Stop pushing me, "I am not a swimming teacher"

It was on a fateful saturday, my school mates came to our house, they were eight in number, since i used to talked about how good I am in swimming, they came and asked me to go with them to the stream, I tried to hid myself from them, but you know children's, they do not know when someone is hiding from troubles, infact, it was when I tried to hid from my school mates, that our neighbor's son come to my hidden place and drag me to come out.

My secret didn't hold, I joined them to the stream, we got there and I was to teach them how to swim, I let them know, "a swimming teacher do not have to swim, he only have to watch his students, so that he can direct them, on how to swim", they jumped inside the stream and I watch them from the outside.

None of them knew that I was a fake swimming teacher, which do not have any swimming skills, infact, I have not swim before in my life, because I am always afraid whenever I go close to a big water, I wished they knew, how my body was shaking even while I was on the outside watching over them, and claiming I was their teacher.

I tried to move away from seeing the stream, because the water seems, it was going to come and dragged me in, and then one of the students asked me for a swimming skill, I didn't know any, but I remember one movie that I watched, where the actor was swimming like he was doing a race, so I told him to do a racing swimming, whereby he is going to carry his hands up and move from one angle to another in the water.

I manage to cover up that I was a good swimming teacher, so we wrapped up the class, and on our way going back home, I told them, "it would be so unfair for a swimming teacher, to trek to the stream and trek back home, because it might make the teacher to forget about the swimming skills he knows", so since they are my students, they should pay for my transport, so that I got home first, and study more techniques that I am going to show them in another swimming class.

They contributed some money and pay for my transport, and as soon as I got home I sighed heavily, as if I escaped a lion in the forest, my mate's do not know, "I only talked as if I am a good swimming teacher, but inside me, i am afraid of anything water, infact, the only water I can do things with, is the one inside a cup", any water outside a cup, is not a friend with me.

As I arrived home, and I talked to my neighbor's son to not tell those peoples, I am in the house whenever they come, because they may do me harm, even without them knowing about it, I told my neighbor's son this, because I knew, he will surely be around when they come again, because he likes staying with my mom, ever since he was young.

But you know children's, they do not know how to lie, as they comes, he told them that "I am in the house and even added that, I do not want them to see me, because they may do me harm", even without them realizing it.

My mates were confused about what the boy said to them, but as they still want to see me, and I didn't come out of the house, it was cleared to them that I didn't want to go to the stream again, yet I thought that was enough for them to leave me alone.

I didn't bother if they knew I was not a good swimming teacher, or not, I was okay, because, instead of going to the stream again and meet the water, running as if it wants to swallow somebody, let me be at home.

Thereafter, two days later, they come again, pleading with me "to come and show them how to swim in the stream", I couldn't take it anymore, so I get up from my seat and i go down on my knees, I beg them to leave me alone, because I do not know how to swim, neither am i a swimming teacher, it's just this my mouth that makes me talks anyhow.

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