Anchor

Chapter 2

I didn't know if I was hurt while I was sinking.

I held my eyes open but everything around me went dark and it was silent. I was numb.

Not the slightest noise. I didn't even feel my lungs burning from the missing oxygen.

I know I could have swum up but I didn't. I didn't want to.

I felt myself slowly falling deeper and I tilted my head to watch the sunbeams sparkling on the surface. Time was lost and I didn't want to move.
It was just so peaceful, I couldn't even describe the feeling. The darkness around me embraced me and I didn't fight back.

Suddenly something grabbed me by the waist und pulled me back into reality.

I turned my head to see what it was when I looked into a pair of light blue eyes.

It was a boy holding my face with his hand to check up on me. When he realized I was awake he looked right into my darker blue eyes.

I don't think I've ever seen this boy before.

He grabbed my waist and pushed me up since I was still not moving.

When my head was above the surface all the noises were back. I took a deep breath and I was surprised that were was no water in my lungs at all.

A second after I got to the surface the boy who dived down to me and brought me to the surface appeared in front of me.

He had slightly sharp facial features and he wiped his dripping dark blonde hair out of his face.

I started holding my body over the surface by myself again and when he noticed, he took his hands off my waist.

'Are you okay?' He said out of breath but without taking his eyes off me for a single second.

I nodded.

'Can you swim by yourself?' He asked.

'Yes.' I nodded again.

Suddenly a bubbling noise sounded, followed by a scream for help. We looked into the direction it came from and saw the wreck  that just almost killed me slowly starting to sink.

But where did the scream come from?

There it was again, and knocking. I quickly skimmed the fuselage and finally saw the boy who was screaming. He was locked in a small cabin and pounded in panic against the door with a round window in it through which I could see him.

I turned back to the blue-eyed boy and he seemed to have noticed it too. He looked at me for a second, then started to swim towards the sinking wreck. I followed immediately.

The fuselage sank faster and faster and when we arrived the half of it was already under the surface. Unfortunately the cabin was in the lower half so we dived underwater and after two meters of diving deeper we were on the same height as the wreck.

I tried to recognize as much as I could with the blurred view but then I saw the cabin, it was a few meters to our left and I pointed in the direction to show him too.

He nodded and we started swimming towards it the fastest we could.

When we arrived there the boy was still punching against the door trying to get out.

The boy who saved me grabbed the door nob and pulled but it wouldn't open that way. I looked around and detected a small metal rod. I immediately swam towards it and grabbed it.

We could try to crack it open with it. When he saw what I was trying to do he helped me hitting it against the door lock. After a few tries I noticed that the guy inside has gotten unconscious by time. We tried it another bunch of times and then finally there was a hazy click!

We pushed the door open and he swam in. He grabbed the boy and pushed him out of the small cabin. I received him but as soon as the unconscious boy was out of the cabin the door slam shut again and the blue-eyed boy was trapped now.

I immediately let go of the guy and went to try to open the door again but through the round window I saw him pointing out to the guy we just got out together.

He made a sign that meant that I should bring the unconscious guy to the surface.

I hesitated. I could not leave him here. I wouldn't let him stay down here alone after he saved my life but he wanted me to, so I persuaded myself to turn around.

I swam the fastest I could, grabbed the guy and swam quickly to the surface. The fuselage was now completely underwater.

This time I didn't take the time to look for a metal piece to lay the boy on and just laid him level on the surface so he wouldn't sink and dived down again after taking a quick breath.

I think I had never dived this fast but this time it still took me a little longer to reach the cabin because the wreck had sunk much deeper meanwhile.

After a couple seconds I reached it and looked after the boy. He was still in there but he wasn't panicking, not like the boy before.

I quickly looked for the metal rod and saw it a meter deeper. I grabbed it and hit it against the lock but it didn't work like before. I wasn't as strong as before when he helped me.

What if I can't make it?

His life was now fully in my weak and exhausted hands.

I looked at him with fear in my face but he gave me a calm look. Our eye contact was just like before when he had saved me but this time I was panicking and he was trapped inside a locked cabin and in mortal danger.

I felt the air in my lungs become less but I couldn't give up now.

I continued hitting the lock multiple times without success.

Suddenly I noticed him moving his hands in the corner of my eyes. I looked at him without stopping to hit the door.

He looked like was trying to tell me something. His hands pointed up to the surface.

Did he want me to let go and leave him and swim up again?

No! I wouldn't do that! I shook my head.

I would rather die down here than giving up.

I would be dead if he hadn't been there!

I never used to really care about other people but in this moment I somehow didn't care about anything else than getting him out of there.

His hand movement got faster and hectic and he even moved his mouth now to tell me something but I didn't stop hitting the lock.

There it was! The click I had heard before! There it was again.

I was just about to push the door open when something hit my neck and all at once everything went black.