Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:06:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cailen Vature <cailenauthor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Raven Chapter 7

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Chapter 7: The Swimming Tryouts (Part 2)

	I grinned stupidly for the rest of practice. I didn't actually do
as well my next two times but all in all I felt like I had done extremely
well and some of the guys were looking at me in awe and it made me feel
really good. Ian chanced a smile at me after my third run and I was giddy
and didn't even think about Amanda even once.
	"Okay folks that's it, I'll post the standings by Friday"
	I watched the coach pack up his he gave me a smile and a wave
before leaving the pool. I walked over to the side of the pool and grabbed
a towel and my bag and headed into the locker room to change. It took only
about three seconds before Corey made his move
	"Well look at here, it's the fag, enjoy checking us out faggot?"
Corey said suddenly from behind me and without warning I felt several sets
of hands on me and push me into the wall.
	"I don't want any trouble Corey" I said
	"Yea well I don't want some cock-sucking queer checking me out
while I swim either" he said slamming my back into the wall banging my head
which made my eyes water
	"Going to cry pussy?" one of the other guys said
	"LET HIM GO... RIGHT NOW!" a voice bellowed
	Corey and his friends turned to see the source of the voice and
instantly released hold of me as if electrified
	Standing a mere five feet away was Coach Clarke
	"Detention for the lot of you, and I think you and you" Coach
Clarke said pointing to Corey and his friend are going to find themselves a
lot of free time NOT on the team
	"WHAT!" Corey yelled
	"Harassment of students is not allowed" Coach Clarke said "and I
have your time sheet right here too, I wonder what your father would
say..."
	"He's just some stupid fa..."
	"Don't call me a fag" I said finally finding my voice
	"Get out of here" Coach Clarke said
	The boys scattered except Corey
	"You got me off the team faggot, don't think you've heard the end
of this" Corey said
	"Just so you know Corey" Ian suddenly said "you did this to
yourself..."
	"You are going to take HIS side?" Corey exclaimed pointing at me
	"I don't need anyone sticking out their nose for me, LEAST OF ALL
YOU!" I said yelling the last part at Ian, I raised my hand like I was
going to slap him across the face and for his part Ian flinched.
	"I'll go shower at home" I announced and turned on my heel and
walked out of the locker room and out into the hall. I made it to the front
door and spotted my mom's car coming up the drive and I sprinted over to it
and got in it.
	The next few days were eventful it started the very next day as I
went into lunch. I was sitting at my empty table just as I had for the past
five years when suddenly I heard a voice say
	"Mind if we sit here?" I looked up and caught eyes with a boy with
ear length blond hair that fell flat against his head as if blades of
golden grass and his eyes were a remarkable shade of blue. I recognized him
from the swim team. I glanced over his shoulder and noticed Ian and a
couple other guys from the team there as well.
	The first thing I noticed was Ian's lack of a girl toy and Corey
was oddly absent as well
	"Where's Amanda?" I asked
	"She has 3rd lunch today."
	This brings me to my moment of bitching when I have to explain
something. My school is on something called block scheduling where we only
have four classes a semester, our school is particularly masochistic as our
classes rotate each day ABCD, BCDA, CDAB, DABC week after week. So some
days I have English just as I walk through the door and on other days I get
it just as I am leaving. IT SUCKS!
	"If you want to sit in the reject corner, who am I to stop you?" I
said ushering them to sit
	"Nobody here but us rejects" The blonde guy said with a chuckle and
with that the whole group sat down
	"God we have English next Ian said I haven't even begun to read
that book yet" Ian sighed
	"You're going to be hard pressed to pass that surprise quiz next
period then" I said not looking up at him.
	"Yea man, I noticed that you don't take the quizzes with us and
shit" The blonde guy said and I frowned
	"Dustin, meet Colin, Colin this is Dustin" Ian said
	"Yeah I read the whole book already so I took all the tests the
second day so Mr. Driscoll has me working on later material" I said
	"What are you some kind of super nerd and shit?" Colin asked
	"No... I just don't try and play four sports at once" I said
causing Colin to smile
	"You can swim that's for damn sure" Colin said
	"Thanks" his crass personality was already warming up to me
	"But Ian how the hell are we going to pass that damn test man?"
