Chapter 17 - Drowning

"Tet Tet's such a smart and intelligent boy. We're deadly sure he can do it," mumbled Mr. Adrian Tandinata.

Mr. Akira Yamaha was heard cackling joyfully, "As he's our only son, of course all our hopes and wishes will fall on his shoulders. We'll surely teach and guide him properly so that he can continue our businesses in the future later on."

A moment later, Tetsuo Yamaha was seen approaching his parents.

"Dad… Mom… Uncle… Aunt… Ceci and I have finished our homework. Can we play now?" asked the little boy gently and courteously.

"What will you be playing, Dear?" asked Mrs. Scarlet Mayra smiling lovingly.

"We'll be swimming in the swimming pool at the backyard," replied Cecilia Belinda with her somewhat stuttering voice tune inasmuch as she hadn't been able to talk long.

At the backyard of Yamaha's mansion, there was indeed a quite massive swimming pool, from the shallowest until the deepest parts.

"Okay then… Be careful, Dear… Although you've been able to swim quite well, don't play near the deep part of the pool. Will you, Tet Tet?" warned Mrs. Yukio Yamaha gently.

"Okay, Mom… I'll be really careful… I'll also be using my buoy…" answered Tetsuo excitedly.

"Be careful, Ceci… Don't get near the deep part… Don't forget to use your buoy… Will you…?" Mrs. Scarlet Mayra gave a little warning to her daughter.

"Okay, Mom…" Cecilia Belinda nodded her head extraordinarily happily.

Then, Little Tetsuo and Little Cecilia went for swimming under their sitters' cares and attentions. Being able to swim really well, Little Tetsuo swam to and fro the swimming pool for quite a couple of minutes. He was seen practicing his free-style as well his breast-stroke. Meanwhile, Cecilia Belinda, who wasn't keen on swimming, was merely playing water, riding the slides in the middle of the shallow parts of the swimming pool.

"Tet Tet… Wonderful… You can swim really well…" exclaimed Cecilia Belinda joyfully.

"Would you like to learn, Ceci?" asked Tetsuo excitedly.

"Not now… Perhaps later on… When I've already been ten years old like you, Tet Tet… When I've been able to swim, I want to swim together with Tet Tet in the deeper parts over there." Cecilia Belinda pointed at the deeper parts in front of her.

"Why do you want to swim together with me, Ceci?" asked Tetsuo again, a bit nervously and jumpily. Yet, of course it was extraordinarily difficult for him to identify that kind of feelings at that time.

"Spending time together with Tet Tet then… That makes me overjoyed…" replied Cecilia Belinda still joyfully as well as excitedly.

Feeling overjoyed as well, Tetsuo was seen cuddling his Little Cecilia's head lovingly.

Little Cecilia Belinda splashed some water on her Tet Tet Sweetheart's cute and handsome face. Her Tet Tet Sweetheart also did the same thing on her face. Laughing heartily, the two children were seen playing in the middle of the pool. Their sitters were also seen smiling exultantly. Knowing that those two children would be playing in the pool for half more hour, their sitters decided to be engrossed in their chit-chats.

What the two sitters didn't realize was that the two kids were playing so excitedly that they themselves didn't even realize they were moving to the deeper and deeper parts of the swimming pool – moving step by step, slowly and gradually.

It was too late for the two kids to draw back to the shallower parts when they realized everything around them inasmuch as they'd reached the seven-meter part. Unexpectedly and accidentally, Little Cecilia was free from her buoy. Her body began to drown deeper and deeper.

"Tet Tet! Tet Tet! Save me! Save me! I'm drowning!" shouted Little Cecilia.

Little Cecilia Belinda was seen wriggling within her extraordinary panic on the surface of the water.

"Ceci! Ceci!" screamed Little Tetsuo as well.

Seeing what was happening to his Little Cecilia, of course Little Tetsuo was also enormously frightened. He saw that his Little Cecilia's body began to drown deeper and deeper, began to be invisible from the surface of the water.

Without thinking twice and any further, Little Tetsuo freed himself from his buoy. He decided to swim towards his Little Cecilia's body. He dived into the water inasmuch as his Little Cecilia's body was deeper and deeper at this moment.

