After a seemingly unbearable day filled with lectures and a steadily growing amount of homework, Lena was finally able to make her way to the one place that seemed to be her salvation. The pool was the only place that Lena could clear her mind, take out her frustrations, and not care what others thought. After a good swim, she always felt back to herself again and definitely less stressed. In a discussion with Coach Pierce earlier that morning, she had found out his intentions to make her the girl's swim team captain. To say the least, Lena was honored and ecstatic about the proposition. However, this was going to mean that she was going to have a lot more responsibilities to the team, and it was going to be her job to keep the other girls' heads on straight and keep them focused. This was a task that she really didn't know if she was going to be ready for.

"Hey Lena.," said Tana as she walked up to her on the way to the locker room. Lena was so deep in thought that she really made no move to acknowledge her best friend. Tana nudged Lena and said, "What's on your mind Laney-bug?" "What? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.," said Lena, glancing at Tana. "Yeah, I can tell. You're kind of deep in thought. I asked what's on your mind.," said Tana looking at her friend worriedly. "Oh. Um, well I have a lot going on. I have so much homework, people are constantly talking about me every time I turn around, and Coach asked me to be the captain.," I said with a sigh. "What!? You're captain!?," said Tana nudging me and giving me a big smile. "Yeah...," I said letting my world drift off. "Lena! That's so exciting! Congrats!," said Tana slinking her arm across my shoulders and squeezing me into her side. Lena could help but smile at her friend's gesture. "Yeah, I suppose it is quite exciting.," said Lena with a smile. "Let's just hope that none of the seniors are too pissed that you got the position, and they didn't.," said Tana.

As soon as practice was over, Lena and Tana wanted to get off the deck of the pool as fast as possible. However, Coach thought that it would be a good idea to talk to them about the up coming meet in two weeks. As they were talking to Coach Pierce, the Sons of Ipswich walked onto the deck of the pool. They were awaiting their practice to begin, and so they all just hung off to the side talking. Even though Coach Pierce was talking to them, Lena seemed to zone out and pay more attention to the boys. Lena couldn't help but truly admire them now. The girl's talent lied predominantly in swimming, and to see these gorgeous guys standing on the deck of the pool awaiting practice to start for the sport she loved was enough to make the girl swoon. However, her ogling and thoughts were cut short when Tana gave her a sharp elbow to her ribs. "Ow. What was thaaaa," Lena began to say before looking at Tana who shook her head and gave her a withering look. "Lena, have you heard a word that I just said?," asked Coach Pierce with a reproachful look. "Uh, sorry coach...I was just in deep thought about the meet, and how much work we have ahead of us.," said Lena, easily lying to the man. "Glad to see we're on the same page. Now I don't want you to worry too much, we have plenty of time to get ready, but I just want to make sure that you'll support me in keeping the girls focused.," said Coach Pierce. "Of course, of course. I'll do whatever I can sir.," said Lena with a fake smile easily sliding into place. "Great. You girls go rest up, and I'll see you both at practice tomorrow.," said Coach Pierce before stalking off in the direction of his office.

"Way to lie to the guy with a straight face Lena.," said Tana with a smirk.

"Well I kind of had to come up with something to say to the guy and keep him from putting my ass through a meat grinder.," said Lena.

Tana just laughed at her friend before asking, "So...what had you so distracted that you weren't listening?" By the look that Tana was giving her, she already knew the answer, but she just wanted to prod the girl a little and have some fun.

Lena just scowled at Tana before admitting, "Remember those gorgeous guys that you immediately fell in love with at the bonfire?"

"Yeeeaaah...," said Tana with a smirk.

"Well they walked into the pool, and I kind of found myself suddenly drawn to their every move.," said Lena with a blush.

Tana just laughed at the poor girl. "Oh, Laney-bug. Only you could let guys distract you at a time when you should be paying attention. Whatever happened to the girl that told me that she didn't want to think about boys or be involved with them?," ask Tana.

"I'm still that girl. I just let myself get sidetracked a little.," said Lena defensively.

Tana just chuckled at Lena's remark again before deciding to walk away towards the locker room.

