xp_logs | Sharon, Liam, Hope and Sue: Splish splash I was taking a bath (Reply)

Sunning and playing by the pool leads Sharon and Liam into an argument, and a couple of large splashes

Stalking slowly along the treeline near the pool, Liam crouched, then launched himself as Sharon knocking them both into the deep end of the pool with a triumphant yowl. For all that he disliked his ears and tail getting wet, sometimes, you just had to knock a fellow cat into the pool. And it was hot out. Really hot out.

Sometimes that fellow cat had far more fur to dry after an ambush. Sharon's squawk of surprise briefly became a <I>glub>/I> as her head briefly went under water, and when it broke the surface again it was followed by all five thrashing limbs. Hurriedly, she paddled for the side of the pool, one dark thought dominating her mind:

Kitten.

Head breaking the surface of the water, Liam howled in laughter, hair dripping in his face, before he followed Sharon to the side of the pool. Sometimes, it was good to have another cat around. He hadn't realized it until coming to Xavier's, but it was awesome.

A water-soaked tail swatted Liam across the nose. "Rude!" Sharon spat, dripping equally with wounded dignity and chlorinated water. "I was sunning!"

Hissing despite being water-logged, Liam grinned unrepentantly, "And you can sun again! Without being so hot!"

"Children should respect their elders." Serpent-quick Sharon pounced him right back, instantly flattening him to the concrete. Liam weighed more, but she was longer, and she had the power of righteous indignation on her side. Sharon pinned him by the shoulders and began to lick the top of his head and ears with vengeful swipes of her tongue.

"Uhm..." A clear voice scraped her throat behind them. "Might I suggest you find a different location to continue this tussle and grant the other occupants of the pool some peace and quiet?"

Pushing to get Sharon off him, Liam rolled until he was on top if her, straddling her hips, hands pushing her shoulders to the ground, "This is a pool," he pointed out, distracted by the interruption. "You want quiet? Go inside to your room."

Turning his attention away from her had been a fatal mistake. Sharon braced her hindpaws against Liam's stomach and kicked, hard. There was a splash.

Sharon stood up to greet the newcomer.

"Kitten has no manners," she said primly, ignoring the blur of ginger splashing going on behind her. "But fundamentally correct. This is a recreational facility, yes?"

"That might very well be, but that does not extend to simply drenching people or nearly damaging their equipment." Hope stepped closer, her arms folded across her chest. Her hair was drenched and water dripped in trails from the white broderie anglaise sundress, the thin cloth nearly transparent.

Sharon met the young woman's gaze with her own, which suggested something about her opinion of this complaint from someone whose wetted hair didn't even cover thirty percent of their body.

"I see." Sharon broke eye contact and began to lick her shoulder. "Of course coming to a pool with an expectation of getting wet is an unreasonable ask."

Climbing out of the pool, Liam's ears expressed his displeasure in a way his face didn't. "I have manners!" he protested, glaring at Hope. Normally, he would be all about a girl in a nearly see-through dress, but he doubted she was very fun. "But I also want to have fun. You probably aren't familiar with that though."

"Oh, she's plenty familiar with fun, but that water does look pretty tempting doesn't it?" A blonde appeared from behind Hope, blue eyes sparkling in anticipation as she stretched for a moment. As her hands came down she plucked the tablet out of Hope's hands as she turned to a lounger to lay it down, her hip purposefully knocking into Hope sending the brunette into the poo. "Is the water as nice as it looks?"

Hope went under with a splutter, almost sinking near the bottom before pushing off and swimming up. She emerged with a huge growl, shaking the wet hair out of her face. "Sue!!!" She swam over to the edge of the pool, the full skirt of her dress floating around her. "What in the world are you up to? I was just in the middle of the third insane plan..."

Howling with laughter, Liam jumped back in the pool, doing a canon ball that would ensure everyone got splashed, coming up and splashing at Hope. Now this was how to have fun!

Sharon looked from the blonde, to the brunette, to the blonde again. She seemed to consider for a moment, then nodded at Sue.

"I approve of you," Sharon said. "But we shall leave. Come, kitten." She leaned over edge of the pool and took the collar of Liam's shirt between her teeth, dragging him away from Hope.

Squawking at the indignity of being hauled out by his shirt, Liam was hauled away amid a flurry of protests until he finally managed to slip out of his shirt and go running across the grass away from Sharon, but also away from the pool, clearly still interested in having fun.

"I don't need more insanity in my life." Hope growled. Letting out another sigh, Hope pushed away a stubborn lock of wet hair, then shrugged and reached out. Firm hands wrapped around her girlfriend's ankle and she pulled.

"You live in the mansion and work for Warren, I don't think you can avoooooooid" Sue's reply was cut off as Hope's hand wrapped around her ankle, pulling her into the pool with a splash that send water flying all over the pool area. When she finally emerged the blonde's hair was stuck to her shoulders, eyes glittering with laughter as she swung a hand along the pool, sending a splash of water at her girlfriend. "I don't know what they were talking about, you're plenty fun."