Fears by Kaitlyn Garlets (free ebook novel txt) 📖

where she jumped in, Zeth following behind her.
She surfaced and a second later saw Zeth's head bob up. She laughed and swam to him and he grabbed her around the waist.
"It feels so great out here," Mia said, leaning her head against his wet bare chest.
"Yeah, I agree. I come out here every morning to swim. What do you think of it?" Zeth asked. Mia lifted her head up and looked around, seeing Kyle sitting on the shore, smiling at them.
She waved at him and he waved back, finally joining them in the water.
"I love it. So, what was it that you wanted to show me?" Mia asked, smiling at him.
He smiled back. "I'll show you. You see that rock over there near the side of the shore?" Zeth asked, pointing. Mia nodded, looking. "We need to swim over there."
They swam over there and Zeth stood in the water and started climbing on the large rock. When he was on top of the rock, he turned back to Mia and held his hand out for her to take and she did, Zeth helping her up to the top of the rock.
Once she was on the top of the rock, she noticed that there was a giant gap in the rock, hiding something she couldn't see very well. Zeth leaned down and put his hand in the gap and pulled out a oxygen tank and a mask and two flippers and handed them to Mia, who sat them down on the rock. He handed her an identical pair of the same thing he had handed her and smiled.
"What is all this for?" Mia asked, confused.
"I'm going to show you something, but you need to put these things on before we can go down there."
Mia looked at him with fright. She didn't know how to use any of these things. "What?"
"Here. Let me help." Zeth turned her around and put the two straps over her shoulders and she almost fell over with the weight of the oxygen tank. "Put these on." He handed her the flippers and she put them on her feet and tried to stand, but she again almost fell over.
Zeth laughed and helped her up and handed her the mask and told her how to put it on without sucking her face off.
Once Zeth was suited up like her, he jumped back into the water and waited for Mia to do the same thing. She jumped and splashed Zeth in the face.
She grabbed his hand and he lowered his head underwater. She followed, making sure she didn't do anything else.
Zeth held her hand and led her out into the lake and it got colder the farther they went.
After some time of just swimming, Zeth stopped and headed down to the bottom of the lake, which took another long time. But as soon as the murky water cleared, Mia gasped through her mouth piece and saw a shape that looked like a building. Zeth turned around to look at her and she saw him smile at her through his mask. He nodded when she pointed to the shape. It was a building.
He grabbed her hand again and they swam some more until she saw that there was an intire city under the lake.
They looked around some more, but Mia was getting tired and she pointed to the surface and Zeth nodded. They swam until they surfaced and saw Kyle laying on the sand, letting the sun dry them off.
She took her mouth piece out of her mouth and waved at Kyle, who sat up when he saw her. He smiled waved back.
"So, what did you think?" Zeth asked, still holding her hand.
She smiled at him. "It was the most extrordinary thing I have ever seen. Was it a whole town under there?" Mia asked.
"Yeah. Before the lake was here there was. Pretty cool huh?" Zeth asked.
She nodded. "What was the town called?"
"I don't know. We should head in. Its starting to cloud up and when it does that, the lake starts to get rough and I wouldn't want to get lost out here. I don't think a human could withstand the kind of weather that is coming."
They headed back to the rock and jumped back into the water to swim back to Kyle, who was already had a suntan.
"Hey," Kyle said as they walked onto the shore. "How was it?"
"Cool," Mia said, smiling. She grabbed Zeth's hand and he looked up at the sky.
"We should head in. Looks like a storm is coming in. And its coming fast!" Zeth said just as rain began to fall.
They grabbed their things and ran for the gate that seperated the lake shore from the street and the rain hit them hard, soaking them to the bone.
Mia was shivering when they made it to the gate and tried to yank to gate open, but it wouldn't open.
"It won't open!" Mia yelled over the hard rain.
Zeth nodded. "I know where we can go so that the rain won't get us! We'll have to go to my place to wait out the storm!"
Kyle and Mia nodded and jogged with Zeth to a shack that looked condemmed. Zeth yanked the door open as fast as he could and by the time they were inside, they were soaked through and through.
"This is where you live? On the lake shore?" Mia asked, looking around.
"Yeah. I was tired of living with my parents. They treated my like shit, so I moved out in the middle of the night and never looked back. They probably don't even notice that I'm gone."
"Nice place," Kyle said, setting his stuff down on the floor by the door.
