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"Will we leave after?" My eyes frantically search his face "As soon as we jump into the water can we leave?"

Oz’s forehead wrinkles "You’re not scared of the rope, are you?"

I shakein lides his thumb across the bare skin of o when he was trying to co my arms and it’s a pleasurable sensation

You "Tell me what to do"

"Emily--"

"Tell me what to do!"

"Hold on tomy arms around his neck I’ve acco--but I’ve never done it with another person I could inforh to do this on my own, but I like how my body presses to his I like too ht

Oz nuzzles my hair and his warm breath tickles the skin behind my ear My knees weaken and I lean coround, wind blows through ravity My stomach performs sum high over the grass We repeat the loop, three tiher in the air

"On this one," Oz says "When we’re over the water--jureen as we race past, then there is sparkling blue

"Ju backward Letting s stretch The sun blinds me, the air war sound ofand a cry leaves my throat

My body convulses with the intake of water intoen My feet ih I need air Need air I break through the water and hs rack ht and with perfect form, Oz swims to me I wipe the water from my eyes as I choke Oz sweeps an arm around h repeatedly, the spaso for Oz’s neck, but he ducks and turns ers splay overandand Oz is talking Low Softly Words that I cling to like a life preserver about how everything is okay I suck in ood A few more breaths and I flinch with the throb onout of the water and a stream of blood flows like an oil slick

Oz shifts so that he’s facing me His eyes are wide Wild even "Shit How bad is it?"

I blink, several times "I don’t know"