Love, Betray & Crash (Jeonghan)

𝔸𝕔𝕥 𝕆𝕟𝕖 : 𝕊𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕖 𝟚𝟚

Nine Weeks Later

Emily clocked in at another personal best as her hand hit the wall. She broke out of the water"s surface and took in a deep breath.

"Good job Eunmi," Coach Shin said as she clicked the stop button on the stopwatch, "That is four seconds better than last week. A huge improvement. If you continue swimming this way, I'm sure you are going to bag at least one or two medals at the Asian Games."

Emily simply smiled at Coach Shin and propped herself up and out of the pool.

"You're doing great Eunmi. You really are," Coach Shin said, "That's it for today. Don't forget to show up for therapy later today."

"Yes coach," Eunmi nodded before heading off to the changing room. Two other girls including Arin were in the changing room, finished with their training for the day as well. Arin give Emily a small smile.

The past few couple of weeks, ever since the incident with Yejune occurred, have been life changing for her. It is almost as if everyone sees her in a new light now. Instead of letting the final ruling of the disciplinary committee letting her down, Emily instead focused her energy on training an improving her times so that she is fully prepared when the Asian Games finally happen. 

After Joo-hyuck's constant assurance, Emily realized that the general public is actually supporting her and that all the committee and officials want is to get a rise out of her so they could get an actual reason to to justify their punishment. This incident was a slap of reality in Emily's face and it reminded her of why she even moved to Korea in the first place. 

To swim. 

And that is exactly what she would be doing, Emily had decided. 

Emily first headed over to the room she shared with Minseo unnie. Since she had finished her training for today earlier than Minseo unnie today she headed over for the room first and decided to hop in the shower in their room. She'll be able to take a proper shower once since she always feels like she has to rush when taking a shower in the locker rooms. 

It was still day time and the sun has yet to set. Emily can't remember the last time she got off this early. Since Emily and Yejune both cannot participate in any competitions, it seems that Coach Shin is working both the girls extra hard recently. 

Which meant running more laps around the field, lifting more weights for their strength training and swimming more laps at the pool. The past three weeks Emily has been waking up at four thirty in the morning to work on her university assignments and swimming till nine in the night at which she eats convenience food store and crashes as soon as her body hits the bed. Getting off training this early meant Emily can actually live as a normal human being for a day. 

Emily shampooed through her hair thoroughly and applied an hair mask to help with the dryness. Her hair had normally been very silky and straight but due to the large amount of time she spends in chlorine water, Emily's hair has become very dry and has gone from straight to slightly wavy. Not to mention that she had dyed it a light shade of brown two years and has been mainting that color ever since. The damage on her hair is truly real. 

Combing through her wet hair and applying some leave in conditioner, Emily changed into an army green cargo pants and wore a plain black t-shirt on top. She has to go to cupping therapy for her back pain and muscle pain and decided that she will just go to a cafe nearby after it ends to get some worki done. Packing away her laptop, notebook, pencil case, a thin hoodie and a water bottle, Emily headed off. 

Emily did not particularly enjoy cupping therpay. 

For one, it is slightly painful and leave small burns on her back and second, sometimes it can be slightly scarring that it looks like someone hit Emily in her back. Not to mention that she really has to watch what she eats afterwards since sugar, caffeine and dairy should be avoided. But Emily has to admit it is very helpful in easing her back and neck pain.