Three Worlds Apart

Chapter VI, Kamber

There are two buses going to the swim meet, Dawson offered to let me ride on the team bus. I thought about it but said no, it would be weird to be the only one on the bus who wasn't wearing a bathing suit so that would be awkward.

So I sit on the bus alone while all the other spectators chat and act excited. I kind of wish I hadn't decided to come, at school at least people ignore me. Here they keep glancing at me out of the corner of their eyes, as though I am a bomb that might go off at any moment.

I am not going to enjoy myself today, maybe I should have just skipped school today. But no, I promised Dawson and Kriss that I would come. 

Dawson and Kriss are easy to figure out. Dawson is lonely, sad, but trying really hard to move on. Kriss is nervous about making friends after Amelia, she wants to give it another shot though.

It's Alex that I can't figure out, he doesn't really talk to me, he hardly looks at me and he seems to want to distance himself from everyone except Dawson and Kriss. Was he as close to Amelia as the other two? I never got that impression, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he just hides his pain better than the other two? Oh well.

The bus pulls up to the swimming pool where the meet is being held, I climb down the steps with the others and go in and sit down. 

A girl is watching me, I turn away. I hate people staring at me, it makes me remember that I am not the normal girl everyone thinks I am. I'm different.  

The announcer calls the first group, a few of our swimmers are in this heat. I watch them swim and wonder what it feels like to compete, to take control. 

I think I'd rather swim in a lake or the ocean, then I could just swim away.

Noah smiles at me, "You know I'll win," He whispers, I try to turn and run but my feet won't move.

I shake my head, clearing it. I could stop that vision, was something different about it this time? Or was it the same as always?

Why Noah? Why does he keep cropping up in my visions? 

Bloody hell. I hate this, so many questions and no answers. Is there anyway to get answers? Google doesn't have the answer to everything.

The whistle to signal this heat of the race is finished, none of our swimmers moved on. 

A few more heats go, none of them are all that fast. I don't know how fast Dawson, Kriss and Alec are but hopefully they are faster than this.

Alex is in the next one, he comes in first. He moves on I guess.

Kriss and Dawson are in the next one. Dawson and Kriss lead the whole way, each over taking the other slightly and then falling behind a little.

Dawson and Kriss tie. They move on. 

Then the next round starts, in which there are three heats. There will be two more rounds. One with two heats and then the finals.

Swim meets are more complicated than I thought. I'm glad that I'm here though, I think Kriss is too. She keeps looking up at me and smiling, she said she hadn't really had a friend until Amelia. If she counts me as a friend then I would her second friend. That's nice, I hope we're friends.

I notice that girl staring at me again, what the hell is her problem? I wish she would look somewhere else.

I watch as Dawson, Kriss and Alex dive into the pool. The top 10 will be taken from this round, then the top five for the final.

I hope Dawson and the other make it to the final round, it's weird to have friends to cheer on. I've never had that before. I like having friends, I'm not as lonely as I was.