Colin said "I don't want to fail another fuckin test"
	"Yea my dad would kill me!" Ian suddenly reached under the table
and into his bag pulling out his book and started flipping through the
pages madly.
	Ian was rubbing his hand through his hair making it all messy which
I could not take my eyes off of. `He's so pretty' I thought to myself
enjoying the show
	Suddenly everything made sense, the group is all in my English
class, they are all on the swim team and they don't know the answers to the
test and they want my help...I sighed heavily
	`They don't really want to be my friends, they just want the test.'
	"What is it?" Colin asked looking at me after hearing my sigh
	"Ian" I said addressing Ian who was still engrossed in his book
	"Ian!" I said a little more forcibly causing Ian to look up
	"Not now man I'm trying to finish this chapter which has... oh shit
another twelve pages"
	"Ian cut the crap you aren't fooling anyone least of all me... I
have the quiz right here" I said pulling out my backpack. I took out my
English folder and set it on the table and extracted today's quiz and
placed it on the table
	"How did you get this?" Ian asked amazed
	"Being smart has its perks" I smirked
	Colin went to grab the paper
	"Not so fast buddy" I said
	"Hey man what gives?" Colin said
	"As I said being smart has its perks and personally... I think this
whole coming over here and trying to study thing was a huge gigantic ploy
to get this quiz copy from my possession" Ian gave a guilty look confirming
my suspicions
	"Dustin I'm sorry I..." Ian began
	"I'll give it to you, but it's going to cost you" I said with a
smirk
	"I'll do anything!" Ian said to me in a voice that caused my mind
to think of a thousand forbidden thoughts... `Yummy'
	"Don't tempt me" I said with a deliberate smile causing Colin to
laugh
	"He wants to do you bro" Colin said
	"No, I'll give this to you, but you both have to meet me after
school today to work on your form, we have a competition next week and we
need to shave a second off of both your best times"
	"YES SIR!" Colin and Ian shouted with glee
	"Oh alright" I said handing over the test "but for god's sake
please read the freaking chapter next time, I'm not going to do this every
day"
	"Thanks Dustin" Colin said
	"You can call me Raven"
	"Okay Raven" Colin said
	I almost smiled when watching Ian and Colin take their test how
they pretended to think about each question. I was reading `The Counte of
Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas. By the looks of things I will have
finished my second text for the semester by the end of the second week of
school.
	 Finally after the final bell I all but sprinted to the locker room
and got changed into my swimsuit and went over to the pool. I took a dive
in and swam a few warm-up laps and then decided to pick up the pace and
started speed swimming. I tore through the water as fast as my arms could
carry me and I was at peace in my mind again...  I hit the side of the pool
and came to a halt. Looking up I saw Colin and Ian were standing on the
edge of the pool watching me.
	"How'd the test go?" I asked looking up at them. From this angle
they were both looking pretty delicious.
	"Great, thanks man" Colin said
	"Yeah thanks" Ian said showing off a smile putting his arms across
his chest. "So what is it you want to show us?"
	I hopped out of the pool and gave Ian a smile. I noticed Colin was
looking at my suit which made me ponder that for a moment before I launched
into an introduction
	"I got a chance to watch you guys from above during tryouts and I
noticed your form was a bit off" I directed to Ian "I'm going to be honest
and say I wasn't really looking at you..."
	"Oh gee thanks..." Colin said giving me a smile letting me know he
was joking
	"But you could probably benefit from the explanation too"
	"Alright" they both nodded
	"As you swim forward you also pull some water with you. This is
known as drag as it is the force that slows you down. However as you swim
you are also pulling some of it with you and when you turn you have to
fight the drag back the way you came. So what I am going to show you are
ways to reduce your drag."
