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The Second Time She Drowned, I Walked Away

The Second Time She Drowned, I Walked Away

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Campus Bully

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The captain of our college cheer squad was drowning. I fought to pull her ashore and performed mouth-to-mouth in front of the entire student body and faculty. But three days later, she went live, sobbing, and accused me. "Owen Ellis pushed me into the water... He's wanted to force himself on me for ages! "He threatened me, too. He said if I didn't sleep with him, he'd post photos of him kissing me on a porn site and ruin me!" Overnight, I went from a lifesaving hero to a would-be rapist reviled across the internet. The university expelled me. My parents were doxxed by online mobs, lost their jobs, and both sank into depression. In my darkest moment, I stood at the same lake where I'd saved her and jumped. As the water closed over my head, a notification lit up my phone. The cheer captain was smiling on her livestream as hundreds of thousands of fans flooded the chat. The stream title read: "A Strong Girl Rises from the Ashes." When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the moment she started drowning. She was thrashing in the water, those wet eyes locked on mine, and she cried out. "Owen... save me..."

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Chapter 1
Her scream pierced the suffocating haze of my drowning like a needle of ice.My eyes flew open, and I looked toward the lake, where a noisy crowd had gathered."Help me! Help..."Layla was flailing in the water. The instant our eyes met, a flicker of satisfaction crossed hers.In my past life, I'd fallen for that desperate act without a second thought, jumped in, pulled her out, and given her CPR.Three days later, she went live in tears, claiming I "pushed her in" and "tried to assault her."She sobbed and held up chat screenshots. "He threatened me. He said if I didn't sleep with him, he'd post photos of him kissing me on a porn site... I can't live like this!"The internet exploded.People edited my photos with captions like "Rapist scum, die" and "Doxx his whole family," then spread them across every platform.Michael Carter, the dean, looked conflicted as he tossed an expulsion notice at me. "The damage is too severe. For the university's reputation..."I dragged my suitcase off c
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Chapter 2
Cole choked on his words, face flushing crimson. He yanked out his phone."Enough talk! I'm asking you one last time. Are you going in or not?"I folded my arms and stared at him in silence.Cole lost his temper and shouted the first thing that came to mind."Fine! I'm reporting you to Dean Carter right now. Your hero scholarship is shady as hell! Maybe you were even behind that fire!"The moment he threatened the scholarship that was keeping me in school, the last trace of goodwill I had for him vanished.I stepped forward, eyes cutting into him."Cole, you want to report me? Go ahead. But you might want to think about yourself first."The day the academic building caught fire, I saw what you did. You locked the stairwell fire door behind you so you could get out first."Cole's face went white."Afterward, you begged me never to tell anyone. You said if it got out, your life would be over. What's the matter? Not worried about that anymore?"The crowd erupted."What?! He locked the doo
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Chapter 3
I pulled off my jacket and draped it over Layla, covering her mouth, nose, and chest completely."What do you think you're doing? What on earth is this?!" Dean Carter shouted."Sir, the first-aid manual recommends avoiding cross-contamination during rescue," I replied calmly, hands moving with practiced efficiency. "Especially when the situation is unclear, chest compressions alone work just as well as mouth-to-mouth."Before he could respond, I'd already stacked my hands over her sternum. Years of football training had given me powerful hands, and now that strength surged into the compression.First compression, full power!Through the jacket, Layla's body went rigid. A sharp gasp tore from her throat.Nice performance. Still "unconscious," huh?I raised an eyebrow and added a bit more pressure on the second compression."Cough, cough... cough!!"Layla broke into violent coughing, her eyelids fluttering open to reveal eyes blazing with shock and fury."She's awake! She's coming to!" D
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Chapter 4
A flash of embarrassment and anger crossed Layla's face. She quickly pressed a hand to her forehead and spoke in a weak whisper."God... I'm... I'm so dizzy..."Although she looked a little odd, everyone still breathed a sigh of relief when they saw she was awake.Dean Carter and Cole quickly helped her up from either side and into the ambulance that had just pulled up.Before the doors closed, Layla shot me one last look, her gaze dark with hostility.I knew she wouldn't let this go.Sure enough, after the dust settled, she didn't back off. If anything, she and Cole got closer, clearly cooking up something.Then came a group project. Citing my grades, they talked the professor into putting us all in the same group and making me team lead.By the time I found out, the groups were final. I had no choice but to roll with it.One of my buddies sent me a text out of the blue."Owen, Cole's been acting really weird! He told the professor he needed a sedative for an animal experiment and che
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Chapter 5
