At nine o’clock, Kevin blew his whistle to signal that the pool was closed. The few lingering students gathered their towels and headed for the gym doors but Danny wasn’t among them. Maybe he left already, Kevin thought. The fact that he hadn’t noticed—and that Danny didn’t even bother to say goodbye—bothered him more than he cared to admit.
Quickly Kevin checked the locker rooms that branched off near the deep end, but they were empty at this hour. Now he had the pool all to himself. He’d swim two laps around the perimeter to warm up before running through his competition strokes for practice. Climbing up onto one of the starting blocks that lined the shallow end of the pool, he bent his knees a few times and pumped his arms to get the blood flowing, then took a deep breath and dove into
