Long-Lost Relations
Is breathing under-water normal? I didn't think so
“Mum, I’m just going to go have a shower!” I shout out to mum from the top of the stairs.
“Okay, when was the last time you washed you hair?” she yells back
“Yesterday!” I say, chuckling. My mum really needs to get her eye-sight checked.
“Alright, but don’t use up all the hot water!”
I quickly walk back to my bedroom and grab my PJ’s and towel.
I hop in the shower and immediately feel better.
The shower is one of the few places I can truly think. It just, calms me, makes it easier to see the answers for everything, a place for me to think about everything, that science thing I need to do which I just can’t seem to be able to start, the portfolio for Technology which I need to have nearly finished in two weeks, I just forget all the stress and have time to think.
After quickly washing I hop out of the shower and dry off, dressing in my pajamas. I stare at my reflection in the mirror. I can barely even see the blue around my eyes, it has a very weird color-changing routine that I just can’t seem to keep track of. I tuck my dirty-blonde side-fringe behind my ear and shut my eyes for a second. I hate my eyesight, double vision whenever I’m not paying attention for a second, and then it takes me a few more seconds to go back into focus. It’s so much easier wearing my glasses.
I turn off the light and open the bathroom door, walking over to my bedroom.
I shut the door behind me and quickly place my dirty-clothes in the basket before walking over to my desk, where my computer is sitting, and grab my glasses.
A few emails and… an invite to my friend’s birthday party, sweet! I quickly hit the print button and race downstairs in time to see the invite coming out of the printer.
“Hey, mum, Olivia invited me to her birthday party, it’s a pool party!” I say, racing over to where my mother is sitting at her desk and shoving the party invite in front of her face.
“Oh, I’m pretty sure you can make it sweetie, we don’t really have much planned that weekend” she says, moving her head to the side to see past the slip of paper I’m holding up in front of her. I pull it back quickly and do a bit of a happy dance on the spot. Yes! She invited me!
I quickly scan the invite for the location and grin to myself; it’s at ‘Wicked Water World’.
“Come on Astrid, just one time more on this one?” Olivia pleads, holding her hand out to me as the other girl’s race ahead.
“Fine” I say as she grabs my arm and practically drags me up the staircase.
We arrive at the top all-too-soon and the other girls glance behind to see me and grin at me. I smile back politely and not a few seconds later the lady is giving us the rubber-tubes for the slide.
I sit on mine and the lady pushes me off and into the darkness of the slide. I hear a scream and see Olivia in the last smidge of light left, barreling straight towards me. I yell out and she crashes into me, sending me flying ahead with her still right on my tail.
“I’m sorry!” she yells as I drop off a steep part of the slide. We are both screaming now, and all too soon I see the end of the slide.
I drop off the end and Olivia does as well, right above me. I suck in a small lung-full of oxygen and then I am pushed under the water.
I lose the small amount of air I had stored almost immediately and I am gasping for breath… until I’m not.
I open my eyes and look around, I’m still under the water, still being pushed down by Olivia and her tube, but I’m breathing. That’s right, breathing whilst under water. I take in another strained lung-full of oxygen and then swim downwards a bit and to the side, away from Olivia.
I kick off the bottom of the moderately-shallow pool and come up from under the water to see Olivia staring at me, along with all the other girls that were waiting for us at the end of the slide.
“Omigosh!” Olivia exclaims “Are you alright!”
I realize that I was underwater for a good while longer than should have been humanly possible with the small amount of air I had, and pretend to start coughing. Olivia jumps off her tube and grabs my arm, dragging me to the edge of the pool.
I purposefully take in a mouthful of water and then, as the other girls drag me up onto the concrete, I pretend to cough up the water. One of the girls whacks me on the back and I choke on the water in my mouth, no longer faking the coughing.
After a few seconds I stop and the girls are staring at me again. I stand up and mumble something about needing a glass of water before sprinting off to the lockers we placed our stuff in. I hastily unlock my locker, grab my stuff, and run into the bathrooms.
I get changed and then sprint out the exit. I immediately spot a bus that will take me home and run over, pay the fare, and collapse into the closest seat.
Hey, hey, hey! This is my first ever Percy-Jackson fanfic so please feel free to hate, love and don’t really care about this story, but please review if any of the above apply to you!
I’m sort of basing this character off something I’ve always wanted to be able to do: have ‘magical water powers!!!’
I know, cheesy right? Well it’s true, I’ve always said that if I ever had a super-power I would want it to be under-water breathing, so there you have it folks, my reasoning behind this story, which happened to come to me in the shower… I’m more like this character than I thought.
