RoughWaters Chapter 4: I woke up late the next morning. "Shit!" I exclaimed as I rushed to get my swim suit on. I was already 10 minutes late, it would be 20 by the time I got to the pool. "Jeez, why did I agree to 5am practice" I grumbled under my breath. I grabbed my keys and rushed to the car. When I got to practice everyone was in the water already finishing warm up. I tore my clothes off and threw my bag in a locker. "Sorry I'm late coach". I said ruefully. "Hmm," he grumbled "it's alright hop in Clay's lane, he was late too". I walked over to Clay's lane and put on my goggles and hopped in. Clay stopped at the wall when he saw I had jumped in. "Rough night?" He asked smiling. I laughed, "I could ask you the same thing mister, I heard you were late as well." He smiled and looked me up and down. "I just couldn't get the image of this little hottie out of my head last night, didn't get any sleep", he said. I giggled, "whatever man, shouldn't you be swimming." He smiled "I'll race you." I laughed "Why would you even want to waste your energy?" Carly, who was in the next lane stopped on the wall, "I heard race" she said smiling and yelled to the coach, "Coach! Clay and Melody want a race!" Our coach smiled and blew his whistle, "Everyone out!" he bellowed. Our team got out and me and Clay stood behind out diving blocks. "What will we be racing this morning?" Our coach asks. "Backstroke" I said matter a factly. "Backstroke it is, swimmers in the water." Me and Clay jumped in. "Swimmers take your mark." I braced myself to the wall. The whistle blew and I sprang off the wall like it was on fire. As I came to my first turn I saw Clay easing up on me. I powered into the turn and pushed off the wall to finish my final lap. I reached for the wall and..... Chapter 5 soon

RoughWater Chapter 3: I soon left the showers, "Bye Carly!" I exclaimed. "Bye Mel! Have fun tonight!" She yelled out at me. I walked out of the aquatics area and into the parking lot. Clay leaned on his old white Ford F150 pick up truck waiting for me. His blond hair was wet from the pool and slicked back out of his face. He wore jeans and a button up Hawaiian shirt. "Hey" I said smiling as I threw my sports bag in the bed on the truck. "Hi" he said lustily as he grabbed my waist and pulled me into his arms for a hug. I embraced him and then pushed him away and walked toward my door, "c'mon slick lets do this thing." He laughed and opened my door for me, "of course m'lady." I settled in "so.. Where are we going tonight?" I asked as he started the car. "There's a little cafe on the beach side that serves a mean cheeseburger, thought you'd like it." I smiled "that sounds awesome I am pretty hungry." Our school was only a couple miles from the beach which was ideal for our schools population which was mostly surfers and swimmers. We arrived at the restraunt in minutes. It really was right on the beach, the only thing separating it from the sand was a little board walk where people rollerbladed and rode bicycles. We ordered and when we got our food Clay grabbed my hand and led me to a little bench over looking the beach and the sunset. After we finished watching the sunset and eating Clay walked me out onto the pier. "I love walking here out here at night" I said as we stopped and looked out at the gentle waves. Clay looked around and slowly started taking off his shirt. "Umm Clay what are you doing?!" I exclaimed. "Oh c'mon Mel have a little fun!" He said as he jumped off the pier. "Oh my god" I screamed as I looked over the ledge to see if he was all right. He popped up laughing, "please don't tell me you've never done a pier jump before Mel!" He yelled up at me. "Uh no! Cause I'm not insane!" I yelled back. "Just try it! C'mon I'm getting cold down here without you." I climbed up the railing and looked down. Jeez it was a far way down. I closed my eyes and jumped screaming the whole way down. I splashed into the water and quickly swam up to find myself face to face with a laughing, smiling Clay. "Jeez Mel, didn't know you were such a wus." I splashed him your an ass I said as I swam back to shore. I had just stood up out of the shallows when Clay swam up behind me and pulled me back down onto the sand. I squirmed onto my back "what the hell man?" I screamed playfully. He got on top of me and pinned me down in the soft lapping of the waves. "c'mon Mel it was fun wasn't it?" I pouted playfully and turned my head away from his sight. He caressed my face and gently pulled my sight back to his, "you can't stay mad at me." He said as he leaned in and kissed me. The kiss was so sweet it took my breath away but in his moment of weakness I overpowered him and tackled him to the ground. "Haha" I laughed. " now look who's in charge." He smiled and grabbed one of my rejoicing arms, " that's alright" he said slyly "I'm into that." He pulled me to him and we started making out. I felt his hard defined abs and he slowly took off my wet shirt to feel the soft skin on my stomach. The #life tower soon announced that the beach was closed, though everyone had been off the beach for hours except us. We put our clothes on and Clay drove me home. "Tonight was fun" I said as we arrived at my house. "Yeah it was" he said smiling putting the truck in park. "Do you uh want to come in?" I asked shyly. "Though I'm sure I'll be kicking myself later for this, I don't think so tonight. You mean a lot to me Mel and i don't want to rush anything." He said. He was just so sweet, I too wasn't ready but I wasn't about to admit it. I kissed him passionately and opened the door to leave. I turned and saw Clay with a look of longing on his face. "You make it so hard not to sleep with you Melody." I laughed, "goodnight Clay, see you tomorrow at practice." He smiled and waved as he drove away. Chapter 4 coming soon! Thanks for reading!

