SNAKE BITE
CELINE’s POV
I felt Sebastian copse on the dry leaves next to me. He appeared as though he had justpleted a
marathon based on the rate at which he was breathing. I rolled over onto my side and turned my back
on him as he gazed at me.
This shouldn’t happen…
It was a mistake…
I provoked him, and he did it…
And I let him…
I just let him…
I slowly raised myself to my feet and looked around for my underwear. When I finally found it, let out a
sigh of relief, and then I quickly picked it up and put it on. I was acutely aware that Sebastian was
observing me the entire time, and I was unable to control the amount of redness that appeared on my
face.
I left him and started to make my way back to where the yacht was docked, and I nervously chewed on
my lower lip. What would Brylee say if she saw me? I knew she would embarrass me in front of her
friends, in front of Jake.
Suddenly, a loud thunderp caused me to stop in my tracks. When I looked up, I noticed that the sky
was much darker than usual.
My heart started to race as I sped up my pace, but suddenly I sensed someone behind me. When I
turned around, I saw Sebastian looking at me in a very intent manner. I chose to ignore him and carried
on walking. However, just as I was getting close to the coast, the
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heavens opened up, and raindrops the size of beans started falling on
me. On us. N?velDrama.Org content.
“Oh my G d!” I broke into a sprint and made my way toward the
beach.
When I saw that the deep blue ocean had be iparably violent, it caused my eyes to bulge
out of their sockets. The waves. were crashing like some kind of monstrous creature. It was an
incredibly terrifying scene, what with the thunder and lightning.
The fact that the yachts were no longer there, though… was the thing that frightened me the most.
They left me. They left us…
“Celine!” I heard Sebastian call out. “Let’s go this way! Let’s find something we can hide from the rain!”
I turned my heels and followed him as the rain erupted into a raging deluge and the wind howled like a
ravenous beast. The waves were terrifyingly strong.
It was clear to me that Sebastian was not ustomed to being left
behind and stranded on a barren ind like this one. He had never
been ced in such a precarious circumstance before.
I had lived on an ind ever since I was a child, so I was prepared f situations like this one. I got
firsthand experience with everything, from sowing seeds to gathering crops to angling for fish.
Even though it was pouring hard, I managed to keep myposure and realized that I had to find a
safe spot to hide. Otherwise, once it waspletely dark, countless dangers would be lurking on the
ind.
My shoes were quickly covered in a thickyer of sand, and the odor that permeated the air was
difficult to describe, which made it difficult for me to breathe. Sebastian turned around to check on me,
and he had this frown on his face, which indicated that he was clearly
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aggravated by the situation that we are in right now.
I paid him no attention as I brushed away the thick branches with one hand and peered around,
searching for a location where I might escape the rain. My vision grew increasingly distorted, though,
as the rain became steadily harder.
As soon as I wiped the rain from my eyes, I noticed a massive boulder in the distance. I was about to
take a step toward the stone ledge when Sebastian came up and started taking long strides until he
was in front of me. At that point, he extended his hand and gripped my nape, drawing me into his arms.
“Uh… what are you doing?” I tried to pull away from him, but he was stronger than me, and his
embrace was squeezing the hell out of me.’ ‘Sebastian! What the-”
“Don’t make a move!” he eximed, his voice was h oa rse above my head.
“What are you doing? Let me go!” I looked up to see his eyes looking at something behind me. I
frowned and followed his gaze and my eyes widened when I saw a snake that was coiled around the
nch that I had just pushed away. My body began to shake when I
its tail slowly moved into a tighter position, indicating that it was ready to attack.
“Stand still!” Sebastian groaned, gritting his teeth, and I immediately wrapped my arms around him,
buried my face down in his chest and pressing my eyes tight as I did so.
I felt his arms wrap around me as well, before he lifted his foot to kick the branch away, and as I looked
back, I saw the snake drop on the ground and started to slither away.
I had to catch my breath for a second. I didn’t have a problem with either heaven or hell, but I had a
severe phobia of snakes.
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When I was still a kid, I used to dig up sweet potatoes and other kinds of crops in the ground with my
mom, and one time… when I was helping her, I got bitten by a snake.
At that moment, I’d been really afraid to the point that I felt like I didn’t have an inch of life left in me.
Ever since that time, I’ve had an intense phobia of reptiles, particrly snakes.
Sebastian released his hold on me, but I didn’t move because I was too terrified to do so. I was
standing there… numb yet shaking, with my arms still wrapped around Sebastian’s torso.
“Hey, are you okay?” He asked with a troubled tone in his voice.
I didn’t respond, and when he felt that I was shaking uncontrobly, I heard him let out a sigh and hug
me before he lifted me up from the ground and carried me bridal style. There’s nothing more for me to
do than bury my face in his chest.
Sebastian, too, saw the enormous boulder, and when he got there, he discovered a little cave. It wasn’t
very big, and once you got inside, you’d find some charred branches and a pile of dust. Clearly,
somebody had been in this ce before.
Sebastian ced me in a strategic position atop arge stone an proceeded to shove the branches in
the middle of the cave. He used a lighter to ignite them, and soon after, we could hear crac kling
sounds.ing from the cave and the heat from the fire began to warm us up.
I trembled so much that I could barely utter the words “thank you…” and it took a lot of work for me to
even speak normally.
Sebastian, however, paid little attention to what I had to say; instead, he dipped his head and rubbed
the back of his palm on his thigh while knitting his eyebrows. His face was pale.
I held my breath and frowned as I walked over to check his hand. “W-
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what’s happening to you?”
He slowly rxed his brows, but the hand that had been grasping the other was now clenched so
tightly that I could almost feel his blood flow stopped.
“Hey!” I got down on my knees and grabbed his hand, only to discover that it had two distinct puncture
wounds on it. Oh my G od! It’s a
snake bite!
I looked up at him, terrified. I will never ever forget what a snake bite
looked like.