Strap them kids in; give 'em a little vodka

This summer, I had a very exciting time with my family. That exciting time being when my boyfriend and brother almost drowned in the ocean. My vacation began after I was done with work on Saturday. I went to get all of the necessities for the beach. Board games, snacks, that sort of important thing. We left on Sunday around 10:00 in the morning. We went to my brother Marine family day at his base, then went on our way to the Outer Banks. It was about a 10 hour drive there with few stops. When we got there it was about 3 am and I just wanted to go for a walk on the beach but everyone else is lame and didn't want to go. That week was awesome, lots adult beverages and peel and eat shrimp that makes your mouth water. It was a normal relaxing vacation until one of those days we went into the water like normal but came out different than before. My boyfriend was a bit leery of the ocean since he had never been in it much.
I didn't want to pressure him but when my brother came out with us we went out farther than we did when he wasn't around. On this day, in the specific area we went, we all  ended up in the rip tide. Previous days we had rip tide warnings but not this day. My boyfriend casually asked for help and i said "I can't even move". The ocean was laughing at us. There was a moment when I had no visuals of either of them. It was in that moment i realized that what was going on wasn't a joke.
 My boyfriend was yelling my brothers name saying he couldn't breathe while I managed to get out of the exhausting and ever so powerful rip tide.  I started screaming bloody murder. The people next to us looked at me like "What the fuck is wrong with you? There aren't any sharks out here?". They had an inter tube that i order to throw to my brother an boyfriend that were starving of oxygen while I was pushing all of my oxygen out of my lungs with my voice. I was about 20 yards out when a crowd started to grow due from my chilling screams. When I got to shore, I saw that they finally got out of the tide. There is no moment like realizing that the people you love may no longer be breathing and there isn't one damn thing you can do about it. The feeling of helplessness and asking "why". Just like there is no other moment like understanding that everyone is okay, and you've never felt luckier.

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