Too Smart to Love - RockyxZuma

Dive

"C'mon, Wocky, you gotta wake up!"

I just groaned and tried to go back to sleep

I can't believe these horrid memories kept me up all night

"Well, Wocky, I twied doing you a favow, but if you don't want to wake up, I'll just wait until Chase wakes evewyone up with his megaphone in just a couple of minutes... Oh, look, thewe he is now" As Zuma said this I heard the groans of Chase getting ready to start his day

That was my signal to surrender to Zuma and come out of my pup house before being forced to by Chase

I guess it was thoughtful of Zuma to wake me up before Chase did, considering he doesn't even try to be gentle at it, but I still didn't want to get up

"Ruff, megaphone!"

As soon as I heard this, I scrambled out of my bed, opened the door to my pup house, and covered my ears, which Zuma did too

"ALRIGHT, EVERYONE, IT'S TIME TO GET UP!" Chase yells into his megaphone

And just like every day, I hear groaning coming from every pup house as drowsy pups stepped out of them

Talking about drowsy, I notice Zuma is energetic, contrary to how he normally is in the early mornings, drowsy. I guess he put effort into this, but I'm not sure if that's a good thing...

Zuma then turns to me and smiles

"I see you'we finally up. Now we gotta eat bweakfast befowe youw swimming lessons"

I sigh. "Okay, I guess there's really no point in trying to fight it" I say as I rub my eyes

"That's the spirit!" He said jokingly

I try my best to seem ready, but I can't hide the fact that I am exhausted both emotionally and physically from last night. That's definitely not a good state to be in just before going for something considered important

Although I still don't get why it seems like such a problem. Sure, I'm scared of water. I can't remember the last time I took a bath with actual water, but other than that it hasn't bothered me after all the years I have lived with such fear

Yet Zuma had to step in to try to fix something that I wouldn't even consider to be broken. I'm not sure if that was malevolent or thoughtful of him

Well, knowing there was nothing I could do about it, I went to the lookout to eat breakfast and afterwards the two of us headed to the beach in Zuma's hovercraft

Ryder was going to join us at least for a while, but he got a mission just before we even left the lookout

The mission involved Chase and Skye, something about a criminal running to the forest to hide from the police, but I didn't get the details as I heard it while leaving the lookout. Anyway, since the mission only involved those two pups, the rest wanted to come along to see me trying to beat my fear for the first time, but I refused, saying that they should be ready in case they are required for a mission

Of course they could've come along and still be ready for any incoming missions, but the truth is I used it as an excuse because I didn't want them to see me being weak. And I wanted the same for Zuma, but since he is the one giving me the swimming lessons, there was no way to keep him from coming

Though it really didn't worry me for Zuma to see me being weak. With him it's just... different

To know how supportive Zuma is kinda gives me courage. I know that I can be honest with him, and that he won't criticize the way I am, like others do