Bored... and oh yeah, I'm Drowning! {open}

The cramps had become too much. He tried to stay above the surface of the water while yelling for help, but he sunk like a rock. With his last conscious moments he looked to the rippling surface of the water from underneath and asked himself: Is this the way I die? Then, a few seconds later, he lost consciousness.

[Flashback]

Dirk was bored. The type of bored that allows people to do stupid things in very idiotic ways, so as a result by the time he had noticed that he had entered the forest he was prepared to go to the beach, even though it wasn't an extremely warm day. He had packed large amounts of food, some carbonated drinks, and a beach towel among other things. 

As he had reached the beach he had felt the soft white sand on the bottoms of his coarse feet, if dirk had to be Quite honest, it was pretty nice, feeling the grains find their way over his feet and through the space in between his toes. The beach was quite serene as well, not as windy and wavy as one would expect in the middle of spring, but not unheard of. Dirk set his belongings down and set up his beach towel and pulled out a large umbrella that he had found on campus. With some difficulty, he managed to open it and stake it in the ground so it shaded the spot at which he had set up.

Dirk looked at his special set up and smiled a little, it had required some effort to get the umbrella into the ground, but it made his spot that much better. He sat down and rummaged inside his bag until he found a slightly mushed sandwich at the bottom of the bag and a Coke which he had found one day and never really knew where it came from. The sandwich was simple ham and cheese and while it wasn't the most appetizing sandwich in the world it did the trick to nub his growing hunger. After he had finished his sandwich he downed the Coke, pulled off his clothes (other than some board shorts that he had on earlier) and jumped into the water.

It was cold at first, but he got used to it as he waded deeper and deeper into the water. 5 ft.... 10ft.... 12 ft....... It hit him like a bus, the cramps. He hadn't followed the adage of waiting for 30 minutes after eating before one gets in the water. It hit his stomach first, bursting pain, then his left leg, even more pain, and finally his right leg. He then yelled out 

"Heeeelp, Im....... Drowning...."

[Flashback end}

The last conscious thought he had before slipping into the comforting darkness, though hopefully not death, was will I be saved?

    Kaeru was watching the beach intensely, especially at Dirk, who was drowning and flailing on the waves. She questioned that nature of what she was witnessing, with Dirk struggling all around in the water. Her sadistic side was tickling her on letting him stay afloat on the waves and watch him suffer with all the annoyances she had to put up with him. On the other hand, she really didn't want a death on her conscious, she already had too many to count. Behind a rock on the beach, Kaeru sat up along with her camera. She sighed and suppressed her demands of ignoring the drowning buffoon, and quickly walked over to where Dirk was barely staying above the waves.

    "What an idiot," Kaeru thought as she stripped off her clothes naked and ran straight into the salt water as Dirk's head was submerged completely, sinking towards the bottom of the sea. The water hit her, the difference in salt really messing up her focus. "Yeah, I'm more of a freshwater person."

     The frog girl found Dirk barely holding his conscious underwater. With a swift grab of his leg, she kicked it in high gear and swam back effortlessly to the beach. The distance between the land and the air got shorter and shorter and finally, Kaeru pulled up Dirk from the water, dragging him on to the sand and away from the water that nearly gave him a watery grave. She laid him on the sand and put her head on his chest, listening for a heart beat. With a hefty breath, the clasped her hands together, but not for a prayer. She unleashed her force in the form of a massive chop on Dirk's torso in an attempt to shoot out the water inside him. Kaeru then repeats the process until Dirk woke up. 

Dirk woke up violently as he spat out the water that resided in his lungs. That is, he accidentally punched Kaeru in the face as he woke up, though, as he felt the searing pain of his rib cage and saw the person next to him, he didn't completely feel sorry for what he had done.

"Hello....... Kaeru"

Dirk honestly didn't know how to speak about this. On one hand, though he did resent it, he was thankful for being saved; and on the other, he disliked the violence prone, crazy, and uncontrolled person in front of him. The fact that she was naked not really registering with him. 

Dirk stared at the person next to him as three options to say "thank you" rolled though his head. The first, was the extremely grateful route, which was obviously out of the question. The second, was him re-compensating her somehow, which he could not do. Finally, the third, which was to go completely tsundere.

Dirk took the third option and as dirk looked away he said.

"You saved me on your own. So don't expect me to thank you ok?"

    Kaeru was rewarded for her efforts in preserving human life with a simple. sudden punch to the face, which knocked her up into the air for a second before landing face-first on the sand. Somewhat angered, and painfully enduring the punch, she got back up with an twitchy face that just might as well become a face full of tears.

    "Punching young kids now? Even after I saved you from drowning?" Kaeru felt her face was shattering in two. "Well, aren't you a saint! Why did you punch me!? My face of all places!"

    She was thinking on just dragging him back into the water, and hold him down until he croaks, but due to reasons for even being at this spot, she restrained herself with every inch of her caliber. He sniffed as looked over at the waves. So far, no signs of life, yet. Kaeru rubbed her cheek on where Dirk hit her, this is going to bruise overnight, yep. Dirk's response made no sense whatsoever, since that's just being stupid to someone he now owes his life to, and Kaeru didn't missed the opportunity to do so. "Hey! You owe me a favor now! So don't just go thinking that I could just drag you back under the water!"