	"You could always cut that pretty hair" Ian said pointing to my
long brown ponytail stuck to my back
	"Indeed I could but luckily for me my hair doesn't seem to be
slowing me down all that much." I smirked
	"Okay what is slowing us down?" Ian asked
	"I'll show you lay down on the floor, face down" Dustin said
	Ian complied
	"It's cold" Ian complained as he lay down on the floor
	"Alright Colin now watch" I said "Ian mimic kicking"
	"You see him kicking, base extended for momentum, you do actually
want to break with the air, the air breaks up the current, but it also
allows for more speed and also doesn't tire you out as easily."
	"Alright" Colin said
	"Alright Ian breast stroke" I instructed
	Ian began mimicking a breast stroke
	"Stop" I said
	I got down on my knees and placed one hand on Ian's back and
another on his wrist. I couldn't help but notice how smooth and warm he
felt.
	"Hand arched keep it to your side, No in like this" I corrected his
hand position "then up then bring back the elbow here... good... now you
bring down your arm like reaching into a tub of ice cream"
	Ian started chuckling on the floor. my hand was on his back and I
could feel him shaking
	"What's so funny?" I asked
	"Ice cream really?" Ian said
	"Well I did learn all this when I was nine" I said causing them
both to laugh "alright then let's give this one a shot and then we can work
on the other sets" I finished helping Ian get up. Ian turned his back on me
quickly and Colin started laughing again.
	"What's so funny?" I asked
	"He has a checkerboard print from the floor on his chest" Colin
smirked
 	They both got into the water and I put them through the paces
giving them good instructions and when they were finished for the afternoon
they had indeed taken time off their best scores making them extremely
pleased
	"Damn man that was great" Colin said getting out of the pool
heaving his chest. "You'd make a great teacher"
	"Thanks, but it is true, you can only teach open minds" I said
	Colin gave a smile and a wave
	"I'm off to the showers you guys coming?" Colin asked
	"I was going to talk to Raven for a bit" Ian said
	"Alright man, better hurry before I steal all the hot water" Colin
said leaving the pool area
	Dustin looked over to Ian and realized they were all alone in the
whole area.
	"So what did you want to talk about" I asked
	"Would you like to go sailing with me?" Ian asked
	"Would Amanda mind?" Dustin said "you know...that you're taking me
on a date?"
	"Guys hanging out does not equal dating" Ian retorted
	"No ulterior motive, test quizzes, more swimming instruction?" I
asked
	"Nope, just you and me and the open waves" he said giving me a
smile
	"Still sounds like a date to me" I said skeptically
	"It isn't" Ian replied
	"So where is this lake?" I asked
	"Your lake, I live on the other side of it" Ian smirked at me
	"You ass!" I slapped him lightly "you never told me"
	He smiled and it lit a fire in my chest and I stepped closer to him
willing up my courage
	"It's okay if it was you know... a date" I moved in closer till we
were only inches apart and placed one hand on Ian's side and another on his
shoulder. Ian didn't move. I glanced up into Ian's crystal eyes and started
drowning into their depths. Ian licked his lips and ever so slowly started
moving his head closer and closer closing the gap between us.
	My heart started palpitating in my chest as I watched Ian come
closer and closer when suddenly he changed course.
	Ian wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close into a tight
hug.
	"I'm sorry" Ian said taking his hand and rubbing my back gently "I
can't be that for you, but I want to be your friend very much"
	He held me in his arms for a few minutes then let him slowly back
away
	"I'm sorry Raven" Ian said
	"It's me who's sorry, I'm the one who's different, you shouldn't
have to cater to me" I said giving a great sigh, "these past few weeks have
helped me heal somewhat, it's all so new and fresh to me, I need more time
to get used to it."
	"It's alright, I'll be there for you... always" Ian said with a
smile pulling out his gym bag and throwing on some shorts and a shirt
	"I'm going to shower at home see you later for some sailing" Ian
said
	"Okay see you" I said making his way into the locker room
	"Bye" Ian called