As Melanie felt herself sinking deeper, her lungs crying for air, she felt a warm tingling sensation extend to her limbs. As adrenaline pumped through her body, her instincts kicked in, waking up her mobile body and she began kicking her way back to the surface. Spluttering and gasping in the ice-cold water, Melanie broke the surface used all her strength to keep afloat. She felt tears sting her eyes as the laughter of drunk people rang in her ears. Another Halloween and another opportunity for her to be the butt of cruel high schoolers jokes. She was feeling the effects of the alcohol she’d drunk and her movements weren’t as coordinated as they should have been as she swam to the edge of the lake.
Strong hands pulled her out of the water. She looked up to see Sean’s angry face and then
