Learning To Swim by K J

Author:K J [J, K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

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Later that night, Andrea’s dream returned.

Andrea was floating in the waterhole. The ferns curled over the edge and the eucalyptus trees threw shadows across the water’s surface. Blue and grey granite boulders framed the boundary. It was beautiful. She could feel the warm water surrounding her naked body. Andrea looked down. Yes, ok. She was naked again. There wasn’t a bottom to this waterhole either. That was disconcerting.

“Andrea!” It was Lauren’s voice. Andrea jerked her head up, and swivelled her body around in the water, causing ripples to shimmer across the surface.

“Lauren! I’m here, in the water. Where are you? I can’t see you?” Andrea looked closer at the water’s edge, squinting through the shafts of light convinced that this time she would spot Lauren waiting for her.

“Andrea!” Lauren sounded closer.

Andrea spun around and then suddenly she wasn’t in a waterhole anymore, she was in the ocean and there was no edge.

Andrea panicked. “Help! Help!” She swallowed a mouthful of the salty water. The water was dark blue and loud. Why was it so loud? She looked up as clouds gathered, steel grey and purple, ready to release their watery load on Andrea’s head. She began to swim but the ocean wouldn’t let her. She couldn’t move. It held her in place, invisible strings in the water. The clouds opened and the waves and rain became one. The white tops of the waves crashed into her face, filling her mouth.

“Help!” The word pushed out of her throat. She coughed. “Help!” Limbs thrashed, waves pounded, her ears and eyes became deaf and blind in the rain.

Suddenly, “Let me help you.” Meredith’s voice, weirdly soft, light, angelic, floated down from above. Andrea, her eyes full of fear, looked up into the distorted face of her sister, who was looming over the edge of a lifeboat. Her hand, large and clawed, reached down towards Andrea. “I can rescue you.” The voice cooed.

Andrea spluttered through the water and the rain. The waves grew, multiplied, determined to make her choose - be saved or drown.

“I can save you.” Meredith’s voice was more insistent.

Andrea coughed, and shouted, her voice breaking. “No. No I don’t want you to save me. I need to get to Lauren. She was here. Lauren!” She began to cry, great convulsions of air shuddering through her body. “Lauren!” She tried to swim, a simple stroke, to get away, to get away, to get away.

“She’s gone, Andrea. I can save you. You need saving.” Meredith whispered, her voice following Andrea, no matter how much she swam.

“No, I don’t want you to save me. I don’t want you. I can swim.” Andrea was sobbing.

“You don’t know how to swim,” Meredith scoffed.

“Yes I do. I do know how to swim. I can swim. I can swim.”

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