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"We can’t" I shooka shaky hand over my face I needed fresh air, I felt too hot I couldn’t deal with all of this right now I looked back at him and whimpered at the sad and devastated expression that I saw on his face

He looked back out the windshield, a tear slid down his face slowly "I can’t see you make a life with someone else I can’t lose you, baby," he ,worth living for" His sad tone actually made my insides tremble; I could al to get you back after this, aulped as he turned his head to look at me His brown eyes that I loved so ned His sorrowful expression made me feel nauseous as the hair on the back ofwould ever be the sa He’d killed soht he was

He nodded, his hands tightening on the wheel "I can’t see you with someone else You’re mine, forever, just like ays said," he whispered "I love you, baby"

Before I could answer, or even think about what hebrake and shoved his foot down on the accelerator, narrowly avoiding a collision with a car that was in the process of pulling around us I gasped as the force of the take-off threw me back into the seat Suddenly the tyres squealed as he twisted the wheel quickly My eyes flicked up, shocked, only to see that ere now heading towards the e

"Luke! What the hell are you doing?" I screamed But my words were lost in the blast of noise as the car hit the es of htened eyes as the protective side of the bridge just cru up and hitting the windscreen hard enough to shatter it Sseelass se, heading for the dark, watery depths that I kneere below

Chapter 29

My stomach lurched up to my throat as we seemed suspended in the air for a second before ere plu down the thirty or so feet towards the river below The sounds of Luke still gunning the engine were all I could hear as the car tipped forward slightly so I could see the water as it rushed up towards me I couldn’t even scream It felt like I was paralysed as every o stiff with fear I watched in horror as the water got closer and closer, filling ht brown

The front of the car broke the surface first A loud crunch, a twisting ofroar of water filledto cut offas pain exploded everywhere at once, so uish where it hurt thethrown forward from the force of the crash He put his arms up to protect hi the waterwheel, and his body went limp almost instantly

That hen the brown, h the windshield so fast that ithigher and higher with each passing second It was so piercingly cold that it felt like I was being stabbed with a thousand tiny needles everywhere it touched For a couple of seconds I didn’t knohat to do I just sat there, watching as death flowed in a relentless streaht possible I was numb My brain just wouldn’t work; my mind was blank as the shock of what had happened took over Luke had just driven us both off of the bridge because he couldn’t bear the thought of being without hts turned to Luke I seemed to wake up out of the trance I’d so my head around I saw hiushed down on the top of his head, plastering his hair to his face I screa to unbuckle rabbed his shoulder, squeezing hard as the water reachedhim He didn’t answer; his head just rolled lifelessly on his neck as blood tricked down the side of his face, diluted by the constant strea, slower noe sunk deeper under the water Panic took over co Luke’s body towards me as the water started to rise up tohe was just unconscious instead of dead I fought desperately against et free The dark, murky water swirled around me, now up tothe release button over and over so I could get out and drag myself and Luke to safety

"Help us!" I screaet my seatbelt loose, I was trapped, and Luke was no help at all I shook hi to wake him up "Luke! Wake up, please wake up, please!"

The water rose higher, it see the car so quickly that it was aled now I twisted in ht fading as we sank lower and lower into the river that seeet out quickly!"

I had no idea what to do as h that I had to tilt ht back to keeplifelessly next to htless as his clothes billowed out around him I whimpered as the water went intoout Pretty soon the water would rise so far that it would go overet it off, but it was no use

A couple of drops of water trickled into ainst the restraining belt as hard as I could I screa as water flooded my mouth I whimpered and took one last deep breath just as the water rose over ed and trapped I straightenedas possible in case help ca the roof now, so I kneould be out of time too

Almost instantly the icy cold htless sensation The only thing keeping ned to savearound frantically for anything that could helpI needed to breathe My body seemed to react immediately and without my conscious per as water flowed in Sing, I claled with the cold river water I was going to die The water was everywhere, there was no escape This was it Seconds passed,other than the fact that I was surrounded by freezing cold and that the light was slowly fading around me where we continued to sink

Help us, please help us! I screamed the words over and over in ain I couldn’t hold it anys actually ached froen As I choked in another round of water I could literally feel it incrushed fro point

I squeezed my eyes shut My body had obviously takensoh, because as I panicked, I sucked it straight back in again The diht from the back of the car was life, it was air, it was holy close, but I could do nothing to get to it I stopped struggling; I stopped fighting and thrashing because I knew it then I was going to die I accepted it In a way I almost welcomed it because the cold water insideI’d felt before ine sensation This was it, this was how it ended At eighteen years old I hadn’t even really had a chance to live, yet it was over I was going to drown, and there was nothing I could do about it

A sense of foreboding settled overthat Luke’s lifeless body had floated away fro ertips brushed his shirt My body felt weak and heavy, but with one last herculean effort I pushed that extra inch against h to pull hi into view He looked so peaceful, so beautiful as he floated there, eyes closed, alo through this pain and fear Silently I wished that I’d hit s felt like they were on fire as I fought desperately against the urge to breathe in any more of the dirty water

His blood fro with the water, floating there for a split second, al like strands of fine red hair before they dispersed and htly into be alone as I became so disorientated that I wasn’t even sure which as up anymore All I could see was darkness and shadows As I sat there, holding his hand, waiting for it to be over, I thought of my parents, my brother, and ony joined that pain that ruled my whole body They would be devastated when they learnt of my death; my mom would be a wreck, I could practically see it And Alex, my stupid twin brother, I didn’t even knoould cope at all; if our roles were reversed I would feel like a piece of ainst the water that seemed to fill every available space in my body