Wasim One Star by Chris Ashley

Author:Chris Ashley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2011-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

John was looking at them and … John was nodding. Yes, yes, yes! John was nodding.

Carol, her arms still folded, began a long, slow walk back while they all looked at the floor in case she saw them being pleased. Wasim, though, looked up through his eyebrows and managed to meet Andrew’s eyes.

He flared his nostrils wide and he could see Andrew killing himself not to laugh. Wasim hoped he wouldn’t, as that really would ruin it.

Carol got back to them and snatched a pole from the wall. They were going. “Not a sound,” was all she said and she led the way up towards the steps while Wasim looked at every tile on the bottom and tried to imagine every droplet of water as he began the twenty-five metre walk that in a few seconds he would be trying to swim.

He’d let somebody else be first, he decided, just for once. Somebody overtook. Let them, thought Wasim. It was Wayne, his straight cropped hair bouncing as he walked.

No, Wayne wouldn’t be doing his One Star, would he? He hadn’t even done his width for Miss yet. No, no, he should be down there with Donna and Jamila.

Wasim tapped Wayne’s back. Wayne turned and smiled. Wasim thrust his thumb back in the direction of the shallow end. Wayne kept walking.

“Back!” said Wasim, but it was too quiet. “Back!” he hissed. But this time it was too loud. He knew before it had finished coming out that it was too loud and yes, Carol had stopped.

“Right. I don’t even need to ask who that was, do I? I said silence and I am already more than fed up with you.”

“M … Miss …”

But she had turned, dangerously slowly, and was almost at the steps now. Wasim had to tell Wayne without talking. Wasim tapped him. Wayne ignored it. He knew what getting in trouble meant and Carol’s mood was Carol’s mood in every language in the world. So Wasim did it.

He grabbed Wayne’s shoulders, turned him round and tried to push him back to the shallow end. Wayne, looking hurt, broke free and turned back. Wasim tried again. He reached out, got Wayne’s shoulders and… it was then that Carol turned round.

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