Breaking Perfection (The Perfect Series Book 1) by K. Young

Author:K. Young [Young, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The water is like my second home.

The smell of chlorine burning my nostrils brings me a comfort not many people would agree with.

When I’m standing on the platform, the water is all I can see, my ears honed to that buzzer, adrenaline coursing through my system faster than sperm rushes to the egg.

I love the competition. The intense training. The discipline of it all. Sure, the babes that come with it are a bonus but eventually it all becomes empty and desperate.

I brush the towel over my hair doing a poor job of drying it. I’m in a rush and the crowd gathering beyond the locker room is already working on my nerves.

I got out the pool today to cheers and hollers, but it all felt empty. Hollow, like someone dug out all my insides and never bothered to put it back. My phone burns a hole in my pocket with the desire to reply to her text. My stubbornness might cost me everything and then all my hard work would mean shit.

I promised her sweet, but I’m showing her the acid, and it burns.

I wish she was here. I want her in the crowd screaming my name. I want her to wait outside the locker room and congratulate me. I want to kiss her lips, feel her soft hands on me, give her all my attention, instead I have a bunch of groupies outside raising voices in hopes to get something that isn’t theirs.

I slam my locker closed and decide to head to her house. Her mother can fuck off for all I care but one way or another Mia is going to know I’m a shithead. My screen is full of her texts, and I know my girl is stressed out because I didn’t take a second to put aside my hurt to make her feel better and text back.

What she said is shitty, but I shouldn’t act like a kid and freeze her out. I should’ve talked to her when I calmed down. It’s been days, it’s too long.

I follow a bunch of swimmers out with pats on the back from the ones I leave behind.

“Party at the fountain later.”

I shrug. I’m spending tonight with my girl and if she wants to go then sure, otherwise I’ll cook for us at my place and just enjoy her pretty smiling face learning something new. It’s such a fucking rush cooking for her, her curiosity in every single thing I do, with a million questions makes me stand taller and puff my chest out in pride because I can teach her something. Mia is definitely smarter than me. She is better than me in all ways. The fact that I can teach her something when she shows me something new every single day is an honor.

I’m convinced Mia is still single because no one has the balls to stand up to her mom. I say, ‘bring it’. If anyone just got a taste of the Mia I have every day, and I’m not talking about kissing, there would be brawls to hold her hand.

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