Gally...

A Watery Grave

2 Years 9 Months and 11 Days- In the Glade

I stare at him with such hatred for so long I'm shocked he doesn't waver. "Gally, I don't know what you think this is going to do but you need to leave," I tell him trying my best not to leap over the table and attack him."Let me prove to you, you're the girl from the notebook," Gally challenges and I nearly laugh outright, I stare at him trying to figure out what he thinks this will prove. "Whatever gets you out of my face so I can get back to work," I tell him trying to ignore him and return to my work.

 He stares at me and I nearly shout at him again before his chair scrapes, he doesn't smile but seems triumphant "I'll see you later then," he tells me before finally leaving me in peace. I slump in my seat, why is he so persistent? I close my eyes for a second and think over the only life I can remember. I remember the girl who dreamt of Gally before I ever saw his face, I can still hear his damning words "I want to save you," why? 

He'd read of the sweet scared girl, but not the evils she'd done. When I try to turn back to my notes I throw them off the table in a fury. I should have never agreed to this, I should never have allowed him to see those notebooks. 

I managed to avoid Gally for nearly the entire day, hiding at Dead Head's lake until the sun had gone way past the trees. "You need a new spot if you're gonna hide from me," he tells me as he walks through the trees. I don't respond and refuse to even look as I stare out over the calm pool of water. He comes beside me and stares to as if he sees the same thing I do when I look at it. "I wish I saw this place the way you do," he tells me his voice soft, like if he speaks too loud the beauty of this place will die away.

"What do you see?" I ask still staring at the dark pool with nothing to illuminate it but the moonbeams that danced across it. "A watery grave," he responds and I'm shocked, finally turning to look at him, "then why were you here the other day?" I ask and he finally looks away from the water to his hands. "When I read your journals it seems like you're always here when you write the passage, so I thought what better place to read," he explains and I sigh "I'm sure you've already read about it, but when I found this place it scared me too," I tell him.

"When I first found this place I felt drawn to the water, but at the same time, I couldn't remember if I even knew how to swim. What I didn't write was the day I found out I could," I tell Gally who seems to perk up at the sound of new information. "It was a bad day, not the worst I'd faced but still pretty bad. A boy had died, lost in the maze, and another had been stung. It was the first time something like that had ever happened. I felt hopeless, and that's the most dangerous thing in here," I tell Gally, I have to pause to take a shaky breath.

"I didn't think that we'd ever find a way out, I thought eventually the whispers would turn into riots over why I was here, and why I was the only girl. I was scared then, I was so scared I thought there was only one real way out of it," I tell him and when I glance up into his green eyes I know he knows what I did next. "You went in hoping you'd drown," he asks and I shake my head "I left it up to fate, I went in and walked until I was completely submerged. I told myself if I swam to the top, I'd live, and live well, but if I died, I died,"

I finally let my bare feet sink into the water "I swam to the top obviously, but the thought I had before I did was of you. I thought, what would happen if you came for me, and I was gone? It's kinda ironic you finally show up and don't remember me either," I tell Gally who's staring at me like I'm the most interesting thing he's ever seen. 

I don't know how but somehow right now I feel more connected to Gally than I'd felt to anyone in the glade.