When my eyes opened again, the harsh white light of a police station glared down at me.Before I was even fully conscious, the cold metal on my wrists told me I was cuffed to a chair in an interrogation room."Detective, look! He's awake!"Layla's shrill voice pierced the air. I turned to see her with tousled hair and disheveled clothes, curled up in Cole's arms.A detective stepped in front of me, eyes boring into mine."Sir, this woman is accusing you of rape.""No! I didn't do anything!" I jerked my head up, the handcuffs rattling violently and biting into my wrists. "I have no idea what happened! They drugged me!"Detective Harris paused, then picked up a preliminary report from the table. His voice left no room for argument."But we found what appears to be your semen on this woman's underwear. How do you explain that?"The words hit like a sledgehammer. I stared at Layla in disbelief.She'd actually stoop this low to frame me!The body's spinal reflexes don't shut down even when
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Chapter 6
"What?! That's impossible!"Layla blurted it out before catching herself. She quickly put on the waterworks again."Look! The evidence is right there, witnesses and all, and this son of a bitch is still lying! I can't go on!"With that, she lunged headfirst toward the wall.Cole scrambled to hold her back, then whipped around to snarl at me."Owen! Won't you be satisfied until you've driven Layla to kill herself? I swear, if she can't go on, I'll spend every last cent to make sure you rot in prison!"A cold grin tugged at the corner of my mouth as I stared him down."Sorry to disappoint you. I'm not going to prison, and I'm about to blow your dirty little scheme wide open!"Before they could argue, I turned sharply to the detective."Detective Harris, I'm requesting that you bring in my roommate Ryan Hayes immediately! I also want a full DNA comparison of that semen sample. It'll prove the person in bed with Layla wasn't me!"A flicker of surprise crossed the detective's eyes, though h
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Chapter 7
He gave me the slightest nod, then slapped a folder down on the table."This is proof that Owen was in the dorm with me!"Layla and Cole froze. When they saw what was in the folder, their eyes went wide.It was... a screenshot of an online match history showing Ryan and me playing together."What the hell is this? You're trying to pass off a game screenshot as evidence?" Cole barked, but there was an involuntary tremor in his voice.Ryan shrugged."This is the clearest proof that Owen had no time to commit the crime. We were both playing in the same live match."If you don't believe me, check the timestamp in the top right corner."Everyone's eyes shot to the corner. They all went still.3:05 p.m.!"Still not convinced? Keep going." Ryan leaned in and flipped to the next page.The shock on everyone's faces was impossible to hide.It was a photo of Ryan and me eating pizza and making goofy faces at the camera. The timestamp read:4:10 p.m.!"How... how is that possible!" Cole's face dra
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Chapter 8
He scanned the room, and his gaze settled on me."Hey, bro.""Bro?!" Layla's voice nearly cracked in half.The livestream chat went berserk.[Holy crap, are they twins?][Wait, did the brother come to take the fall for him?][This whole case is bizarre enough to be AI-generated. Grab the popcorn!]My eyes stung with heat. Since coming back, this was the first time I'd seen Evan.In my past life, part of the reason I'd jumped into that lake was to keep from dragging him down with me.Our parents had already fallen into depression. If Evan also had a brother branded a rapist, the bright future he deserved would be ruined because of me.Evan turned to Detective Harris with a calm smile."Detective, the person at the hotel at the time of the incident was not my brother."It was me."Shock flashed in Detective Harris's eyes, nearly cracking his professional calm."What? How is that possible? Are you telling me you anticipated all of this?"Evan looked my way. Seeing the encouragement in my
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Chapter 9
Evan clenched his fists, anger threading through his voice."When I got Owen's shared location and rushed to the hotel, I saw them hauling him inside."I followed them. While they were stripping him and dumping him on the bed, then leaving to get their camera equipment, I climbed through the hallway window into the room, threw his jacket over him, and carried him out."He paused here and took a deep breath."But right as I reached the stairwell, I heard them coming back. There was no time. I stashed Owen in a storage room, then... quickly changed into his clothes and got back on that bed."What I didn't expect was that they drugged me again with the cloth, just to be safe. In the last second before I blacked out, the only thing I managed to do was hit the record button on the voice recorder hidden in my pocket."The room held its breath. You could've heard a pin drop.Detective Harris nodded slowly, but confusion still clouded his face."So, in trying to collect evidence against them,
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Chapter 10
Officers moved in immediately, pinning them down. Handcuffs clicked shut around their wrists."Wait! It's fake! It's all fabricated!" Cole was losing it, his cuffs clanking. "He used AI to fake it! They're framing us!""That's... that's right! Owen's had it out for me all along. This whole thing was his sick revenge plot!" Layla shrieked."Framed? Revenge?" I let out a cold laugh. "Even now, you're still twisting the truth?"Cole, if you really want to prove your innocence, why don't you let forensics swab under your fingernails for traces of the sedative? Or better yet, let's pull the lab's checkout log for that chemical."Cole's pupils shrank to pinpoints. His lips trembled, but no words came out."Layla, your manager, Dana Pierce, was already plotting to frame me back during the lake incident, wasn't that right? And the hotel surveillance was hacked by someone working for your management company!"Layla was shaking violently now, her nails digging into her palms.I looked her dead i
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