Curveballs (Chapters from 200 on.)

7.38 Grinding - Face To Face

I put the last two fries in my mouth and jumped up from my seat. After being so nice to me before, he really pissed me off. I would embarrass the shit out of him! Dave took his time before eventually getting up, too. In my anger I felt a bit of pee running down my leg, but I didn't care because 1. he was walking side to side with me, 2. my swimsuit was still a bit wet and 3. the showers were only a few steps in front of me. You'd think the cool water would sort of ease me up but wrong. It just hid my urine ^^

"Why so serious? We're just doing this for fun after all, right?", Dave suddenly sang small after he had joined me in the shower. We were face to face.

"If you say so...", I snubbed him and withstood the temptation to touch ^^ Instead I bumped him with my shoulder on the way out. I played it off all tough, but my shoulder hurt like hell afterwards ^^ He took a quick shower and followed me to the swimming pool. It was pretty crowded.

"That's a pity"

"We could take turns and measure each other's time", I suggested.

"No. See that the middle is pretty crowded, but there's a little space on the edges of the pool? I'd say you take the left side and I stick with the right one", he suggested and after taking a closer look I saw there was indeed space on the outsides. I quickly nodded.

"But no pushing off!"

"So we just start sitting in the water?"

"Sounds good to me", I agreed and jumped into the water on my side. Dave stretched a bit before he eventually jumped into the pool on his side. I had never tried to swim with one arm only in my life so I didn't know what to expect. I just guessed that it would make the footwork a lot more important. How wrong I was ^^

Since we were almost 20 feet away we didn't use an acoustic signal. Instead Dave raised his hand and after I nodded he raised one finger after the other. Once the third finger was up he slammed his hand into the water and I did the same. After only two swim strokes I knew this wasn't going to be easy at all. After finally getting into a swimming position I actually had a hard time swimming straight. Since I was swimming with my right arm I tended to go to the left. Unfortunately I was swimming on the left side already so I was continuously crashing into the edge. But was that really a matter of fortune or had Dave purposely tried to give me the left side? ^^

When I looked over he was struggling as well, but then he made an adjustment. He just switched arms! That was something I couldn't just do ^^ He had started with the left one and faced the same problems as me before he eventually began swimming with the right one. It wasn't pretty but he was definitely faster than me. Dave began looking over to me and I could swear he purposely slowed down to tempt me.