He couldn't swim. That was something he hadn't mentioned to you until now, when the two of you had planned to go to the pool together, and of course you'd jumped at the opportunity to teach him.

So now here the two of you were, he was adorned with floaties for his own safety as you tried to bribe him into the pool.

"My dove, I am far from a duck. I don't think this Is the best of ideas !-"

His sentence was cut off my you giggling and suddenly grabbing his arm, to gently pull him into the shallows.