Chapter 3: I WEAR THE SUIT SHE LEFT FOR ME AND HER HANDS FINALLY SLIP INSIDE WHILE SOMEONE WATCHES FROM THE OFFICEThe suit is waiting in my locker exactly as she promised.It is barely a suit at all—two thin triangles of black material for the top, held by strings that tie behind my neck and back, and a bottom so high-cut and narrow that the front panel is little more than a strip. When I put it on the mirror shows almost everything: the full curve of my breasts, the soft skin of my stomach, the lines where my thighs meet my body. One wrong shift and I will be exposed. My hands shake while I tie the strings.The pool deck is dark except for the underwater lights. The rest of the building is locked. Coach Voss is already in the water, waiting in lane four. She watches me walk the entire length of the tiles without speaking. Her eyes move over every inch of the new suit, slow and thorough, and something hungry settles behind the usual calm.“In,” she says.The water feels colder agains
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