The relay goes so well. Not a hitch. The boys look different when they get out of the pool, having won their heat. I bet they saw it, the sight. That sight that they had never seen before. I wonder what it was...

Makoto gently leads his emotional team away from the pool to

It's our team's turn. I'm so glad that Samezuka's in a different heat to Iwatobi on the National stage.

Momo jumps into the pool.

"Ready." the announcer says.

Mei's brother prepares to go backward.

The bell sounds and there he goes.

"Momo!" Mei squeals

"Come on Momo-kun!" Nito' cheers.

"You're awesome Minishiba!" Ami-chan exclaims.

"Go Momo!" I encourage.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight Minishiba!" The Iwatobi boys shout.

"Swim!" And the chant begins on the Samezuka stands.

"Swim!" The team continue the call.

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"MOMOTAROU!" Sei shouts.

"GO Kin...MOMOTAROU!" Kou-chan got his name right.

Kou-chan got his name right! Momo hear her! He's going faster.

He's made the turn. Fourth place.

"Faster!" Rin shouts.

"C'mon Momotarou!" Sousuke shouts.

"Momo!" Fubuki encourages.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight Minishiba!" The Iwatobi boys encourage.

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"MOMO!" Ami-chan and Mei-chan scream

"You can do it!" Hika-chan pumps her fist.

"Last spurt baby bro!"

"Go Momotarou!"

"You can do this!"

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"We're nearing the exchange!" I gasp.

"Nitori-senpai!" Nito' leaps into the pool.

Our jaws drop.

"He's got so good. So quick." Hika-chan's in shock.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight Aichirou!" The Iwatobi boys encourage.

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"Swim!"

"Go Nitori-senpai!" Momo cheers.

"NITO!" I cheer.

"This is it Nito'!" Mei-chan shouts.

"You're doing it!" Ami-chan shrieks.

"You're here!" Kaito shouts with a megaphone in hand

"C'mon, Ai. C'mon, Ai. C'mon, Ai." Rin mutters.

"Show these people why you're here!" Hinata encourages.

"Show them that hard work pays off!" Sho adds.

"This is your time Nito'!" Kenta pumps his fist.

"GO NITORI!" Sei shouts

"This is Nationals!" Fubuki screams.

"THIS IS THE LAST SUMMER YOU CAN SWIM WITH RIN!" Sousuke snatched the meaphone from Kaito. I sulk. Not that, why pull the 'last time' thing.

"Come on Nito!"

We've actually gone up a place. We're in second. Nito' got is in second!

"C'mon, Ai!" Rin emcourages.

Fubuki and Nito' do a flawless exchange.

"It's you're time to shine Fubu'!" Kaito exclaims.

"He's so fast!"

"C'mon FUBUKI!" I shout.

"Shall we?" Mei-chan asks.

"Oh, we shall." I snigger.

Ami-chan puts her thumb up, signalling it to Kaito. He nods once to Hinata, Sho and Kenta.

"Ready! Okay!"

"Go Fubuki! Go, go Fubuki!" Kaito starts the cheer.

"Go Fubuki! Go, go Fubuki!" Hinata, Sho and Kenta join in.

"Go Fubuki! Go, go Fubuki!" We cheer from the poolside.

"Go Fubuki! Go, go Fubuki!" Momo and Nito's voices join our cheer.

"Go Fubuki! Go, go Fubuki!" Makoto leads the Iwatobi team in the cheering.

Samezuka is on their feet. All of us are cheering for Fubuki. My parents are too, on the stands. Mr and Mrs Matsumi are beside them. My eyes well with tears a bit at that, despite having seen them on the stands before all races. Beside the Matsumi family are Fubuki's parents and his super sister.

A peach haired girl is sat beside Grace. Oh. My. God.

And they're all doing it. Even her. Wow!

The changeover between Rin and Fubuki is incredible too!

"Go Rin-chan!" Nagisa is the one to start the cheer off for Rin.

"Go, go Rin-chan-san!!" Rei adds to it. Rin'll have Rei's head on a stick for the '-chan-san' honourifics again.

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!" Kaito exclaims into the megaphone.