"Hey Lena!," yelled a guy's voice as Lena and Tana began to head in the direction of the locker room.

Lena and Tana turned around to find the source of the voice, but immediately smiled when they saw Chase waving them over.

When Lena and Tana walked over to where Chase was standing, Tana was the first to speak up. "Hey Chase, what's up?," said Tana

"Nothing much. I was just wondering you ladies wanted to stick around? Caleb and I just decided that we wanted to race each other. We might need some more spectators to cheer us on.," said Chase with a charming smile.

Lena just looked at Tana, shrugging and saying, "Sure, why not."

"Great.," said Chase.

As Chase walked away to go over to the blocks where Caleb and the other guys were standing, Lena leaned into Tana and said, "Tana, I have a really bad feeling about this. I can't explain it. I just know something is going to happen."

"Relax Lena. Nothing is going to happen. The guys are just going to race. Now let's make our way over to where the guys are standing and wish them both luck before they begin to race.," said Tana with a reassuring smile before she headed over to the blocks with a reluctant Lena behind her.

As Tana and Lena got close to the group of guys, the group turned around to look at them. Lena and Tana quickly realized that up close, these five guys had to be the most gorgeous guys on the planet. They could probably give every Holister and Abercrombie model a run for their money.

The blonde son seemed to draw in Lena with his bad boy attitude, platinum blonde hair, pale skin, piercings, and ice blue eyes. This boy was radiating everything that should make her want to turn and run in the other direction, but his manner seemed to draw her in even more. It was as if she was under a spell, and he was the one who cast that spell. Reid raised one of his eyebrows at Lena, and she immediately realized that she had obviously been staring for too long. Lena immediately drew her eyes away from the boy and decided to look at anyone but Reid. Decidedly, her eyes fell upon Chase who was talking with Caleb as well as one of the son's with sandy brown hair and beautiful sea-green eyes. Even though Chase was talking with Caleb and the other son, his eyes had been on her the whole time, and this made Lena a little uneasy, since she saw some glimmer of something behind Chase's blue eyes. Deciding to put that feeling aside, Lena gave Chase a shy smile, which Chase gladly accepted and returned with one that didn't quite reach his eyes.

Seeing Tana and Lena awkwardly standing there by the group, Chase decided to speak up.

"Oh, how rude of me. I didn't introduce you ladies to the guys. Tana, Lena, you've already met Caleb. This is Pogue," said Chase as he motioned to the guy with the sandy brown hair and sea-green eyes. "That's Reid," he said as he motioned to the blonde. "And that is Tyler.," said Chase as he motioned to the baby faced guy with dark brown hair and ocean blue eyes.

Tana and Lena both responded, "Nice to meet you guys."

Most of the guys just nodded back to the girls in acknowledgement.

"So...are we going to get this race going or are you and Caleb going to continue to talk with each other like a group of old ladies getting together for coffee?," asked Tana unashamedly directing her question at Chase.

Chase just chuckled, giving Caleb a look, who just shrugged and went to go stand by the blocks. As the guys took their marks, it was as if time stood still. Lena once again began to get this nagging bad feeling that just wouldn't go away. As the guys were given their commands, Lena wanted to stop the guys, but she couldn't get her voice to work. By the time she finally found her voice, the final command was given and the guys shot off the blocks into the water. As the guys began to rapidly swim down to the other side of the pool, Lena began to feel lightheaded. This lightheaded feeling was much like the time at Nicky's.

"Hey, Laney-bug, are you okay?," said Tana as she looked worriedly at Lena.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just have a headache.," said Lena.

"Are you sure?," asked Tana, worry easily seeping from her gray eyes.

"Yeah...keep cheering on the guys. Their really swimming a tight race.," said Lena, trying to distract Tana.

As Lena and Tana were quietly talking to each other, the other three sons were yelling and clapping on the side of the pool. Tana soon began to join them. As the boys neared the end of their race. Lena made her way over to the side of the pool, away from the group. Now she wasn't even paying attention to what was happening in the pool. Lena's lightheadedness continued to increase as well as the pounding in her head. As she gazed down into the depths of the water and looked up as the boys were finishing, she saw a flash of black eyes before everything went black.