Suggested by Ppirock404 💕
drown
/droun/
verb
die through submersion in and inhalation of water.

Zak POV

This is officially the best day ever.

This is me and Darryl's second date, and it's awesome. The first date was kind of awkward but we got comfortable with each other.

We decided to go to the beach for our date, and it's been perfect. We got something to eat and Darryl helped me build a sand castle. It was so cool.

It was huge.

Well not really, but I might have been able to squeeze inside. I wanted to but Darryl didn't want me to get sand all over me. Now we just got in the water and I'm having a blast.

I splashed water on Darryl causing him to yell in surprise, "Hey don't do that you muffin!"

I laughed then I felt water splash my face, "Oh it's on!"

That's how our water war started.

Darryl POV

Zak splashed water in my eyes and I heard him laughing.

The water stung my eyes, I'm going to get him back for this.

As I was rubbing my eyes, I felt him tap my arm and yell, "Tag you're it!"

He's such a muffin.

My vision was still blurry so I blinked a couple of times. When my vision cleared, I looked around, but Zak was gone.

I searched the water but he was no where to be seen.

Panic welled up inside me.

Where'd he go?

Then I heard it.

Screaming.

It was Zak.

I looked around frantically, looking for him, then I spotted him. He was really far away from me, his head barely sticking out of the water.

"Oh my goodness, Zak!" I yelled.

I began to swim towards him.

A wave came out of nowhere, pushing Zak under the water.

Nonononono

Not now.

It's only our second date.

I began to swim faster.

I waited for Zak's head to pop back up from the water, but he never came back up.

I reached where I last saw him. I dove under the water, with my eyes open. They stung as water got into my eyes. I needed to find Zak.

I spotted him a couple feet under me. I swam down farther and reached my hand out. He was too far, I need to go deeper.

My lungs began to burn at the lack of oxygen, I had the urge to go back up for air, but I knew I couldn't.

He was sinking too fast.

I wouldn't be able to stay under the water much longer.

With all my strength I kicked my feet has hard as I could and reached out my hand one last time.

I grabbed at nothing.

One more time.

I reached out my hand and managed to grab his hand.

Yes.

I grabbed him by both his arms and swam up as quickly as I could. I reached the surface and pulled him up.

"Someone call an ambulance!" I yelled as loud as I could.

People heard me and began to pull out their phones. I pulled Zak to the shore as put my hand on his neck.

No pulse.

His wrist.

Nothing.

I put my hand on his chest, there was nothing.

I felt tears well up in my eyes.

Then I felt a very faint, almost unnoticeable heartbeat.

He was alive.

For now.

I strained my mind to remember how to do CPR. I learned about it in school once.

'Press down on the persons chest 30 times with a rate of 100 presses per minute. Check their heartbeat every 2 minutes.'

That's what his teacher had said.

He put his hands on Zak's chest. He started pressing down on his chest.

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I began to press harder on his chest.

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Suddenly Zak shot up, coughing and sputtering.

Oh my goodness, he's alive.

Zak breathed deeply as I wrapped my arms around him, "Thank goodness, I was so worried."

Zak gave me a weak smile, still too out of breath to speak.

I heard the sound of sirens in the distance.

He's okay.

Oof this was a long one... not rlly long but longer than usual 🎉