It had been a few weeks since Homecoming and things at school were the same as they had been before. Cass would go to her classes, eat lunch with her friends and boyfriend, and after school either spend time at home or out with the goths. It was simple and repetitive but she enjoyed it.

Today was not one of those days. Today was the day she was going to be trying out for the South Park high school swim team. The team had only formed about 3 years ago and they honestly weren't that good. Cass was hoping to change that.

She said goodbye to her friends and drove to the nearby indoor pool. As it turned out South Park only had one pool for the whole town. It made it easier to find even though it was tucked away near the outskirts of town.

When Cass arrived she saw a small group of kids from school. There was Nicole, Tweak, Clyde, Red and a few others she didn't remember the names for.

"Excuse me is this the right place for the South Park swim team tryouts?" she asked.

"Yep you're in the right place! You must be new here. I'm Alexander." Alexander stuck his hand out and Cass gave it a polite shake.

"Actually I think we have art class together. I made the crocodile sculpture on my first day? You did a football one?"

"Oh right! The Foreign chick! I didn't know you liked sports."

"I really only like swimming, other than that I don't really do sports."

"Still a girl who likes sports is pretty ho-"

"Alright everyone quiet down and listen up!" All the kids turned around to see Coach Reville. "If you're here that means you want to be on the South Park High School Swim Team. The question today is if you are ready to be on this team."

She lead the kids to the locker rooms. The boys went off on their own and the girls followed her into the locker room.

"I don't think I need to explain this but there will be no bikinis or anything other than single piece sport swimsuits. If you don't have one we will allow it today but if you make on the team you will have to wear the correct uniform." All the girls nodded their heads. "When you're finished meet me by the pool. You have 5 minutes." Coach Reville left and the girls went to changing.

Cass had brought her old swimsuit that she used for the team back in Australia. It was plain black except for the teams logo on the top right.

"Do you think you'll be able to make it?" Cass turned and saw Red pulling her hair into a bun.

"I hope so. I really love swimming," Cass answered.

"Its pretty fun. Most of the time we lose the meets but its still fun to swim."

"This team isn't about having fun you know?"

Cass and Red spun around and saw a tall girl with black hair that was cut in a bob.

"I'm sorry?" Cass said not sure if she should be apologizing.

"Yeah, you should be. If you want to have fun go swimming on the weekend. Don't ruin my squad just because you want to swim." The girl walked away and Cass just stared in disbelief.

"Who was that?" she asked Red.

"Oh that's Veronica Mildrew. She's been on the team since she was a freshman and is honestly a bitch."

"Yeah she definitely seems like it."

The girls finished changing and made their way out to the pool where the Coach and some of the boys were waiting. Once everyone had joined Coach Reville went over the swim team tryout process.

"First thing is going to be a test of your knowledge. I'm going to call out certain strokes and you have to swim one lap. This will determine how comfortable you are with that stroke and if you know how to do it properly. This will be done in groups of five. Then in the same groups of five you'll do two laps of the side stroke, two butterfly, two back stroke, and two freestyle. Once everyone has gone tryouts will be over and the results will posted by Friday outside my office."

Coach Reville told everyone to get in groups of five. Cass and Red were in one group with two boys neither of them knew and Veronica.

The tryouts went fairly fast and soon Cass was showering the locker room before heading home. She felt she had done pretty well and was confident she would be considered for the team.

Before getting in the car she felt her phone buzz. It was a text from Michael.

'Did you make the team?'

'I'll know Friday morning. The results will be posted by the athletic offices'

'okay. Do you want to grab some dinner and watch a movie?'

'Sure'

Cass got in her car and drove over to the City Wok to get some dinner for her and Michael. By the time she got home he was already inside in the living room watching her brother play some video game.

"Hey babe, hope X didn't bother you too much. I know he can be annoying all the time."

"I am not! Besides he wanted to watch me play Sylent Psychopath 3: The revenge of Marvdo," Xavier said not even looking away from his game.

"He was fine. What did you get for dinner?"

"I got us some City Wok. I got you your favourite," Cass said handing Michael the bag. "Come on lets head upstairs. See you X, have fun killing whatever." Xavier just gave a nod not even looking away from the screen.

"So how do you think you did?" Michael asked sitting down on her bed and unpacking the food.

"I think I did well. It didn't seem hard so that either means I did great or horrible."

"I'm sure you did great."

"Thanks babe," Cass said planting a kiss on Michael's cheek. "So what do you want to watch?"

"I don't care, what's on Netflix?"

The pair browsed through Netflix for a while before deciding on some low budget horror movie. Cass only made it 20 minutes in before she fell asleep on top of Michael. When he noticed she was asleep he only smiled, turned the volume down, and got ready to sleep as well.