Hush Water
Part I
“They say… that when you’re drowning, it feels like you’re choking on fire”. Marci said in a parched voice, before taking one more puff from the cigarette between her ashed fingers. She liked to hold it in for a couple of seconds to savor the taste, then let it all out in one big sigh. It calmed her. “Speaking from experience, that statement doesn’t even begin to sum that shit it up”. Marci coughed into her sleeve, then carelessly flicked away the remaining bud. Marci was an attractive woman, with short curly black hair at the top of her head, which faded away seamlessly down the sides. She had deep brown eyes that stared off into the distance. She wore black gauges, and a leather jacket; and reminded Anton, of someone in an Italian gangster movie. Anton, a relatively normal, clean shaven, six-foot male with green eyes and blonde hair, shuffled through his mind for a response. “At least you’re not dead though, right?” He said with a half-hearted shrug and a dumb smirk on his face. That was his way of comforting her. He never really was the best person to talk to. But Marci thought he was kind, so she didn’t mind his company. She just happened to bump into the guy a couple of weeks ago. She asked him for a smoke, they exchanged a few cordial words, started hanging by the lake, and the rest is history.
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