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"Miss Amakata!" Nagisa yelled, waving the paper around, hitting some small 1st Years in their faces. "We have the swim club form!"
"Ok," Miss Amakata said, taking the form from him. She examined it.
"Nagisa, Makoto, Haru and… Rei?" she asked quizzically.
"My BFF!" Nagisa said, striking a pose. He hadn't stayed mad at Rei for long.
"I see." she replied. "Well, you have two weeks of training and then we can enter you into a competition. I hope you can help us win the tourna-"
"Thanks, Miss Ama-chan! Bye!" Nagisa interrupted. He waved and ran away.
They gathered in Haru's bathroom.
"Makoto, can you please stop breaking into my house," Haru sighed, after he emerged from the bath water.
"If you gave me a spare key-"
"No."
"-then I wouldn't have to. Anyway, I'm just making good use of my skills…"
"Where did you learn how to break into a house?" asked Rei.
Makoto turned to him. "I can't tell you that," he smiled.
Nagisa jumped excitedly. "Mako-chan's involved in all sorts of-"
"Nagisa!"
"Sorry, Mako-chan," Nagisa said unapologetically, still bouncing around. He saw a magazine on the floor. "Hey, it's me on Mizushi!" he said, picking it up. "Aw, Haru-chan, you're so sweet buying this!"
"You left it here the last time you visited."
"Oh."
"Could we possibly get back to the point?" Rei asked. "We've started the swim club. Now what?"
"Now we need to be the best swimmers around so Rin-chan will want to join!" Nagisa said, twirling around.
"Well that sounds easy enough," Rei muttered.
"We have two weeks," Nagisa said, "so Rei-chan really needs to learn how to swim."
"What?" Makoto said, astounded. "You can't swim?"
"Get out of my house," Haru said, splashing him.
Rei wiped the water off his glasses. "Learn some manners, Haruka. Anyway, I'm sure if I study the theory, I'll be fine. That's how I learn most practical things."
"Practical things, like what?" Nagisa said, fluttering his eyelashes up at him.
Rei blushed and pushed his glasses up. He didn't answer.
"Hahaha, Rei-chan," laughed Nagisa, playfully pushing him. He fell in the bath with Haru.
"Calm down, Nagisa," Makoto said, shaking his head. "So. We need a place to practise."
"In here," said Haru, gesturing to the bath.
"I don't think that's going to fit all of us, silly Haru-chan! Even with you and Rei it's a tight squeeze."
Rei shook the water from his hair. "Isn't there a pool near the prison?" he asked, climbing out of the bath. He tried to visualise a map of the town.
"Ah- I can't go there," Makoto said, looking away.
"Well then, what about near the old peoples' home?"
"Eh… can't go there either."
"Hm. What about the public swimming center?"
"Great!" exclaimed Nagisa.
"Ugh." Haru said. He flicked the dolphin toy out of the bath. "It's so crowded in there."
"We'll have to deal with it," Makoto said.