Rough Water Chapter 2: After I let Clay go I left to the locker room to shower off, I always seemed to smell of chlorine. I wasn't sure when Clay and I were going to go out or where but the fact that I knew he liked me made me smile. I walked into the lockers smiling and Carly turned around from her locker to greet me. She laughed when she saw my cheesy grin, "What? Did he finally ask you out?" I mockingly glared at her, "What do you mean finally?" She laughed again and smiled "Oh come on Mel!" She rolled her eyes, "he's had the hugest crush on you since we were freshmen!" I looked down and grinned again, "really?" I asked, embarrassed. "Yes!" She exclaimed. "Well then," I said jumping into the shower and pulling off my suit, "I better give him the time of his #life." Sorry for the short chapter. Chapter 3 will be coming up soon!

Rough Water Chapter 1: I jump feet first into the pool at the sound of the long whistle. As I enter the water I feel it's cool arms surround me and squeeze the body heat out of me. When I reach the surface I quickly pull my feet onto the wall and to my chest and wait for the official to set my heat off. "Take your mark." I clench my body. A loud beep goes over the speaker and my body springs into action. I fall into the perfected motions that my coaches and I had been practicing months in advance. Swimming, backstroke in specific is my #life, and no none can do it better then me. I hit the wall and quickly rip off my googles to see my time. "10 flat, not too shabby Mel." I look up and smile and my best friend Carly on the deck. "Thanks girl," I say with a wink "beat my record again." She laughs "your leaving a legacy." I shake hands with the girls in the lanes next to me and pull myself out of the pool only to almost be knocked back in by a guy on my team. "Jeez Clay, give a girl a little space?" Clay laughs, "Well I was gonna help you out of the pool but your obviously not even that tired. That's just like you, smoke the competition, break the record, and not even break a sweat." I smile and look up at him, "It's not my fault I'm so beast." I say as I pretend flex my nonexistent muscles. He laughs and feels my arm "Damn girl you'd be showing me up at the gym." I laugh "Yeah, don't mess with me." I say as I lightly punch him in the chest. He grabs one of my hands and holds it in his for a second before letting it go and looking into my eyes. "So Melody," he started off "I was wondering if you weren't doing anything after the meet if you wanted to, I don't know, go out?" I smile, Clay's a really good friend, one that I have to admit I've had a crush on for quite a while. "I'd love to, under one circumstance." He smiles "And what would that be?" He asks. I laugh and flex "Don't let these muscles intimidate you." We both laugh and I give him a hug and let him go warm up for his next race. To be continued in Chapter 2