Yo felt like she had performed her best dive yet as the middle school girl pulled down her goggles and climbed up to sit on the side of the pool while the next girl on the team prepared to practise for their upcoming competition.

Quietly Yo thought to herself that the reason she had performed so well was because the ever-bright Chika was sitting in the stands cheering at the top of her lungs for her best friend despite this just being practise, bringing a smile to Yo's face that she had such a great friend.

"That was so amazing Yo, it was like you were flying through the air!" Chika's voice startled Yo slightly since she believed that the ginger was still sitting up in the stands, and ignored the other girls on the team that had already performed their dives giggling about Chika's comment.

Offering a bright smile and salute to Chika as she half-turned away from the pool, Yo chose to remain modest even under the scrutiny of the ginger "I have to go full-speed ahead if we want to win the upcoming competition, right first-mate Chika?"

The pale-haired girl should have expected Chika to dive at her for a hug, but because of the added weight and surprise Yo lost her balance on the edge of the pool and both girls fell into the water with accompanying cries from the other girls standing around out of concern for the pair.

Quickly surfacing together since both had been taught how to swim very early, Yo's first sight was Chika's embarrassed smile after her mistake. Yo wasted little time before scolding her friend since it was important to be careful around the pool "geez Chika, I thought you knew not to jump around near the edge of the pool?"

Instead of answering her friend's question though, Yo was surprised and found her face going bright red when she found Chika's face alarmingly close to hers, and felt a pair of soft lips press against her own. It took her a few moments to realize that Chika was kissing her, as her brain shorted out from the very sudden kiss from the ever spontaneous girl.

"Sorry about making you lose your balance Yo, but you were just so amazing that I felt like I was going to burst if I didn't show you how impressed I was" Chika claimed once she pulled back, rubbing the back of her head nervously and saying nothing about the impromptu kiss.

Yo wasn't able to form proper words to further scold Chika so the two climbed out of the pool quietly before being pulled aside by one of the older girls on the diving team to be scolded for horsing around by the edge of the pool, though got away with the girl sighing in exasperation since this wasn't the first time Chika Takami had caused a ruckus at practise.

None of the girls on the diving team appeared to notice that Yo lent Chika her towel so the ginger could dry off after they were dismissed by the older girl, or that the ashen-haired girl briefly smelled the towel with a smile from the scent of oranges she knew was caused by her best friend while she took her turn to dry herself.

And only their parents noticed when Yo and Chika came home from Yo's diving practise with their fingers intertwined and a sly smile on their faces.