I’m a spare on my high school swim team

I’m not a good swimmer but my dad makes me stay on the team

He says he’ll take the skin off my legs if I don’t stay with it

I feel neglected as the last member of the team

At the state finals our top swimmer was 10 lengths ahead

In his 200 meter swim

If he had won the race our team was going to be state champs

Our coach was walking up and down at poolside yelling and giving

Encouragement to Tad Williams, our human fish,

who was on his way to another victory

Our coach is pretty intense

I thought it would be fun if I twirled up my wet towel

and

Snapped it on the coaches ass

Unfortunately I snapped the towel too wildly

and hit Coach in the back of the head

He fell into the pool

Our team was disqualified from the meet

I’m on suspension.

But I’m not really angry or discouraged

I’m just more determined than ever to get back on the team next year

And next year I won’t snap a towel, I’ll go to tryouts in my mom’s bathing suit