Just another day

Chapter 2: The lake

You looked into the boy's blue eyes, seeing no malice in them, so you decided to trust him.

Taking a hold of his hand with yours, you never break eye contact with him. He smiles at you. Suddenly, he turns around and starts running, pulling you along with him. You try to let go of his hand but it's as if their now glued together, so you have no choice but to try and keep up with the boy.

You never were an athlete. You don't have the necessary stamina for it anyway. So it's only logical that after some time your feet start to hurt and your lungs start to burn. You try to tell the boy to take a little break or to slow down at least. But he ignores you and continues running forward.

After some time he finally stops and lets go of your hand. You immediately fall on your kneas, now exhausted and breathing heavily. Some time passes before you manage to catch your breath again. You look around, searching for the boy, but he seems to have disappeared. Where am I? You thought to yourself. The trees around you are colorful like the ones before. In front of you there's a some sort of lake.

Curiously, you approach the it. The water seems fresh and you can feel your thirst growing at the sight of it.

Wanting to quench it, you take some of the water in your hands and drink it. Surprisingly, you taste a combination of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, not the normal taste water should have.

Feeling intrigued, you lean closer to the lake. Only now you became aware of how beautiful this water looks. It isn't blue or green like the one from the lakes in your world. No, instead it is white with swirling brown and pink stripes.

You keep looking at it, mesmerised by the movement. You are so transfixed by the beauty (and deliciousness) of it that you don't hear the shuffling sound behind you. If you did hear it you could have turned around in time, but you didn't, so it surprised you when you suddenly felt hands on your back, giving you a strong push.

You lose your balance and fall into the pretty water, unable to catch a glimpse of the hands' owner.

The water is cold, it's substance thick. You panic feeling something pulling you deeper and deeper.

It isn't that you can't swim, because you can (not that good but you can at least swim a straight line) but you can't dive. You never learned how.
You can't hold your breath for longer than a minute either.

You try to escape, to reach the surface, anything. But it isn't working. You're continued to being pulled deeper. You turn your head, searching for the thing that has captured you, but you can only see white.

But you don't give up yet. You have so much to live for after all. Your family, your friends, your ambitions. Your dreams.

So you continue thrashing around as best as you can, trying with all your might to be freed. Your lungs hurt again, this time from the pressure, your ears are ringing. You can't hold your breath any longer. Just as you were to pass out, everything explodes. Yes, it explodes.

You are not in the lake anymore. You are free from that thing. As you struggle to catch your breath, everything around you is spinning. Well, at least you know you're on land. Better than anything, you suppose.

Just as you stopped being all dizzy and disoriented, something really hard collides with the back of your head and you can't help but lose your consciousness.

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Hey guys, CelticCrow17 here~

Happy (belated) birthday my friend! (>.<)/

So, what will happen to *you* now?