The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last by Peter Harmon

Author:Peter Harmon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633931480
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 2015-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

IT WAS ABOUT that time of the Earth’s rotation when you could not quite be sure if it was very late at night or very early in the morning, and much like the glass half-full/ half-empty conundrum, no one really gave two shakes of a lamb’s tail.

The combination lock on the YCCSRC’s front gate latch was unlocked as Roheed slipped quietly through to the pool grounds. He reached the pool’s edge and slipped off his shirt, revealing a very skinny body and maybe three chest hairs if we’re being generous here. He took off his shoes and dipped a toe in the water. He was in the deep end near the fallen high dive, which was inadvertently serving as a monument to the club that used to exist when Bill was still around.

Roheed tried to cautiously lower himself into the water but slipped and fell all the way in, making a huge splash.

He bobbed to the surface and thrashed wildly. He went back under and swallowed water; his wet hair clung to his face and covered his eyes.

In the guard office, Jonathan bolted upright in the cot that served as his makeshift bed. “Danger!!” he said as he kicked off the sheet and ran out the door.

Yep, Jonathan lived secretly at the pool. In his tenure there, this was not the first time he was awoken in the middle of the night by unexpected guests. Usually it was teens, breaking into the pool for a drunken night swim. One of them would be an employee who knew the combo for the tennis gate, and they would all sneak in 40s of OE, or neon-colored Mad Dogs, or poorly mixed cocktails from their parents’ liquor cabinets. And Jonathan would have to hide under his cot, because he couldn’t expose his secret.

But this time was different. Jonathan ran to the pool deck. Roheed was barely keeping his head above water long enough to gasp some air.

“Hang on, little buddy!” Jonathan cried as he ran down the stairs. He tore off his polo and dove into the water. He grabbed Roheed around the chest and swam him to safety, hoisting his small frame out of the water and onto the pool deck.

Roheed coughed up a mouthful of water immediately.

Jonathan looked down at him warmly. “You’re going to be fine.”

After Roheed stopped shivering, Jonathan sat on a metal folding chair, and Roheed sat on a cot with a towel draped over him wearing an official YCCSRC hoodie, size L, which fit Roheed like a size XXL, and it was providing him an XXL amount of warmth, too.

“How did you arrive so quickly?” Roheed was confused but grateful.

“I, uh, have super powers.”

“Were you sleeping in the guard office?”

“Of course not. That’s crazy talk. You’re a crazy person.”

“Have you been living in the guard office and keeping it a secret?”

“That’s crazy. You are the silliest little guy.”

“Then what’s this?” Roheed pulled an issue of Swimgirl magazine from underneath the pillow on the cot. On the cover was a sexy girl in a one-piece bathing suit, a swim cap and a nose plug.

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