All three of us threw ourselves onto the bed, all breathing heavily.

Seth had a small smile on his face and was looking straight at me, the look on his face made me blush suddenly aware of how disheveled my hair was.

As if reading my mind Seth lifted a hand and pulled a strand of my hair behind my ear.

"Your beautiful, I love knowing that I..," he paused looking over my head and chuckling, "..WE made you enjoy yourself so much that your sweating" he continued dropping his hand as though the movement drained him.

"Don't flatter me" I tried to sound like I could see through his so called flattery, but what he said struck a cord. No one had ever said that to me before.

My eyes suddenly felt heavy, Seth must have felt the same as I watched his eyes flutter shut. Before I drifted off I felt Owen move to my left as his arm wrapped around my torso and his head rested on my shoulder.

"He's right your beautiful" he mumbled sleepily, before we both drifted off to sleep.

*&*

The sound of a phone ringing filled my ears, I awoke to it and mumbled something about someone shutting it off.

"I got it" Owens groggy voice barely heard over the phone.

He turned to the bedside table and grabbed his phone, squinting at the contact. As if someone had poured cold water on him, he sobered, the sleepiness in his eyes fading away. He rushed out of bed, grabbed a pair of pants and headed out to the balcony to take the call.

I was suddenly too worried by his sudden shock....or stress, I wasn't sure, that I couldn't sleep.

"It's okay, probably work" Seth said kissing my cheek. Yet I still had a niggling feeling that something was amiss.

Before long Owen came back in, he had his pants on but was still shirtless. His trunks peeking out from his hastily put on pants, which had fallen slightly to reveal some sort of brand name.

He didn't seem to notice his half nakedness as he closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

"Everything okay?" I asked, my voice still husky from sleep.

"I have to go...SETH I'm leaving work came up" Owen stated, walking across the room to his bags.

Seth seemed worried and opened his mouth to say something before Owen shook his head. A silent sort of communication was spoken and Seth simply nodded.

"Can't it wait till morning" I asked, I was slightly disappointed this weekend wouldn't turn out like I hoped. He didn't answer, but I knew what that meant.

"We'll stay the rest of the weekend, don't worry Owen I won't wear Scarlett out too much" Seth joked, but it was more for my benefit than anything else. Something was really wrong.

It took Owen a half hour before he left, the whole while he was texting and making phone calls. Deep down I really hoped everything was alright.

Seth and I had gotten out of bed and we had fixed up a little snack, it was almost dinner time but apparently dinner wasn't served till a little while later so for now our appetites were sated with some cheese, crackers and grapes.

A silence fell as we ate, although it was more due to the fact that Seth was texting on his phone. Finally he looked up.

"We had snorkelling booked today, but it seems we missed our booking, don't worry your little show was well worth it" Seth winked.

I smiled softly, but it didn't really reach my eyes.

"We can go tomorrow" Seth finished,

"Looking forward to it" I answered honestly.

*&*

I woke up the next morning with a vague feeling of emptiness. I reached to my right and my hand hit empty space. Then I realised Owen had left, I opened an eye to see the bed was completely empty save for me.

"Seth?" My voice sounded through the room,

"Out here" he replied, I looked in the direction of the voice to see him on the balcony, shirtless and wearing a pair of grey sweatpants. But what surprised me the most was the cigarette hanging between his lips.

I got out of bed, the cold air sweeping through the room. My nightgown did little to hide the outline of my hard nipples.

I shuffled toward him,

"You smoke?" I asked,

"From time to time" he said, taking a large puff and letting the smoke out through his nose. He looked contemplative.

"Is everything ok? If something is off we can go back to the city, I really don't mind"

It took me several minutes before he replied, he simply finished off what was left of his cigarette, snuffed out the fire and flicked the stub off the balcony.

He turned to me, "my dads a piece of shit anyway" he mumbled absentmindedly as his large frame enveloped me in a hug. His warmth sleeping into me. He rested his chin onto my head and then buried his neck into my hair.

I was content to stay that way as long as he needed to be comforted. My mind wandered to what he meant about his dad, but I didn't dare ask questions.

