The Swimmer

He’s the best, he’s faster and stronger than anyone else in his field. He is the best swimming in the state. He is the popular kid who has all the friends and every girl wants to be with him. Not only is he the best swimmer in the state he is also a world class tennis player. He loves life, there is only one problem. This young man happens to just have the greatest head of hair. All the girls are all over his hair all the time. Its long black, straight, short, blonde, and curly it is everything. The problem is that being the amazing swimmer he is , he must shave he head. He doesn’t know what to do shave his head and swim but lose his friends or don’t swim and miss out on a great opportunity. Every swimmer on the team has already shaved there head and they are starting to get mad that he hasn’t yet. The pressure him all the time saying “If you don’t shave your head you’re not swimming” and “You’re a wimp just shave your head”. Finally after all the yelling at him he decides to do it. After school on a Friday he slowly and very scared walks into the swimmers locker room. All the older swimmers are standing around a chair with a razor plugged in. He slowly sits down while they turn on the razor. Then the first air is shaved. Shaving different designs into his hair and taking pictures they start to have a little fun with it but this is all before he looks in the mirror. Finally they finish and they bring the mirror out. “NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” he screamed. He was in shock, he didn’t think he would look that bad but it was terrible. He was so scared to go to school on Monday he wasn’t sure if he would go. All weekend he spends in his room worrying and trying to find a way to make his hair seem longer. He even tried putting on Rogan. Nothing worked he was stuck with his shine white bald head. Finally it was Monday. His mom dropped him off at the front door and he was wearing a hat. As he started walking through school he was fine because of the hat but then he passed the dean’s office and she saw him. The dean proceeded to come out of her office and yell at him for wearing a hat which at that point was the first time people saw him bald. Everyone was running up to him as fast as they could just to look. Everyone hated it. “Boooo”, “That’s ugly”, “Why would you do that” people exclaimed. Everyone was in complete shock as they looked at him. All through the day he was getting mean comments towards him and he started to get really upset. After school that day however was the state swim meet which kept his hopes high for the day. The finally school was over as he went on to win 1^st place at the state match he figured that shaving his head was well worth first place.