Until I Met The World

Chapter 15

As much as I hate my body, I love swimming and I'm not passing up the chance of a good time. Also a chance to make things less awkward with Sebastian and I. We should feel as comfortable with eachother as we felt coming here.

Pulling my black bathing suit bottoms with the purposefully made slits on the side, I look at myself in the mirror. I can't bare to look at fat thighs for more than 3 seconds so I quickly look away and take my flowy dress off.

Getting my black bathing suit top on becomes a challenge and I give up after a couple minutes of trying to tie it behind my back and walk out to the room Sebastian is in.

"Could you tie this for me?" I ask awkwardly holding the straps behind my back.

His hesitation is clear but he soon agrees and walks over to my back.

I grab ahold of my hair and lift it out of the way. Just then I feel Bash's hands graze my back as he grabs the straps and begins to tie it.

"Tighter please," I say.

Clearing his throat he speaks up. "What?"

"The straps, can you tie them tighter? I don't want my top to fall off," I half laugh.

"Oh right," He then ties it tighter and I feel comfortable with the squeeze it gives. "Is that good?" He asks me with his hands on my back ready to tie it tighter if I were to ask.

"Yeah, thank you. Wanna head out?" I ask Bash while walking to grab a couple towels from our bathroom.

"Mhm," By the time I grab the towels and take one more look at my hideous body through the grand size bathroom mirror, Sebastian is already holding the door open for me with the rooms keys in his hand and both of our phones.

Even when it is dark, it is beautiful in Greece. There are twinkly lights almost everywhere and it makes me feel safe here. No matter what dark we go through, there is light. And that's a nice thought.

I'm not sure if we are even going the right way but I'm not going to ask. I'm in no rush to get anywhere when I'm here, I'd much rather take the time to appreciate it a little more and more each time I lay my eyes on it.

Turning a corner, we walk on stoned sidewalk passing up beautiful after beautiful sets of flowers and twisty trees and more twinkly lights. The path leads us to the pool and I am taken back by how perfect it is. I'm not sure what I was expecting but everthing has been so great today, I didn't think it could get better.

The pool area is connected to the hotel and a roof covers the patio consisting of the pool, chairs and fountain. Huge nicely architectural poles are lined up and are connected to the ceiling. There are, of course, more lights invested into the ceiling and shine down scattered all around. The pool is crystal blue and moving in a rhythmic pattern and the best part is the view is almost the same as our view from our room. All the white buildings and Aegean Sea are in view and I realize now how hard I'm smiling.

Throwing our towels on a chair, I step one foot into the pool and I already know I will be here for awhile.

When my whole body is in the pool, I look up at a tall muscly Sebastian who is about to jump in. He jumps in the pool all to fast for me to block the water from splashing on me and I can't help but gasp. Maybe it's immature but I splash him back. Laughing he runs his hands over his face then through his hair only to splash me back.

"Sebastian, stop!" I yell not meaning it for one second. I can't stop laughing and I'm not sure why but I do know I never want to leave.

Plugging my nose, I go under water so he can't splash me anymore and swim to the other end and come back up, sticking my tongue out at him like a 4 year old.