Switched Up

10-I: That was too close

The long awaited Tuesday morning finally came. Sam left as quietly as she could and found Ricky waiting outside her room. As she was about to close the door, she heard Oliver groggily say, "Good luck you guys." They both peeked back into the room and whispered, "Thank you!" before finally closing the door.

Sam and Ricky headed over to locker room so she could change. She went in the bathroom and came out a few seconds later in her suit. They then headed out to the pool. Ricky unlocked the gate and headed over to the equipment room where he opened the switch box and turned on the lights.

Sam waited for Ricky with her towel over her; she didn't want to take it off until the very last second. Once he was next to her, he grabbed hold of her towel.

"Ready for this?" he asked.

"Yup. Let's do it," said Sam.

A second later, Sam let go of the towel and leaped into the water. Ricky held onto the towel for her and threw it over his shoulder as she plopped into the blue abyss. She emerged a few seconds later and treaded to the side of the pool.

"So, Coach Ricky, what's my first exercise?" she asked as she combed her hair out of her face, "Also, this is so weird not having to wear a cap anymore."

Ricky chuckled as he squatted down on the pool deck next to Sam. He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket that had their workout written on it.

"It says a 200 free warm up."

"Alrighty," she said.

Sam pulled her goggles on and pushed off the wall to begin her workout. Whenever she would finish something, Ricky would lean down and give her the next exercise. Towards the end of the workout, Sam was at the shallow end of the pool doing a few water running exercises.

Ricky was sitting in a chair in front of Sam's lane messing with his phone when he suddenly heard a loud noise. He shoved his phone in his pocket and whipped his head around to see what it was.

Ricky squinted out into the darkness of the morning beyond the gate surrounding the pool. The pool is up on a hill so that shouldn't have been a person, he thought.

Before he knew it, a body jumped up against the gate and grabbed onto it, causing Ricky to jump and almost fall out of his chair.

"Hey Ricky!"

Ricky stood up and walked closer to see who it was.

"Nick?! What're you doing here?"

"Sometimes I like to go on a run this early in the morning and I remembered that you and Sam were gonna be here, so I decided to say hi."

"Dude how did you even get up here? There is nothing to climb!"

"I just leaped up it. Wasn't that hard."

"You and your weird adrenaline rushes," chuckled Ricky.

Ricky immediately bit his tongue when he remembered the situation at hand: Sam was at the other end and still didn't know someone was there.

"Is that Sam over there?" asked Nick.

God damn it Nick WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BRING THAT UP NOW, screamed Ricky in his head.