*Vanessa’s POV*
I couldn’t even shut my eyes as I fell into the cold, darkness of the water. I was too afraid to even move my eyelids and refused to, even as I sunk deeper, and even as the silhouettes of the people standing above me disappeared slowly but surely.
Eventually, the panic in me began to fade away into a desperate need to survive. I tried kicking out, slashing my arms around, and cutting the water in any desperate attempt to swim up, to try and float—to survive. I quickly came to realize that I could not.
I didn’t know how.
And it was the strangest thing to me, knowing what exactly I needed to do to swim and knowing that I, Lily, was capable of doing it, but Vanessa’s body couldn’t. There was something fighting against me as I tried. Something that seemed to pull me down, too.
I gasped out,, inhaling a mouthful of water at a time as I tried to breathe, my lungs so desperate my brain not recognizing that I couldn’t breathe beneath the water.
