Jake woke up the next morning to the sound of Emily whispering in his ear.

'Hey, you, I've gotta get to work.' she said smiling at him. he then turned to the clock and Jumped out of bed.

'I'm Late! I fell asleep.' he said jumping out of bed and running around trying to get dressed. 'I feel asleep there gonna kill me.'

'There not going to kill you.' she laugh as he puled on his jeans

'This isn't like school, they don't hand out detentions in the military.' he said put his t – shirt over his head and grabbing his jacket as Emily laughed they both rushed for the door. 'You smell really good'' he said to her.

'Ha I smell like you.'

'He never came back?' Andrea asked Skinner as the pair walked into the empty boys dormitory. All the beds were left slept in and un made however as they approached Jake's bunk his remained the only bed still in shape.

'Nope.' said Skinner as the pair walked up to his bunk. 'Wow, four years as Lead instructor and I never had one go missing.' he said clear enjoying the fact that he could accomplish something Andrea at this precise moment couldn't.

'All right take the others to the pool, I'll catch you up.'

'aye, aye Senior.' Skinner left Andrea nealing against Jake's bunk for a minute then she turned to his locker which was next to her and opened the door.

''Oooh ar oooh yeah!'' the Cadets chanted as they jogged round to base. 'Oooh ar oooh yeah!'

'Oh god, there they are Stop. Stop the car.' Jake told Emily as they pulled up outside the base.

'Here?'

'Yes.'

'I'll call you.' Jake said giving her a quick kiss before running out of the car, he had started to make a run towards the dormitory when she called him back.

''Oooh ar oooh yeah!''

'Jake! Jake! Jake!' she said getting out of the car and running up to him with his jacket.

''Airman Fischer coming in late, yeah'' They chanted jogging past them. ''Airman Fischer coming in late, yeah''

'Here.' she said handing his jacket to him as he ran of the Cadets jogged past Emily who gave them and embraced sort of solute.

'Oooh ar oooh yeah!'' 'Oooh ar oooh yeah!''

'Must be nice to go out on a date, yeah'' they continued 'Must be nice to go out on a date, yeah''

As Jake burst in to the dormitory he came to a sudden stop when he saw Andrea sitting on the bunk below his readying from a large album she had found in his locker.

'Oh, my goodness, look at this she said sarcastically not looking at him. 'Look at this. ''Freshman Leads Team to State Title.'' she said readying the newspaper cutting an looking up at him. 'That's you. Holy smokes, ''At only 16, Jake Fischer displays the traits of a seasoned athlete. One things for sure: the future looks bright for this young competitor'' hum. She said closing ht album. 'Guess they didn't no you were gonna flunk out of ''A'' school.' she said putting it back in the locker and giving Jake a stern look.

'You have a nice evening?' she asked not waiting for a reply as she walked towards the door. 'Get dressed.'

Once the dormitory door had shut behind her Jake walked to his locker and put his jacket in then slamming the door shut.

'I think we need another brick.' Andrea said.

She was standing on the edge of the pool with Jake at her side, as a way of punishment he was being forced to watch the rest of his class tread water all holding up a crate full of large concrete bricks.

'Goldfish?' she said but Jake didn't move, 'Goldfish?'

Jake regretfully place another heavy concert brick on top of the create, his team gave a painful sigh as he let go.

'Thanks' to Mr Fischer's extracurricular activities, you have all now gone 36 hours without sleep.' Skinner said sitting in the life guards chair with a cup of tea in his hands.

'Blow it.' Andrea said to Jake who blew his whistle. 'Class leader you are done. Form it up in the shallow end.'

'Aye, aye Senior chief' a student called. 'Class 5506, form it up!' together the class started to swim up towards the pool, Jake went to get his life jacket to go and give them a hand, but Andrea stopped him.

'No. no, no. you're with me.' she said. Jake gulped wondering what else could be in store for him.

'I'm a rescue swimmer, yes, I am' Jake shouted in between mouthfuls of water as he started treading water in the pool holding a water container full of water over his head, and Andrea standing over him with a hose in his face, 'I'm here to pull your ass out of this jam. I jump from the helo and swing from from the cable.'

'All right knock it off.' Andrea said final putting the hose down. 'I am having a hard time figuring you out, Fischer. I mean you like seeing your picture in the paper? In it for the glory maybe a few chicks am i right? But when it comes down to it, you will choose yourself over them every time. Like you did on the first day in the pool, like you did yesterday by missing muster.'

'Won't happen again, Senior Chief!'

'Why don't you do us both a big favor and quit?'

Jake didn't say anything but continued to pour water over his head, 'I'm a rescue swimmer, yes, I am, I'm here to pull your ass out of this jam. I jump from the helo and swing from from the cable,' she stuck the hose on him again, 'I'm not Tarzan I'm just willing and able,' he said throwing the now empty water bottle across the pool. He looked at her for a second the shouted. 'Give me something else Senior Chief.'

and that something came in there next lesson, Andrea walked up to the pool side the next day to find the class doing knee rest by the side of the pool she was carrying a large record bord. At the top it had the heading 'AVIATION SURVIVAL TRANING CENTER'' or also known as ''A'' school it then had then had another heading saying 'WATER RECORDS' under that there was a list of eight different events the time it had been done in and the name of the person holding the record. And in each column where it said name said, Dunbar.

'Stop, Drop them Senior Chief on deck, pop tall.' officer Watson called and all the cadets stood up.

'Oorah! They all called and Jake glanced over and watched as Andrea pulled her own name of the last event, 'Oxygen Deprivation' and replaced it with Jake's, who grinned to himself.

'Morning class, today we were going to learn, about how to approach a drowning victim in high sea,' she said pacing in front of them. 'but i think there are some here, who aren't interested in that victim.' she said as she passed Jake. 'Fact, I think there is some in this class, who aren't interested in saving lives at all. I believe there are some, who are more interested in setting records,' she said looking at Jake. 'So today is record day.'

