It's been almost a year since Don and Lanh stood on the frozen pond and pledged to spend their lives together. They finished their Junior year in high school and spent an entire summer together. Lanh grew to love farming and became a valuable hand on the Campbell farm while Don fell in love with working at the restaurant with Lanh's family, and in their time together they grew as a couple and slowly began to explore their bodies. Now that they have turned eighteen, holding back is becoming more difficult.
We're a Wonderful Wife
Chapter 3
Seniors
"
Nhanh lΓͺn
!" Lanh shouted as she walked alongside Don as he swam. To most people it sounded like she was shouting "n'yen yen" but in English "
Nhanh lΓͺn
" means "Hurry up!" As he turned his head to breathe Don could see her tiny bare feet as she walked alongside him, her high-pitched voice clearly audible to him as he knifed through the water. Halfway down his last length of the pool, she started shrieking "
Δi Δi mau! Δi Δi mau!
" which very roughly translates to "Go! Go!" This was Don's cue to give it everything he had.
He poured it on, using all his remaining energy in this last burst of speed, his legs churning the water to foam, his arms pulling him through the water with every erg of strength remaining to him. Lanh's cries of
"Δi Δi mau!"
spurred him on to do better, to go faster, to do it for her. And there it was, the final yard! His arm shot forward and struck the pool wall and Lanh yelled TIME! The word echoed in the empty school pool room long after the sounds of Don's efforts faded.
Gasping deep draughts of air, Don barely had the strength to cling to the end of the pool. He didn't have the energy to look around and see where the coach was, instead he gasped for air, looking up at Lanh, admiring her trim form in her skintight one-piece swimming suit. In turn, Lanh looked at Coach Mach who looked at his stopwatch and then wrote something on his clipboard.
Don gazed up at Lanh's figure and admired everything that he saw. When they first met her figure was so childlike, her legs were pencil thin and her chest was flat with only her expressive nipples to show a hint of what nature had in store for her soon. Now, almost two years later, her waist has slimmed some, and her hips have flared to give a delicate hourglass shape to her overall figure, her legs, once thin and fragile-looking like matchsticks with knobby knees, are now feminine and delightful, and her breasts are small and firm, perfect teacups that he madly loves.
Don and Lanh turned 18 this summer, Lanh on June 29th, and Don on August 31st. They threw a party on July 30th, the day between their birthdays, celebrating their 18th birthdays. With the drinking age being 21, the 18th birthday isn't as much fun as it once was, but that didn't stop Kim-ly and Bao from plying Lanh with as much beer as they could. They wanted to see how many Coors Lites it would take to get their tiny sister drunk. The answer was: three.
Coach Mach was impressed with the numbers Don turned in and he respected Lanh too much to tease her with anything but the answer to her unspoken question. He simply smiled at her and nodded his head; Don had just beaten his personal best time.
Lanh squealed and jumped in the pool and slid into Don's exhausted arms. Coach Mach just shook his head as the young couple hugged. This is something he has not seen in years, high school couples come and go, but these two! It is so rare to see a couple that takes such joy in each other's accomplishments, Don was there for every debate and debate prep that Lanh had as captain of the debate team, and today Lanh was here for Don's swim team try-outs. Even if his top swimmer returned in the autumn with an Olympic medal, they still must try out to make the team. If you don't like it and you don't want to try out, the chess team is always looking for new players. And Lanh didn't act like other swimmer's girlfriends, sitting bored in the bleachers reading a book while their boyfriend swam, Lanh actively coaches him, just as she did all last season in their junior year as he recovered from that assault.
"All right you two! Cool it off." Being seniors and a full year older than his other senior students didn't get them a pass on their behavior, but being straight-A students, the captain of the debate team, and one of his best swimmers did. Well... a little bit. He shook his head knowing what the next question was going to be, and as usual, it was Lanh who asked it.
"How much did he beat it by?"
Deep sigh. "Two point five seconds." Lanh's joyful squeal of surprise nearly pierced the coach's eardrums, and the echo in the pool room gave him a headache. Then it was silent, dead silent as Lanh gave her chosen man a sweet, passionate kiss. He looked down at the kissing couple. "HEY! I don't care if you are eighteen, not in my pool! Go hit the showers."
"Yes, coach!" called Don as he and Lanh climbed out of the pool and headed for the locker room.
"SEPARATE showers!" called Coach Mach without turning around to see what the couple was up to.
"Yes coach," called Lanh and she turned around at the boy's locker room door and headed for the girl's locker room.
"Lanh! Come see me before you two head out."
"Yes coach," called Lanh from the depths of the girl's locker room.
Coach Mach chuckled as he headed to his office, he was crazy about those kids. At one point they were both one small step from dropping out, running away, becoming addicts, or something even more self-destructive, and at the last moment, they found each other. It was a miracle, a miracle that he wished happened more often. He thought of Don and Lanh as he considered all the troubled and lonely kids in his care and shook his head sadly at the plight of many of his students.
He tossed his clipboard on his desk, sat down, and got back to the mundane life of a high school teacher. Fifteen minutes later he was filling out his trial line-up when a barely audible tap on the door announced Lanh's arrival. "Come in," he said as he removed the document from the old Remington typewriter and reached for the stapler. Without looking up he said "Don, can you give us a moment?"
"Yes, coach."
He looked up to see Lanh and Don standing side by side in front of his desk, holding hands. "Alone?"
"Yes, coach." Slowly Don turned and headed for the door, their hands didn't part until Don was nearly at the door, their eyes fixed on each other until the door was closed. Lanh turned to face the coach and she looked utterly heartbroken that he asked Don to leave.
"Please sit Miss Nguyen." He waited until Lanh primly sat in a chair in front of his desk. He looked at some papers on his desk and said "I'm going to put on my guidance counselor hat for a moment..." as with many small schools, the staff performed double duties, Coach Mach, head of athletics now became Mr. Mach, guidance counselor. "You do know that you will be eligible to graduate in January, right?"
"Yes," nodded Lanh, and she very quickly added, "but I won't."
"I uh... you won't?" he was stunned, normally when a student finds out they're eligible to graduate early, they start making plans to hit the road. "Because of Don?"
"If I go away to college, Don will follow, and he will not graduate. If he does not graduate, he cannot enlist. If he cannot enlist our plans will be ruined. So, I stay more months, he graduates with honors, I graduate with honors, everyone happy." Her slight accent was becoming more pronounced, showing that she was becoming upset, but Mr. Mach was unaware of that point.
"You don't mean to tell me that..." he twirled his wedding ring to show that he was afraid they would elope.
"Mister Mach, I have tell my father our plans, it not easy to say no to Vietnamese father. To say no to you is much easy." Lanh started to panic, the idea of graduating early didn't sound like a reward or an opportunity, it felt like the world was trying to pry Don out of her arms and separate them, a punishment. It's a good thing Don isn't here thought Lanh realizing how upset she was, if he heard her talking like this, he would quit the team and storm out of the office with Lanh in tow.
"Ok, good... relax Miss Nguyen! I just wanted to find out what your intentions are."
"We intend to..." she paused then blushed. "It private."
"Good, keep it that way. I called you in here because I need..."
Ten minutes later Lanh came out of the coach's office wearing an official Woodcutters Swim Team polo shirt featuring an embroidered "Grant Valley High School" and the image of Paul Bunyan leaning on his axe on the left breast. She was carrying a clipboard with a stopwatch mounted on the board to make timing the swimmers easier. "Impressive!" smiled Don as he reached for the office doorknob.
