Opal Waters | ✔

- Chapter 12 -

"What are you doing?" Damien nearly shouts as I strip my shirt throwing it on the sand. I begin working on the button on my jeans before unzipping them and pulling them off as well. Damien watches me, his eyes carefully following every curve of my body.

"Better question is, what are you doing?" I turn around, before pulling my bra off and dropping it onto the sand by the rocks. Damien stutters a few times before taking a few steps towards me. I turn my head to look at him, my eyes shooting daggers as he takes one step backwards. I pull my underwear off before walking towards the water. Turning just slightly for him to get a slight peak of my body.

"Uh.." He stumbles over his words, pulling his shirt off as well, I hear the familiar clink of his belt fasten, and within seconds he is trailing along behind me towards the water. I closed my eyes allowing the nature of everything to take over. The water wrapping around my feet. Just like it had last night at the dance. I turned to look at Damien before the transformation was complete. Suddenly an overwhelming fear came over me that I wouldn't remember this transformation either.

The water was inviting, my hair tugging at the elastic to be free. I reached back pulling it out and unweaving it, letting it billow and dance in the water. The current didn't feel as strong today, the moon not going to be as full as it was last night.

I released a few bubbles, turning to see Damien floating in the water next to me. We both carefully blew the air out of our systems helping us sink to the bottom faster. If my necklace was here, it'd be where we had traveled yesterday. We could leave no stone left unturned here either. If we weren't able to find it, I'd have to go to Asada and tell her the truth. Tell her about my blackout, tell her everything.

I didn't want to do this though, it would delay my plans at escaping. They would keep an extra watchful eye on me, they would know when I was in the water, they would know where I had gone, they would know everything. Asada almost always knows everything.

The water seemed to pull us in, wrapping it's waves around us as it drew us closer to the bottom. Working with us instead of against us. I was amazed at how perfect everything seemed. The idea of the water being our friend. A living object that was so fragile yet so deadly all at the same time.

Damien pulled me from my thoughts grabbing my hand as he kicks his fin pulling us deeper into the water. I kept my eyes open, searching for any silver that lay on the bottom of the waves. There was a lot, rings that people have lost, necklaces that didn't match mine, object that someone somewhere was missing. We followed the current allowing it to drift our bodies to where it wanted to go. This was our best chance at finding the necklace, the hopes of the same currents happening now as they were last night.

A school of fish swim by, meticulously twisting and turning to confuse anything that might be trying to eat it. Nothing was there though. I reached out snatching one as I held it in my hands, it's scales glistening in the water. I sat for a moment, staring at it's eye and for a moment, I felt like I could sense the fear it held. I couldn't do it.

Letting the fish go, I brought my attention back to the school, they had waited. The fish had stopped, watching me as they wait for the return of their friend. Suddenly it felt even worse, the fact that I was going to eat him... right in front of everyone else he lived with. I glanced at Damien, that would be like him cutting me open and eating me while on stage at school. With every single pair of eyes glued to me, watching in disgust.

I tried my best to not focus on my feelings, to watch the bottom of the ocean carefully. There was no sign of a necklace that would help me, everything was too dainty, to fragile, too human.

Finally we reached the point we weren't supposed to pass. My heart racing as Damien continued to follow the current. I pulled my hand away from him. I was going to pass it one day, but that wouldn't be today. If my necklace had gone that far then it was gone, the area of search had grown too large and we never would find it tonight. I turned swimming towards one of the coral reefs, grabbing it and pulling myself to a seated position. Placing my face in my hands I felt the tears wash over me. The urge to cry taking control of my body as I let it all out. Damien was right there beside me, his hand rubbing circles on my back, gently, as he avoided digging his claws into my skin. I was glad he was here, but at the same time I felt bad for dragging him down here. There were plenty of other things he could have been doing, plenty of other things I should have been doing.

This had been a waste of time. Though I was able to get into the water yet again, I couldn't do it. I couldn't find the one thing I needed to gather before I left. Suddenly it felt like I would never be able to leave. I would be trapped at this awful school for the rest of my life.

"It will be okay," I heard Damien's voice, my heart pounding as we were under water, the words echoed through my brain. There wasn't a bubble trail leaving his lips either, he'd sent the message to me personally.

Which meant, we'd made a connection.