Near death.

I remember once when I was a kid (about 8 or 9 years old), I was in the swimming pool with my friend. Even though I knew a little on how to swim, I was not too keen on going in the deep part of the pool, meaning the part that starts to go over your head when you touch the bottom.

She gets to playing around and poking at me and stuff. I tell her to stop and I tried moving away from her. I obviously wasn't paying attention to where I was going because I ended up in the deep part of the pool. Immediately I panicked. I didn't really know how to keep my head above water so I kept going under while trying to flail my arms and breathe. I tried screaming and stuff, but that didn't amount to much. The few times I came above water, everybody was looking at me in shock, but nobody moved.

The final time I went under, I inhaled some water and thought I was gone for sure. I thought about my family for a minute. My limbs were dead tired and I couldn't move them anymore and I was starting to black out. I closed my eyes and that's when I felt my head come above water. The so-called "lifeguard" finally got out of his chair and jumped in after me. It was horrible.

Jam it back in, in the dark.