“Come on ladies, move it.” Coach Karr was watching the girls as they swam back and forth in their lanes.

Mrs. Karr kept her eye on Max as she practices her butterfly strokes. It seemed to be the one technique she was still having problems with.

“Betty, help Max with her butterfly technique.”

“Yes ma’am.” Betty walks over to the lane Max was practicing in.

Betty didn’t have a problem with Max being on the girl’s swim team. If nothing else, she was surprised by what she looked like at the pool party and what she looked like in a tight one-piece swimsuit. She waits for Max to finish her turn and was on the way back to her.

Max spots Betty waiting for her at the end of her lane. She stops and walks the rest of the way to her.

“What brings you over here?” Max was curious.

“Mrs. Karr wants me to help work with you on your butterfly form. You’re losing too much time every time you come out of the water.”

“Okay, so what do you suggest I do?” Max looks at Betty.

“I suggest, you do this. Watch how I do my butterfly stroke.” Betty walks over to the side and pushes off the wall underwater and begins her stroke.

Max watches how Betty does her stroke. She continues to watch Betty as she gets halfway down. She walks down to where she stopped.

“Okay, now you try.” Betty looks at Max as she comes walking towards her.

“Okay.” Max turns around and dives forward into the water.

She swims back towards the side of the pool. She tries what Betty suggests and when she reaches the end, she flips and swims back towards Betty.

“That’s a little better. I’m going to put a kickboard between your legs, and I want you to just work on the stroke.” Betty walks back down to the
pool edge and climbs out of the pool to get a kickboard.

Max walks down to the pool edge and watches Betty. She was one of the best swimmers on the girl’s team. She planned on going to Old Dominion University on an athletic scholarship.

Betty turns around and spots Max watching her “I’m hoping you're not watching my ass. Because I already have a boyfriend and I’m not into girls.”

“Sorry, if it looked that way. I was just watching you getting the kickboard.”

Betty walks over to the pool edge and slips back into the water. She looks at Max and noticed she wasn’t concerned about her. She had enough problems at school with some of the boys because of how she looked. She knew she had a nice figure and was a little bit more developed than some of the other girls in her age group.

“I’m sorry. I know it's not easy for you.” She heard what happened a few days ago to Max.

“It’s no problem. Most of the guys think I’m doing this to see what you girls look like with no clothes on.”

“Well, it is kind of strange, Max. Most of us have known you for a while.” Betty only knew Max from her time on the swim team.

“I know. I’m still adjusting to everything.”

Betty hands the kickboard to Max “put this between your legs and cross your ankle. I want you to just use your arms to swim.”

Max accepts the board and does what Betty told him to do. Just before she pushes off the wall to swim “how many laps?”

“Give me twenty laps like that.”

“Okay.” Max pushes off the wall of the pool and starts swimming.

Betty watches as Max swims. She counts the laps as Max swims back and forth. Slowly, but surely Max was improving. It was going to take Max a few more swim practices before she would have it completely down.

Coach Karr ends practice around noon time. She looks at everyone “we have our first meet in two weeks. I want you girls to practice for the next two weeks.”

“Yes ma’am.” All the girls answered at once.

Mrs. Karr just smirks “go and enjoy the rest of the weekend.”

Max follows the rest of the girls into the lady’s locker room and rinses off with her suit on in the showers. One of the girls on the team snap her towel at Max’s bare thighs.

“Owe!” Max turns around to see which girl it was and spotted Carol smiling at her.

“Oh, you are so going to get it.” Max goes to reach for her towel, but it was missing.

“I don’t think so, Maxine.” Carol snaps her towel again but misses Max.

“Here Max, you can use mine.” Nancy gives Max her towel to use.

“Thanks, Nancy.” Max twirls the towel to put a nice tail on it and snap it at Carol.

“Owe!” Carol rubs the spot where Max hit her with the towel.

“Turn about is fair play.” Max just smiled at Carol.

In the next few minutes, Carol and Max score several hits on each other. When Carol hits Max on her nipple, Max felt intense pain. She had never felt anything like it before.

Betty noticed the painful expression on Max’s face “are you alright, Max?”

“Yes, but that was painful.” Max rubs her chest.

“Max, are you growing your breasts?” Cindy was curious.

“Yes, the hormones my doctor has me own are allowing my body to develop my breasts.”

“Does your chest hurt when you stretch like this?” Cindy stretches like she was describing.

“Yes, how do you know that?” Max looked perplexed.

“Because all girls go through what you are going through. Your body is adjusting to having breasts.” Cindy walks over to look at Max’s chest.
Cindy noticed the little cherry shape from the wet swimsuit. She knew from experience what it felt like when she moved her arms and such how it felt.

“Yep, you are developing breasts like the rest of us did.”

“I want to see.” Joy walks over to look for herself. She has never seen a boy develop breasts before.

Joy looks at Max’s chest and notices the little lumps. She heard how Max looked at the pool party and saw the pictures one of the girls took.

“How big will you get?”

“I don’t know. My doctor said I should be one cup size smaller than my mother and Donna.”

“Man, I’m jealous. I look like a flat-chested boy and you're going to be also almost as big as your mother and sister. It’s not fair.” Joy turns
around and storms off. She hated being flat-chested.

“Rose, Anna your ride is here.” Coach Karr’s voice echoes in the locker room.

“Coming, Coach Karr.” Rose and Anna rush back over to their locker to finish getting dress.

“Come on, Max.” Let’s go get dress.” Carol walks with Max over to her locker.

Max follows and starts changing out of her swimsuit. She twists it, to get the water out of it. She dries off with the towel Nancy gave her.

Once Max was done dressing and fixing her make-up. She waves goodbye to Coach Karr and heads towards her bicycle. She rode her bike to
practice. She notices that some of the guys who rode their bikes were already gone. The only bike left was Eddie’s. she waits a few minutes for Eddie to come out.

Eddie walks out of the pool building and spots Max waiting for him. He walks over and secures his gym bag on the carrier rack on his bike.

“Thanks for waiting on me.” Eddie didn’t like biking by himself.

“No problem. Hey, do you want to stop at Dairy Queen and grab some lunch? My treat.” Max watches Eddie.

“Sure, but next time I’m buying.” Eddie didn’t care Max wanted to be a girl.

Max has always been a good friend to him. Both had a lot in common with each other. Plus, he had a small crush on Max’s sister.

Max and Eddie start peddling away from the pool building.