Breathe (Bondi rescue fanfic)

Chapter 13

I linger a while before pulling my head away from his slowly. I can't believe I just kissed him, but I have a longing feeling to do so again. His kiss was gentle, his lips chapped from the heat of the day, yet moist at the same time, and I loved it. When I eventually opened my eyes again and looked at him, I knew he felt the same, yet my cheeks, I could feel, still went tomato red from embarrassment.

We both finally snapped back into reality and started moving again, pretending as if it had never happened, but I liked it that way.

We reached the apartment about 5 minutes later as we took our time so we could enjoy our surroundings. As we entered the apartment I began to have a hazy sort of feeling, a bit disconnected from reality. I shook it off, putting it down to the busy day, as I still hadn't fully regained all my energy after drowning.

We soon snuggled up on the couch and put on a movie, though I wasn't fully paying attention. I had my head rested on Chappo's shoulder as I listened to him laugh at some joke in the movie. "Hey Chappo, I was told today at physio to try standing for 3 minutes 5 times a day as exercise before my next appointment, so could you help me up, I wanna stand now" I say, and I don't know why, as I hadn't been told that as it was too risky for me yet. "Sure!" Chappo cheered, and then it hit me, Chappo had never seen me stand up before.

He put his arm around my back and his other arm under my legs and scooped me up. He carried me over to the kitchen, where I could hold onto the counter. He slowly let my feet touch the floor and soon I was fully supporting myself, just holding onto the counter as a precaution. Chappo had the biggest smile plastered on his face, and I nearly cried, it meant so much to me to see him happy. I knew then I needed to let go of the counter, to stand completely independently, to make Chappo proud. I slowly, inch by inch I moved my hand off the counter, and before I knew it, I was standing. I looked up at Chappo, a huge grin growing on my face, and he shedding a tear of happiness. And then the hazy feeling came again, I felt completely separate from my body, and I soon felt myself falling, fainting, and then my head connected with the counter and I could feel a huge gash opening across my forehead, I could see, in the corner of my eye, Chappo running towards me, and then, for the second time since arriving in Australia, all went black as someone was shouting "Breathe!"

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IM SO SORRY IVE NOT UPDATED IN MONTHS AND SORRY ITS A SHORT CHAPTER BUT I REALISED RECENTLY HOW MUCH I MISSED WRITING THIS STORY SO IM GOING TO START POSTING AGAIN :D

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