Little Tetsuo dived even deeper and deeper, maximizing the top of his power as well as strength. Swimming deeper and deeper, the water pressure would be more and more powerful. Little Tetsuo began to feel that his two ears were more and more painful. He also felt that his whole body was weaker and weaker. Getting no other better choices, Little Tetsuo dived even deeper and deeper to reach his Little Cecilia's body.

Eventually, Little Tetsuo managed to reach his Little Cecilia's body. Being able to clutch her Little Tetsuo's hand, Little Cecilia Belinda was extraordinarily relieved. Maximizing the last final drops of his strength, Little Tetsuo managed to push both of them upwards to the surface of the seven-meter swimming pool. Tetsuo was then seen swimming to the side of the pool, dragging his Little Cecilia's a bit weaker and more languid body.

Their four parents were seen running towards them in their immense terrors, followed by their two sitters with their white pale faces behind them.

"Oh, thank goodness… Are you okay, Cecilia?" screamed Mrs. Scarlet Mayra in her extraordinary panic, checking her daughter from head to toes.

"Tetsuo! I've warned you already! Don't get too near to the deeper part like this! You must take care of Little Ceci as well! You aren't listening to me! Why are you being so rebellious!" shouted Mrs. Yukio Yamaha at her son.

Hearing that, Mr. Adrian Tandinata and Mrs. Scarlet Mayra were somewhat guilty about what Mrs. Yukio had shouted at her son.

"I'm sorry, Mom…" replied Tetsuo weakly and languidly. He was seen stooping down his head.

"It's okay, Mrs. Yukio… The most important thing is that they're alright. It was just I was extremely worried that something awful would occur," said Mrs. Scarlet Mayra still somewhat guiltily.

"Tetsuo is guilty, Mrs. Scarlet. He's older. He should have taken care of Little Ceci who is much younger than he is. He ought to learn taking care of the people around him," replied Mrs. Yukio Yamaha sternly as well as strictly.

"It's alright, Aunt… I'm okay right now… Tet Tet has saved me… He dived almost until the bottom in the farthest part just now. He pulled me upwards. Without Tet Tet, I don't think I could survive, Aunt. Don't get angry with Tet Tet anymore, Aunt. He's saved me. I love him, Aunt."

Surprisingly, Little Cecilia was seen hugging her Tet Tet Sweetheart's quite tall and sturdy body. Little Cecilia Belinda was seen hugging her Tet Tet Sweetheart lovingly and adorably. That had become such a kind of questionable and also pleasurable scenery for their four parents.

Suddenly, really unexpectedly again, Little Tetsuo began to close his eyes, and his consciousness drowned deep down in a pitch black world.

"Tet Tet! Tet Tet!" shouted Little Cecilia Belinda in her extraordinary panic. Both of their mothers were also extremely panicked.

Mr. Akira asked his son to be moved to his bedroom inside the mansion. He called their private doctor to come and to examine his son's condition.

Mr. Akira turned to the two sitters who had been incredibly nervous and frightened, and hissed, "You both are fired without any further compensation… Get out of my mansion… Now…"

The two sitters felt as though their legs and feet had been hamstrung. They'd totally lost their powers to sustain both of their bodies. Along their working references, this experience was the worst of the worst. There was nothing more they could say besides getting out of Yamaha's mansion.

Moment and moment passed by. The doctor had finally examined Tetsuo Yamaha's circumstance.

"No worries, Mr. and Mrs. Yamaha… Tet Tet's fine… It's just he's in his deep fatigue inasmuch as he's dived into the deep and deep part of the pool. Diving into almost seven meters of a pool will be an incredibly exhausting work for a little ten-year-old boy to do," replied the private doctor.

"Does he need an X-ray to make sure his lungs are alright?" asked Mr. Akira Yamaha worriedly.

"I can assure you he needs no X-ray. I can assure you there's no water in his lungs. His breath is normal. Everything in his body is normal. He solely needs some rest at this moment. I'll prescribe him some medicines and vitamins for his respiratory system. He'll get well soon. No worries, Mr. and Mrs. Yamaha…" uttered the private doctor convincingly.

Mr. Akira and Mrs. Yukio nodded their heads in their great relief. After prescribing some medicines as well as vitamins, the private doctor excused himself from Yamaha's mansion.

"Okay, Dear Ceci… It's almost late evening right now… It's time to go home, shall we?" said Mrs. Scarlet Mayra gently and lovingly.

Little Cecilia Belinda didn't say anything. She simply shook her head with her somewhat upset manner.