Standing on your block you looked up to the stands and saw your best friend Jimin waving at you. You smiled back at him then turned to look at your mother who sat there with a serious expression on her face.
You looked back at the pool and put on your goggles.
After hearing the buzzer you dived into the pool with lighting-like speed.
Taking a breath with every second stroke you kicked as fast as you could cutting through water like an eagle cuts through air when soaring down to catch a fish.
The crowd cheered but you didn't hear them, all you heard was the water and your thoughts telling you to go faster.
Faster, faster, faster!
And, in what felt like seconds, your hand reached out and touched the wall of the pool. You had finished the race.
Leaning your arms on the ledge of the pool and trying to regain your breath you took off your goggles and looked for your mother in crowd. But she wasn't there.
You knew exactly what this meant. It meant you hadn't come in first place. It also meant you probably wouldn't get to train for the Olympics this year since this was the last summer school competition.
Instead of seeing who had won or what place you'd gotten, you jumped out of the pool and dashed to the locker rooms ignoring Jimin calling out to you.
Blinded by the tears building up in your eyes, you didn't notice yourself running strait into someone and slipping on the wet tiles.
"Ahh!" You squeaked as you fell back.
Then, with two solid arms, the person you'd bumped in to caught you. You felt a warmth running through your whole body like electricity but softer as one hand held your lower back and the other the back of your head. Your faces so close you could've sworn you hear him think.
Mate. The word sprung in to the stranger's mind as he stared into your eyes.
"What?!" You said looking at him suprised.
The man then looked at you with equal suprise, he hadn't said that aloud.
"I think the correct response to someone saving your life is 'thank you.'" He replied with a grin on his face.
"I was hardly in any life-threatening danger." You responded then pushed him away.
"So I guess cracking you're skull open doesn't count as life-threatening these days."
"Well, at least then I'd have an excuse to give up swimming."
The stranger looked like he was about to respond when something caught his attention from behind you.
You turned to look behind and saw Jimin walking towards you.
"Are you okay?" He said handing you a towel. The kind concern on his face turned serious as he made eye-contact with the stranger you were talking to. Confused, you looked back at the stranger, only to see him smirking at your friend.
"Let's go." Jimin said. He then grabbed your arm and pulled you to walk away with him. You gazed back to see the stranger one last time but he had disappeared.
"Do you know that guy?" Jimin asked, looking at you concerned.
"Isn't that what I should be asking you?" You replied.
"What do you mean?"
"The way you looked at him." You said as you stopped walking.
"He just didn't seem like a very nice guy." Jimin replied as he looked at you.He then chuckled and continued, "Like the kind of guy who would keep weird vintage dolls in his basement."
"What?" You let out a laugh.
Jimin smiled at you, the same playful smile he always gave you, and for a moment you almost forgot about the swimming competition. He then grabbed the towel from your hands and rapped it around you as tight as he could, squeezing you into a bite-size burrito. But the warm and electrifying embrace from the touch of the stranger you met earlier still lingered in your thoughts.
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