The Love I Don't Miss
Part 148 (Swimming Pool 3 )

After a small talk between Cla and Arsen, Arsen finally agrees to try to eliminate the trauma that tormented him for years. Cla's unconvincing sentence will work, but it's true what was added by the girl. If it doesn't hurt to try, right?

So now the two agreed to learn the first ala Clarice, an impromptu coach for the driver. Hold your breath in the water as long as the young man can. Without coercion also without the time targeted to be achieved.

Learning to hold your breath in water is important, right?

"If you can put your head in by opening your eyes, then do it. But if you can't, you can close your eyes first so you don't see the breadth of this pool" Clarice said, mimicking a coach teacher when explaining to her students.

"Don't hold me back if I want to get my head out!" arsen reminded.

"Yes! i promise!" answer Clarice. "Pull your breath as much as you can." said Cla and immediately executed by Arsen.

"One..two..three..." Clarice counted the numbers forward, as she began to creep down.

Bending each leg simultaneously and slowly inserting the head together, the two face different situations. If Cla follows the speed that Arsen can do with his eyes open. So Arsen experienced a world that he considered very dark and gloomy with his eyes closed.

As soon as his mouth went into the water, he immediately felt the breath begin to stop right then and there. And when he closed his eyes, the memory of something that had happened over 10 years had just popped back in the first second his eyes were submerged in water.

The shadow actually happened a few years ago. And now it all feels real and looks completely repeated. Where he who can not manage the breath rolled by the flow of water in the depth that folds beyond his height.

If faced with a situation like this with his coach teacher, he would instantly rebel by himself, and instantly appear on the surface after the third second or even in the second.

But this time, he was determined to do all this for Clarice. He wanted to appreciate Clarice's effort and intention to help him leave the trauma behind. He knew that behind the girl's poetic and indifferent attitude towards him all this time, there was still one side of the heart that he could enter.

In the water, at that depth of 1 meter, Clarice counted the seconds using her fingers. He hopes Arsen can add seconds in each experiment.

' One..two... '

In Clarice's heart count the seconds that Arsen can pass through while opening one by one finger, starting from the thumb. The first two minutes, Cla looked at Arsen whose face was different. But he won't ask Arsen to come out despite his pity.

' Three... '

This time Clarice saw Arsen's face growing pale and tense.

' Four... Steady, Arsen! '

clarice said in her heart.

Clarice's little finger had not been opened, Arsen had poked back to the surface. Rubbed his face rough with a gasping breath. He lifted his head to the right and to the left. It was as if returning the world that was just about to take his life.

Breath gasped in and out through the young man's nose and mouth. He has always experienced this since time immemorial. And it always happens in the third second. And this time it was the first time he could be more than usual.

All because in the midst of the shadow about the gloomy time, the face of Clarice who was looking at him with a hopeful look. It was as if he was willing to endure whatever happened.

Although he did not see what was being done and in the mind of Cla because he always closed his eyes, but his mind said so. And it all happened as if they were real.

Seeing Arsen ready to come out of the water, Cla did the same. He came out of the water and rubbed his face. Clean the water blocking his breath in the free air.

Cla saw the effect of Arsen learning to hold his breath in the water. The young man's chest was an irregular kembis. His hand was still holding on to the iron pipe that had not been far away at all. For now, only that thing is considered Arsen as his protector.

"Very five seconds!" clarice stared fixedly at Arsen's deathly pale face while adjusting her wheezing breath.

Arsen who was staring in the other direction, immediately looked at Clarice who was in front of him. The eyes of the two meet again. Arsen recalled that he had seen this face in the middle of the shadow of his voice earlier.

"That's my latest record, Cla!" clarice said with a still breath.

"And I'm proud of you for breaking a new record!" clarice patted Arsen's arm. "We try again"

The touch, the familiar touch that was first obtained by Arsen from Clarice. And a while ago he wanted this touch. All this time that Arsen got when they were at school was the girl's unfriendly gaze.

So if in the past he would refuse the coach's invitation to repeat, then this time he actually nodded even with just one nod.

"Forcing yourself not to remember all that. Fight them with something meaningful. Replace it with something new. And do not assume if you are holding your breath because it is going into the water. But let's just say you hold your breath because of the smell of fart."

"Hahahaha!!!" Arsen's previously pale face listened and imagined Clarice's explanation, now it was reddened by the laughter that exploded without being stopped easily. The laughter just went very hard.

Clarice looked at Arsen's laughter which this time really looked relaxed. Not at all seem burdened by the level of training he is working on.

The byurr!

Clarice implied water on Arsen's face, who kept laughing. Although he was actually happy because he managed to make Arsen change the mood. But if it lasts too long it feels like this new coach will not be able to. I can't wait to be a teacher in kindergarten.

"Well!" Arsen rubbed his face wet by the pool water that Clarice splashed. And also threw away the water that accidentally went into his mouth.

"Let's not laugh too much!" exciting Clarice.

"Your explanation is too funny, Cla!" arsen replied still holding back his laughing explosion.

"We repeat now!" clarice shut Arsen's mouth with one hand, so that the young man would stop laughing.

But Arsen actually wants to bite the hand with the fingers lentik it.

"Okay, coach!" replied Arsen taking off Clarice's hand which covered her mouth.

