never to go back into the water. I stayed awake half of that night just watching Hanna's chest rise and fall from her even breaths, it was relaxing seeing Hanna sleep and looking peaceful. Once I knew that Hanna was sleeping okay and long enough, I soon closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep; holding Hanna even tighter.

The End.