After several minutes he let go of the embrace, and rubbed his hands together.

"We have an appointment we can't be late to" he said winking at me, I did my best to smile.

*&*

We had walked hand in hand down the the farther side of the island, toward a small port, a small jetboat was tied down to it and a middle aged man waited smiling at us.

I smiled back, I had worn a one piece swim suit, it was a white suit covered in green fern leaves, and I wore a simple white cover up over it for warmth.

"Hello, I assume you have booked the snorkelling session" the man said smiling, Seth and I nodded.

"Wasn't there a third person joining you?" The man continued,

Seth answered, "yes but he wasn't able to make it."

"Not an issue," replied the man rubbing his hands together, "my names Matthew and I'll be supervising you today, please follow me into the boat and I'll explain the basics"

Seth and I followed him into the boat, which he immediately turned on and started to drive out into the sea. He spoke while driving,

"I'm assuming you both know how to swim" Mathew asked, Seth and I nodded.

"Well in that case, you'll be given a diving mask and some flippers, we also have wetsuits on hand if needed....I've also brought the underwater diving equipment, if you two are willing to try it"

Seth looked to me for confirmation, I nodded eagerly, Seth simply laughed, "We'll do the diving in that case."

The supervisor stopped the boat and used a wheel on the side of the boat to drop an anchor.

After several minutes we were in our wetsuits and diving gear. To accomodate for our change of minds Matthew had another supervisor come out to help us. One would stay on the boat while the other would dive with us to ensure our safety

"When your ready just gently slide into the water and your good to go" Matthew said, the other instructor was already in the water.

I went in first, followed by Seth. The added weight of the oxygen tanks meant it didn't take much work to get to the bottom of the ocean.

I looked up to the surface and the light glittered, the ocean was the lightest blue and seemed magical from under.

There were corals of all colours littering the ocean floor, and fish swimming all around us. I waded gently through admiring it all, small mud crabs were walking along the sand, and a turtle not far off from where we were.

I looked to Seth and pointed at the turtle, he nodded and we made our way to it slowly.

It was a beautiful green, I reached out and lightly touched its shell as it swam underneath us. My heart was pounding from all the wonder that was the ocean, it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

Suddenly the instructor started thrashing and was attempting to hurriedly make his way to the surface of the water. Seth and I looked at each other in panic and attempted to follow him.

He kicked hard in his panic and hit my head. My head whipped back at the shock of the hit, I lost balance. A sharp pain went up my leg and I couldn't tell which way was up.

A pair of strong hands grabbed my waist and pulled me up to the surface, a bright light caused me to squint, my eyesight was blurry and I lost all sense of feeling.

I was pulled into the boat and the tank and mask were whipped off me.

"Fuck man what was that!!" Seth asked gruffly.

"My tank stopped working, I couldn't breathe my mask was filling with water" someone answered

"FUCK, FUCK, FUCK" I felt someone grab my leg, the pain causing me to hiss.

"Her legs bleeding, the cut looks deep, we need to get to shore NOW" Seth screamed, grabbing me to him and he began to reassure me.

The boat engine turned off, peaceful silence filled the air, the roaring engine was doing nothing for my headache.

I got the feeling of being picked up,

"Scarlett do not fall asleep" Seth's voice sounded distant, he has such a nice voice.

My eyes snapped closed, I could hear sounds drifting in and out as I regained consciousness.

I heard talking, suddenly my eyelids were forced open and a harsh white light was pointed directly into my left eye, then my right. I groaned and tried to move away.

"She seems fine, we've bandanged her leg but she lost a lot of blood and the wound on her thigh will heal but we're expecting a scar...in regards to her head injury we won't know if she received a concussion until we run some tests" the voice sounded old, filled with empathy...his voice was nice as well kind of sounded like a fatherly voice.

"Thanks doc" Seth replied, I heard a click of a door closing.

"Owen....I'm at the hospital.....Scarlett was hurt their running some tests but I think you should get here......okay see you soon"

The words Seth spoke were comforting I thought distractedly as I dozed off to sleep

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