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Today was supposed to be the day. With the water seeming to be colder each time Mona stepped into it and the air itself getting colder, she needed to do her big swim soon. She didn't want to wait! She'd been practicing so much and she was already almost as big as her parents and the bigger she got the less impressive it was going to be.
She was so annoyed. It was supposed to be today, but then the sky had to open up and bring rain.
She stood at the lakeshore, water lapping at her toes, glaring out over the choppy waters as the rain poured down around her. She was already soaked; maybe she could still do it. But the lake had grown so much bigger lately, and she'd never swam when the water was rough like this, and she absolutely was not scared but she also didn't want to scare her parents.
This was so annoying.