Somewhere Along The Road (Completed and editing)

Chapter 32

🔃Megan's POV🔃

Do you know that feeling where everything's right and the world seems like it's full of magic and nothing can ever go wrong again. There are no worries, no pain. The world just seems beautiful and magnificent.

Well, I'm sure as hell feeling that right now.

We were underwater. And not in the pool. We were underwater in the ocean and boy, this is a sight which I would never forget.

So, basically after Brad gave us instructions about how to use sign language underwater since we can't talk underwater, for obvious reasons, he made us practice in the pool. Then after we all got the loop holes covered about scuba diving, we were shipped off to the ocean, with Brad.

One after the other, we dived into the ocean. James and I were the first ones to dive after Brad, followed by Corrie and DM and then Chase and Ems. As soon as my eyes took in my surroundings, I was mesmerised. It was like a trance. Everything was blue, and everything was. . . pretty.

I could touch the fishes that were wiggling around us, I could internally chuckle at the school of fish swimming and forming weird shapes, I could feel the corals on my hand and even saw a coral giving out a pearl. We were swimming through the waters, when I felt someone take hold of my hand and turned my head to see James looking at me. He tugged at my hand, beckoning to follow him which I did with narrowed eyes.

We left the others and he swam me right through the school of fish, separating them and producing the 'whoosh' sound from the water. It was kind of ticklish. James swam beside me and led me to a cave kind of opening. It was a curved opening but it didn't lead to a cave. It was just a thick opening open at both sides. He came to a stop as we entered the cave and indicated me to stand vertically, and so we were both now floating in the water. I furrowed my eyebrows at him, wondering why he got me here. Answering my question, he pointed towards the other end of the cave and when I turned, I saw something that took my breath away.

There were so many types of fish just coming together and forming different kinds of shapes, and whirling about in circles. It was like they were having their own circus down under. I could spot the clown fish (commonly known as Nemo), then the blow fish, the yellow head butterfly fish, the angelfish, the Parcanthurus (commonly known as Dory from Finding Nemo) and how can we forget the Ocean Turtle who were also swimming between them. I could even spot few starfish on the rocks and could even see few jellyfish floating far away. All the fishes came together and then separated at once, making the scene look absolutely stupefying.

It was perfect and to share such a moment with James was what made it even more bewildering. I turned to look at James who was already looking at me. He put a hand on my waist, pulling me closer. I rested my hands on his shoulder as he brought his other hand, even though it was covered by a glove, to my cheek, stroking it with his thumb. I looked into his deep blue ocean eyes, through his transparent goggles, which blended perfectly with the colour of the ocean. If only I could kiss him right now.

As if reading my mind, he moved his hand from my cheek and to my inhaler in my mouth and removed it, making my eyes go wide and bubbles coming out of my mouth. He brought a hand to my lips, indicating me to shut up. What the hell is he doing? Is he crazy? That was the way I breathe oxygen. But then he moved his hand to remove his own inhaler and brought his face closer to me and pressed his lips on mine, making me shut my eyes. He couldn't do more than that for obvious reasons. Hello, we were underwater, we could barely talk, let alone kiss.

After pulling away shortly, but reluctantly, he indicated me to put my inhaler back in my mouth and he did the same. I took a breath full of oxygen and felt much better. I shook my head at him and hugged him as a thank you. He nodded his head and with one last look at the fish circus, which really really was now engraved on my mind, we left the cave and he led me to where everyone else was waiting for us with furrowed eyebrows and concerned expressions. We just shrugged our shoulders at them and after Brad shook his head at us we followed him to the surface and onto the boat.