When There Is Nothing Left But Love

Slightly stunned, I looked out at the pool for a moment. It was a shallow pool filled with kids, and the adults were sitting around the sides to watch out for their children.

“It’s all kids here. It doesn’t seem appropriate for us to be here.”

He chuckled and explained, “That’s precisely the reason you should practice here. So, you wouldn’t be pressured and stressed about it.”

He had a valid point. I could imagine feeling embarrassed learning in a pool full of others who could swim well.

Most of the kids in the pool did not know how to swim and had floats with them.

I thought for a moment and said, “I’ll enter the pool myself.”

Since I was there, I decided to have fun.

He laughed.

I grabbed a donut float and entered the pool. It was a relatively shallow pool, only four feet deep. But it was deep enough to swim in.

However, being the rookie swimmer that I was, I did not even know how to start in the shallow pool.

One of the kids raised his head above the water and mocked me. “Hey, you don’t know how to swim?”

I shook my head with a slight smile. “I’m still learning!”

The kid looked at me and started advising me, “You won’t be learning much if you do it that way.”

and exclaimed, “Here, let me

to be around the age

easier said than done. No matter how much the kid asked me to

to learn how to swim. I used to feel the same until my mother threw me into the pool. After a few experiences, I got

a kid was nagging at me to be brave, so I nodded

in the pool made me feel insecure

your arms and push the water toward the back and kick your

felt less embarrassed. However, I

felt someone’s arm holding my waist. It was an adult’s arms. I was taken aback, so

I started coughing.

Luckily, someone supported me.

cold male voice spoke. “I saw you were getting pretty good

saw that it was Armond. Dressed in his swimming trunks, his toned arms and

he

looked at him before chuckling awkwardly and explained,

the moment the words left my mouth. I

me, he did not seem to notice, or perhaps he

learn with you later

“It’s okay. I-I…”

Try it. You

at him and nodded slightly. “Okay.