Mid-Week Flash Challenge - Week 309

This week's picture prompt is from photographer Christy Lee Rogers, an artist from Hawaii. This is actually a photograph taken under water at night. Quite incredible, and there's lots more to see on her site. 

Short and sweet, and maybe a little bit ambiguous. 

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Tangled
I’m not quite surehow it happened, how we all ended up in the pool – or even why. Though really,who needs a why? It’s a party, we’re all drunk, it’s warm and there’s a hugepool.

I remember Johnny thought it would be agood idea to be in there, even though it wasn’t his house. And when he jumpedin and discovered the underwater music, the whole party had to move into thewater.

Dancing underwater was fun, but I think itwas Felicity’s dress I got my leg’s tangled in and she started to struggle, andeven though Dan had his life guard certificate he couldn’t work it free, andthen she began to panic pushing him under. By the time Harriet swam up, therewere three more caught up in it, and the others just thought we were dancingand having fun.

The more people tried to get uncoiled, themore they seemed to get knotted up. It was like a churning washing machine ofclothes and people, but in slow motion. And it felt slow; time crawls when youcan’t breathe.

I don’t know who went first, it was hard totell with all the material getting in the way of faces, but eventually theywere gone, and I was there, floundering in clothing that had been discarded.

I felt like I flailed for a lifetime. Andas I turned onto my back, my arms and legs still bound up, I looked up at allthe faces round the pool looking down at me. Their stricken looks as my lastreserves let go, and bubbles of my last breath left me, are scored onto my mindfor an eternity.