"Remember! just think of something else that you think is valuable and very heavy if you lose it all" Clarice said.

"Example?" tanya Arsen squinted her eyes. The smile on his lips disappeared. Replacing with a serious face that may return pale if re-entered into the water.

"Imagine if if Mama and Papa you are proud of you who have been able to escape from excess trauma!" answer Clarice. "Or maybe. Imagine how amazed the girls who idolize you are when they know you are a near-perfect young man. It's handsome, rich, racer and can also be relied on if your lover will drown!" answer Clarice again.

Arsen smiled again. Not in what Clarice says, but... "So you think I'm really handsome?" asked Arsen with a teasing smile.

Clarice squinted her eyes, then tilted her lips as she realized she had misspoken. The little boy always focused on the compliments he denied even though it was.

' Talking to this kid should be careful! '

Gerrutu Cla regretted in heart. Although he actually admitted that Arsen was handsome and almost perfect.

"Do you feel handsome?" ask Clarice.

"of course! many have admitted that! And one of them is. you!"

And right, when Arsen's face approached, that's when Cla felt something jolting his heart.. Grazing one side of the heart that is out of nowhere. But as much as possible he brushed off everything that made him feel strange with himself. Although when their faces were only 10 cm away, Cla admitted that Arsen was handsome and worthy of idolatry in school.

Clarice could say nothing more. But in order to maintain the self-esteem that he had been guarding in front of Arsen, Cla flicked his lips lazily. Brush away Arsen's sentence in real.

"Don't say much and don't be too confident!" said Cla. "Now prepare your best breath and we go back into the water. I'm sure you can add duration!"

The young man breathed as much as he could. Close his eyes to breathe deeper.

"Rilex.." said Clarice softly.

"One..." Clarice began to bend her knees, leaving her head alone in the air.

While Arsen followed slowly and his hands were not separated from the handle of the iron pipe with his eyes open. He looked at Clarice's face as a reference point.

"Two..."

Arsen began to bend deeper into her legs with a focus that had yet to shift from Clarice's pretty face.

"Remember, put the face you love into your mind... Fight the shadow of the past by bringing up those faces!" Cla said and Arsen gave a brief nod.

' I knew I had to fight that memory by putting who into my mind! '

Arsenic said in her heart.

"Three..." And they both went back into the water.

As before, Clarice started counting second by second using her fingers.

' One. two.. three... Good Arsen! '

' Five.. six... Good job boy! '

' Eight...Shem... '

Unfinished to mention the number 9, Arsen had already taken out to the surface and took as many breaths as he could. And Cla followed Arsen's movements.

While in the water, Arsen tried to follow Clarice's advice. It is inserting a person's face that can make him fight the trauma in the past. And he put Clarice in the face when the girl said he was handsome, and when he first met the girl at the Metropolitan mall.

The one he was waiting for, Clarice's smiling face. Why not appear, and it makes the shadow of the past again make him out of breath, and can no longer survive.

"Good job!" Clarice laughed happily as she said the compliment to Arsen who was still removing the remains of water on her face, then filling her lungs with as much air as she could.

"How many seconds?" ask Arsen.

"Almost 9 seconds!" answer Cla.

"HUH!" screeched Arsen with wide-open eyes. "Seriously?" tanya Arsen believed in her achievement this time.

"Yes! your record is growing!" clarice said she was also happy with the achievement in Arsen.

Arsen laughed happily at his latest achievement. "We try again!" arsen. "You don't have to go in the water. The important thing is to count!"

"All right! i agree!" cla replied that Arsen's idea was good to try. "Come in and I'll count!" her word.

Without counting again to start, Arsen went straight into the water. He already knew who to remember, the girl in front of him was the right person to be happy if he managed to eliminate his trauma. Because thanks to the girl he made it through it all. Although it will not be that easy to achieve.

Byuurs!!

Arsen reappeared on the surface with a rough rub of his face. Open his eyes wide and also breathe out as much as possible. Every shadow ali appeared and he could no longer hold back, he would come straight out of the water.

"How long?"

"15 seconds!" java Cla smiled happily as Arsen's achievements continued to increase. Although it was very strange for Clarice who was used to holding her breath in the water for 5 minutes even more.

And Arsen was even more excited by the achievements he got on the first day of training with the girl who seemed very excited to teach him. Help him sincerely to eliminate the trauma that plagued his days.

' Every time I think of you in the water, that ugly shadow is gone, Cla! '

' But when I expected a more beautiful shadow from you to appear, it was always that shadow that appeared and made me lose my way! '

Said the young man in the heart.

"You have to keep trying!" said Cla.

"Yes! I will try until I succeed, as long as you teach me!" said Arse

"You mean, you want me to be your coach?"

"Yes! that's right!"

"How much do you pay?" cla Goda.

"Whatever you want!" reply Arsen.

"Emmm..." Cla tilted his face, glancing at the sky as if looking for an idea. "Dufan when you really can!" answer Cla.

"Saturday or Sunday tomorrow too! no need to wait for me!"

"After the exam" Cla.s.suggested.

"OK!" arsen replied excitedly.

"All right! i agree!" answer Clarice. "Please take DP!"

And they both laughed together.

"We'll rest!"

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