Josh Levalie

Chapter 29: To Swim or Not to Swim

A few days has passed since Sky has drowned. It appears as though she's alright however I'm not too sure. "Going to train again?"I said, looking blandly over at her. "Well duh, Laurence is a good teacher unlike you of course" she replies looking back at me with a half smirk across her face. "If you say so, have fun I guess...so when am I going to teach you to sw-" I tried to finish my comment but I get cut off "uhhh never? Duh!" Sky replies punching me softly in the arm and walks away smiling at me, almost as if she's looking down upon me.

An hour filled of relaxation and comfort later, I decide to leave the room due to increasing boredom. In a mad attempt to find the others I begin to speed walk, only to find Laurence and sky fighting as a form training. "So this is there training regimen?...not bad I guess." Out of no where I feel a sharp pain in my head followed by a voice saying "They're weak...I don't get why you're with them". I then hold my head in disgust of those thoughts and surprisingly calm down only to know that sky and Laurence caught on to my audience of their training session. "You know stalking is for the weak right?" Sky says starring at me, her blue eyes starring deep into my soul "Oh shut it" I reply aggressively. Still having a headache from the voice I walk away steadily "uhh?...what's wrong with him" Laurence says looking at sky. "I'll check up on him when he calms down" says sky with an uneasy tone.

          I walked hastily through the resort sitting down on a bench to attempt to catch my breath. Sweat begins to pour down my face, breathing heavily I took this pain as something I felt continuously, yet never got the full control over this discomfort. "Remember who you are...you will always be...ALONE"  says the continuous voice as I snap back into reality. "Yo idiot are you okay?" Says em as she pats my shoulder. Realizing it's her I jolt back into a normal state of mind, knowing that if I tell her what I was thinking things might go south and she'll think I'm crazy. "Yeah I'm good, just thinking about how to teach Sky to swim" I reply chuckling a bit. "You better not hurt her, if you do you're done for got me?" Em replies gripping onto my arm extremely hard, attempting to intentionally hurt me. "Yeah I know, she's actually more precious to me then you think" I reply smirking and walk off ignoring Emily when she says "what's that supposed to mean?!" As I head back to the room.

         Later on in the day sky returns to the hut. Looking up at me she asks the words I never thought she'd ask on this stupid resort trip "will you teach me how to swim?." At first I was hesitant, mainly because I know that she quits things she may not like but after a minute of thinking I finally say "sure". The next day I started to teach her lessons on how to swim, and after the lesson she went on with Laurence to learn better swordsman techniques. A week later she's finally been able to learn to swim a tiny bit with the the rubber floaters. "Just wait here" sky says running off after our lesson was complete and returns with her full gear, sword in hand. 

      "So uh...what's the point of this?" I say confused, as well as semi-pissed off knowing how she's going to reply. "Isn't it obvious?...I want to fight you. First to pin the other wins, easy enough right?.." she says with a snarky tone. Too tired to argue against her idiotic request I simply say "alright I guess, let me change" and so I did. When I got dressed with my axe in hand it was only a few seconds until she attacked, her attacks towards me barely getting blocked by my axe as my eyes attempted to adjust to her movements. "I see you did get stronger...wow that's great!" I say to her while blocking "yeah! So why don't you be a wimp and fight me?" Sky replies angsty and ready for a response. "Because you're too cute to hurt?.." I reply sincerely. "I-I'm not Cute!" Sky says, her cheeks red from the comment, I take advantage and pin her to the ground, declaring me the winner. "Hey! That's not fair you cheated" Sky says pissed off, punching me hard in the gut. Catching my breath I reply "nothing is fair in war" and walk back to the hut.

            "Kill the feather, you'll never be together" I hear over and over as I walk to the hut. "No...I will never hurt her" I say to myself out loud as everything goes black.

[I need some good criticism b/c I haven't written a story in a while, hope this is good enough for now right?]

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