Jake smiled to himself, 'Easy.' he thought to himself.

There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out

That morning Andrea sat in the life guards chair and watch as her class raced against each other.

'Ha, 5:28'' Skinner shouted as Jake came to the side of the pool.

'Put one on the borad for Goldfish.' Andrea called as on of the officers took her name of the '500 yard gear swim' and place Jake's in it's place.

Every now and again Andrea would walk around watching Jake and commenting, 'Wow, he's fast.' or 'He's good'


There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out
There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out

After Jake successfully beat another one of Andrea's record Charlie, stuck out his hand to Jake. 'You got it, man! You got it, Fisch!'

'Another record. Calk it up, Chief!' Skinner called, Andrea who happened to have returned to sitting above, stood up cheering int eh most sarcastic way she could swinging her arms about.

'Wooooo! You are the man.' she shouted pointing at him. 'You people do not deserve to be in the same pool as Jake, he's deserting you.' she called making him a little embarrassed and Skinner to go her a wired look.

'Wow look at him go! He's fast!' she called 'He's fast! Come on you're all fighting for second. Just first loser. This is fun, we'll pass out trophies later.' by this point the other officers had started to look at her funny to. As Jake finished his final race Andrea who had been timing him came up to waters edge. 'Unbelievable' she said putting her hand out like Charlie's. 'Unbelievable' Jake looked at her as though she was stupid, after all she had been taking the mike out of him but took her had all the same.

There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out

'Want me to pull these pansies out?'

There ain't no easy way no there ain't no easy way out

'You do not want to here about my day.' Jake told Emily that night as they both sat in Maggie's Hanger.

'Yeah I do.'

'Aww, Man the Lass Dunbar. You know it doesn't matter what I do. It's just not good enough.' he told Emily

'Maybe she's trying to push you to be better. You know we teachers only do that to the one's we believe in.' she said

'No it's personal with me.' he said, ' She knows that I'm better then she was.' Maggie who had been cutting slices of lemon near by looked up with a stern look on her face. 'I mean today I broke all of her records, I mean i owned them all.'

'Not all of them.' Maggie said, 'There's one record you won't break,' she walked over and took a framed newspaper cutting on the back of the bar and showed them it. 'This is the Aegis.' she said showing them a newspaper cutting with two photo's one of a Ship and one of Andrea and the headline: ''THE AEGIS BURNS AND SINKS MEDICAL TRANSPORTER DISASTER Coast guard Swimmers Execute Dramatic Rescue''. 'Medical Ship caught on fire. It was a nightmare. People burning in there beds, and Andrea Dunbar got everyone of those people of there, except for this one person, a thirteen year old boy.' Emily looked at the photo with her mouth open. 'And right when the ship started to go down, she reaches down and grabs this person. She's hanging from the cable with this childs life in her hands, and the winch jams. It's twenty minutes to the base. The kids screaming. Andrea looks him dead in the eye, and you know what she said? She said, ''I won't let go.''

'What happened?' Emily asked.

'Dislocated her shoulder tore every tendon in her hand. But she didn't let go. Twenty minutes, just finger tips. You break that record, then you give me a call.' she said to Jake putting the photo back and getting back to work. Jake and Emily looked at each other.

'My day was OK.' Jake final said.

Back at the Base Andrea was alone in the pool swimming up and down as fast as she could timing her self.

I need to step outside
Another day
Marks another way
Marks a new reason to hide
It's true when you slip
You slide
On the ground
Been pushed down by this
Primitive pride

As she go to the edge she kept timing herself

My voice a stifled symphony
My veins pump
Liquid lethargy

But no matter how hard or fast she went, she couldn't beat Jake's record

I may be turning blue
I may have some work to do
But try me
Tri -me

Emily sat in her dressing gown on the floor of her bedroom cutting out colored paper fish, when Jake popped his head out from underneath the bed covers.

'So here's my thinking, we should go on a date.' he said suddenly.

'Well what do you call this?'

'No, no, no, I'm talking about, like, a real date.' he reached over and picked up a card board fish and started helping her to cut them out. 'I'm talking about, like a real date. You know, with, like a nice restaurant some nice clothes, I'll get you some flowers.'

'I thought we agreed to keep this casual.'

'Look, it's one steak, What is ... One steak is not gonna, forge some kind of a lasting emotional bond.

Emily looked at him pointing the tip of her scissors at him, 'I'm serious.'

'Yeah so am i''

'It's one dinner, what it going to hurt?'

'Well, if you order a stake, I'd imagine a cow would be involved.' she looked as he nealed towards the floor and noticed he had a tattoo of a number ''2'' on his right shoulder. 'What do you have an art Gallery over here? What is this ''2''?'

'Ah, so the guy behind me knows what place he's coming.' he grinned.

'What about this one?' she asked lifting his arm over her and pointing at an anchor shape on his arm.

'That is the initials of the guys on my high school relay team.' he said quietly, he had suddenly become very sheepish.

'A drunken celebration gone wrong?'

'Something like that,' he was then very quick to change the subject. 'So about this date.'

'God, it's just dinner right? No flowers, where we will discuss nothing emotional or important?' she said getting of the floor and climbing into bed with him.

'I am fully prepared, to do an hour on nothing but the, Glasgow Bears. And we can have completely meaningless sex immediacy afterwards.' Emily gave a very fake, sigh of shock.

'You think I'm going to sleep with you on our first date? Ha think again.' she then gave a laugh as he pulled the covers over them.

'Ah you just head butted me.' he laughed, 'I'm gonna teach you the breast stroke. It's pretty complicated, different then that of the butterfly.' he laughed.

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