"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evol...
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"She can't swim..!"
I hear the blood curling scream when my ears finally stop buzzing so loud. There's a rhythmic pressure pushing on my chest, making my ribs hurt. I want to tell who ever is doing that to stop, that it's really annoying. My nose hurts, my throat hurts, and my body feels like it's dripping with water. Someone's mouth goes on mine, blowing air into my chest, I feel their fingers on my chin, before they return to pumping their hands on my chest.
I can hear Bree crying and Scarlet yelling at her to stop, I just can't get my body to move quite just yet. That is until I hear Logan yell, "all right, Romeo, you've done enough."
Water shoots out of my mouth and nose before I shove Romeo's mouth off of mine.
Gross!
"Lina..!" Bree screams, running up from behind me and wrapping her arms around my back the second I sat up. She keeps crying, but now tears of joy. Scarlet sits in front of me, setting her hands on my shoulder. She has that look in her eyes. The one where I know she's trying to hold herself together and is breaking on the inside.
"I'm fine," I tell her, wiping excess water from my chin.
She glares at me, "duh."
I look around me. Jay, Carrie, Logan, Ororo, Scott, and Charles surround me. Across from me on the ground is Romeo, wiping his mouth free from water with the back of his hand. I glare at him, controlling my anger before looking to Charles. "What happened?" I ask, before pulling Bree into my arms, a proper hug where she can rest her head under my chin.
"The bridge you crossed had loose floorboards at the end, we had initially designed it so you're partner would be able to instruct you to jump off," all eyes go to Romeo.
He looks at me, and to my surprise says, "you should be thanking me."
"Thanking you..?" I spit out to him, before pushing Bree cautiously away from my arms so she wouldn't get caught in the middle of my rage, "you almost killed me! You son of a bitch!" I scream before throwing myself at him and shoving him to the ground. Once I'm on top of him I send my fist into his cheek bone and continue to shove against his chest all while screaming at him, "you said you wanted to fight! Come on, let's fight!!"
Logan is the one to pull me off of him, right when Romeo's nose start to bleed. "Cool it! Both of you. You two are done for the day, go clean yourself up and get out of my face."
I'm still angry when I shove myself out of Logan's arms, and head in the opposite direction. I don't even know where I'm going, I just know I need to get away from here. "Lina, the boarding house is in the other direction," Charles informs me, nodding his head to the East. I head in that direction, with Romeo trailing behind me, pinching his nose. I was so fed up with him, serves him right to have a bloody nose. On his clothes.. that are wet..?
