"Alright, here's the deal!" announced Nagisa the next day, holding the form to start the new swimming club as they sat on the roof with the wind blowing gently "Since everyone's on board, I got us an application"

"You don't mess around!" exclaimed Makoto surprised, and Rosa had to agree. He was fast!

"Trust me, if you don't get the ball rolling now, it won't ever happen!" he replied, and placed the application in the middle of the circle they were forming "Let's see, the main purpose of the club is to train our minds and bodies, improving our overall educational experience through the recreational wonder of swimming"

"Woah, Nagisa!" Rosa said with am impressed nod "You really know how to sell an idea"

"Thanks" replied Nagisa "The four of us will be the founding members. Mako, how do you feel about being our captain?"

"I-I don't know, shouldn't it be Haru?" he questioned with doubt "He's the fastest swimmer"

"Being the captain doesn't imply being the fastest swimmer" replied Rosa "It implies having leadership skills. And Haru...." she left the phrase hanging in the air, so they could picture it for themselves. Not good.

After staring at his friend for a couple of minutes and imagining what he would be like as a leader, Mako decided that he agreed with Rosa's words.

"Yeah, no way"

"So, Mako, you're the captain. That just means that Haru gets to be your second-in-command!" Nagisa announced with excitement.

"Guys, please don't volunteer me"

"Don't worry!" Nagisa hurried to assure Haru before he changed his mind about the swimming club

"Relax. The vice-captain is just a figurine, you have zero responsibility"

"Geez, thanks," said Rosa with clear sarcasm, rolling her eyes, and the three of them looked at her in pure surprise.

"Wait, Rosa, you were a vice-captain?" asked Nagisa.

"Yeah" replied the girl "Of my team in England. It is actually a very important position, you know? If the captain isn't available, the vice-captain takes their place. They also work together to plan the training regimen of the day"

"I'm sure it is" Mako sincerely agreed with her words "Nagisa didn't mean it like that"

"Yeah, sorry" replied the boy.

"That's fine" she replied, shrugging it off.

"Why aren't you the vice-captain then?" suggested Haru.

"One of the swimmers of the team would be the appropriate person to be the vice-captain" replied Rosa "And as I'm not gonna swim, I think you'd do a good job"

"Then that settles it!" exclaimed Nagisa "Haru is the vice-captain, I'll be the treasurer and Rosa will be our coach!"

"I'm not going to go easy on you, you know?"

"We know" Nagisa nodded, remembering the training she put them through all those years ago

"That's why you get that position"

"Nagisa's right, we'll need to train hard if we want to enter a tournament" Makoto backed his friend up, making Rosalya smile.

"Well, I'll make sure you do" stated the girl firmly "Now we are just missing..." she scanned the application "A faculty advisor"

"Anybody in mind?" questioned the olive-haired, and Nagisa chuckled.

"Since you brought it up...I thought we'd ask Miss A"

"You think she'll be interested?" his friend asked again.

"Based on this crazy rumor that's been going around, I'm pretty sure she would" stated Nagisa, as the other three gave him confused glances, but he didn't say anything else.

"What?" asked Miss A when she heard their proposition "That's a sweet offer, but sports aren't really my thing"

"But I thought you liked swimming" replied Nagisa "I was told that, until last year, you had a job in Tokyo that had to do with swimming" Miss A looked a bit horrified when she heard that, and she stood up promptly.

"I need you to tell me where you heard that please" she urged in a whisper, so no one else could chime in their conversation.

"Nashiramo told me" replied Nagisa the same way "How come we are whispering?"

"In this previous job of yours...You were working for a swimsuit designer, right?" asked Rosa, having a slight idea of what her work was. She was still relatively young and had the body for it..

"Uh...Yes" replied the woman shyly "I...Suppose you could say that" the three friends' faces lit up when they heard that.

"In that case, we would be very excited and honored to have you advise us on the technology that goes into competitive swimwear" stated Mako politely.

"We need you!" added Nagisa, and the three of them bowed deeply at her.

"Pretty please!"

"I...Suppose, if I'm genuinely needed" replied the woman, much to their excitement.

After asking Miss A to be their faculty advisor, Rosa and Gou were at Samezuka academy, determined to see Rin.

"Let's hope he is here," said Rosa, as she looked around the place. She had promised Gou that she would help her find out what happened to Rin.

