Perfectly Flawed (64 page)

But one false step, one trip on the muddied
earth, sends my body spiraling forward, aiming for the ground—only
it disappears. It disappears and I’m just falling through the air,
falling into nothing, my hands searching for holds but finding
none. So I just fall. I fall until my back slams into something
hard but soft, the force knocking the wind from my lungs. I sink
beneath the surface. The cold, dark water covers me: my mouth, my
nose, my eyes. My vision goes blurry and I can’t release a
sound.

I can’t breathe—I can’t breathe—I can’t
breathe.

But I want to.

I wish for the air to inflate my thinning
lungs and give me life, but it’s only water. It’s weighing me down,
sinking me deeper until my will to live, my urge to fight through
this, ebbs—and finally, I just give up.

The darkness above me, it’s too powerful and
I just drift.

END OF BOOK ONE

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About the Author

Nessa Morgan is a twenty-something nerd with too many
books to read and too many tales to tell. She discovered her love
of writing after an assignment in sixth grade where she wrote a
legend about a hill in her neighborhood. Soon after that, her
teacher submitted one of her poems to an anthology and it was
selected. Nessa spends most of her time reading, writing, catching
an occasional hockey game, and annoying her family and best friend
with random trivia and bursts of song.

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