"What do you mean you can't swim?" Makoto asked me.

"I just never learned how..." I awkwardly shifted my feet and stood by the pool.

"And you decided to go to a water park?"

"Yes."

And with that answer, Makoto sighed. He helped me into the water and told me to lay flat. However, right when my feet lifted up from the bottom, I dropped like an anchor. This went on for fifteen minutes with me trying every way to float, and yet none of them worked. Makoto decided maybe keeping his hands underneath me and helping me to stay a float would allow me to swim. Things were going great, until he decided to move. It was tragic. I felt like a three year old learning how to ride a bike and when the parents let go, immediately they smash into a mail box. No matter which way I swam, I just couldn't.

This was all too weird for me. Never had anything been so challenging, and even if something had been I did accomplish it. But this one, this simple little thing, was like climbing Mount Everest. Nagisa patted me on the back and got me a present. Floaties. So now, I felt even more as a child learning to ride a bike. Expect, the training wheels were replaced with inflatables that had butterflies printed all over them. How wonderful.

Since I had already paid for the ticket, I still ended up going to the water park. Of course, I had my embarrassing floaties on the whole time. Little children would look at me and laugh, because even they hadn't worn these for years. Rin would bark back at them, causing the kids to run away. I did feel sorry for the kids, but at the same time not.

"How is he going to ride a water slide if he doesn't know how to swim?" Sousuke crossed his arms.

"That's easy!" Nagisa threw his arms around me. "He'll just have to ride only the ones that he can with me!"

So, sure enough, everything I rode that day, I rode with Nagisa gripping onto my back. As soon as we would hit the pool at the bottom of the slide, Nagisa would paddle me to shore. The whole ordeal was a mess, but at least everyone made it special.

Haru went on every single ride I believe, not wanting to miss out on any water fun. Makoto followed him, making sure he didn't cut in lines because he was too eager to go swimming. Sousuke, Rin, and Nitori walked around at their own pace and would occasionally split up to go on different rides. When we would all meet up, every hour or so, Nagisa would insist on getting ice cream and Rin would "check" my floaties to see if they were holding up to the "extreme use". Despite him not wanting others to laugh at them, he sure did enjoy joking about them every chance he got. But that's okay, because it actually made me wearing them feel a bit better.

Towards the end of the day, we hit the gift shop and all of us got a little key chain with the animal that represented us best. Sadly, they did not have any butterflies, so Nagisa made one out of some toothpicks, foam pieces from hats, and beads. The key chain he made me looked better than anyone they could have sold there.

When we were walking back to the hotel, Nagisa pulled me aside away from the others. Carefully, he looked around.

"What?" I asked.

Then Nagisa pulled me into a kiss. "That was the most fun I've had in a while."

I didn't know what to say, so I just rejoined our lips again. Almost naturally, I whispered, "I love you."

And he whispered it back.