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Pearls

Genre: Fluff Length: 8.8k You are a college student that doesn’t know how to swim. Right, totally pathetic. Luckily, you’re not the only one.

The air is warm and sticky, and somewhat taking your breath away, because of the smell of chlorine that is permanently floating around. Many people must think of this as a familiar smell. Attached to memories of childhood friends and birthday parties. The smell is quite foreign to you though. You’ve not been inside a swimming pool a lot in the past. Right when you think that, you almost slip over one of the wet, white tiles, shuffling around carefully. Why would you need to, when you don’t know how to swim?

Yes, you are a college student, and you never learned how to swim. Your parents just kind of … forgot that was a thing a child should learn, and before you knew it you were too old not having learned how to swim. So, then, why are you here on a Thursday afternoon, fully dressed inside the college pool? Well, someone decided to have the yearly trip be a water park this year, and you refuse to miss out on it. That, and your best friend might strangle you if she has to share the room with anyone else.

You look around again, walking just a little closer to the water. The pool is surprisingly completely empty. Maybe that isn’t actually so surprising, since most people might still have classes at this hour. It’s lit up with underwater lights, so that you can see the bottom. That’s comforting at least. Not like the looming darkness of the lake on the way to your house. Luckily.

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