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Chapter 15: Nate

Author: A.K.Knight
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I'm expected to be welcomed with frosty looks, but when I enter the locker room instead, I'm greeted with a guilty stare. I evade them and head to my locker. I'm motionless when I open the locker to see brand-new swimmer's goggles and a black rectangular box inside. The goggles are the same brand as the one that was broken. I open the box. The box holds the broken pieces of the goggles my sister bought for me.

I turn to see Lucas, along with everyone else, staring at me sorrily.

I nod to thank him, and he returns my nod.

"Everyone, get outside, and let's start training," Coach Brimworth says as he enters the locker room.

I take my new goggles from the locker and shut it.

"Are you okay?" Coach Brimworth asks when we're alone.

I nod.

"Good," he says.

"Change quickly into your swim gear and let's start training," he says and walks away.

*****

At the end of practice, as I'm leaving the pool, Lucas extends a hand to help me. I glance at him. He gives me a welcome smile, and as I grasp his
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