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Chapter 5 - "Don't bring dad into this!"

Scarlett began to swim at an even yet fast enough pace down towards the boat, which she could barely see through the murky water, but she continued on further and further since she knew that the boat was down there. And surely, after what felt a few minutes to her, she arrived at the boat, and her hands grasped the side of the boat to steady herself, however as she did, the key slipped from her hand.

Scarlett was quick to scan around where she let go of it, and it was hard to spot the slowly sinking key through the murky water, but she did. Scarlett swam a little further down, and grabbed the key.

Scarlett looked back at the dive computer, and saw that she had a little more than a two and a half minutes left of oxygen, so she soon got to finding the cargo hold, just as JJ had told her to. Scarlett swam into the inside of the boat as her eyes scanned for it, making sure to keep a tight grip on the key that was in her hand - she definitely couldn't afford to loose the key again.

Once Scarlett had found the cargo hold, she opened the smallish cabinet with the key with ease, and pulled it open. She saw that inside was a black duffel bag, so she reached forwards and grabbed it. As she did she saw that she had one minute fifty-two seconds left of oxygen, and knew that she should probably hurry on up back. Especially if she didn't want to get the bends.

Scarlett quickly swam back up to the surface, having a tight grip on the duffel bag, as she followed the anchor chain back up to the surface. Scarlett found that she rather liked diving alone, she didn't have to watch out for Lucas, Nathan or Rafe being stupid and silly around her.

Finally she reached the ten foot mark on the anchor chain, and peered up to see that there were now two boats above her. Scarlett stayed where she was and waited for the boat to leave, but it wasn't leaving, and she was growing both impatient and anxious. She was anxious about how much air she had left so she moved to get the dive computer out, and saw that it was already on the red.

She had 48 seconds of air left, and it was decreasing fast.

Scarlett knew that she would be able to hold her breath for a little while longer after her air was gone, but she wouldn't be able to do it for very long. For a minute and a quarter at most, she believed, and was then very thankful that she had taken up swimming from a very young age. Though, she hadn't gone swimming in a large body of water in a while, and reminded herself to go sometime soon.

Scarlett lifted the dive computer back up, and looked down to see how much air she had left, and saw that it was on 20 seconds, and she began to wonder what the hell was going on up there. But she knew that if she began to panic the other people on the other boat would see, and she couldn't have that because then the lot of them would probably get in trouble, and others would find the boat she had just visited.

She didn't think that the others wanted that.

So, she opted to just stay calm because it would help them all out in the long run.

Scarlett watched as the timer kept decreasing, until it hit zero seconds of air left, and she looked back up to see that the other boat was still there. Scarlett watched above her as she held her breath, more and more bubbles coming from her as she did so, while she kept count of how long she had been holding her breath for.

Once she had reached the minute and 10 seconds mark, her lungs began to burn as they began to crave for air, and she looked up and saw that the boat was, thankfully, leaving. So, Scarlett began to make her way back up to the surface keeping in mind that she had 5 seconds before she began to struggle to hold her breath - she estimated that after the minute and a quarter mark that she'd only be able to hold her breath for an extra 10 to 15 seconds before she gave in.