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It’s another checkmark in the Reasons Not to Date a Hale, Cobalt, or Meadows category I worry aboutabout how I’d handle the rew up totally out of the spotlight

I don’t want the loss of privacy or Negative fucking Nancies to take a toll on their er ahead isn’t depriving reatest love I’ve ever experienced

Fuck fear

Fuck the media

Fuck the dirty mole

My stopwatch goes off, jolting hts

I see the ti the backstroke in his lane His flutter kick has improved since day one, but his body roll from side to side has ht now, he looks like a bobblehead dunked in water On a clipboard, I jot a note next to his name

Needs to isolate head while shoulders and hips rotate – backstroke sucks

He’s definitely not in contention to qualify for the Olympic team

Being fucking frank, only two people here are good enough to e of the pool and pulls off her goggles A Warwick swim cap hides her platinum blonde hair “How’d I do?” she asks Coach Reed, who’s keeping track of her times

“Four seconds faster than your last lap Good work”

She froater dripping down her fair, white skin “Yeah, but how far from the record?”

He winces “Still fifteen seconds behind”

She blows out a frustrated breath Know that feeling Her eyes flit to

“Oh hey, you’ll get there,” I encourage That’s what coaches do after all, right?

She s your record?”

My stodestroyed in just a few years Those words stay at the back of ement over pride That’s what e

The two days I spent there, we actually had good talks…about swi

Yeah, I was a fucking coward and we avoided all conversation about Banks and Akara I just really wanted hi up stone into hi cool with my boyfriends