Chapter 2: Convincing
Dyme pulled the boat up to the dock and let the others climb out before he got out and tied it to the dock. On these little islands they didn't worry too much about people stealing things.
"Isa?" Dyme said and walked up to his friend, sitting in the shade of a palm tree. Poor Isa's skin was bright red, he'd be feeling that burn tomorrow. Isa looked up at him with distaste. He was probably still angry about being pulled into the water. "I'm sorry about the whole getting pulled into the water thing, I was just having some fun, that's all."
Isa was fourteen, smart, and for the most part a nice guy. Did it embarrass him that a thirteen year old could swim better than him? yeah. Did it bother him the thirteen year old was Dyme? Not really. Dyme was better than everybody, yet he acted like he wasn't. Sometimes it was too annoying.
"I can't swim" Isa said flatly, hating to admit it to Dyme. He instantly knew he should have said something else the way Dyme's eyes enlarged.
"You can't !" Dyme said, shocked. Isa nodded bitterly. "well come on then I'll teach you." He smiled warmly at Isa and indicated for him to get up.
Isa shook his head violently. " No way, your so much better than me at everything, the notion is offensive to yourself."
It took Dyme a moment to turn Isa's words into simpler ones. While he was quick in body, he was a bit slow in the head. " So your saying you won't let me teach you cause I'm better than you? That's silly, you need some one better than you to teach you or else you won't learn a thing. Besides, give me a week and I'm sure you'll probably be even better than me." He smiled again and then sat down next to Isa, who shook his head again.
'There goes Dyme again, being humble, it's infuriating sometimes ' Isa thought to himself.
Dyme frowned. "fine, you be that way then" he huffed, a pouty look on his face. Isa chuckled at his friend. Even Isa thought the look was adorable. He'd never tell a soul but there was something charming about his dear friend.
Isa sighed, he couldn't say no to that face. " And what pray tell do you want me to do? You gonna just toss me out in the water again?"
Dyme laughed " of course not. I'd never dream of that my buddy o pal, unless you want me to." He laughed as Isa shook his head violently. " I got it, tomorrow We'll start you out on swim lessons. I'm come to your house and pick you up. Prepared for a lot of work ahead of you." Dyme grinned and poked his friend hard on the chest before getting up and walking off.
((authors note: sorry that it took way long only to end up WAY short. I've been working on a bunch of fan fics all at the same time and I'm ending up with way long chapters on some of them and then like nothing on the others. I promise this will be the last tiny dinky stupid chapter you'll have to see. The next ones gonna be way long to make up for the wasted time ))