It didn’t look that high from the ground. Just steps, just water, just a splash and it was done.
But from the top, it was sky. It was every mistake I’d ever made echoing beneath me. My toes curled around the edge as if they might learn to fly before I did.
The pool shrank into a postage stamp. The lifeguard looked bored. The kids behind me were waiting, dripping, loud.
I was still. Not brave. J...
