Backstroke Queen

Sarah Merkle, Shayna, Erin, Yana, Rose, Theo = friends from SC

I went to visit Erin at work at Joe's. Sarah Merkle, Shayna, Theo and some other people were there. Everyone I was with was 21 so they were all drinking. This kind of bummed me out. Sarah bought me a beer and I drank it but I felt really sketchy the whole time. Erin's manager, George, started closing up the shop. Theo and I were hanging around in there. Everyone was gone and we eventually found out that they all had been playing volleyball. We told them that we would have wanted to play. Erin said that they were going to have a swim competition tomarow and we could come to that.
Theo and I showed up at the pool the next day. Yana, Rose, Erin, George, and some other people were there. Everyone else had already started so Theo and I hastily got our bathing suits on and jumped in. We were all swimming laps across the pool. We swam one lap of freestyle, then switched to backstrok. I was basically losing by the end of the freestyle, but my backstroke was really good so I pulled ahead. Now we were all doing breaststroke and I started falling behind. Yana grabbed my arm and playfully started hanging on to me so I couldn't swim. She was squeezing me really hard and I was irritated that she was making me lose. I told her multiple times to let go of me, and I sounded really mad when I told her. When we got to the end of the pool I was so fed up that I grabbed her and held her underwater. When she came back up she was gasping for air and crying. Everyone freaked out on my and thought that what I did was horrible. Everyone was getting out of the pool and leaving. It was really hard for me to find my stuff for some reason and George had to wait for me to finish. I walked by Yana a few times who was crying, but I was still really mad at her. Not only because she was hanging on to me but because now everyone was super mad at me and I felt like it was her fault.
Theo and I were leaving the pool and he was giving me a hard time for what I did. I felt like no one was on my side and it was making me very mad. I screamed at Theo and told him that I never meant to hurt her and that I just felt really trapped and angry and didn't know what else to do. I got really angry as I was yelling at Theo and he kind of shrunk back from me and his body language was kind of begging me not to hurt him. I felt so horrible, everyone throught I was tottaly heartless. This group of people started to walk slowly up to me and surround me. They started pulling things out of my hands and tying things to my shoes. They all moved and spoke really slowly. I got the feeling this was some group that had formed to protest what I had done to Yana. They didn't bother me too much, but I started to wonder how long everyone was going to harass me about what I had done.
When I got back to campus I went over to Yana's house and left a bunch of notes in different places. In them I tried to apologize and explain what happened. I told her that I wanted to talk about it and we should work it out some time. I felt a lot better after I did that and felt like it would make things blow over.