I felt the cold of the water hit me like daggers. If the impact or the rocks didn't kill me, then hypothermia will do just the thing. My body froze and I couldn't move, at all. My body fell to the bottom of the river. I don't know how the rapids hadn't dragged my body away instead of falling to the bottom. As I was on the bottom, I saw Daniel, paralyzed, about ten feet away from me. I don't know if it was the cold getting to me, but images of when I was 7 years old, 9 years old, 12 years old, and then my current age appeared.
I saw an image of the first time I met Daniel when we were 8. That was 6 years ago. Then I saw an image of... something that hadn't happened yet, or rather at this moment. My house was burning down... and I saw my mom's body lying on the kitchen floor... lifeless... I guess that was the smoke I smelt back at the house. Is this what happened to Daniel's parents? The fire that no knew how it was caused, killed his parents? Was it happening to me, too? Was that...monster what caused both of our parents to die...?
I started to cry but I was under water so it was hard to tell. I looked over to where Daniel was and he was gone. Then I felt myself being pulled into the current of the rapids. My body was pulled by the current and onto a shore. But because of the cold, I couldn't move, not even my neck, yet I cried because of the images. And then Daniel appeared into my view. I saw him sitting down in front of me, shivering and crying. I guess he saw some images, too.
I wouldn't be able to imagine how the cold didn't get to him like it did to me or what was it that he saw at the bottom of the river. I fell asleep minutes later after I cried myself to an oddly comforting sleep.
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Curse of the Capricorn
Mystery / ThrillerTwo relatives. Well, cousins. One has secret. The other was stupid enough to get involved with what was going on with his cousin.
