The diver boy - going for gold ♥ (OLD)

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

“Concentrate May!” Kat’s voiced bellowed around the poolside and quite frankly it was making my headache much worse “I’m trying Kat I just can’t get it right” I moaned as I pulled myself out of the pool and sat on the end; I rubbed my temples trying to make my headache feel better. “You did it perfect the other day what’s gone wrong?” “Trust me if I knew I would tell you” I said sharply. “Take a break for a bit then try again” she said and walked off. She doesn’t understand I wasn’t deliberately trying to annoy her it’s just that today I can’t seem to get the fucking dive right. I walked towards the chairs at which my bag was placed and I sat down. I grabbed a couple of paracetamol tables from my bag and took them. I put my head in my hands trying not to think too much hoping this stupid headache would disappear soon. “Fuck sake!” mumbled. Sometimes I don’t think Kat realises I am still at school with exams coming up like last night I stayed up until 2 in the morning revising then I had to be up at 5 for training and here I was at the pool at 8 o’clock at night and there was no way Kat would let me leave anytime soon. I just wanted to go home and sleep. “You okay?” I heard a sweet smoothing voice getting closer. I didn’t bother to even look up and see who it was because I knew it was, it was the only person who wouldn’t piss me off right now.

He sat down into the seat next to me and put his hand on my shoulder “I just can’t get the fucking dive right and I was up late last night revising for my exams and to make things fucking worse I have a mother fucking headache” I groaned. “What dive is it?” he said “Reverse two and a half somersaults, tuck I just keep over rotating as I enter the water” I sighed. “Any way why are you here aren’t you meant to be in the gym doing your core stuff” I said changing the subject “Well Kat just walked in kinda in a mood then said how she did understand how you did a dive so well on Saturday and what had changed” “Then I asked Andy if I could take 5 minutes and he said yes so here I am now seeing if you are ok” he smiled “Do you want me to talk you through it and show you how I do it” he asked. “If you wouldn’t mind at least you will probably explain it better than Kat does” I shrugged “I’ll just go tell Andy and get changed” he smiled and began to walk away “And don’t worry with me as your teacher you should get it in no time” he winked “Or it could go terribly wrong” “Not with my amazing self as you coach” he grinned “Cocky much”. He laughed and walked off.

Soon enough he walked out of the changing rooms in his speedos, then I saw Kat followed by Andy walk back in. Tom walked over to me “I told them and Andy said it would be probably be good for me to explain to dive because it will make me think about the dive or some shit like that” he said confused “Okay thanks again” “Just call me Mr Daley” he winked “Ok Daley” I grinned “Mr…Daley” he corrected “Ok you going to show me or what Daley” I grinned “I should of known that was coming” “Well you kinda brought it on yourself” “Whatever Kido come on let’s go” he said and I stood up and we made our way to the stairs. As I walked over I saw Kat and Andy had very stern looks on their faces, they were both standing up looking directly at us. “Kat and Andy look very concentrated” I said to Tom as we walked; he looked over his shoulder “Yeah they’re probably just making sure I am actually talking to you about diving and not gossiping or something” “Yeah you are probably right”. When we got the stairs he started explaining the dive to me with every detail where my arms should be at each point and how my legs should be, he pointed to each point of the board and explained it and making sure I understood what he was walking about. “…Then as you are just about to enter the water your toes must be pointed and stretch your arms out as far as you can, you got it?” he questioned I nodded. “And don’t think about the dive to much you might be over thinking it, thinking it is harder than it really is.” We reached the 10 meter and we walked to the edge of the board “I’ll do the dive with you if you want” “Yeah okay you count us in” I smiled and he returned the smile. “Okay ready” he turned his head to look at me “Yep” he turned back “1,2,3” he said and we both took a deep breath and dived off the board. I felt myself rotating and then finally as I sliced through the water I knew that dive was much better. I re surfaced and swam to the edge of the water and Tom did the same. We walked over to our coaches “How was it?” “Wow! You both did the somersaults and tuck the exact same time and you both entered the water perfectly much better May” Kat said. “Told you, you could do it” smiled Tom and nudged me. “Yeah dive once more together again” said Andy. Tom and I must have looked confused “You both dive really well together I want to see something” said Andy we both nodded.

We did as we were told and then we made our way to Kat and Andy again. They both had smiles on their faces. “We have decided it would be a great idea to enter you both as a pair in the mixed syncro event if you dive like that you…” “Could maybe if you both work extremely hard” butted in Kat “enter you for the Olympics in the mixed 10 m syncronized platform” finished Andy. I didn’t know what to say I mean I knew Kat was thinking of finding me a partner to try and qualify but I never thought in a million years it would be Tom. “You mean it?” I said they both nodded. “This does mean we have to leave tomorrow night to go to France and enter you both I know it is short notice but it would be definitely worth your while if you both do qualify” said Andy. There was a pause “Well can one of you say something” Kat laughed. I looked at Tom and he looked confused like me. “Wow I wasn’t expecting that ummm but we haven’t practiced at all” said Tom I nodded agreeing with him. “Well this is your one and only chance obviously we will have to check with your parents but trust me you guys just click are you in?” said Andy I looked and Tom and he grinned “We’re in” we both said.