Though, even if she hadn't, she would eventually come anyway. It was the only place she knew she'd find him, and the only place he couldn't avoid her.

"I'm Matsuoka Rin's sister, Gou, and this is Tawaraya Rosalya. We're here to visit him" explained the young girl to the dorm manager, and the man's gaze stood on the girl next to her.

"And who are you?" he asked, out of curiosity, and protocol, too, staring at them behind his glass panel.

"I'm his—'' she was about to say friend, but Gou quickly hurried and corrected her.

"She's his girlfriend" she replied, and Rosalya opened her eyes wide as a red color took over her face.

"What?!" she whispered/yelled to the girl as the man pressed a couple of buttons, and made some calls into a phone.

"Shh. Just go with it" said Gou back in the same way. She didn't know the policy of the visitors, for all she knew only family could visit, and a girlfriend was like family.

And also, she loved teasing Rosa. It was fun seeing her reactions, she never actually got angry, contrary to Rin. Gou used to joke with them about being a couple and stuff like that, and her brother always huffed and shooed her; the other girl just gave her an unamused, and frankly hilarious, stare. The two girls got along perfectly well and had hung out quite a bit. It was in one of those that the youngest found out about a certain crush on a certain brother of hers, and since then, the teasing only increased.

"It appears he hasn't come back yet" the man spoke up, raising his gaze to look at them.

"Oh, he hasn't?" replied Gou "Okay, thank you" they bowed at him and went off "He must still be at the pool"

"This wasn't part of the plan!" scolded Rosa.

"You promise you'd help!" reminded the other girl.

"How is saying I'm his girlfriend helping?"

"It's not as if you don't want it though"

"Shut up!" said Rosa, making Gou chuckle as the two of them got into the building where the swimming pool was.

"Excuse me?" asked the youngest Matsuoka to a couple of guys standing in the hall just before the pool, but her attention was quickly captured by the countless shirtless boys inside. Rosa smiled a bit, shaking her head as if saying 'Oh, this girl'.

"So this is the famous Rosalya," said a guy with red hair and brown eyes, looking at Rosa with his arms folded and a warm smile drawn on his lips. She was taken back by this sudden attitude; he was talking as if he knew her all his life.

"Uh...I'm sorry, who are you?" she questioned with a frown.

"Nathan Lance" he replied, introducing himself the alternative way, and sticking his hand out for her to shake. He had never completely gotten used to the Japanese way of saying names, and he was glad he could use the other method while talking to Rosa, since she also came from England, where people introduced themselves like that.

Realization then hit the girl.

"You're Joy's twin, aren't you?" she said, starting to see the similarities between them. The same hair color, and that same grin.

"That's me" he confirmed with a nod.

"Nice to meet you, Nathan" she replied, placing her hand on his and shaking it. She didn't introduce herself because he obviously already knew who she was

"Call me Nate" he stated, placing his hands in his jacket pocket.

"Only if you call me Rosa," she said back, and Nate chuckled.

"Deal" the girl then looked to her side, to find that Gou was staring at them silently and awkwardly, not really knowing how to act or what to say. She had completely forgotten she was there, talk about manners.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" she quickly apologized "This is Matsuoka Gou" she introduced, placing a hand on her shoulder "Gou, this is Lance Nathan. He's my best friend's twin brother"

"Nice to meet you, Matsuoka" he stated smiling, once again taking up the Japanese form.

"Nice to meet you too"

"So, who are you looking for?" he questioned, knowing that the girls were here to see someone from the team.

"Matsuoka Rin" replied Rosa, and Nate frowned, trying to see if that name rang a bell.

"Doesn't sound familiar"

But, then again, he wasn't good with names so it was entirely possible he had met him but forgot about it.

"Maybe the captain knows" he added, wanting to help the girls "Hey, captain!" he called, looking to the side.

Soon enough, another guy with red hair approached them.

"Hey, how's it going?" he greeted "You're the gals looking for her brother and boyfriend, yeah?" Rosa was about to correct him and tell him that she wasn't actually his girlfriend, but Gou spoke up first, much to her annoyance.

"Yeah, right" the captain froze for a moment upon getting a clear look of the maroon-haired.

"Uh, this is gonna sound weird, but...You're incredibly cute" he admitted, blushing slightly. Nathan chuckled a bit upon hearing that.

