Notice Me

Chapter 30: Rescue

Tristan's POV

Landing in the water, my body immediately popped to the surface thanks to my life vest. However the raging rapids immediately pushed my entire body forward. I'm a damn wolf and the pressure of the water is almost unbearable for me, I can only imagine what it's like for a human who only knows the basics of swimming! Just that thought alone gave me the drive to fight my hardest to try and find my mate. I'm praying that Max and Sam had some sense to grab onto the two girls, but knowing them, probably not.

My muscles were beginning to tire and ache as I fought against the vicious current, which seems to be my worst enemy right now. Luke was doing the same exact thing I was except he's further away than I am...having been thrown past me when the raft flipped then being carried away by the current. That's probably why Luke and I make such great best friends. We were never really good at following directions given by others.

We always stick by each other's side whenever tough times arise, not caring what the consequences may be. It seems like we're doing all this fighting just to stay in one spot! I haven't moved an inch and I know this because I've been staring at the same damn wild jack rabbit chewing on grass for the past couple minutes...and trust me, he hasn't even twitched.

I watched the back of our guide's head disappear as he swam along with the current which would eventually take him back to the docks, damn coward. So much for him, what a wonderful damn guide he is. Guess he figured every man for himself since there's no more raft. Thankfully, this is a man made river that the rough waters rushed into. The way they have it set up is that it's just one huge circle.

The thing that has me worried was if one isn't a good enough swimmer, the turbulent waves could swallow you whole, vest or no vest. You'd just be drifting along with the waves crashing over your head causing you to slowly drown a painful death as you tried to gasp for air while your lungs filled with water. I watched as Max and Sam both popped up to the surface and flow right by me, following the guide's specific instructions of swimming with the current and not against it.

If it weren't that this is such a serious matter, I'd laugh right about now. They looked like they were making it into a race of who could swim back the fastest. As they passed me, they saw the look of panic in my eyes when realizing neither of them had the girls and neither of the girls have yet to come up for air. Noticing this was a dire situation they too began taking long strokes to try and swim back to the area where we all initially landed.

"No." I called out. "You two get back to the cabin and get help." I ordered, there's no reason all four of us needed to be here. Crap! 'What if the girls hit their heads on something when we were tossed out the raft?' No Tristan, stop thinking like that, the voice nagged in my head.

Unbuckling my vest, I quickly tore it off and swam to the side where the woods are. Maybe I'd be able to hoist myself up. I've never felt so helpless in my entire life before, never known what not to do. If I couldn't swim back to where the raft flipped, I'd at least be able to get out the water and run back towards that area and dive back in...right under the drop.
This whole area was a death trap waiting to happen with jagged rocks and pointy boulders all over! Didn't they consider the fact that if a raft were to hit one of these rocks, it'd tear a hole in it? My heart was pounding against my chest as I shouted, "Luke, swim over to the edge we're going to have to run back. It's impossible to swim."

"Got you." Luke agreed sounding totally winded. "Why haven't they come up yet? Something's got to be wrong." His voice filled with panic as he reached the edge and hoisted himself up immediately tearing off his vest.

'I was thinking the same thing my friend', but of course I didn't agree with him out loud. We were both standing on the grass at the edge of the woods that ran along the river trying to catch our breath. Hauling ass back to where the raft first went over the drop, we searched the area frantically finally catching sight of our raft, which was flipped upside down on the opposite end of where we were standing.