Hello fan fictioners! I hope you like the end I added to this story for all you who asked for it. I'm not sure what I think of it yet so Review and convince me. Review, Review, Review.

-A.

Finally I asked Sonny out and she said, "Yes." It only took almost drowning to do it. Well they say there is a reason for everything. The day after the party, I awoke with an added spring in my step as I got dressed in my only pair of swimming trunks and a t-shirt. After running downstairs, I only sent a wave and a "Good Morning" in my family's direction without even waiting for a response. I raced to my baby not willing to waste one minute without my Sonny. I waited long enough and was not prepared to go back.

I pulled up in front of her house making my way to her door checking that my hair was perfect before knocking. She appeared a little while later wearing an orange flowered sundress saying, "Chad you're early."

"Yeah well, I really wanted to learn how to swim so we don't have a repeat of yesterday," I said trying not to give away how much she really had to do with me being early.

Truthfully looking at her here before me now a vision of beauty, I could care less about anything else. She moved closer to me and kissed me on the lips. Fireworks, parades, and many other fantastic spectacles went off in my head. When we pulled apart she said looking into my eyes, "I dunno know. I kind of liked yesterday."

I swallowed trying to will myself to speak. It all was still so new I hadn't yet figured out how to regain my composure, "Well yeah if you put it that way, I loved yesterday. It was the best day of my life."

She smiled at me. If only she knew the depth to which she affects me, she would know that she has complete control. I got myself together asking, "So should we get going my lady?"

"Yep I'm ready," she replied pulling the door shut leading me by the hand out of the building.

We began the short drive to a private indoor pool. It was my only condition for this outing so that I would not once again make a public spectacle out of myself two days in a row. We got out of the car and walked in the large metal doors. The pool was large with lane lines painted on the bottom. It was commonly used for public swim meets but not today.

I set down my towel on a nearby bench before taking off my t-shirt and adding it to the pile. Sonny came up beside me taking off her sundress to reveal a one piece black and blue racing swimsuit. One look and I knew this was going to be a lot harder then I thought with my concentration instantly draining away from anything but her. Why do I let her affect me this way? Sure she is my girlfriend but there was a time when I was still faintly in control of myself.

She walked over to the lifeguard chair and put the foam floating device on the edge of the pool. "Okay Chad jump in," she said not showing any sign of joking.

"Seriously?" I asked dumbfounded. Shouldn't she at least tell me something about how to swim before I get in the water?

"Chad it's the shallow end you can stand," she said laughing at what was no doubt and amusingly horrified expression on my face.

"Oh right," I said seriously. The things panic can do to you.

She jumped in so I followed much less painfully then my back flop yesterday. Truth is I liked the water a lot when it wasn't in my lungs. I went to the beach many times with friends, but now with Sonny teaching me how to swim, I was hoping I would be able to enjoy it. She moved back toward me with the life float and said, "Okay Chad this may seem silly, but it was how I was taught so we will give it a try. You are going to hold on to the floatie and just practice your kick a bit to start. Just kick up and down toes pointed out for more surface area like this," she said before demonstrating. I watched her beautiful legs kick through the water. Focus Chad swimming not Sonny's legs.

It looked simple enough and a little silly just as she said but I didn't argue, "Okay if you say so."

I went back and forth a couple times and when she was satisfied she took the float and said, "Let's work on the arms now." She stood next to me demonstrating while trying to explain, "First you have your arms outstretched then pull one to your chest and then up and over your head. Make sure your fingers are together you will grab more water that way. Then do the same for the other. Like this," she said grabbing my hands allowing lightning to pass though us where our skin touched. Isn't there something important about water and lightening together? Hmm… maybe but my brain is fried at the moment.

"Do you understand?" I heard her ask when she left go of my hand and I was able to comprehend my surroundings again.

"Yeah," I said thinking it through again in my head.

"Okay try it just the arms. Oh and your face should be in the water until you need to breathe then tilt you head to one side when your arm is back. Here are my goggles so you can see."

I took the goggles from her hand and pulled them on my face caught in their vice grip. I felt my eyes bulging, bugging out so I hurriedly pulled them off quickly rubbing my face to make sure everything was still in its appropriate place. She laughed taking them from me, "Let me fix them for you."

It went pretty well overall. I learned a few more strokes and how to tread water. Later before we were going to leave, we got out of the water after Sonny suggested, "Okay Chad now you have to try in the deep end."

We were standing at the edge allowing me to think while staring into the water. I saw my reflection but not the cocky smart aleck I usually saw. I saw a wet guy with skewed hair and concerned concentration on his face. I knew I could do it swimming really does seem simple enough if you don't make it more complicated then it is but that was when I could touch the bottom. This is the big time.

I was still in thought when I felt a hand push me forward into the water. It was a strange sense of déjà vu that I had never wanted to experience in the first place. I splashed into the water trying to keep myself afloat, panicking trying to get back to the wall. Did I really just spend all my time learning how to swim? If I did where is it I can't remember anything? I continued to panic wanting to do so many disjointed things at the same time to make an ineffective movement that made things worse instead of better. I saw Sonny still on the deck and heard her yell to me despite the chaos I was still feeling in my mind.

She yelled, "Come on Chad you can do it just kick!" I saw her face and the concern on it. I didn't want that look on her face; I wanted a smile so I did as she told me and it all started to come back. Her eyes pulled me in I could remember again. I was alive and all because of Sonny in more ways then one. It may have only been a few seconds but it felt like an eternity.

When I got back on deck she hugged me and said, "That was so good! You did it!"

I was catching my breathe holding onto the side of the pool exhausted from the many hours in the pool, "Yes but please never push me in again, or I will take you with me next time."

She smiled, "Is that supposed to sound like a bad thing?"

"I don't know lets find out, "I said before grabbing her hand and jumping in from where we still were at the edge of the pool. I remembered how to tread water gone was my lapse in memory as if it never occurred at all. She and I tread water using mostly our legs so we could still hold hands. I looked into those deep brown eyes and kissed her.

"You're not doing a very good job at convincing me that pushing you in is a bad thing," she said matter-of-factly when we pulled apart.

I caught her eye again saying, "As long as you're with me, I don't know any bad things."