HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT WAS HAPPENING.TRACI STRUGGLED TO KEEP HER HEAD

          ABOVE WATER,BUT SHE REALIZED HOW FUTILE AND EFFORT THAT SEENED.SHE
         
         
          SPOTTED THE BOY’S FLAILING ARMS AND DOVE UNDER.SHE KICKED HARD,FIGHTING
         
          THE ANGRY CURRENT.SHE WAS PRETTY CERTIAN SHE TOUCHED HIS LEGS.SHE
         
          WAS ALMOST SURE.BUT THE WAVES BROKE OVERHEAD AND SHE TUMBLED ABOUT.
         
          SHE WRAPPED HER SHUDDERING ARMS AROUND HER COLD BODY AND SCREAMED
         
          AS LOUD AS SHE COULD.SHE WAS TOTALLY DISORIENTED AND SHE THREW HER
         
          HEAD BACK AND SCREAMED LOUDER.THEN TRACI FOUND HERSELF FACING SHORE.
         
          MANY FIGURES HAD GATHERED AT THE WATER’S EDGE,THE SHARP RAIN PROBABLY
         
          STINGING THEIR FACES ~S IT WAS STINGING TRACI’S.TRACI INHALED A LUNGFUL
         
          OF AIR AND SEAWATER,AND SCREAMED ONCE AGAIN.TEARS RAN DOWN HER CHEEKS
         
          AND SHE CHOKED APON THEM.SHE SAW A FIGURE ON SHORE JUMP UP AND DOWN,
         
          AND SHE THREW BACK HER HEAD AND SCREAMED.
         
            WHY,WHY,OH DEAR,DEAR,LORD? SHE WONDERED. I WAS TRYING TO SAVE SOMEONE.
         
          THIS WAS ALL IN VAIN. TRACI THOUGHT BITTERLY.
         
          WELL,POP,LOOKS LIKE I’LL BE WITH YOU IN A LITTLE NICK OF TIME.TRACI
         
          WAS ABOUT TO GIVE UP HOPE WHEN THERE WAS A LUNGE FOR HER.SHE JERKED
         
          AROUND AND SAW EDDIE FIGHTING HIS WAY TOWARD HER.
         
            EDDIE? OH COME,ON! THE BOY IS SIXTEEN,AND I COULD OUTSWIM HIM ANYDAY!

          BUT,YES IT WAS EDDIE’S ARMS THAT WENT AROUND HER WAIST AND WHISPERED

          FOR r12s~ TO RELAX.TRACI BURIED HER HEAD IN HIS SHOULDER AND WRAPPED
         

         





         
         HER ARMS AROUND HIS NECK.EDDIE CLUMSILY SWAM BACK TO THE SHELTER.HALFWAY

          THERE,A CHAIN HAD FORMED AND DRAKE SEIZED BOTH OF THEM.ONCE ON SHORE