Chapter Two

I felt comfortable. I knew my fate and yet I was surprisingly calm about it. Why struggle and worry your last few moments to live?

Just think about your life as though it was flashing before your very own eyes. Then I felt something or rather someone grab my shoulders.

When I opened my eyes and blinked a few times, I saw it was Daniel. He was struggling under the pressure of the water as he tried grabbing my wrist. We struggled a little more climbing over the seats in the car.

I tried fighting him, I was just extra weight to carry, but he didn't seem to care. I was becoming more and more unconscious by the minute.

My eyes were hard to keep open in the water as I was being dragged to the back of the car.

There was a small little crack in the back window as he tried to slam his foot against it, trying to break free.

He was losing his breath quickly as he put as much force in the last kick. The window broke free and the pressure of the water came crashing in really fast, forcing us back a few seconds.

He grabbed my hand and pushed me out of the car. In my opinion I thought we were hopeless, but he still had the faith that we could make it to the surface as our hands were tangled together.

I was losing all will and I couldn't move anymore. He was trying to swim with me being dragged below him. He looked back down at me.

Then suddenly I felt his hands on my waist as his lips crashed against my own passionately. Thereafter I felt him give me a giant push up as it caused him to fall down into the water.

The second his hands left mine his eyes closed as he continued to fall further down as I was going up. I felt strong hands grabbing my shoulder and yanking me out of the water. By then I was barely breathing and soon blackness hit me again at full force and I welcomed the empty feeling.

Eventually though, I felt like I was dead, or dreaming, but I'm pretty sure dead was the correct answer, because we were in the car again like nothing had happened. The truck that had originally hit us went right past us without a problem. Daniel grabbed my hand, interlaced our fingers together and then put them on his lap. I looked down at them and then back up at his face.

Confusion didn't quite cover the way I was feeling. He gave me a small smile and squeezed, almost in a reassuring manner.

"Everything is going to be okay, I promise," he reassured. I heard someone faintly calling my name in the distance but I was trying not to pay attention to it. I wanted to be here at this moment.

"Why?" I questioned, confused. Why did he push me up and help me? Why would he do that to me, let me live this life without him?

"You need to continue from here, you can't come with me. It wouldn't be right, you still have a whole life ahead of you and I wasn't going to let you waste it."

"Wait, I don't understand. You also had a life, too."

I heard my name being called again, but this time it seemed closer. I could feel myself starting to stress out, I wasn't ready to go back.

"I don't have much time... I just want you to know that I will always be here with you.

"I'll never leave your side, and help you wherever I can until you are ready to move on and will no longer need me... but try to remember that the accident isn't your fault," he squeezed my hands and brought it to his lips.

His soft lips brushed against my hand as he looked up at me one last time. "I love you, Valerie, please don't ask why anymore..."

He was slowly fading away as the man who was calling my name got louder. I heard a loud beeping noise and Daniel disappeared for good.

"Wait! Come back please! You said you wouldn't leave me!" I screamed trying to sit up properly. My vision was blurry but I could tell I was in an ambulance.

The men who were next to me were struggling to get me back down. I wasn't having any of it. My mind was swarming with memories and my eyes were already starting to burn from exhaustion.

I felt a sharp pinch in my skin as I looked down to see a needle being injected into my right arm. I felt weak again and slowly I laid back down again.

The blackness came for me the third time but at that moment I wanted to bask in it forever because I didn't want to feel like I was alone.