Terry’s heartrate was faster than usual as he did his laps around the pool, waiting for Kyle to show up. He wasn’t sure how long Kyle stayed, but he couldn’t imagine it being longer than half an hour. Kyle was a busy man, like Terry, and since he hadn’t changed his schedule to avoid Terry it was a reasonable guess that this was also the only time he had to swim. Sure enough, Kyle stepped out of the locker room ten minutes after Terry started his laps and took his usual place as far from Terry as possible.
The remnants of Terry’s time in the pool sped by in a blur. Terry barely put any thought into what stroke he was doing, how fast he was going, or even how many laps he had already completed. He was planning what he would say very carefully. It was amusing that Kyle had armed Terry with t
