I tried to keep my head as low as possible in case someone comes around. The water that had felt so cool and refreshing when I first entered was beginning to feel cold and chilly. I wasn't feeling it anymore. The current was also getting stronger and was taking a lot of my energy staying afloat at one place. I swam over to the waterfall near the rocks and perched there. The sound of the water falling and hitting rocks at the bottom did make an awful amount of noise now that I was so near it, but other than that, the place seemed quiet. For a while, the place was silent, but then I managed to hear a rattle in the bushes over the sounds of the waterfall. I turned my head and crouched down even lower into the water, using some of the rocks as a shield. My heart was rac

