Glow

Chapter Seven: Monochrome Water

About a week later, it was nearly time for another P.E. lesson. To think that on the last lesson two boy's lives were changed severely. Either way, Ryuzaki was about to face his fears and just take the class. Now that his bully was gone, hopefully he wouldn't get bothered. For once, he came to the locker room on time, when the students were already entering. Walking up to his locker, he took off his shirt like usual and inspected his bruises... almost gone. That's a first. Either way, he quickly changed into the school's swimming uniform and turned to leave, only to run into Light. The brown headed male blinked.
"Uh..." He pointed to the locker behind Ryuzaki, the one right next to his. With a quiet voice he said, "Um.. I need to get to my locker, ya know.." Ryuzaki made a slightly apologetic face and stepped out of the way, moving towards the exit as Light approached his locker without another word.
The students stood in a line in front of the teacher. The class wasn't that big, with only about ten students of both boys and girls. Ryuzaki peered behind the people next to him, his eyes scanning the line. The teacher tapped him on the shoulder to tell him to pay attention, and he quickly turned back to the front as he heard a few girls giggle. The teacher, a middle aged woman who looked a bit lazy, just told the class to go and freely swim. The other student's cheered and ran off to go jump in, but Ryuzaki hung back, slowly going up to the teacher.
"Um,  Miss... " She raised an eyebrow. "I, uh.. I..."
"Speak up. I don't have all day to deal with you stupid kids..."
Ryuzaki took a deep breath and continued, with a clearer voice. "I can't swim." The teacher rolled her eyes and checked her clipboard, and gave a sigh.
"Yagami!" Ryuzaki jumped as she yelled out to Light, who was sitting on the side of the pool. He began to make his way over. "You're the best in the class of P.E., right? Since you two are getting along a bit better now... teach Lawliet how to swim." Light frowned a bit in confusion, glancing AT Ryuzaki but quickly looking away. The teacher sighed once more and pointed to Ryuzaki.
"...oh. Sorry. I didn't know his last name. Sure, I... I'll do it, I guess." She nodded and walked away, moving to a chair nearby to read a book or something. There was a bit of an awkward silence but Ryuzaki cleared his throat and Light rubbed at the back of his neck, turning away and gesturing for Ryuzaki to follow him to the corner of the pool.
They got to a quiet and shallow area of the pool and slowly stepped in.
"So." Light began with a strong voice, turning to Ryuzaki. They were both standing about waist deep in the clear water, made blue by the colour of the floors. "Can you float?" Ryuzaki shrugged and Light sighed and held out his hands hesitantly. "Right... then I'm going to lead you around a bit and you can see if you can stay on the surface."
The black haired male nodded, rubbing his eyes before taking Light's hands and crouching in the water.
"I just have to kick a bit, right?" Light nodded, his face slightly flushed and started to walk backwards, pulling him along by the hands. After a while of being pulled along, face down and legs kicking a bit clumsily, Ryuzaki pulled himself into an upright position and took a deep breath. Light smiled a bit, nodding and letting him stand up. His eyes quickly skimming over his shoulders and soaked hair. But he pulled his gaze away.
"...Kay, doing well. Now, I'm going to show you how to.."
The lesson went on, time seeming to fly out the Window. The teacher called the students back into the locker rooms, and Ryuzaki was glad to be away from the pool. As he was opening his locker he felt a hand slap his back lightly, and he flinched, turning around. Light pulled back his hand and looked away with an embarrassed look. "You'll be able to swim in no time.." Ryuzaki gave an appreciative smile and nodded his thanks, turning back to his locker and quickly getting changed.
'What an eventful day... well, not really. Just that last period. Either way... I got to see him... with a swimsuit..'  Ryuzaki's mind wandered as he began his way home, walking with his shoulder bag by his side. He heard his ring tone go off and took out his phone with a confused expression.
   'Yo.. uh. Sayu kicked me out of the house for a few hours, so... can I come over to yours? Sorry for the short notice. And don't worry, I remember where you live.'
Ryuzaki gave an exasperated sigh and agreed through text, continuing his short yet slow walk to the monochrome house on the monochrome street.