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Chapter 11 – A pool

Once again, I was back to staring out of my window. Wind was blowing in through the window, making the white curtains flow like water. The sun was big and bright in the sky, shedding sunlight down onto the earth.

Shedding light onto the earth, and shedding light onto the pool.

Where the rubble had been a week ago, there now stood a pool. A real pool with real water with real people. Real everything.

My birthday was a week ago.

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I unwrapped one of the last presents form my friends. It was wrapped up in a simple kind of aqua wrapping paper. Tearing the last bit of paper off, I found a full set of swim trunks and blue-ish goggles. The guests in the room seem shocked. Why a swim trunk and goggles when I couldn't swim? But I smiled. "Thank you, Makoto." I knew exactly what he was up to.

The ecru haired male returned my smile. "We'll go swimming again, right Haru?" After all this time, Makoto seemed to cling onto that.

I gave a brief nod and everyone in the room relaxed.

Out of all the birthday presents, I got a cake from Nurse Ayano and Ama sensei, a soft and fluffy dolphin plush toy from Nagisa, a few books on sports from Rei, a stationary set for drawing from Kou and a pair of swim trunks and goggles from Makoto. All that was left was his present.

"Oh, now it's time for Rin-chan to give Haru-chan his present!~" said the cheerful Nagisa. Rin looked to me sheepishly at first. He pointed to the window. "Um... my present was a little too big to fit in the room." Makoto gave him a knowing smile.

Makoto and Rin walked over to the window, pulling back the white curtains. I could feel my eyes widening at the sight.

It was a pool.

It was a pool. The sun was setting, casting soft light onto the water, making everything look magical. The others were pretty surprised too. Nagisa and Kou's mouths were hanging open while Rei adjusted his glasses over and over. Ama sensei just stared disbelievingly at it.

"How?" I managed to squeeze out of my mouth.

Rin kept silent. Makoto shook his head and gave him a nudge. "Sorry, Haru. Rin thought you would get mad at him for this."

Get mad at him?

"In actuality, Rin came to my house one day and told me about his plan to build a swimming pool near the hospital. He said that you kept on looking at the boring old dilapidated houses out there, and that you would've liked to see a pool. So we came up with a plan. He would donate the money needed to build the pool and the pool would be given to the hospital eventually. All I had to do was keep you from looking out the window."

So that was why I kept hearing construction noises. They came in the morning and at night. I had thought that they were renovating the houses, but Rin actually went and did this.

"Where'd you get the money from, nii-chan?" asked Kou.

"The bank. It was from my account anyway." replied Rin. He was still afraid to look me in the eye.

"Built it in a week or two?" questioned Rei while he readjusted his glasses. "That's pretty quick, according to my calculations."

Rin clicked his tongue. "I hurried them to do it." His eyes glided to the pool. "It was important."

The water just shined so brilliantly. "Thank you, Rin."

Startled by the sound of my voice, he snapped his head up at me. Looks like he wasn't afraid anymore.

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I have to admit, it does pain me a little that I didn't get to swim an inch, but looking at it everyday does wonders for my heart. Just the look of it calms me down, readying me for anything.

My boyfriend knows how to make me happy alright.