Lone Warrior: Chapter 2-Drowning in disbelief: Continued

I resufaced...wait, did I say resurfaced? A cry arose from my throat and my mouth imeadiatley filled with with water. What was going on? I felt something brush against my leg and I let loose a high-pitched shriek. Very uncharacteristic. I saw a flash of orange, and then a pale hand shot out of the water. I thought back to all the mystery books I had read, all the hands with nothing attatched to them floating in the water. But I recognised that hand and it's thin, feminine, fingers. Against my better instincts, I grabbed the clammy hand and pulled.

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Megan was in the water, the freezing water clawed at her arms and legs like icy fingertips. Her lungs felt heavy and full, it became harder and harder to breath. at first, Megan paniced, not knowing what was going on. Then, it hit her and the truth was even worse than she had dreamed. She was having one of her asthma attacks.
mwegan felt light headed, she was now so cold that she scarcely noticed the change in temprature as her head slipped below the water. In a last desperate attempt to get help, she stuck her hand above the water, hoping that someone would rescue her. Her hand was only out of the water for a few seconds, but Megan felt someone grab her hand, felt herself being lifted from the water, then, she blacked out.

TO BE CONTINUED...