Fear of Drowning!

 Every summer Kaylie goes to the pool with her best friend sophia, Kaylie is only 12 years old and she can't swim. But sophia on the other hand knows how to swim pretty well, and she's 13. Kaylie is really shy that she doesn't know how to swim on the deep side, she's always on the shallow side and has used floaties but she's really embarrassed to put them on. Sophia has tried to teach her how to swim for months and some how kaylie always hangs on the wall. Sophia asked one day they were both swimming together "What is you're deepest fear on swimming?" Kaylie replied "Drowning..".

 On June 1st Kaylie and Sophia went swimming they haven't went swimming in about 2 weeks. It was a very warm sunny day sophia jumped in the pool right away and Kaylie just wanted to tan. Sophia got out of the pool and asked her "Come in the pool! i can teach you again" Kaylie replied "I'm fine soaking in the sun" Sophia pulled her and said "No! you are not going to just sit here and get burnt, come on it will be fun! don't worry about what others have to think!" It was really hard to convince kaylie to get in the pool, Kaylie was walking around the edge just wanting to jump in but she was to afraid of drowning. It's really packed at the neighborhood pool there was kids running around the edge of the pool and Kaylie was to zoned out looking at the water, before she could look to her left she got pushed into the deep end. Sophia "Kaylie!!!" as she jumps into the deep side and grabs Kaylie. Sophia brings Kaylie to the top on the pool on the ledge, Kaylie isn't breathing she swallowed to much water, he lifeguard does CPR and kaylie threw up so much water and started crying. Sophia wrapped Kaylie in a towel and took her home.

 3 days passed and Kaylie has been in bed watching netflix, Sophia came by to visit and brought her favorites Starbucks, and TacoBell. Kaylie wasn't speaking, she told sophia "That was the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me.." Sophia "I know i'm sorry is there anything i can do to help u get over this?" Kaylie smirks and laughs as an idea pops up in her head "Yes actually there is something u can do for me." Sophia "What may that be?" Kaylie answers in a determined way "We are going to go to the pool right now and YOU are going to teach me how to swim on the deep side!" Sophia answers worried "Kaylie you really think this is going to work? what if the same thing happens to you and you can't swim?!" Kaylie rolls her eyes and says "I have to face my fears! this time will be different because i'm going to try".

 When Kaylie and Sophia arrived at the pool everyone was starring at Kaylie whispering as they knew what happened 3 days ago. Kaylie gets really pissed that everyone is starring and gets embarrassed. Sophia saw how worried Kaylie got when she knew everyone was talking about her so she Sophia loudly interrupted everyone and said "You can stop starring now thanks!" Kaylie and Sophia put there stuff down, Kaylie went straight to the deep side, Sophia ran up the kaylie really fast and said "Are you sure you wanna do this?" Kaylie answered very confidently "yes! Now how do i jump in and swim back up?" Sophia jumped in to show Kaylie and sophia was waiting dead center of  deep side and said "Plug your nose and jump in, let your body go all the way down until you reach the floor, push yourself off the floor with your feet straight up as hard as u can WITHOUT UNPLUGGING YOUR NOSE!, i will be right here to pull you up if you need help. Just trust me Kaylie you got this!" Kaylie is hesitant to jump in, she closes her eyes and jumps. 3 seconds later Kaylie pops up above the water and grabs Sophia's hand. Sophia helps her up. "Oh my god kaylie you did it!!" Kaylie still has her nose plugged and her eyes shut as if she was to scared to open them because she thought she failed the process. "Oh my god i did it! wait why am i going down?!" Sophia laughs "Peddle your feet back and forth to keep your balance" Sophia lets go of Kaylie and says "Swim to me" Sophia swam all the way to shallow side, Kaylie yells "HOWWW!" Sophia answers "Plug your nose push off the wall forward and paddle your feet you got this!" Kaylie grabs the wall takes a deep breath with her nose closed goes under water and pushes as hard as she can so she can get speed to swim under water, Kaylie opens her eyes under water and sees Sophia's swimsuit, she paddles her feet just like Sophia told her to do, and she reaches the shallow side with sophia! in a loud chant Kaylie stood up on the shallow side and hugged sophia. "I DID IT! I ACTUALLY DID IT!!" Sophia "Yes you did! I'm so proud of you!" and from that day on Kaylie was bragging all day of how she learned how to swim and got over her fear of drowning. 

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