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It read that the tank was half e at it? Zane held out both hands, palms up, and lifted them in a "what"s up?" motion
Ty shook his head and pointed to his mouthpiece He then e again He wanted Zane to turn off the air? That couldn"t be right Zane shook his head, shrugged, and peered at Ty, waiting for hi his eyes behind thesurprise, he pulled the ed out of the tank, leaving hiarbled "what the hell" through his rabbed at Ty"s arm as he looked around for one of the yellow suits If Ty was jerking him around, Zane didn"t want the instructor to see it But another look told Zane that Ty wasn"t having fun anymore
Ty pointed at Zane, then hier upward Ty wanted them both to surface Ty waved at the air tank and swiped his fingers across his throat again, Zane glanced down at the discarded tank, and it clicked Despite what the gauge said, the tank was out of air… just as Ty had been for soht Ty"s arm and tapped his own mouthpiece and then Ty"s chest Zane just had to pull the strap off his equipment, and they could share the mouthpiece and the air
It had worked in that James Bondor panicking Much like his reaction to dangling over the rock wall platfor his breath for a while, and if the air tank hadn"t been full, there was no telling how ot the mouthpiece free, Ty took it and hastily put it to his own
He reached for the discarded tank and slung it back over his shoulders, hishis watch with several slow, exaggerated taps Zane nodded as he resettled hisup toward the light They had a long way to go
But Ty wrapped an ar his head His eyes were almost an aqua color behind theto play tricks with the light He looked Zane in the eye worriedly as he stopped their progress, and they hung in the water together in the silence, an oddly peacefulto tell hi it, and that worried hiet to the surface quickly
Then Ty shook his head and tapped his watch again, each tap slower and ain
Zane frowned and shook his head as he clenched his fist in the water
He knew getting frustrated wouldn"t help, but he hated not being able to understand
Ty see, and he patted Zane"s hand with one hand as he reached with the other to Zane"s belt and loosened one of the weights, letting it fall away They began to float upward lazily Ty took hold of theZane a moment to take one last deep breath before he pulled it out of Zane"sit to his own, he held it out to the side and leaned in to kiss Zane as passionately as the dive th in it surprised Zane, and he clutched at Ty, trying not to let the kiss distract him from their problem Not the best of ideas when they didn"t knohat had happened to Ty"s tank
They didn"t knohat had happened to Ty"s guide rope on the cli wall, either
Zane pulled back, eyes wide as he looked at Ty, then up to the surface and back There could very well be danger up there
Ty was shaking his head, as if telling Zane not to think about it
He took a deep breath from the mouthpiece and then popped it back into Zane"seach other close and being pushed around one another by the current in a leisurely dance that would have been wildly romantic and fun in any other scenario Schools of tiny, colorful fish darted around them playfully
Bubbles chased theo slowly, and Zane slowly calmed Ty would have been er So he shifted his arently ascended
They were e how ; Ty never would have made it to the surface if he"d been down there without help, especially not if Ty believed he had to ascend this slowly
When Ty took the ed his nose against Zane"s and kissed hience that could al to drown them
When Ty broke it off, he looked up and took one more deep breath from the mouthpiece, and then he placed it carefully back in Zane"s hts They rose faster, picking up speed as Ty began to kick toward the surface
When their heads broke the surface of the water, it was loud, the splash of the water against theasped deep for air and yanked his mask off He appeared just as relieved as Zane felt as he blinked away the water that streamed into his eyes Zane jerked his mouthpiece out and looked around They were about thirty yards fro at them He turned to Ty and reached to take the e hands "You can"t swim and hold onto it too," he said in a harsh voice Instead he reached out and yanked Zane"swater with difficulty as the waves lapped at them Ty didn"t say another word He just pulled Zane closer and kissed him a third time as they bobbed in each other"s arasped for breath through the kiss, not letting go
When Ty finally pulled back, he lifted his chin out of the water and looked at Zane seriously over the gentle roll of the waves "That"s for the air," he gasped out, still slightly out of breath
"What the hell happened?" Zane asked
"I felt funny Giddy Not supposed to feel like that underwater