Pride Page #5

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-You owe me 20, daddy.

-Nice, man.

Dre-T, where you going, man?

Stick around, brother, have a beer.

Might even let you drive tonight,

like old times.

Remember all the fun we used to have?

Yeah, I remember.

I remember you leaving me for dead.

Is that how you remember it going down?

No, see, I remember you

taking them bullets like a man, for us.

Look, here.

I haven't forgot that, brother.

You smell that?

Come on, baby.

It's for you.

Swollen up on me.

All right, brother.

It's all right, young blood.

You know where to find me.

What you guys have to remember

is that each and every stroke

begins with an extension into the water.

You are reaching and stretching

as far as you can.

Now, I'm gonna show you.

Remember, you keep moving your legs.

Stretch out, reach as far as you can.

Try it.

One, two, breathe.

Now you're swimming

like a wounded animal.

One, two, breathe.

One, two, breathe.

Coach, why do these got to be here?

They keep messing me up.

The line is there to keep you

from messing everybody else up.

One, two, breathe.

If you breathe correctly, you don't drown.

Pull it back.

Reach out.

Make eye contact, pull them back again.

Walt, who told you

to take a board out there?

-But my hair.

-Get rid of the damn board.

What, you trying to drown us?

I'll show you fools.

Hey, Jim, let me show them how it's done.

Push.

Push.

Push.

You can make it, don't give up.

You can't run across the water.

Come on out here, young man.

Hey, Mr. Ellis,

you see how fast I was today?

Yeah, Reggie, you were smoking, man.

I think you broke a record.

Hey, don't some of those

rec centers have...

Have like swimming teams?

Like... Like...

Swimming tournaments and stuff.

You mean like meets? Swim meets?

Yeah, I suppose they would,

especially the ones that got pools.

Why?

I'm saying...

We swimming like every day, you know.

Maybe we should get in some.

-Hey, mister. Are there girls at these meets?

-Yeah.

That must be why they call them meets.

You meet girls.

Hey, we could be

splish-splashing with some girls.

Yeah, I think we really should.

Look, fellows. Look, what we do here,

I mean, this is all fun and games.

You talking about leagues,

and these people, they take this serious.

Dig, man. I'm tired of racing these jokers.

I need some more janitors to go up against.

-Why? So you can get smoked again?

-And again.

And again.

Yeah, why don't y'all

finish getting dressed?

But I really think we're ready.

Hey, foxy.

-Say, baby doll.

-Yeah, my name is Walt.

What's your name?

Victoria, huh?

-Let me walk you on down the street.

-We on the swim team.

See, I know how to do the breaststroke.

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