First Part of Chapter 3

Screams of children blasted my ear when I walked through the YMCA entrance. I scanned my card and walked to the locker rooms. I quickly undressed and slipped on my one piece YMCA uniform bathing suit, then slide on my whistle. I could see my mom throwing a toy back into the pool to a young boy and smile.

"Hey Mom!" I wave and trot over to her. A look of relief is planted on her face and she smiles back.

"Hello Sweetie, how was school?"

"Very interesting, I'll tell you later."

I take second shift till 6:30, help clean up, and then go home with my mom. Luckily I have Fridays off, which is a relax day with my mom. Because on Saturdays and Sundays we clean, do any repairs, and and go appliance shopping.

Work went by so slowly because I was excited to tell mom everything that had happened at school. I jumped  into the pool and gathered the floating deserted toys. After cleaning up trash and putting pool toys away I quickly rinsed off in the showers and changed. Then locked everything up and hopped in the car with my mom.

The ride was silent until we turned onto our block.

"Okay sweetie when we get inside and settled you can tell me everything. Does that sound good?"

"Yup, I'm so exhausted, " I sighed.

"Well the day isn't over yet, there is still stuff to do." She adds while we pull into our driveway.