The Creek

'Do you remember the time when I fell into the creek?' 'You jumped in. Don't act like you fell. It wasn't as deep as you thought it looked. I warned you.' 'I hurt my head pretty bad.' 'Why are you bringing this up?' 'Well, I decided to check out the place again and I stood on the bridge looking down and it does look a lot deeper than it is.' 'Right.' 'So I jumped in again. Feet first.' 'What - why?' 'I didn't feel the bottom this time.' 'Why did you jump in again?' 'Cause it looked deeper this time.' 'Idiot.' 'I waded around for a while trying to touch the bottom. But no matter how hard I tried I couldn't. Anyway, I gave up and swam to the shore and walked back up to the bridge to jump in again.' 'Christ. You need help, man.' 'This time I dived in. Like when you were there. Didn't hit the bottom.' 'Maybe it just got deeper.' 'In less than a year?' 'It's been more than a year.' 'Has it? Well, damn. Doesn't feel like it.' 'Yeah.' 'Suppose I just had to make sure of something.' 'Did you?' 'No. Not really.'