mermaid 》 alemanda ✔

chapter six.

alesha

I sent the text to Amanda asking her if she wanted to go swimming with me afterschool when we finished doing auditions for Matilda. The last day of auditions was going to be only an hour long as there wasn't that many students that had signed up to do the last day. We had to cut two hours off of the last day of auditions because there hadn't been that many kids signed up to do it.

Amanda had texted me back that she would love to go swimming with me after auditions ended. Auditions were over now so I headed to the campus pool. I went into the locker room and took the one piece bathing suit out of my bag. I changed into it quickly and grabbed my goggles, swim cap, and my towel.

I went into the pool room and I put my hair up into a ponytail to make it easier to put it into the swim cap. I put the swim cap on and I took off my prosthetic before I put on my goggles. I got into the pool in the deep end and began to tred water while I waited for Amanda to come out of the locker room.

She came out of the locker room with a bikini on and her towel draped over her arm. She set the towel down next to my stuff on the bench and got into the pool at the shallow end. She swam over to me and treded water next to me.

"You ready to swim?" I asked.

"Yeah," she replied. "Race you to the other end of the pool."

"It's on." We swam to the edge of the deep end and our feet touched the wall as we took off. I breaststroked to the other end of the pool and touched the wall with my hand. I spun around in the water and pushed off with my feet to go the other way.

I came up from breath and saw that Amanda had just reached the shallow end of the pool. I swam faster, determined to beat her in the race. She breaststroked to where I had been when I had seen her and she also came up for breath.

I reached the other end of the pool before she did and I came up for air again. "I won," I spoke, breathing heavily from swimming that fast.

"I was so close. You almost lost!" Amanda retorted. She had been close to winning and she had taken over the lead halfway down the lane but I had taken over her before we had reached the wall.

Amanda pushed her hair back out of her eyes and she wiped the water off of her face. "I think we need to race in the pool at least once a week. Maybe I'll be able to beat you one day. You're like a mermaid!"

I shrugged my shoulders and let go of the wall on the deep end. I tred the water again and nodded. "I've been compared to mermaids before. Thank you though. It's because I had done hydrotherapy after my leg had been amputated." I grinned at Amanda and she dived under the water.

She touched the pool floor and kicked her legs up into the air. She was doing a handstand under the water. She came up gracefully and breathed heavily. She had been in the handstand close to a minute.

"I can never resist it," Amanda explained. "I always have to do a handstand in the water whenever I'm swimming."

"I haven't done tricks in the water for years," I replied. I dived under the water and did a handstand, coming out of it in a flip under the water. I came back up and Amanda was already swimming the length of the pool again.

I swam the length of the pool using the butterfly stroke. I hadn't practices that one in a while. I reached the end of the pool and turned around. Amanda was already almost halfway back to where she had started so I switched to doing a breaststroke. She reached the wall before I did this time and came up, gasping for air.

I followed after her and I held onto the wall again so I could catch my breath.

"This is a lot of fun. Thank you for asking me to go swimming with you today, Alesha," Amanda said, getting up from the pool and sitting on the edge.

"You're welcome! Let's make it regular then," I replied. Amanda nodded in agreement and she got back into the pool.

"Race again?" She asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"You're on!"

amanda

Swimming with Alesha had been a lot of fun and I was surprised at how fast Alesha was in the water. With each race we did, she would beat me although I did come close a couple of times to beating her. I wrapped the towel under my arms as I got out of the shower in my flat.

Alesha and I had swam for a good hour before we got out for good and said our goodbyes to each other in the locker room after we changed into the clothes that we had been wearing before going swimming. I dried off in my bathroom and went into my bedroom.

I slipped into pyjamas and I settled into my bed. I had already eaten dinner as I had picked something up from a fish and chips shop on my way home and ate some while I was driving home. Swimming had almost completely worn me out as I had been swimming for almost an hour and doing five races with Alesha. It had been so much fun that we had decided that we were going to go swimming on Fridays once a week with each other.

I opened up my laptop and I searched for mermaid tails that I could buy. I had been obsessed with mermaid when I was little but I had given up the obsession when I was fifteen. I searched for inexpensive but good quality ones. I was hoping to find two of them, one for Alesha and one for me.

It was going to be a surprise for Alesha to try swimming in for next Friday, if it was going to arrive in a week. I found one that would compliment Alesha's one piece bathing suit that she had worn for swimming today. She had said that she only wore that bathing suit when she was swimming by herself or with the swim team. I clicked on the order button and bought the tail for Alesha.

I found a tail that was in my favourite colour, red, and it matched my favourite bikini. I had been wearing that bikini when I had seen Alesha swimming for the first time and had seen her prosthetic leg. I ordered the tail for myself and paid for the order. The two tails would be in by the next Friday, when Alesha and I would go swimming next.

I clicked on a new tab and headed to YouTube. If I was going to be wearing a mermaid tail, I would have to learn how to swim like a mermaid. I watched the first video that came up in the search but it wasn't that useful. It looked fairly easy to swim in a mermaid tail but it was going to require a lot of core strength for me to do.

Alesha already had the core strength required for swimming successfully in a mermaid tail because she swam almost everyday in the school pool. Her stomach was completely flat and it looked like she didn't have an ounce of fat on her body.

I was more curvy than Alesha was. My stomach wasn't flat at all, but rounded instead and my hips were wider than Alesha's were. My breasts were even bigger than Alesha's were. Alesha's breasts were tiny but they complimented her figure. She was tall and petite and I was short and curvy.

Our bodies were completely different but I was hoping to lose some weight with going swimming with Alesha once a week. I had a hard time with losing weight and keeping it off. I closed the two tabs I was in and I plugged my laptop into its charger.

I turned my alarm on for the next morning and I set my laptop on my nightstand. I got out of my warm bed, shutting off the light and climbing back into bed blindly. I laid on my side as I closed my eyes and sprawled out in my bed. My body was absolutely exhausted from swimming but it was a welcome exhaustion. I hadn't slept that well the past couple of nights because I had been thinking about Alesha.

It was definate to me that I had a crush on her but either she didn't see that or she was completely straight. It was a total gamble if she had a crush on me.

[] hey guys! Amanda ordered mermaid tails for her and Alesha, despite her age. I really want one. What did you like about this chapter and what do you think is going to happen next? Bye until the next chapter!