Student House: Teppenpaw Year: 6 Written by: Nathan
Age in Post: 13 Birthday: September
Teppenpaws Third Years! Group Bonding!
by Lenny Pierce
"Hey!" Lenny called out, grabbing Cole by the arm and dragging him over to where he saw Piper and and Leviosa sitting together. "Listen! I had a great idea over the summer! I was thinking about Piper's water park, and how it's so disappointing that it's not real, and . . . I think we can make it real! I mean, that's what the MARS rooms are for, right? I think we should all get our swim stuff, and Piper should think about her water park, and we can all go there together! What do you think?"
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"Yes!" Levi agreed readily. She wasn't totally sure how MARS worked and whether you had to imagine a water park accurately or just imagine 'really cool water park go!' Like, if Piper didn't know what angle the slides should be or what depth the water should be, might they all die or at least break their ankles? But that didn't seem like a helpful worry to put in people's heads so Levi was willing to just roll with it and hope it worked out.
Piper grinned when she heard Lenny's idea. Not only was she totally up for bonding with her friends after last year when they hadn't been able to spend as much time together, she felt really proud of the fact that it was her water park idea that he wanted to try out. "Sounds great!" She beamed.
“Nice! Meet you all back here in a few minutes then?” Cole agreed, excited to try Piper’s water park, too. He and Lenny ran up the boy’s corridor and quick changed into their swim trunks (well, Cole changed into trunks. Lenny changed into whatever swim outfit that Lenny liked to wear) then threw their clothes back on overtop. Finally, they each grabbed their towels and headed down to meet up with the girls again.
Once she was changed into swim things, with normal clothes back on top, Levi followed the others down to the MARS rooms. She let Piper go ahead so that she could imagine the water park into place.
"Wow!!! This is AMAZING!" she grinned as she stepped inside. Though the slides looked awfully big now she was standing under them. "I've never been anywhere like this..." she added, wondering how fast they went.
The first order of business was getting changed again. She found a little cubicle, because even though her swimming clothes were on already, she still wasn't going to take her clothes off in front of boys. She was, apparently, going to wear her swimsuit in front of them though. She wrapped a towel back around herself as she stepped out of the changing room, although it only stopped a few inches down her leg, and she still felt rather exposed.
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Lenny stared wide eyed around the park Piper had imagined. "This is great, Piper! Wow!" He grinned brightly at the others, excited that this was working as well as he'd hoped it would.
They each went into a changing cubicle, and Lenny emerged feeling only a little self conscious about wearing swim shirt with a swim skirt in front of the others. It was intentionally chosen to not be revealing, because he definitely had the wrong parts to be wearing a bikini or a one piece, and he wasn't entirely comfortable with normal guy swim trunks either, even if this hadn't been prettier and more in line with what he liked to wear.
Still, it wasn't quite typical swim wear for boys or girls, and he felt very non-binary wearing it, even though it was obviously marketed toward women. And he was really hoping the slide didn't twist them around so much it flipped his skirt up because he wasn't a woman and the bikini bottoms under the skirt were not going to hide that he was indeed a boy under there.
He emerged from his changing booth, and grinned at the others, telling himself there was nothing weird about seeing Leviosa or Piper in their swimsuits. Cole slept in just shorts when it was warm enough, so he really didn't find anything weird about seeing his roommate with his shirt off, but that was a lot of leg on Leviosa there . . .
He made himself look at their faces as he smiled excitedly and gestured toward the slide, "Shall we give it a go?"