Moonlight Sonata

Chapter One

Alexander Flynn

Three months earlier.

Water swirled around her body, her face as she disappeared. My heart beat faster as panic started to rise in my chest. It was happening again, and nothing I was able to do would prevent it. I couldn't let her drown, not again, not this time. This time I would save her.

My feet froze to the ground as I saw the bubbles rise to the top of the lakes frigid surface. I tried to move my legs forward; they responded sluggishly and I stumbled onto the sharp stones at the edge of the lake.

I looked across the surface as silent ripples came towards me then I scrambled into the water. Cold shot through my body making my movements slow as I dove in, down to where she had been sucked under.

I saw her eyes looking up toward me from the blackness as her body sank deeper, those wondrous crystal like blue eyes were pleading with me to save her. Long blonde hair swirled above her head as horror covered her face, her mouth open slightly.

Her hand was straining out for me to grab it and pull her to the surface. My body reacted slowly to what I was commanding it to do, to push through the darkness. I stretched out my arm towards her, my fingertips grazing the tops of hers. I faltered as hope jolted my insides; I had never gotten this close to reaching her. I just needed to push a little further, and I would have her.

I kicked at the black water and thrust myself forward, grasping my hand onto the top of hers. As I held on I realised that she wasn't sinking, she was being pulled under, and now my body was being dragged down with her.

Pulling with all I had I fought with whatever had a hold on her, but the grip I had on her hand was failing. My fingers were slowly slipping off of hers the deeper we went. I tried to tighten my grasp, but the cold had eaten away at my skin and I couldn't even feel her hand under mine anymore. Without warning, she was jerked out of my hold, my fingers clutching at nothingness.

She was sinking too fast now almost out of sight, I forced my arms to move faster but as they did, she vanished into the depths of the cold, black water. I stopped swimming, letting my limbs go limp as anguish ripped through my chest. I floated in the nothingness as I felt my heart slowly dropping out of my body as I lost her again like all those times before.

I slowly opened my eyes to reality. I looked around the room, around my bedroom, and sighed. Early morning light had started to creep in through the cracks of the curtains.

"Damn it." I breathed as I untangled the sheets that had become wrapped around me as I had tossed and turned from my nightmare.

My vivid nightmare; so real and raw. This girl, this stranger, who I had never met, had been invading my dreams off and on for as long as I could remember, but it was only in the last six months that it had become every night. Never once had I been able to get to her in time, except for now, she had always drowned, always just out of my reach. The dream had been forever the same, never changing but getting more painful. And now night after night I had to watch her sink away from me.

Now I felt like even more of a failure, this time I had gotten a hold of her. Only to have her ripped away from me. My heart ached, as though, it had been ripped away too.

I moved off my massive bed toward the bathroom. I opened the shower door and turned it on, as steam started to rise, I got in.

"Alex? You're up I take it?" I heard Ben call from behind the bathroom door about twenty minutes later.

"No." I responded, letting the hot water run over my tired face.

"Well don't drown in there we have a full day ahead of us. First we have to do press and the signing for Sunrise. Then we need to pack!" I cringed as Ben mentioned the word drown, her face flashed through my mind, wincing I turned off the shower.