My High School Royal Boyfriend: A Sweet YA Secret Identity Romance (Boyfriend Series (River Valley High) Book 5) by Kylie Key

Author:Kylie Key [Key, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kylie Key
Published: 2020-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Alexander

I slept in my parents’ bed that night. Yes, with them. Squeezed up on Mum’s side, pushing her into the middle next to Dad. There were a dozen other bedrooms Dad could have gone to, but he didn’t.

All three of us needed each other that night.

When I closed my eyes, all I could see was William’s dark hair floating like he had a spiky haircut, and Niall’s trembling hand.

The paramedics worked on William for some time. Thirty or forty minutes the report said, but it had flown by in the blink of an eye.

I remembered all of it,

but also none of it.

Mum and Dad had been at a dinner party at their friends’ house in the village. It had taken them less than twenty minutes to get home. They were supposed to fix everything. That’s what parents do.

When they arrived, William would miraculously breathe on his own again, his heart would beat willingly. Everything would be all right.

But for the first time in my life, I realized that my parents were only as human as the rest of us. A royal lineage couldn’t help us here, it didn’t grant us special abilities. My best friend’s lifeless body remained pale and still and my mother wept as if it were her own son.

The press were brutal. Mercilessly brutal.

The tabloid headlines read like clickbait:

Drowning on royal estate after night of binge drinking.

Body found in pool while party goers danced.

Boy drowns while viscount and friends party.

All of it was untrue.

William had been under water less than a minute.

We hadn’t been binge drinking. William had had one cider, Niall probably two. Simon and I were onto our second beer, Thomas and Jayden only one.

Thomas and Jayden had been swimming laps, both in their underwear. They’d stripped out of their clothes on that cool October night. It was the reason Simon, Niall and I hadn’t gone in—the water far too cold for us.

“You’re mad,” we’d laughed, as they’d raced each other in lengths, and then picking up the dive sticks that Niall was tossing in.

None of us took much notice when William dived in to retrieve the glow-in-the-dark sticks. He’d flung off his jacket and jumped in clothes and all. William was a strong swimmer, part of the school’s medley relay team—backstroke was his specialty. They tussled under the water for a while. Those of us on dry land weren’t really watching, we were talking about football. The conversation always came to football at some point, teams, the league, players, stats, our allegiances all different.

No one could remember who noticed William below the water. But seconds passed as we assumed he was faking it. Pretending to be drowning.

If you could steal back moments, turn back time...it was then. If someone, anyone, had noticed he was in difficulty, if we’d dragged him out of the pool only seconds earlier, we might have saved William.

If only...

If only...

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