Anyway, enough rambling from me!
Thanks for reading ;)
“Okay, when was the last time you washed you hair?” she yells back
“Yesterday!” I say, chuckling. My mum really needs to get her eye-sight checked.
“Alright, but don’t use up all the hot water!”
I quickly walk back to my bedroom and grab my PJ’s and towel.
I hop in the shower and immediately feel better.
The shower is one of the few places I can truly think. It just, calms me, makes it easier to see the answers for everything, a place for me to think about everything, that science thing I need to do which I just can’t seem to be able to start, the portfolio for Technology which I need to have nearly finished in two weeks, I just forget all the stress and have time to think.
After quickly washing I hop out of the shower and dry off, dressing in my pajamas. I stare at my reflection in the mirror. I can barely even see the blue around my eyes, it has a very weird color-changing routine that I just can’t seem to keep track of. I tuck my dirty-blonde side-fringe behind my ear and shut my eyes for a second. I hate my eyesight, double vision whenever I’m not paying attention for a second, and then it takes me a few more seconds to go back into focus. It’s so much easier wearing my glasses.
I turn off the light and open the bathroom door, walking over to my bedroom.
I shut the door behind me and quickly place my dirty-clothes in the basket before walking over to my desk, where my computer is sitting, and grab my glasses.
A few emails and… an invite to my friend’s birthday party, sweet! I quickly hit the print button and race downstairs in time to see the invite coming out of the printer.
“Hey, mum, Olivia invited me to her birthday party, it’s a pool party!” I say, racing over to where my mother is sitting at her desk and shoving the party invite in front of her face.
“Oh, I’m pretty sure you can make it sweetie, we don’t really have much planned that weekend” she says, moving her head to the side to see past the slip of paper I’m holding up in front of her. I pull it back quickly and do a bit of a happy dance on the spot. Yes! She invited me!
I quickly scan the invite for the location and grin to myself; it’s at ‘Wicked Water World’.
“Come on Astrid, just one time more on this one?” Olivia pleads, holding her hand out to me as the other girl’s race ahead.
“Fine” I say as she grabs my arm and practically drags me up the staircase.
We arrive at the top all-too-soon and the other girls glance behind to see me and grin at me. I smile back politely and not a few seconds later the lady is giving us the rubber-tubes for the slide.
I sit on mine and the lady pushes me off and into the darkness of the slide. I hear a scream and see Olivia in the last smidge of light left, barreling straight towards me. I yell out and she crashes into me, sending me flying ahead with her still right on my tail.
“I’m sorry!” she yells as I drop off a steep part of the slide. We are both screaming now, and all too soon I see the end of the slide.
I drop off the end and Olivia does as well, right above me. I suck in a small lung-full of oxygen and then I am pushed under the water.
I lose the small amount of air I had stored almost immediately and I am gasping for breath… until I’m not.
I open my eyes and look around, I’m still under the water, still being pushed down by Olivia and her tube, but I’m breathing. That’s right, breathing whilst under water. I take in another strained lung-full of oxygen and then swim downwards a bit and to the side, away from Olivia.
I kick off the bottom of the moderately-shallow pool and come up from under the water to see Olivia staring at me, along with all the other girls that were waiting for us at the end of the slide.
“Omigosh!” Olivia exclaims “Are you alright!”
I realize that I was underwater for a good while longer than should have been humanly possible with the small amount of air I had, and pretend to start coughing. Olivia jumps off her tube and grabs my arm, dragging me to the edge of the pool.
I purposefully take in a mouthful of water and then, as the other girls drag me up onto the concrete, I pretend to cough up the water. One of the girls whacks me on the back and I choke on the water in my mouth, no longer faking the coughing.
After a few seconds I stop and the girls are staring at me again. I stand up and mumble something about needing a glass of water before sprinting off to the lockers we placed our stuff in. I hastily unlock my locker, grab my stuff, and run into the bathrooms.
I get changed and then sprint out the exit. I immediately spot a bus that will take me home and run over, pay the fare, and collapse into the closest seat.
Hey, hey, hey! This is my first ever Percy-Jackson fanfic so please feel free to hate, love and don’t really care about this story, but please review if any of the above apply to you!
I’m sort of basing this character off something I’ve always wanted to be able to do: have ‘magical water powers!!!’
I know, cheesy right? Well it’s true, I’ve always said that if I ever had a super-power I would want it to be under-water breathing, so there you have it folks, my reasoning behind this story, which happened to come to me in the shower… I’m more like this character than I thought.
Anyway, enough rambling from me!
Thanks for reading ;)
11/1/13