I settled into the chair and open back to the last page that I had read. I made sure that I was comfortable because I wasn't planning on getting up for a while.

Okay, I am gonna steal just one more drink from Noah's mini fridge. I didn't know why but I had a feeling that he might be back to drink them. It made no sense so that made it better in my book.

Okay now back to reading. I was ready to see what was going to happen next.

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She had fallen into the water and ended up on the other side, wet and confused. Looking down at her was the most beautiful man she had ever seen.

He had long blue hair that was tied back with a silver ribbon. He had gold eyes which shone like the gold she had seen in the water.

"Am I dead?" she asked, looking up into those eyes.

She wasn't sure if she would really mind being dead. What did she have back on the other side of the water anyways?

"Not that I know of." He rubs his cheek as he looks down at her. "Are you a water spirit?" he asks.

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After that introduction she explains what had led up to her ending up in front of him. He takes off the cloak that he had been wearing and wraps it around her.

It was nice that it seemed that she wasn't going to be a Mary Sue character. The male lead wasn't going to fall in love immediately. While I love reading about love it is always better when it is built upon a strong foundation.

I kept reading for a while making it through the first two volumes of the manga. “That is enough emotions for today. It is a good series though.” I add in case Noah is nearby.

I return the two books to the shelf and go to make some lunch. I fill the cat’s bowls with dry food and eat a light meal myself. I stretch out stiff muscles and go to clean the attic.

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This time, I am careful not to touch the locked door. Just being near it gives me bad feelings, as though something is going to slash me to bits then eat me. I shudder and rub my arms.

That would be a truly awful way to die, and not one that I am keen on experiencing. I dust and scrub everything until it smells clean and looks polished. When I am done, I lay on the floor. It has been a long day, my body throbs in accord.

I eat dinner then sit at the table and fill out the journal. I add details about the cute notes that were left around me as well as the negative feeling I got from the basement and attic.

I don't add my thoughts or any possible speculation and keep to the facts. This is what I did, what I saw, what I cleaned blah blah. I don't know what the owner of the cabin will or will not find important, so I make sure to be thorough.

It had been a while since I had exercised so hard and thinking about it, I had probably done too much too fast. I sigh. It had been things that I never used to have trouble with.

Even when I had been injured or sick, I had still been expected to at least run until I couldn't. Those days had been awful, and because I had been able to push through that, I thought... I was very wrong.

I know that it was too early to go to bed, but I didn't really care all that much. I dragged myself up to my room.

I looked into the bathroom and to the bathtub. It looked so inviting but I was also worried about falling asleep in the tub. That could end very badly very fast.

Breathing water into your lungs was a bad way to die for sure, and I doubted a golden eyed male lead would save me. I shook my head and all thoughts of that away. I would just have to stay awake.

I close the bathroom door and call out, "I'm gonna take a bath now and go to sleep. Thank you for your company today".

I didn't know how much Noah had or had not been around me today. But, It was always important to say thank you when you were grateful to someone. Noah had been there for me, leaving me notes, and trying to make his presence known.

It was sweet and I wanted to make sure he knew it. Also, I wanted to make sure that he didn't accidentally come in here while I was bathing. That would be uncomfortable, ghost or not peeping is peeping.

After shouting that I was going to take a bath I began to fill the tub with salts and bubble bath. I watch as some of the salt puffs into the air and the bubble bath changes the color of the water.

I climb in and watch as the water level gets higher. Part of the water swirls in a dark red familiar color before fading to pink. I see it and slam my eyes closed and listen to the sound. I block out everything and just listen to the sound of water.

I let my mind slip away into positive memories I have of being in or around water. The warmth spreads as the water inches its way up my body. I breathe out and as the air crosses my teeth and I let go.

“Hey, toss her over here!’

“Haha she is cute as a button and so small. How old are you again?”

“I’m five!” I said so proudly, grinning and showing off a smile that was missing one of its top front teeth.

“Five huh. Guess we have to toss you back and forth at least four more times!”

I laughed out of pure joy. I was having fun with some of the older kids that were in the neighborhood in the out-door pool. I laughed the loudest right before sucking in a big breath of air before they flipped me into the water.

I dunk myself fully under the water, tucking my knees up to my chest and sinking down, down, down to the bottom of the bathtub. I had no idea why it suddenly felt so deep.

Huh, how strange. I sit there like that until the burning in my lungs causes me to pull myself back up. I sit on one of the raised seating areas of the tub. It was seriously one huge tub.

Had the tub always been this big and this deep when I had first got into it? Or were things in the cabin shifting and moving around me? It was a curious thought but one I chose not to entertain at the moment, I was getting used to that.