Chapter 29: Watched
"Go, go, go Haruka!" the girls cheered as they watched him reach the end of the pool, winning the last competition. The crowd cheered and shouted at the winners as they get their awards.
After the competition the girls went to the boys who were done changing.
"Bo-chan!" Nagisa shouted and jumped on Bo.
"Good job Nagisa!" she said to him, giving him a high five. "Good job Butterfly." she said as she met Rei's eyes. He gave her a small, nervous smile. She takes his hand and high fives it. "If you're not going to do it then I'm just going to have to make you." she smirked, making him shiver and hide behind Makoto.
"Good job Makoto." Gou smiled and gave him a,kiss on the cheek. Makoto blushed and smiled while rubbing his neck.
"Where's dolphin? I want to congratulate him too." Bo asked.
"A spectator is talking to him about going pro when he goes to college." answered Ama-chan. After the girls congratulated the rest of the guys, the decided to go outside and wait for Haru.
As they wait Gou noticed Bo looking somewhere else.
"Bo, Haru will be back soon so don't worry so much." Gou slapped her back.
"I'm not worried about that Gou." she said still looking at the same direction.
"What's wrong then?" Gou changed her attitude instantly.
"I just had a bad vibe." Bo said narrowing her eyes at the direction she was staring in.
"Is something over there?" Gou looked at the same direction feeling anxiety.
"It's light but there's something over there. I feel like it's watching us." Both girls felt tension at the direction. They didn't know where but there was something that made the girls uncomfortably scared.
"Haru's back!" Nagisa shouted. The girls slowly went back to the group and went to congratulate the senior.
Two Weeks Later….
"It's finally over. Swimming season." Bo laid back on the pool grounds.
"Yeah." Gou agreed as she laid on the ground with Bo. "Haru and Makoto are going to leave this place in the spring."
"Man all the memories here…..they are something I wouldn't forget." Bo said.
"Wow you do have a heart."
"Whatever you whore."
"Bitch." then the girls laughed as they remembered how they started out.
"I'm just saying…." Bo continued. "I haven't had this much fun in forever. I think this is the first time I had actual friends. For my whole life, people avoided me and I did the same. This curse, the way they think about my aunt, and of course my attitude." she said reaching towards the sky laughing. "But now I feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world. I have a best friend and a lovely boyfriend. Life doesn't get any better than this."
"It will get better. We have a curse to break." Gou reminded her.
"I guess we do huh." Bo puts her hand down and looked up at the blue sky. "What if we can't?"
"What the hell are you talking about? Of course we will. Why do you think we can't?"
"My family has been under this curse for generations. If they knew how there wouldn't be a curse anymore but...there still is. Maybe there never was a curse but just something in the DNA that we can't get rid of."
"Bo listen to me. We WILL break this curse. It is not part of anyone's DNA. Someone put this on us so we have to break it or else they win. We can't let them beat us." Gou grabbed Bo's hand tightly. Bo stares at her in disbelief. She slowly tightens Gou's hand and gives her a look of determination.
"You're right. We can't let them. This has gone too long and we need to get rid of this curse for once and for all." the girls nodded their heads and give each other a hug and then did their special handshake.
Two Months Later….
"We congratulate Nanase Haruka and Tachibana Makoto from the Iwatobi Swim Club. They we will always be a part of this great club and the winners of our school. We created many memories together over the years but now it's time for new memories. Memories of the future." Rei said handing Haru and Makoto special medals with the bird mascot on it to them.
"Don't go Haru-chan, Mako-chan!" Nagisa cried clinging onto Rei.
"Hey!" Rei yelled.
"Goodness Nagisa you make it seem like they are leaving forever." Bo laughs.
"Well they are. Mako-chan is going to Tokyo and Haru-chan are is going pro at some faraway university!" Nagisa cried clinging harder.
"You're choking me!" Rei complained.
"Not forever though." said Gou. "They will always have a home to come back too. Successful or not. We will always stay or come back. Our home is here." she smiled. Nagisa cried harder and switches to Gou and clings onto her. Everyone smiles and hugs each other. Suddenly Gou's phone goes off.
"Oni-chan what is it?" she asked when she answered the phone.
"Come back home now with Bo. I need to talk to the two of you." he said then hanging up.
"Bo, Rin wants us. Lets go." Gou said kissing Makoto's cheek. Bo kissed Haru's hand and congratulates him again. Then the girls left and head towards the Matsuoka residence.
….
"Rin you needed something?" Gou asked as the girls entered the house.
"Sorry for the intrusion." Bo said looking around the house.
The girls saw Rin sitting on the couch with a scared look on his face. He looked up and quickly told the girls to sit down.
"You two are in danger." he said right after the girls sat on the couch.
"Danger?" Bo raised her eyebrow.
"What danger?" Gou asked. Rin takes out a photo and puts it on the coffee table. In the photo was a 30 something year old tanned man in a loose white shirt with a cowboy hat. The was something that looked like fangs hanging off his hat and some strings made of hair on his shirt.
"Whose this Rin?" asked Gou.
"Shank. Shank Sharkner." Rin says grimly.
"Who?" the girls said in sync.
"One of Australia's top hunter." Rin looks at them with a look of fear. The girls looked at each other puzzled and then looked back at Rin.
…..
"Calm yourself down mate!" the man "Shank" yelled into the phone. "Yeah I know it's been two months but be patient. To kill your prey you have to watch it's movements. Understand the way they think, how they talk, where they go daily, etc, etc. You'll have their head in time okay!" then the man hangs up. He releases a heavy sigh and looks at his wall.
There was pictures of the girls from a distance. He picks up a hunting knife and throws it at the wall. The knife hits Bo's picture and Shank smirks.
"I guess you get the special stuff pretty lady." he said chuckling and walks toward the wall. He pulls the knife out and carefully traces where the knife hit. Right on Bo's chest. Shank takes a marker and makes a start on Bo.
