Trauma And Trouble- A Before You Exit FanFic- Book 2

Part 15- Swimming

     I spent the rest of the day sitting beside the small river that goes through the forest, thinking of what to do for Toby. 'Well I could do the hunting instead of him. And cook it over the fire.' I thought to myself. 'Yeah! I'll do that…but it’ll be tough with my arm in this condition. Also I could...hmm. Oh! I could make him a new weapon to hunt with since that gun's gotta be outta bullets by now. I could make him a bow and arrows. Ya! I'll use vines and strong branches for the bow. And I'll use stones, feathers, branches and vines too for the arrows.' Now the ideas are just flowing to me.

     Just before I was going to start preparing Toby's bow and arrows, Lindsay showed up.

       "Hey." she said as she sat beside me.

     "Hey." I answered.

     "Whatcha up to." she asked.

     "Just trying to think of what to do for Toby for his birthday."

     "Cool." was all she said in reply.

     "Wanna go for a swim Lindsay?"

     "Sure."

     So we both changed into some old clothes that we had brought. Lindsay was wearing a crop-top shorts that went halfway down her thighs. I didn’t have a shirt on but I was wearing stained sweatpants that I had I cut into shorts that go down to my knees. Lindsay always had her arms wrapped around her middle due to being insecure about her weight. I never understood why tho.

     I was the first to go right on in. The water was freezing and it burned when it first touched my cut-up and sensitive skin. But after a while, it felt pretty nice. Probably not the best idea with stitches in my arm…

     Lindsay waded in slowly, inch-by-inch, until she was up to her stomach. Then she waded over to me and I told her, "Come on! You gotta go the rest of the way! It feels so refreshing." She hesitated a moment, then dove right under and popped right up immediately.

     "It's freezing!!" She squealed. So I swam to her and wrapped my arms around her to warm her up.

     "Better?" I asked softly.

     "Better." she replied.

     "I love you." I whispered in her ear but she still never returned the phrase.

     Then we swam around for a while until I went underwater. I could hear Lindsay yelling and swishing around anxiously looking for me. We had stirred up enough muck that the water became cloudy. After around 15 seconds, I slowly came above water behind her and picked her up by wrapping my arms around her stomach. She screamed and flailed around until I put her down.

     Next she tried to slap me but I caught her wrist. Then I got down on one knee and all that was above the water was my shoulders and up. I put her hand in mine and kissed it softly. "Thank you for being such an amazing, young woman. Will you..."

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Whaddaya think Riley's gonna ask?! 0.o

Do you think Toby approves of Lindsay and Riley being together?

Thx for all the votes! How about some coments? :)