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The Horrible High Dive

“Come on, Jimmy, lets go on the high dive,” Chris said as they walked through the front gate of the town pool.

“Yeah!” replied Mikey, Noah, Connor, and Erik as they started running over to the high dive.

“We’ll go first Jimmy, you we’ll see how easy it is,” Mikey exclaimed as he climbed up the high dive.

Jimmy said nothing as he watched all of his friends jump of the high dive one after another weee... weee...weee... splash... splash... splash. Jimmy got up the high dive quickly looked over the edge at his friends, and... FROZE. All the kids looking up at Jimmy.

“Jimmy! Jump off, don’t be a baby,” everyone screamed.

But there was that one person, Jimmy’s rival, Mark. They hated each other, and they couldn’t stand each other. All Mark wanted was for Jimmy to fail, and Jimmy knew that but he had to be brave, and he was. He waited for a second.

“Alright, fine. If I die it is your guys’ fault. Ahhhhhhhh!”

He jumped...

Splash.

“Wow! That was awesome, guys! Let’s do it again!” said Jimmy excitedly.

While Jimmy was screaming and yelling with laughter and happiness that he conquered his fear, Mark wanted revenge. He dove in right on Jimmy’s head. He definitely hurt Jimmy, but Jimmy’s friends pounced on Mark. Finally Jimmy was not afraid of Mark or the high dive.

The next day Jimmy had a black eye and a sore leg. But at least he didn’t die jumping of the high dive.

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