Against, possibly, his better judgment, Micah had decided to vacate his room willingly and check out one of the New Years Eve bashes in hopes of running into Rita again. She'd been cool. If he knew Leto at all, she was probably in her room with Levon at this hour anyway, so he figured if he blended with the crowd, he could probably avoid confrontation with her family, but she definitely wouldn't be a problem.
The music wasn't really his style, but it definitely didn't suck and he actually found himself having a good time in spite of the slight unsettling of his stomach from the waves under the ship. It actually didn't even bother him that much that he was alone nursing a beer when the countdown to midnight began. Any and all excitement of the prospect of the new year was short-lived, though as the ship seemed to jolt and Micah lost his balance, his beer bottle shattering on the floor as he was slammed against something - he wasn't sure what in his daze - and he could hear screaming dully, as if white noise, almost, in the background. He felt woozy and confused and instinctively reached for the back of his head, frowning dully when he felt sticky, hot moisture there. He was bleeding. Hopefully it wasn't terrible. But before he could really consider it much further, he found himself sopping wet from head to toe, sputtering. The woman beside him was yanked into the pool and Micah instinctively lunged forward, trying to grab her, but he missed and down she went.
"Shit," he gasped and was already crawling toward the edge of the pool when another jolt seemed to spit her back out and he was knocked back again anyway and he went sprawling onto the floor, snagging one of her ankles in one hand in his flailing attempt to hold onto something and keep himself steady.
It seemed like, then, everything calmed and if even for just a second, that was good enough for Micah and he let go of the woman, pulling himself to his feet and touching her shoulder. "Hey, are you okay? I saw you go down," he said, panting and nodding toward the pool, "and I tried to grab you but I missed..." he added apologetically. "You hurt?" he asked, reaching back to check his own injury again.