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Baxter Reilly has always felt at home in the water. And the school swimming team has been his place of refuge, especially over the past few months. Baxter's parents have separated, and his father is now living in a rundown flat. Instead of dealing with his home life, Baxter has devoted himself to the swimming team and their 4x400 freestyle. But how can he support a team when his life is so adrift?

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Publié par	Capstone Global Library
Date de parution	25 juin 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781474789097
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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OR SINK SWIM

SWIM OR SINK

Brandon Terrell

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CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 THE CALM AND THE CURRENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CHAPTER 2 A NEW HOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CHAPTER 3 RELAY TEAM REVEALED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 CHAPTER 4 FEELING ADRIFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER 5 DINNER DATE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 CHAPTER 6 PRESSURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 CHAPTER 7 PRESSING ONWARDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 CHAPTER 8 THE TRUTH COMES OUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 CHAPTER 9 POOLSIDE CHAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 CHAPTER 10 PART OF A TEAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 CHAPTER 11 A FLOOD OF MEMORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

CHAPTER 1

THE CALM AND THE CURRENT

Baxter Reilly’s muscles tensed. His toes curled

over the lip of the starting block. He stared down at

the crisp blue water through his goggles and waited

for the starting whistle.

This was his favourite moment of racing. The

electricity coursed through his veins. He waited,

ready to spring into motion.

From across the school’s pool, Coach Li

blew a sharp blast on his whistle. The sound rang

through the air. Baxter dived headîrst into the pool.

His body slipped under the cold water. He stayed

under for as long as he could, propelling himself

forward with his arms and legs. The longer he

remained underwater, the faster he moved.

Finally, when he could no longer hold his breath,

Baxter broke through the surface. He started the

rhythmic arm movements of the front crawl.

On either side of him were other members of the

Edgeview swimming team. Most of them were îfteen

or older, but Baxter was only thirteen. At Edgeview,

the best swimmers made up the top team. Age didn’t

matter.

And Baxter knew how to swim.

He’d loved the water since he was îve. One of his

earliest memories was of seeing the sea for the very

îrst time. His mum and dad had driven him from

their home in Arizona, in the United States, to Los

Angeles, California, a huge city on the west coast of

the US.

Baxter remembered the feeling of the sun on his

face, reecting o the ocean waves. He remembered

ipping o his shoes and racing across the beach to

the water. He could see his parents dancing together

in the sand. He remembered the thrill of being thrown

around by the waves.

And he remembered the undercurrent pulling

him down, down, down. How it held him under until

his dad grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him

safely to the surface.

He remembered that bit most of all, because in

that moment, he didn’t have control. The water let him

know that there was something much larger at work

beneath the surface. The calm, and the current.

Baxter shook himself free of the memory. If he

thought too much about his family and everything

they’d been through over the past six months, it

would aect his concentration. He had to focus on his

swimming.

The end of the pool got closer. Baxter started a

perfect ip turn. He dipped deeper into the water and

twisted his body in a somersault.

His feet hit the side of the pool perfectly. Baxter

bent his knees and pushed o the side wall, heading

back the way he had come.

He was focussing on his own breathing and

swimming strokes. He didn’t know how his

teammates were doing. He reached out and felt his

îngers touch the lip of the pool.

As he took o his goggles, he saw he was one of

the îrst swimmers to complete the lap. Two lanes

down, Clark Daniels stood watching him, goggles

and swimming hat already o.

“Nice work, Baxter and Clark!” Coach Li said.

“That’s how you do it, boys!”

The swimming team’s coach paced along the

side of the pool in his shorts and tank top. He always

wore his hair slicked back, making it look like he’d

just got out of the water. Once upon a time, Coach

Li was an sub for the US Olympic Swimming Team.

Now he taught PE at the school. But he still had the

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