[SwimTeamSpeedo]

“Great practice today,” said Coach O’Reilly to the guys as they all huddled at the deep end of the pool. “So, I have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?”

The answer was a muddled mix of the two. The coach settled on the good news first. “Coach Melanie and I think the two teams should practice together once a week. So, on Wednesday afternoons we will join the ladies for their practice from 2:50PM to 4:30PM, just like today. I know you guys enjoy swimming with the ladies, so you get to do it weekly. That’s the good news.”

Bryan looked at Jimmy and smiled. “That’s cool,” Bryan said aloud, mostly to Jimmy, but also for anyone who was listening. A couple of guys high fived. It was a great way to meet cute girls and they were all mostly happy about that.

“Okay, now the bad news. There was a typo in the notice I sent out. Sorry, guys, but practice for us starts at 5:30AM, not at 6:30. Those of you from years past know that. It’s the only pool time we could get. We will still follow with some weight work. ON Wednesday, I’ll give you a break and we can start at six, since we will do double sessions that day. Any questions?” The guys all seemed to nod their heads in consent. “Okay, go get changed. See you back here tomorrow morning, early.”

The guys all climbed out of the pool. The girls team was also just breaking up from a quick huddle with their coach. Bryan nodded at Stephanie as the two teams headed off to the locker rooms. The teams were both ready for a hot shower. “We might as well stay here,” Jimmy said aloud. “Five thirty will come awfully early,”

“Yeah, it sucks,” came a reply. “Just sleep in your Speedo, then you can roll right out into the pool!” All the guys laughed at the thought.

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The alarm clock rang out loud at 4:45am. Jimmy rolled over and hit the snooze. “Five more minutes,” he mumbled to himself. Within a minute his cell phone was vibrating on the nightstand.

“Dude, you awake?” came the voice at Jimmy flicked the answer swipe on the iPhone. Bryan’s picture was staring back at him.

“F---, not really,” came Jimmy’s reply. “This sucks!”

“Welcome to the dark side of swimming,” Jimmy teased. “Get on your Speedo and get out front in ten minutes.” Bryan’s dad was going to pick drop them at the pool on his way to work. Jimmy quickly hopped from bed and slid himself into the tiny swimsuit. It was still damp from the night before, the cold material chilling him. Jimmy was too tired to take time to position himself in the suit, his parts landing however they were as the suit was pulled up. He tossed on a sweatshirt and grabbed his gym bag of clothes for school. It was till dark outside, the sun not even hinting at rising.

“Dude, shouldn’t you wear shorts ort something,” Bryan said as Jimmy jumped in the car.

“I figured I was just going to take them right back off,” Jimmy replied.

“Better hope we don’t get in a wreck,” Bryan replied. His father chuckled.

“I don’t blame you, Jimmy,” the dad said. “Very efficient.”

Jimmy took out his iPhone and opened up Facebook. “Check this out,” he said to Bryan as they rode to the pool. He handed the phone over to Bryan.

“What am I looking at?” Bryan asked.

“Dude, look at the picture, that’s Patty, she asked me to be friends on Facebook. I got it last night, she must have looked me up.”

“Jimmy’s got a girlfriend!” Bryan teased. “See, show a girl yourself in a Speedo and good stuff happens,” Bryan teased. “She must like how you look almost naked.”

“Shut up!,” Jimmy shot back. He gave Bryan a shove on his shoulder.

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The pool was dark and quiet. The guys in the locker room were also pretty subdued, little of the usual banter. Nick arrived just as Jimmy was ready to head out to the pool deck to help coach pull the covers. Jimmy’s eyes met his and they both smiled. Nick had on a pair of long Nylon Nike sport pants, the kind that can just tear away, which he did as he walked to his locker. Underneath he was wearing a black and green Nike swimsuit, the kind with a seam up the back. The way the suit fit his back side grabbed Jimmy’s attention.

“Hey Nick,” Jimmy said as he walked back toward him.

“Hi Jimmy,” Nick replied. “Ready for our first real practice?” Nick asked as he tied up the swimsuit under Jimmy’s watchful eye.

“I hope so,” Jimmy replied. “I thought we could only wear team suits?” Jimmy asked.

“No, we can wear any swimsuits at practice, I mean if we had to just wear the team suit all the time it would wear out and it would always be wet.” Nick replied. “You’ll see, most guys will have on different suits. Just no shorts and jammers, coach doesn‘t like those”

Jimmy turned around and looked and sure enough, some of the guys had on the team swimsuit, but about half had on others. They two headed out to the pool. “I guess I need to go get some more swimsuits,” Jimmy replied.

“Wanna go after school, we can go over to Varsity Swim,” Nick suggested. “It is a cool shop and they got lots of great stuff,” Nick added.

“Sure,” Jimmy replied. The two guys headed out to the pool. Bryan and most of the rest of the guys were already out there. Jimmy watched as Nick walked slightly ahead of him As much as he thought Patty was cute, he had this weird feeling about Nick, one he could not describe. He thought Nick was cute, and he loved how his smooth chest and legs looked in the tiny Nike swimsuit. Jimmy had never thought about a guy in the ways he was feeling as they headed to the pool. He was even feeling the same urges between his legs as his body started to respond to the stimuli of the handsome young man in the ever so cute swimsuit.

Practice was intense. The 20 guys were three to a lane in the center six lanes of the pool with two single swimmers in the shoulder lanes. The shoulder lane swimmers were the long distance guys, so they would swim a slightly different workout. The center lanes were broken down by a combination of pace and events. Since coach had not slotted the six new swimmers into events, this first practice was mostly pace. Jimmy was in lane two, along with Nick and a guy named Armand, who went by the nick name AJ. AJ was also a freshman, but he was already much taller than the other two, and he was skinny as a rail. He had shot up, but had not filled out. He looked more like a long distance runner than a swimmer. Like Jimmy, he was wearing the team suit. As they started the warm up 300, Jimmy waited to go after Nick. AJ led off, Nick followed by about a third of the pool, and Nick followed by about the same. The views of the swimmers going by, especially Nick kept catching Jimmy’s attention. He watched as the Forms and outline of their bodies would go by.

“Jimmy, how come you keep looking around?” Coach called him out. “Keep your head down and straight! What are you looking at?”

“I don’t know coach, sorry.” Jimmy replied, busted. "I'll do better." Jimmy’s was filled with embarrassment, he could easily admit to coach the truth. He could hardly admit it to himself.