I need some space to breath.

Milo sat on the jetty with no sense of what was going on around him. When he had came to the cove there were some children playing a game of volleyball. Were they still there?

He payed no attention to anything but the sparkling blue clear water in front of him. Oh how he'd love to spend the day swimming, but he couldn't. He had about a half an hour before he had to get to class.

'Just one short swim,' he thought. 'It won't be long.' He jumped off the jetty and into the deep blue water below, entering the water as if he were meant to be a part of it.

"Hi Milo!" he heard someone say. Milo turned around but he did not see anyone.

"Huh?" he asked, clasping his hands over his mouth. 'Milo you can't breathe down here,' he thought.

"Yeah you can!" The voice laughed.

"Who are you?!!" He screamed. Tiny bubbles formed by his mouth. He surprisingly wasn't gasping for air.

"Don't you remember me?" A thin girl appeared in front of him with silver eyes and light blonde hair, the expression on her face sad and forgotten.

"Wait Cassie?" Milo asked, thinking about his early childhood when he had a home.

"We're the normal ones, Milo. All those other kids are the freaks."

"Yes finally!" Cassandra smiled. "Where have you been?"

"I've been at school, learning how to not cause another flood," Milo replied.

"Octela?" she asked. "Oh yeah I enrolled there because I'd rather not have any other situations like the Atlantis incident."

"When do you start?" Milo asked, swimming upwards to shore.

"Tomorrow I think. Where are you going?"

"I'm late for class!" Milo called. He ran out of the cove and to the school in fear.

His best friend was coming to Octela. Those silver eyes would be around him all of the time.