"Oh, thank you!" she said with a smile "And you're right, we're here to see Matsuoka Rin"

"Matsuoka, huh?" he asked "Sorry to disappoint, but there's no one by that name in the swim team" Rosa frowned upon hearing that.

Rin wasn't on the swim team? How come? Why was he attending Samezuka otherwise?

"Though I gotta say, whoever this guy is, he's very lucky," said the captain, looking at Rosa, who almost died of embarrassment.

"He is indeed" Nate agreed with a nod.

"Oh, I'm not really—" she started to say, but Gou stomped her foot to tell her to keep playing along "Thank you," she said, greeting her teeth to ignore the pain.

When the captain turned around, Rosa gave her friend a murderous glance, but she just smiled innocently.

"It was nice to meet you both" Nathan spoke up before they left "Let's talk again sometime"

"I'll take you up on that offer" Rosa pointed out with a big smile, before going off with her friend.

That evening, after returning from Samezuka, Rosalya took Toby out for a jog.

Even though she wasn't swimming anymore, she was still an athlete and she still did exercise. She went out for a jog and occasionally hit the gym because she liked exercising in general, but swimming was her passion.

Or...Used to be.

Speaking of, she was still confused as to why Rin wasn't on the Samezuka team.

Why else would he return to Australia and start attending Samezuka if it wasn't to join the swimming team? She had tried calling him like three times on his phone, but she didn't receive a reply; she was sure that he was just ignoring her because he always had his phone on him.

Suddenly, Toby started barking loudly, making Rosa frown, since he didn't usually do that.

"Toby? What's wrong?" she asked, staring at the direction he was barking in, but she didn't see anything "There's nothing there" she observed, but the dog kept barking.

Then, he stopped and started running instead.

"Hey! Toby, slow down!" he was pulling with a lot of strength, which forced Rosa to let go of the leash before it burned her hand. His speed increased as soon as he was released.

When Rosa finally caught up to him, she saw her dog jumping onto someone and knocking them down. Her eyes opened wide in shock.

"Toby! Look what you've done!" she scolded, looking at the dog in disapproval, who whined and lowered his ears in shame. She felt bad but didn't try to fix it, instead, she was mentally preparing for a scolding by the person her dog had just pushed. She hoped it wasn't a police officer or someone like that "I'm so—" she turned to the side to apologize to whoever had ended up on the pavement and froze for a few seconds.

Rin.

He was staring right back at her, just as shocked. He was not expecting to see her so soon after the encounter at the club. In fact, he wasn't sure he even wanted to, after what he pulled back there.

"Rin!" exclaimed the girl, regaining her composure. Toby had probably recognized the boy's scent "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" she grabbed the leash with her left hand, and extended her right one towards him "Here, let me help you!" Rin grabbed it, doing his very best to avoid her gaze, and stood up, feeling warm all of a sudden. His jacket was a bit of extra clothing, despite the rather strong breeze that had been blowing for the past twenty minutes.

"What are you doing here?" he questioned, going back to being his emotionless self.

"Jogging" replied the girl with a smile. She was as cheerful as he remembered her being "I need to stay in shape, and Toby here needs to get tired so he can sleep tonight, but I guess he has a lot more energy than I remembered" she added the last part with a small chuckle "And you?"

"Same" he muttered, not finding anything else to say, but Rosa had plenty.

"Hey, Gou and I went to pay you a visit to Samezuka today!" she announced "We were told that you weren't back yet, so we went to check with the captain, but he told us that you weren't in the team"

"I didn't have the chance to join yet" he replied bluntly.

"What are you waiting for?" asked Rosa inquisitive, placing her arms behind her back, but Rin didn't answer, so she changed the subject "Well, anyway, Nagisa, Makoto, Haru and I are starting a swimming club at Iwatobi!" Rin raised an eyebrow upon hearing that.

Haru was joining a swimming club?

"I hope we can see you in tournaments!" she added "It would be fun to swim together again"

"Whatever" he replied uninterestedly, making Rosa frown, but she didn't say anything "I gotta go" he added, and walked away, not bothering to look back, leaving the girl alone with her thoughts.

Why was he acting that way towards her?

Had she said something to offend him?

She hoped not, she'd hate for Rin to be angry at her.

But what was going on with him otherwise?