Chapter 12: Rin's A Mermaid? Will Len's Teaching Pay off?

It was the next morning, and a Saturday; a very cold Saturday. Len stood outside the school's pool's doors, in a giant blue coat, waiting for Rin. He had promised to teach her how to swim, and would keep it. Part of his programming was to keep promises such as these, and he hated that part of his programming. He was singing a song to himself quietly while waiting for her, since Len was all alone and bored. Plus, he was super cold.
"Like a~ Fire Flower! Boku ga..." He sung quietly, but stopped the moment he saw Rin come up. She wore a big fluffy yellow and orange coat.

"Sorry for taking so long..." Rin apologized, "I had to clean my room, and my dad was asking five and a billion questions about if you're going to take it to the next level with me."

"Rin, I'm sure he only asked twenty questions." Len rolled his eyes.

"No. He DID ask that many. I counted." Rin was serious about the questions.

"...Holy shit." Len shook his head and remembered the goal of them being here, "Did you bring your swimsuit?"

"Yes." Rin nodded impatiently, "Open the goddamn doors. I'm freezing my ass off."

"Okay, okay. Calm your now developed tits." Len unlocked the doors, feeling Rin's evil glare of rage aimed at him as he did.

Rin took off her coat and pants, revealing the swimsuit she had worn yesterday underneath. Len stripped off his clothing, revealing his trunks from yesterday. Len made sure the water temperature was correct and warm enough for swimming before getting in on the 3 foot side. Rin followed him, brave enough to stand in this deep of water.

"Okay, so you'll have to swimming around four or five foot..." Len told her, "And I have your training gear to get you used to it."

"What kind of gear?" Rin asked, "...And can't you download how to swim into my processor dammit?"

"No." Len replied and handed her floaties, with Hello-Kitty on them, "Put these on your arms."

"You're joking." Rin was not please.

"No." Len shook his head, "I had to wear them too once."

"...I hate you so much sometimes." Rin reluctantly put them on her arms, "What else do I need?"

"Swim out to the 5 foot section." Len said, "Just kick your legs nice and easy, and then move your arms in this motion." Len showed her how to move her arms while swimming.

"O-okay. If you say so I guess." Rin agreed and did as he stated. Her arm motions were spot-on, but her kicking was going to need more work. She swam to the five foot section, still floating.

"Okay, this is a start."

After three long hours of practicing, threats, and comments and thoughts about Rin's physique, Rin finally learned how to swim with Len's help. She was able to take off the girly child floaties and swim with ease. Len watched her from the sidelines as she swam from one end to the other, looking happy and proud of herself. He smiled at her, without being noticed, and closed his eyes for just a moment.

"...Len? Len...?" Len opened his eyes as he heard his name. Rin was in front of him, her head and upper body visible from the water.

"Did I fall asleep?" Len rubbed his eyes, "Or is someone here...?"

"No, you fell asleep." Rin replied smiled, and pushed off from the wall to swim backwards a bit. When she did, Len nearly fell into the water.
Rin had a tail. To be more accurate, a mermaid tail; a yellow scaled tail with yellow-orange fins.

"What the hell?" Len fell into the water at this point. Rin simply smiled, blushing a bit.

"It-it's a secret...Okay?" Rin said, "Every time I'm in the water...with someone I trust..." She looked away from him, as if embarrassed to see the words.

"Well, I'm glad you trust me...It's not like I'd make your drown." Len didn't know how to respond to that, "So um...you're a mermaid Vocaloid?"

"Yes." Rin nodded.

"..."

"Is there something wrong with that?" Rin glared at him.

"No." Len shook his head rapidly, "Nothing at all, just surprised. It's not every day you find out the girl you're pretending to date for money you both agreed with is also a mermaid."

"Fair enough." Rin sighed, "It's not every day you fall in love with an arrogant-..." Rin quickly said, "Um, that you reveal your secret to an arrogant boy you're pretending to date for money." Len wasn't that stupid to not ignore the first part though.

"Repeat the first one." Len requested, "You're in love?"

"..." Rin felt her face get red, "...I didn't say who."

"...Whatever." Len pretended to let it slide, "I'm going to swim a bit I guess...I haven't swam since yesterday..."

"You sound like a swim-aholic." Rin smirked, still feeling bad she couldn't say what she wanted to say.

"Yeah, I sometimes am."

For a whole hour the two swam together, both bothered. Len wanted to know who she was in love with. Tons of people flashed through his head and he wanted to know dammit. Rin wanted to tell him who she loved. She knew people were flashing through his head, that he was mentally needing to know. Finally, Rin had to confess.

"L-len...I..." Rin grabbed his arm, staring him in the eyes, "It's you..." She leaned in ready to kiss him. Len could feel his body hurt, and ache for a strange reason, but he began to lean in nonetheless.

"LEN! PLEASE!"
Len's eyes shot open as he heard those words, and coughed up pool water. He looked up, although confused. Rin was on top of him, looking scared and panting. But now, she was smiling, about to cry.

"What...? What's...going on? We were in the water...and you...?" Len coughed up a bit more water.

"You fell asleep and dropped into the water...You nearly drowned...you scared me!" Rin wiped her eyes, looking relieved to see him alive and breathing, "Are you okay?"

"I did...?" Len blinked a few times, shocked to find out it was all a dream, "I thought and..." Len then smiled, "So...you performed CPR on me? Mouth to mouth?"

"A course you ask those questions." Rin sighed, a slight smile although looking annoyed.

"Yeah. My mouth doesn't taste like oranges every day. Did you do more than CPR?" Len smirked. Rin's face got red.

"Pervert! N-no!" Rin shook her head, looking pissed and flustered now.

"Whatever you say..." Len sat up a bit, propping himself up with his arm.

"What were you dreaming about?" Rin shot back at him, "I heard you say something about 'who's she in love with?'!" Len bit his lip.

"Damn you women are sharp hearers." Len shook his head, not saying what he dreamt about it.

"Tell me! Was it about another girl?" Rin asked, "Your sister?"

"So Rin-chan is jealous?" Len smirked, "Does Rin-chan need a kiss to feel better? Maybe tonight I'll get my 'Rin-chan on?'"

"Don't you dare start!" Rin hissed.

"Does Rin-chan need to go on a date? Or will Rin-chan want me to-" "LEN!"

Trolled ya'll. Not really. I fixed the chapters, so yeah. Chapter 6 is correct and in the correct spot. Finally. Would've done it sooner but I got lazy. Plus, I've had homework nearly every day this week, plus Kingdom Hearts 1.5. I'm level 17, and done with Wonderland. I'm almost done with Deep Jungle and The Coliseum. It's on proud mode too. ~Kingdom Mitsumi