Thinking, reading a dictionary, memorizing it, normal five year old stuff...(Open, Uryuu)

I examined the page carefully. I stared at it. I watched multiple campers walk by. I knew all their names. I sighed. If I was a normal five year old, I would probably be at my first school having a snowball fight with friends. I stared the lake that I was floating on. Pieces of ice drifted by from the ice skating rink. The small raft I sat on wasn't very sturdy. I had just stuck a few pieces of driftwood together. Then, it tipped and I fell. I couldn't Swim! I screamed for help. What if I got hypothermia?

I was taking a break from the armory by the side of the lake, recalling the memories from the time I was here with Kelyn. Apparently, it wasn't a date but I tried not to worry about that too much. I looked out at the water just in time to see a raft tip over. At first I thought someone had just thrown some wood out at the lake, but as I looked closer, I saw a little girl around 6 or 7 fall. Her shrill scream pierced the air and she obviously couldn't swim.

I quickly stood up and ran toward the water not bothering to take off my shirt. I dived in, pumping my muscles that I had gotten from working in the Armory. I frantically dove under and grabbed her hand, pulling her up to the surface. I tread water slowly back to the land. "What were you doing?" I asked, not even bothering to look at her.

I looked up at the boy. I listened to his question. I blushed. I didn't want to say what I was doing! He would think I was weird. Not that I wasn't. But, I couldn't tell a lye. "Memorizing the dictionary." I muttered, hoping he wouldn't he hear.

As I got to shore I went over to the towel wrack that the Aphrodite kids insisted upon having, and I carried two towels over, wrapping one around the little kid. I wrapped the other one around myself. "Memorizing the dictionary?" I repeated, awestruck. "Kid, no offense but you're like 6," I said, trying not to sound too harsh.

I glared at him. My teeth began to chatter. "I'm five! And I have photographic memory!" I crossed my arms. Tika hissed at the boy. She seemed to be shivering. I picked her up and cradled her in the towel.

I raised my hands in mock surrender. "Well sorry!" I said, sarcastically. This girl had a really snappish attitude. I guessed it came with the age? I began to wonder if I was that way when I was little.

"I'm sorry for snapping a you." I said. "I'm April. Thanks for saving me." Tika meowed in my arms. "Oh! And this Tika!" I said, gesturing to her. Tika jumped out of my arms and ran to the boy. She began purr and lick at his ankles.

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