Samezuka's got a huge HUGE lead on second place. Is it our ridiculous cheering that fired Fubuki up?

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!" Fubuki leads everybody at the poolside in the routine of flailing arms. His family shake their heads with smiles on their faces, as do Shizu's parents and my own family.

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!" We follow Fubuki's lead.

This'll go viral online. I know it will. But memories!

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!"

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!"

He's made the turn and second place is fighting to catch them.

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!" We get louder.

The opposing school is shouting for their freestyle ace.

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!"

More from the opposition.

"RIN!" Haru shouts as his teammates continue to chant.

"RIN-CHAN!" Nagisa exclaims as Haru gets back into the flow of the cheer.

"RIN-SENPAIIII!" Momo hollers, whilst moving in time with Fubuki's ridiculous dance. That one from Hairspray; twist, twist, twist, twist, mashed potato mobo.

"RIN-SAN!" Rei hollers.

"RIN-SENPAI!" Nito's still moving in sync with the dance but is crying. Damn his lachrymosa!

"CAPTAIN!" Random team members shout.

"RINRIN!"I call.

"MATSOUKA!" Sei exclaims.

"RIN!" Makoto shouts.

"ONII-CHAN!"

"RIN!" Sousuke hollers.

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!"

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!"

"Go Rinrin! Go go go Rinrin!"

We look to the scoreboard.

"WE DID IT!" Samezuka Academy just destroyed the competition. Rin's regimen just topped some of Tokyo's best schools. Samezuka's relay team has never placed above eighth place in the top ten at Nationals.NEVER" And now, we're in second place.

Everybody's glomping Rin. The whole team starts to embrace one another, hugs are shared throughout. Our parents and siblings ae teary eyed. The National swimming tournament just finished and boy, was it dramatic.

"Tch." Natsumi Yuma and the Harumi Prep team were in that heat too.

"Hey!" Nagisa calls. He jogs upto the butterfly swimmer for Harumi Prep, Rei and Makoto are at his heels since Rin's being suffocated by Haru's embrace and Haru in Rin's.

"Oh, you're that kid who thought he was all threatening last year at the squid festival." Yuma snorts a laugh in acknowledgement of Nagisa.

"Nagisa-kun." Rei can see that something's up with his boyfriend. Makoto can too. I make my way over.

"Yu-chan!" Nagisa tries. Yuma stops.

"Yu-chan?" the green haired boy stops.

"Yu-chan, why are you so mad?" Nagisa bats his lashes innocently.

"Andrew Fubuki, stuck in a dreamland, recieving and accepting the support from HER, pathetic." Yuma rolls his eyes and continues to walk.

"OI!" Nagisa shouts. "THAT'S NOT TRUE! YOU'RE LYING YU-CHAN! AOI-CHAN DID EVERYTHING FOR SHIZU-CHAN! STOP HURTING THEM BECAUSE BY HURTING AOI-CHAN YOU HURT REI-CHAN AND BY HURTING REI-CHAN YOU HURT ME! AND I'M SICK OF YOU HURTING ME YU-CHAN!"

"Fuck off, shortie! You don't know!"

"Yuma..."

"No!" he glares at me.

"JUST GO, YUMA! GO GET DRUNK OUT OF YOUR SKULL NOW THAT THE SEASON'S OVER!" Nagisa hollers.

My eyes widen.

Nagisa's all emotional.

Rei's trying to stay calm.

Makoto doesn't seem to know what to do.

Yuma looks conflicted.

He storms into the changing rooms.

I sigh and return to the celebrations. My moroseness wear off as soon as Sei and Kou and the team flood down to embrace us. I laugh with the team and take a billion photos with everybody. Rin hugs me, Sousuke looked as if he wanted a hug. His eyes were clearly full of remorse so I forgave him too and hugged the upperclassmen. The photographs for the local newsparers were taken and the Matsumi family wanted a photo of all of Shizu's friends together with their medals from Nationals.

Rin, Kaito, Sousuke, Fubuki and I are all together. We also took a bount to place at the Matsumi plot for her. I'm putting my backstroke medal with her, in the jar with the hairclip. Once its a documented achievement that is.