Drowned In Silence

21. Black Water

Black Water

Elliot

My heart shatters as her body crashes with the blackened water.

“No!” I scream.

I pull off the mask that I slipped on when I entered the woods behind her. Not sure how it happened, but she managed to evade my every step.

Pulling off my sweatshirt, shirt, pants, and boots, I jump into the water.

It’s fucking freezing. The snow still falls onto the river, turning the water colder than it already is.

I can’t see anything out here. No moon, no lights on the bridge, nothing!

Where the fuck is she?

I fight with the rushing current that pulls me every which way, just trying to grab ahold of an arm or a leg.

“Dynah!” I yell, trying to keep my head above water .

My subconscious screams at me when I see her fingertips. She immediately sinks below the surface once again, as I paddle over to where she once was.

The rapids are intense, the water as cold as sin, and the darkness closing in on the two of us.

If I can’t get to her…

No!

I can’t imagine my life without her yet. We haven’t had any time together. She doesn’t even know my name, hasn’t seen my face!

“Dynah!” I yell one more time, before finally feeling her leg touch mine.

I dive down into the water, searching blindly for a drowning girl.

I feel her hair touch my fingertips, and I’m able to grab a hold of her by her waist, kicking as hard as I can to carry the both of us to the surface.

We breach the surface and I gasp for air.

“I have you, Darling… I got you my Little Raven. Just hang in there while I get us to shore,” I pant.

We barely reach the shore, my body trying to shut down from the cold. Once I check to see her still breathing, I run to my clothes and then back to her.

I wrap her body with my shirt and hoodie, covering as much of her black and blue skin as I can.

Reaching into my pants as I pull them on, grab for my phone, and shakily dial Spencer.

“What’s up, fucker. Get arrested like I told you not to?”

“H-help u-us… I g-got her… C-cold… W-wet. I’ll d-drop my pin,” I manage to say.

“10-4, bro. I’ll be there as soon as possible. You hang in there, don’t you dare fucking leave me like this! ”

I hang up the phone and throw it into the sand next to Dynah’s body. Sitting down on the ground, I pick up her body and wrap myself around her. I slide my mask back on in case she wakes up, but I still hold her tightly to me.

“I g-got you, L-little R-raven… I got y-you…”