Chapter 39: The Strange but Beautiful Feeling

         ***The Strange but Beautiful Feeling***

Kunle was the guy who had been winning this competition like it was his father's property, he had retained the title for a good three years. Bright believed that he deserves to win it before he left the school, and this was his last school year. So, after the first set, it was then my own set's turn, we were ten in number, so we had to swim from the starting of the pool to the ending and back. The distance was alarming. How did they expect me to do that? Common everyone here is so rootless, what did I do to deserve death, so I thought as I started Cynthia deep in the eyes, the annoying Cynthia thought I was actually using grateful, little did she know that I was only cursing her.

Now the whole members of the Super Cee we're out there shouting go Damie go Damie. Now the ten of us were already at the edge of the pool from where we will start the swimming. Now I noticed that Bright and his crew noticed that I was scared of swim, so they started making fun of me and laughing at me, but the Super Cee who had a lot of trust in me paid little or zero attention to their stupidity.

Now when the whistle was blown and the other boys jumped into the water, I alone was the one who did not start with the boys.

"Damian go!" 

So they shouted but I could not just kill myself because of pride. So, I thought about accepting the shame and disgrace, common, nothing is bigger or better than life. Now I turned to tell her the truth but Bright saw me and belied that I was about to forfeit the swimming because of fear.

'Look at him, he is so scared of the pool, let's go and push him inside, let him just Drink more water hahaha."

So this Bright said as he ran to me and pushed me into the pool. What a life! Why would these boys be this wicked?

Like a scared kitten under the rain I feared do my life, I curled myself as I made contact with the water, I felt that day was my last day on earth. But as I fell into the pool, a very funny thing happened. I was supposed to keep popping up and down of the water in fear as I drown, but I did not, instead, I just sank deep down into the pool curled like an earthworm. 

Something strange happened to me when I sank into the water, I did not drown, even though I was filled with fear, I only had this feeling, this feeling of peace and comfort, for a moment I forgot everything about life, I forgot myself, the only thing I could feel is the aura of the water, its a feeling I can't explain, it was like I was deep into love, the whole water was like a liquid passion.