49 Chapter five, 2016, falling in love: 5 (1/2)

'It's a circus!' Kyoko had heard how bad the classrooms in the left wing could be. Had experienced it first hand as well. But this was a circus.

The pool was divided in two halves. Those who wanted to be seen and those who didn't. Kyoko kept with the latter and so did Nori-chan. And to her surprise, so did Kuri-chan even if she had walked over to the other end to gaze along the left wing building. Something, or rather someone hadn't been there to be seen and she came back.

There was something downtrodden about her when she returned.

'I see. All that talk about love and heart, but this is what the real you looks like when you're in love. I wonder what I look like.'

Bad, bad idea. Kyoko could feel colour rising in her face. She slid into the pool and submerged. When she came back up again both Kuri-chan and Nori-chan were in the water. Nori-chan had apparent problems swimming and received help from their PE-teacher but Kuri-chan stretched out in a lazy and eye-catching medley. Most of the boys were whistling and shouting and even a few of the girls stared in admiration.

'Of course she moves like a goddess in the water as well. She's not human that girl. She didn't swim that well last winter when we trained together.'

Kuri-chan wasn't just good-looking. She ate the lengths with a speed that would have made her an interesting recruit for the swim team.

What was is she had said? ”Two clicks three times per week keeps you in shape.” 'Clicks?' Kyoko watched Kuri-chan eat away another 25 metres. 'Oh, kilometres!' Yu-kun had said something about that when referring to one of his games. 'She swims two kilometres at a time? Three times per week? She can have that body.'

Kyoko climbed out of the pool and sat down beside it. Drying in the sun felt good but it quickly got hot.

She saw most of the boys leering while pretending not to, and to balance it out most of the girls were giggling and pointing while pretending not to. If Nori-chan hadn't been so busy in the pool she'd offered half a dozen scathing remarks by now.

Then there was some commotion a bit away. The boys were shouting louder than usual.