Yuri wrenched the car door open and ran to the waterside.
"Sica!"
She saw Jessica's head for a second before it disappeared in the dark water. Without hesitating, Yuri jumped into the river. She took a huge breath as she was flying in midair and kept it in her lungs when her body dashed into the water.
The water wasn't too cold, but it still made her shiver from top to toe. Yuri ignored the burning sensation on her corneas as she opened her eyes wide, searching for anything that belonged to Jessica that she can grab. She found an arm that was flailed wildly in the water and tried her best to catch it while her body, against her will, rose up to the surface again. Her head escaped the water and she hungrily took a breath, her hands tightly clutching Jessica's arm.
"Let me go!" Jessica screamed.
"No! Never!" Yuri screamed back.
"LET ME GO!"
Yuri ignored the screams and pulled Jessica towards the shore, her legs paddling like crazy. Jessica splashed the water around her not less crazily, causing Yuri to have to shut her eyes tight.
"Stop it, Sica!"
The screams turned into gurgles as Jessica's body involuntarily sank and rose to the surface repeatedly. The girl began to cough when she wasn't trying to scream, and Yuri knew she'd taken quite a few gulps of water.
"GOSH! You're killing us both!" Yuri shouted in despair. As Jessica didn't appear to calm down to cooperate at all, she took a breath and dove. Slowly letting the air escaping from her lungs, she encircled Jessica's waist in the water, thus being able to dodge all the slaps and blows caused by Jessica's arms. Fighting against the uncontrollable legs and the water resistance, Yuri successfully neared them both to the shore where they would be saved.
She almost fainted from the lack of oxygen when her head shot up from the water, and she greedily took all the air her lungs could handle. Jessica had stopped flailing her arms and legs and was now just coughing and choking, which made Yuri worry even more. Yuri quickly dragged their soaking wet bodies away from the water. She lay Jessica down onto the grass on the roadside, water drops from her hair landing on the blonde's face. Jessica propped herself up on one elbow and she coughed hard before plopping her head down onto the dirt again, her body completely sagged. She closed her eyes, exhausted.
"Sica, wake up! Say something!" Yuri panicked, slapping Jessica's cheek lightly. The blonde squinted her eyes in response, hammering on her own chest a few times and coughed again.
Yuri looked down at Jessica, thinking what she should do. Her first thought was that water had gotten into Jessica lungs as the girl squinted her eyes in what Yuri assumed was pain. But then she realized that Jessica was taking short, quick breaths instead of not breathing at all. So instead of doing mouth-to-mouth ventilation, Yuri's hands went to Jessica's top and she ripped it open. That would ease the breathing, Yuri was sure.
"YAH!"
Slaps and kicks followed at once, and Yuri hastily jumped on her feet, scooting away. She knew it would work, but didn't expect it to work this well and this fast. She blinked as Jessica followed suit, not appearing to have just been in an extremely critical state at all.
"You pervert!" the blonde screamed at Yuri. "You jerk! You're so rude! You—"
"Hey, hey, hey!" Yuri held her hands in front of her chest defensively. "Keep your hair on! I was just trying to help!"
"Of course!" Jessica yelled, furious. But her voice then went flat, as if she had realized there's no point in screaming at Yuri from one second to the next. "You're never helping."
