Into the woods I P U B L I S H E D

20.

„My heart is all yours,

as yours is all mine."

- Elizabeth

Elizabeth

I swam up and down the swimming pool as fastest as I could. The water was splashing all around me as I tried to break my personal record, and also win against Monica, the blond haired girl from Nicklaus's group.

She glanced over at me for a second before she went under the water again.

She swam really fast for a person, even If I have to admit that it was hard to catch her but I wasn't going to let her win. We both started swimming faster when coach Wolf announced that this was the last line.

Students were screaming our names. Some of them, I mean her group, was screaming her name, while Kathryn, Ashley and some of the students were screaming my name.

Nicklaus, on the other hand, was sitting silently on the bench with his arms and legs crossed, a small smile of admiration spread on his lips.

„Come on, Elizabeth. You can beat this blond bitch!" Kathryn yelled.

„Watch your language, Miss. Walton," Coach warned her. He stood next to her with a stopwatch in his hand.

„Sorry coach," Kathryn apologized.

There were a few meters left and I closed my eyes, scared of the ending. My mind turned blank as soon as I touched the end of the pool with my hands.

Diving out, I could hear them screaming. At this moment, I didn't know which name they were screaming until Kathryn, Ashley and a few of the students that I didn't know their names lifted me up and started shaking me.

„You won!" Ashley hugged me with every strength that she had.

I hugged her back. I didn't expect to win but I had to say, the feeling was pretty amazing. I felt like a champion.

„I knew it!" Kathryn joined us in the hug.

„Girl, please let me go. Snälla du," I said in my mother language. Probably realizing what it meant, they let me go with a smile on their face.

„Congrats Zemerlöw," Everyone turned quiet when the coach walked to us with Nicklaus beside him. Coach threw a towel at me. „I didn't expect you to be such a great swimmer."

„Neither did I," I joked as I wrapped the towel around my body. „She was a hard competitor." Monica and the rest of the group walked to us. She was wrapped in a towel too but she wasn't happy at all. Her face was dark, furious. And something I haven't seen before. Sadness.

Boby was the first one who congratulated me on the win. Then came John, the blond-haired boy and at the end Lara, the exotic green haired girl. Monica didn't congratulate me, she just stood there, watching every person congratulating me.

Nicklaus came to her, leaned down and while staring at me, he whispered something down at her that made her eyes widen. She turned to him and stared him in the eyes.

„So here is a perfect example that you can be better with just a little practice," I took my chance by sneaking out of the group as the coach gave them a speech how to be better, and made my way to Monica and Nicklaus.

„Hey," Both of them looked at me. „You were really good," I stretched my hand at her. Looking down at it, she glanced back at me. „You were really good too, for a human," She passed next to me, and at the same time, she bumped into me with her shoulder.