Disclaimer: All things regarding the Twilight Saga belongs to the awesome Stephenie Meyer. All additional characters and the storyline belong to me
Hey guys!, so I finally got the courage to publish one of my stories, it's my first one so please be nice… at least in the beginning. Sorry if I have any mistake, it's my first time writing in English and I'll try to improve it
Anyway, I hope you give it a chance and I promise I'll try to shorten the A/N by next chapter, and as
I hate mornings… period. Even if the reason behind the early call today is the most anticipated trip I've ever had, nope, I'm going to kill Alice for waking me up at four a.m., and the coach for booking the flight… heck, I'll throw the airline from hell as well for having such an early flight. Ok, actually it was my fault first for getting the qualification time so… better not to go there
Regardless of who's fault was it first, the point is we're now at five thirty at Sea-Tac waiting to board the plane that's going to take us one step closer to our very first international swimming event!, yeah… talk about exciting. But let me explain it better for you…
Early may, our swimming coach told us she received an invitation to be guests at the 5th. Annual "Torneo Mercosur", an event held by the "Sociedade Ginástica de Novo Hamburgo", guess where… in Brazil!, she said this was an event that gathers swimmers from different South-American countries and this year they were extending an invitation to selected clubs around the globe to encourage the bonding between continents, and since there were so many for all of us to attend, we needed to achieve a qualification time
So, it was definitely an interesting rest of the year, the event was taking place the third week of December, from the 16th to the 20th, which gave us about six months to get everything ready, we started training an additional hour and a half a day on week days and a couple of extra gym hours on Saturdays, they separated us into three different groups of twenty
_ Flashback _
"Ok, you guys, this is how it's going to be from now on… morning practice from 6 to 7:30, in the afternoon you'll have three different hours, 2 to 5, 4 to 7 and 6 to 10; Carmen has already arranged the lines you'll have free, and don't forget to hit the gym for an hour before you hit the pool" said Eleazar mid-may
"Also, you'll be having an extra gym day on Saturdays; the schedule is on the board so be sure you write your names down for each of them, you can maintain your usual partners if it works for you. Also there you can see the qualifying times so make sure you check it, the qualification meeting will take place the last weekend of august to give us time to arrange any documents we may need. Now go change so we can start" finished Carmen, our assistant coach who was also Eleazar's wife
We were reaching the locker rooms when my very excited best friend reached me. "Can you believe this B?!, we HAVE to make it, I can already see us all tanned for the holidays… OMG, can you imagine how hot we'll look on New Years Eve when we can totally rock the white dress while everybody else is looking like ghosts?"
"Ali, you know there's a possibility we won't be able to have free time to get tanned, right?" I told her trying to reign her over enthusiasm, though I have to admit, sunbathing time sounded amazing
"Oh, come on Bells!, let the girl dream, maybe that'll be encouragement enough to improve her times" said my other best friend, Rosalie. "By the way, you better don't leave me out on the gym time bitches" added giving us the 'I-mean-it' look
The next couple of months came and went between practice, school and every single event we could come up with to raise money to soften the cost for some of the future travelers, and before we knew it, it was qualifying day (or Q-day as Emmet, Rose's boyfriend, called it)
Thank goodness Alice, Rose and I were in the same group, otherwise I truly don't think I would've make it, not because it was hard, but because in the same group with us were Mike (the club's flirter) and Jessica (the second bitch in command)
"Hey, at least we got it way lighter than the guys" pointed Rose just as I finished fuming about Mike for the fifth time on our way to the pool. We've decided to carpool there so we could take turns on the driver's seat on the way back
Hmmm, that was actually right, Emmett and Jasper (Alice's boyfriend) got stuck with Lauren, aka 'bitch extraordinaire'
"Yeah Belly, you had to see it, we came this close to lock her outside and hide her car keys" said Emmet
"Haha, and I swear if it wasn't for Em, Cullen here would've lost his 'gentleman side' that first week after the endless nagging" chuckled Jasper
Oh, yeah… Edward Cullen, he was one of the best swimmers we had, with his 6 feet 2 inches emerald green eyes and coppery unruly hair, oh, and don't forget a body to die for
That first month after the craziness began, Emmett and Jasper started hanging out more with him. He was usually very quiet and always by himself, but with Lauren near, he needed a buffer as Em put it. And so it also began my torment
I've always been able to behave "normally" when around boys… that is until he came to one of our movie nights. I swear I could easily get lost in those eyes, and don't even get me started on the current I always felt whenever our hands touched, or the way every single time we talked, it made me feel like we were on our own little bubble, I just only wished I could be all day in there with him
So, this is it for now, I'm already working on the next one to send it to my awesome V so she can read it, thanks for giving it a chance to swimward/swimmerella
This story is loosely based in a real life situation for me and a couple of friends, that I always thought it could translate great to the fictional world and my dear friend Vane encouraged me to try it. The places described are real, as is the tournament mentioned, I just molded some of the events to fit into what I wanted, I'll do my best to have the links on my profile