Heating up

When she was about to submerge into the water again, her body touched another body as cold as hers.

A soft gasp escaped from her lips, and she turned around and saw Karlos in front of her.

"You are alive?," said Berlin, her voice sounding nothing less to a whisper, and she breathed through her mouth.

"I am," replied Karlos watching her closely has they both kept themselves afloat in the water.

"What were you doing down there?" She splashed water on his face feeling irritated with his earlier actions. "You scared me!... I thought you were drowning or something" She exclaimed.

"Sorry..." Karlos apologized surprising himself. "My body is acting strange."

She was taken back by his apology and his explanation. It is true that he had been submerging and resurfacing out of the water countless times.

"Is that why you got in?"

"What were you expecting me to do?" She retorted back.

Karlos eyes looked at Berlin, his face not giving away anything.

Berlin could feel the bite from the cold water, and kept shivering.

"I didn't bring extra clothes to change into." She lamented over her predicament.

"You can have my top," came the direct solution from him, knowing she had dipped into the water because of him.

"How thoughtful. Wonder why it didn't cross my mind." replied Berlin, a she noticed a smirk on Karlos's lips.

Karlos submerged back into the water, realizing his body was heating up again.

At this moment, Karlos didn't need to be told that he had been drugged, who had dared to drug him?

His eyes darkened as anger slowly rose in his heart. He couldn't wait to burn that son of a bitch alive.

Minutes later, Karlos couldn't stay afloat on the water for two minutes without submerging himself. Despite the cold atmosphere, cold water, it still wasn't able to calm him.

Berlin watched as he resurfaced from the water so many times, running his hand through his wet hair.

"How you doing there?" questioned Berlin from where she was, with a little distance between them. "Are you okay?"

Karlos looked at her nothing less than the burning tip of a piece of paper that didn't look like it was going to extinguish any time soon. He stared right into her eyes with yearning.

Berlin was beginning to feel uneasy as well with his gaze but drawed closer to ask him what was the matter.

"My body is heating up." Karlos replied as he kept splashing the water over his face.