It was a good thing that Alex was diving into the pool, else he might have said something like "your mom has shitty focus" back to Ashton. But he didn't and instead his body went into the water and Alex began swimming, ignoring where Ashton had huddle himself to. The freestyle wasn't one of Alex's strongest swims, but he was getting tired of the coach laying on him about how he needed to improve on it.
When Alex got to one side of the pool, he did a quick underwater turn and swam to the other side. Any hope that Ashton might have had in Alex leaving were currently dashed. Alex got to the other side and wiped water from his eyes and then paused.
"Hey, Hartley," he said not thinking that using Ashton's last name but cause the dragon to grow even more irritable, "You send your boytoy after me or he do that on his own?"