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Drowning Lessons Chapter One Preface I was sinking…. sinking deeper down into the cold, dark, heavy  water, my vision blurring and flickering at the edges, though I really didn’t know if I had closed my eyes or if they were still open, the water was just too black to see anything. I had never wanted to let it get that far, but now, with my lungs screaming and my throat aching, I felt that it was the right thing to do, and the only thing that was really left for me to do, after all. If I only had known earlier, I could have led a different life, but now… my thoughts seemed to blur, and I remembered the last few mo

Drowning Lessons Chapter Two As we got out of Mikey’s car and into the Way’s house, something changed. For me, it always did as soon as I stepped over the house’s threshold. At home, I lived alone with my mum, and though the atmosphere in our house was friendly, it never was that full of love like it was at the Way’s. They cared so much for Mikey, and I didn’t know if it was a product of Gerard’s escapades, or just the way they treated their children and the older son had just gone a different path for himself. Mikey’s mum greeted me warmheartedly. “Oh, hello Frank, long time no see, honey!”