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CHAPTER ONE

Showoff, I thought, rollinginto the water

As always, the water felt wonderful and I felt wonderful in it, feeling as if I had turned into a mermaid as I propelled myself forith practiced strokes

People often said I was born to swi butterflies inside my mother’s womb and I believed it

In the water, I felt light and at ease

It wase my skin as it washed all my worries away

When I was in the water nothing bothered me My cares and worries were left in my wake

And I was fast So fast that no one could hope to compete with me… except for maybe Christina Mallory

She was like a ind, a raging storm

As the coach said, Christina joined the swi ripples

Everyone couldn’t stop talking about her, about what a good swih some of her strokes were sloppy, in my opinion

And they went on and on about how pretty she was

Pretty?

Just because she had deep diht blue eyes didn’t mean she was pretty

And it definitely didn’t irl on the team

All s and a er shoulders

Granted, she had bigger boobs, but that didn’t h her down?

The worst part was that Christina had everyone fooled

All the other girls ad jaws and wide eyes, and no doubt, if they earing Speedos, they’d have tents pitched in them, too