Life can be Crazy

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POV: LEAH

Apparently I managed to fall back asleep because I was not awake until 9 AM. 9 AM? That means I've missed breakfast, shit.

I was getting myself ready to go downstairs but I stumbled over the mess I've managed to create in the few days I was here.

Incoming call: Tobin

"Hey Tobs, what's up?", I said, still a little sleepy

"Good, you're not dead! She's not dead guys!", she shouted. What a way to start a conversation!

"Uhm, no, I think I'm pretty much alive? Why?"

"You missed breakfast and nobody could reach you, didn't you see how many missed calls you have?", she continued. Oh no, they will be on my case again. Shit.

"Tobin, who is there with you?", I asked, I need a clear picture.

"What do you want me to say?", she countered, that only means that everybody is there. Damn it!

"Okay, I'll come downstairs, relax", I said, much to my own discomfort

Call ended

I made my way down and to the mess hall. But in stead of getting swarmed with questions, all I got was a huge party popper right above my head and screams everywhere.

"LATE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!", everybody shouted

"Oh my God, you guys, you didn't have to do this!", I was so overwhelmed. They didn't just think of me, they made a whole plan to celebrate me. They decorated the whole place and I even saw a cake!

"I'm sorry Le, they made me make that call... we knew you were still sleeping because we used your spare key to check on you. Did you even check if the others called you?", Tobin asked me sneaky

I began to blush. Of course I didn't, I was busy getting downstairs fast, and getting myself ready to be attacked by everyone.

"Oh our baby has much more to learn!", Tobin followed, but THAT was a little too much to just let it slide. I jumped on her back, but because that move was so sudden, she didn't catch me and we both fell to the ground. By now, everybody was laughing at us, including ourself.

"Late happy birthday kid", Tobin said a little calmer in my ear

"Thanks Toby", I said. Because I know she hates that name, I was hoping I triggered her to continue our bantering. And oh, she did. She picked me up and ran towards the pool. Shit. Nobody knows I'm afraid of water because I didn't tell anyone that. It started because once when I was a kid, I almost drowned and my mom stood on the sideline and watched. And we all know what her plan was when I was eleven, so I've got nothing but bad experience with it.

"Tobin, no! Look I'm sorry, okay? Chris a little help here?", I shouted around me with a trembling voice, but I forgot nobody knew about them.

"Carli? Lindsey? Anyone?", I shouted after that to try and cover up my mistake. I was getting afraid now because it didn't seem like anybody wanted to do something. They all wanted to see me be thrown into the water.

"Thanks for the save kid, but however", Tobin said in my ear before she let go

I fell in the pool and everything in me shut down. I couldn't take a proper breath before my face hit the water, so I sank to the bottom and everything went numb. I floated around until everything went black.

POV: TOBIN

"Thanks for the save kid, but however", I said to her before I let her go

She went all the way to the bottom, but we kept laughing. We all thought she wanted to make things more dramatic which caused it to be more funny in our eyes. However, she didn't come back up. She can hold her breath very long.

Something didn't sit right.

"Guys? Is she okay?", Alex asked from all the way behind the group

"Guys, I don't think this is an act anymore", someone else said, but I already jumped in the pool after her

I got her and brought her back up but she wasn't breathing. What the hell was happening? She was only under water for like twenty seconds?

"Someone call 911! Please, a little help here!", I shouted around me

Alex was already off making the call and Pinoe and KO sat next to me.

"What can we do?", KO asked

"I don't know, what are we supposed to do?", I asked frantic. This was all my fault.

"Lay her on her side, try to let the water she swallowed flow back out. Maybe give her soft compressions to speed that up", Ali shouted. How does she know all of this?

"All right, help me lay her on her side!", I ordered around, still not calmed down from the thought that I did this

"Tobin relax, you can't help her if you're freaking out", Ash said from behind me

I stood up and let KO and Pinoe take over. She was right.

"This is all my fault, what was I thinking?", I barely got out before I cried

"Tobin you couldn't know she can't swim", Ash tried to console me. I cried further into her shoulder. I felt her chest rise and fall fast so I knew she was crying too. We heard sirens coming near the hotel. The both of us made our way out towards the exit to meet with the paramedics.

"Right through here!", I shouted to them