Free Teaching Bailey by Crystal G. Smith

Like that in the kitchen hadn’t been a good enough workout.  After losing count, she called out to him.
                  “Did you bring me out here to watch you?”
                  “Yes and no.”  He said as he continued his swim.  “It would do you good to take a few laps yourself.”
                  She immediately placed her hands on her abdomen.  She wasn’t fat by any means, but the small pooch that would never leave, gnawed at her confidence.
                  “That wasn’t what I meant.  You’re going to need to build up your stamina to keep up with me.  Or any instructor for that matter.”             
                  “Oh.”  She felt herself relax.
                  She watched as he swam towards her, taking a seat next to her.
                  “Tell me why you were emancipated at sixteen.”
                  Her eyes grew and snapped in his direction.  “How do you know about that?”
                  “It’s public knowledge.  We do back ground screenings on everyone who enrolls in to our program.”
                  “Well then you should know why?”  She snapped.
                  “If I knew why, I wouldn’t have asked.  What I do know is that you’re richer than anyone I know, and you work a low paying job and barely make ends meat.  Why is that?”
                  “Well you just think you know everything now.  Yeah, I’m rich.  Only because my father is dead.  I don’t want his money, and I will never use it.”
                  “Why?”
                  “Look it up why don’t you.  You seem to find out about everything else.  I am assuming that the information you do have is confidential.  I don’t want anyone knowing anything.”
                  “You can get rid of that smart mouth.  Your record is more confidential with us than it is on the internet or even in the court system.  However, I want to hear it from your mouth.”
                  “No.”  She turned her head away from him.
                  “Hmm.”
                  “What was that about?  You going to spank me because I won’t talk about it with you?”  She didn’t even try to hide the way she was feeling now.
                  “No.  You would like that too much.”  He grinned, wiggling his eyebrows at her. 
                  “Ha.  You wanna talk, tell me something about you.”  She was still angry as hell, but she felt like this would be her only chance to change the subject.
                  “I’m very good and getting people to tell me what I want to know.”
                  “Was that a threat?”  She bit out.
                  “No.  Merely a piece of information that I am sharing with you.”
                  “Fine.  Tell me about your sister.”
                  “Well she is an author.  You noticed her work as you were coming down.”
                  “Those are hers, then?”  She almost felt relieved.  She didn’t know why, but she almost assumed that the woman was either his lover, or ex-lover.  Either way, she assumed they had an intimate relationship.
                  “They are.  She started writing a couple of years ago, and they took off.  I have read them myself.  You should try one if you are in to reading.”
                  “I’m not.  Not really.  But because she is your sister, I guess I could try.”
                  “Don’t.  If you don’t like to read, then don’t.  It wasn’t a trick question or something that I expect you to do.  It was merely a suggestion.”
                  “Well in that case, I opt out.”  She smiled.
                  “Now that