Mabel's POV

10:00 pm ..

Submerged with water swirling around me , crushing me , I wanted to cry out for help but I couldn't bring enough air into my lungs.

I weakly tried to push myself out of the water with my arms and hands.

The next thing I knew, the water had closed over my head and I was being carried by the current. Time slowed; I willed myself not to breathe.

I seemed strangely detached from that part of me that was screaming silently in terror; as I went down, I saw, in the clear depths, the pebbly bottom of the river.

When my feet touched bottom...