Teach Me How To Swim

4

Is this what it feels like to live?

It was a long pressing question that Marie had solved.

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I was swept away.

Overtaken by the huge wave and my world came crashing down in front of me.

How did it get to be like this?

I could not see, I was choking on my own breaths and swallowed gulps of the water that shot pain all throughout the course of body.

Suddenly, it stopped. All was still, all was quiet.

Petals, purple petals began slowly sinking in. The water was clear, and more gorgeous than any fake illusions of the wall.

Blue petals sunk in too, but they sang something different.

You are extraordinarily wonderful.

This is the mysterious beginning of a new hope.

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The purple was lively, and vibrant in color. It turned to purple fish, and bubbles, and they swam and danced around me. I could swim, I kicked forward and went further, and the blue changed to a vibrant shade of purple too, and swam and danced with me. It felt real, it felt like happiness.

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I saw my brother, more like a still statue, perhaps just a deception. Strung around his arms and legs was the blue, full of thorns and drawing blood, causing a small pool of blood to form around him. I touched his hands, felt the wounds, and the petals changed to a soft shade of peach, the wounds healed, and the blood cleared.

Acceptance and great cheer, Marie.

I was finally home.