"We might have to wait out the storm. I heard thunder and saw a couple of lightening bolts a few minutes ago. Its not safe to go out during a storm like this."
Mia sighed. "How long will it take?"
Zeth shrugged. "I don't know. It might be a few minutes or it might be a few days or even a week. Once I was stuck in here for almost a whole two weeks with hardly any food."
Mia sat her stuff down and suddenly needed to pee. "Do you have anywhere to go to the bathroom?"
Zeth pointed to a door in the far right and she took her things and opened the door, closing it behind her.
While she was getting dressed, Zeth and Kyle talked.
"So, Kyle, how are you doing since that one thing happened?" Zeth asked, sitting on his bed.
Kyle shrugged. "I don't know. I'm really worried about Mia. I wish she would talk to me, but we haven't talked since it happened and I'm afraid something is going on with her. I'm glad she has someone to lean on, you know?"
Zeth nodded. "Yeah."
"She likes you, you know," Kyle said, looking around his room.
"I know. I like her to, but I haven't had a girl I really liked as much as her to talk to, so I'm not really one to know what to say to her, you know?" Zeth said.
"Yeah, I do know. You should tell her how you feel. Being around you makes her feel so much at ease. I think she feels safe around you. With her ex-boyfriend, she was always on edge, caring about everything he said to her, but with you, she doesn't have to worry about that."
"Really? She had an ex-boyfriend? I didn't know that."
"She doesn't like to talk about him often. He was a jerk to her and she kept going back to him because he was all she had then. But now she has you and she doesn't even know it."
"What do you mean?" Zeth asked, sitting up on his bed.
"Well, I think that she sort of knows you like her, but she doesn't want to think you do, though. But you might want to ask her yourself," Kyle said, sitting on the other side of his bed.
"I want her to know that I have never felt this way about anyone before. She makes me feel happy. I've never felt that way before about anyone. Well, I've never felt anyway towards someone before," Zeth said in a whisper.
Kyle looked at him and knew he was telling the truth.
Mia walked into the room and saw Kyle and Zeth sitting on his bed in silence.
"Is the storm over?" Mia asked, looking out the single window.
"Nope. I think this one is going to be a long one," Zeth said.
Mia sat her wet suit next to her now empty bag and sat next to Zeth and grabbed his hand. She smiled at him and Zeth smiled back, squeezing her hand.
Suddenly, Kyle's phone rang.
"Hello?" He asked. "We're at Zeth's place. No, we're fine. We don't know when the storm is going to end, and Zeth said that it might take a while so we're going to be here until it stops. Where are you?" He stopped talking for a minute and then gasped and looked at Mia and Zeth who were listening to Kyle. "Lucas is there? What is he doing there?"
Mia sat up when Kyle mentioned Lucas' name. Kyle looked at Mia after he hang the phone up.
"Was that dad?" Mia asked.
"Yeah, Lucas is there looking for you. Dad said he's acting all weird and throwing things around the house without touching them. Do you think its him?" Kyle asked, wide-eyed.
Mia nodded, looking at Zeth, who was thinking.
"It has to be him. But why would Lucas want me?" Mia asked, standing. She walked over to the window and saw that the storm was still going on strong.
"Mia, we cannot leave here until the storm is over. I know you want to go see him, but we can't leave unless you want struck by lightening," Zeth said.
"I can leave, though," Kyle said, grabbing his things.
"What?" Mia and Zeth both said at the same time.
"No, you cannot leave!" Zeth said, grabbing Kyle's wrist as he put his hand on the door handle. "You'll be badly hurt."
"I don't care. Lucas might need my help, and he is our friend, and I want to help, so I am going. Its not that far from our house, so I should be fine."
Kyle didn't wait for Zeth or Mia to say anything else, and he was out the door before they could do anything to stop him.
Mia screamed and ran to the window, but couldn't see anything but rain and wind.
She felt tears rolling down her face and Zeth cradled her in his arms.
"He'll be okay, Mia. I know it."
"How do you know it?" Mia asked, looking into Zeth's eyes. She saw his truthiness and stopped crying and Zeth held her some more.
After a while of silence minus the rain and wind, Mia and Zeth laid down on his bed and fell asleep, holding each other.


The next morning


Mia awoke to the sound of birds outside and she stretched and looked at Zeth, who stirred in his sleep.
She smiled and pulled a lock of hair out of his eyes and he opened his eyes and smiled at her.
"Hey," she said.
He sat up and looked around. "I think we were spooning."
Mia blushed and noticed that they had been. "I can see that."
They laughed for a minute or so and then Mia's smile faded as she remembered what had happened yesterday.
"Where's Kyle?" Mia asked, jumping off the bed. Zeth didn't move.
"He called early this morning saying he