Piper Wilson
February 01, 2023 1:59 PM
Not at all (Third year Tepps) by Piper Wilson
OOC: Continued from FnF BIC:
Piper grinned as Levi and Lenny complimented her. “Thanks guys!” She looked around the Water Room in awe. This was amazing , even better than she expected. There was the wave pool and the lazy river and a not so lazy river that simulated riding a raft down rapids. And the waterslides, so many including two that were pitch black inside, one where they could go down in pairs and one where they could go down all together.
And then, there was her masterpiece, the slide that was full of colors inside like they were going through a wormhole, which, in the end she’d decided to also make into something that they could all go down at the same time. She was incredibly proud of this idea, although she worried it might be disorienting. The Teppepaw hoped that none of her friends got nauseous or dizzy from it. The last thing she ever would want to make anyone sick, especially people that she cared about.
Anyway, Piper was so amazed and proud of the water park that she created, which she really did believe kept them from finishing dead last in the third Challenge last year-even though it hadn’’t helped them much overall-that it did not occur to her to be that worried about Cole and Lenny seeing her in a bathing suit or vice versa. Her swimsuit was a modest one piece and did not show off her developing body much although it was less modest in terms of color, being that it was bright yellow with white polka-dots and adorned with yellow bows at the straps and on the side. it would not be proper or appropriate to wear something skimpier not so much because of pureblood society-which could be a lot less buttoned up in their own private playgrounds, like St. Berylla’s, she had heard tales of nightclubs and nude beaches and a touch of debauchery that was generally hush-hush among other people and not discussed in polite society-but because Piper was thirteen years old .
Besides,she would not pick out a swimsuit that she was not comfortable wearing in front of others and her mom would not buy her one that was too revealing. Also they did not really sell those kinds of things in her size. Piper was at that icky awkward stage where she wasn’t old enough to wear suits more appropriate for grown-up ladies but didn’t want to wear anything too childish. Some people might think the bows on her suit fit into that category, but she thought they were cute.
So, for these reasons,she was not that bothered by wearing a swimsuit in front of boys. Which she had done over the summer too. Piper reasoned that swimsuits were meant to be worn at pools, waterparks and beaches, which-although a lot of people she knew had pools at their houses-were generally public places. Hence, swimsuits were meant to be worn around other people. You just had to find one you were comfortable in.
Once they were all out of the changing cubicles, Lenny, who had emerged wearing something that was very Lenny , asked if they were ready to try the slide. Piper grinned. “Absolutely! I hope none of you gets motion sickness though.” This worried her much more than her friends seeing her in her bathing suit. She would probably never forgive herself if someone got sick on something she had created.
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Piper Wilson
Not at all (Third year Tepps)
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Leviosa Scurlock
February 03, 2023 12:22 AM
Just having a normal chat with all these nice floating heads by Leviosa Scurlock
Piper didn't seem at all self-conscious about being in her bathing suit. Maybe that meant Levi was being silly about it? Hers was no more revealing than Piper's, it was just... What had felt fine in a changing room suddenly felt very different in front of other people.Lenny came out looking reassuringly Lenny-like. Okay, his skirt was maybe shorter than usual, or at least shorter than he'd normally pair with bare legs instead of leggings but it felt safe and normal. Unlike Cole, who Levi might have to pretend didn't exist from the neck down. Hypothetically, Levi knew that was what boys wore to the pool. Levi had been around similarly dressed boys before. But there was somehow a world of difference between random stranger boys when you were a kid, and an actual boy you knew and would be talking to and splashing around with. What if she accidentally touched Cole's chest? Obviously that wasn't as bad as touching a girl there (or... was that an okay thing to think, given Lenny?) and that was why he was allowed to not wear anything but it was still a personal place and it was bare so that made it so much worse. Floating head. For the next however long, Cole was just a floating head.
Piper was chatting away about the slides, and Levi took the chance to slowly inch the towel around her down and onto a pool chair, revealing the modest daisy-print swimsuit below as Piper mentioned motion sickness. That wasn't a risk Levi would have thought likely from a slide? She really hoped not, and kind of wished Piper hadn't put the idea in all their heads. If they could handle the Floor, this should be fine, right?
"Maybe we can start with a smaller one?" she asked. "Not because I think they'll make me sick," she hastily confirmed. No one needed that idea in their heads. "But... The big one is really big." She inched a little closer to Lenny for moral support.
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Leviosa Scurlock
Just having a normal chat with all these nice floating heads
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Cole Pierce
February 09, 2023 7:01 PM
Definitely looking forward to some floating! by Cole Pierce
"Amazing!" Cole added his appreciation of the park to the Leviosa and Lenny's as they all followed Piper into the MARS room. He wasn't sure he'd ever want the water room to look like anything else after this. The other three split out into the changing cubicles but Cole didn't feel the need. He just pulled off his shirt, shoes, and socks, leaving him in just the red swim trunks he'd worn down like they were shorts. He put his discarded items in one of the lockers, along with the bag containing his dry clothes that he'd change into afterwards. He glanced upward into the 'sky', wondering if sunburn was a danger when they were technically still indoors. He didn't feel like he was burning, but he'd only had his shoulders exposed for a few seconds. He hadn't brought any sunscreen along, so he couldn't do anything about it anyway, so he decided to just hope that it would all be fine.The others emerged, more or less at the same time. All they'd had to do was pull of their outer layer of clothes so it was a pretty quick process for all of them. Cole wasn't quite sure why they'd all had to use a changing room to do it anyway.
Levi seemed a bit self conscious, wrapped up in a towel, but Piper was excited about the park, and that seemed to break the ice a bit.
Piper looked . . . amazing. Part of it was the swimsuit, Cole wasn't gonna lie, she definitely looked very attractive in that, but a lot of it was also just how . . . happy she looked. He smiled at her brightly, pairing up with her as Leviosa sidled closer to Lenny.
"I'm good with starting smaller," he agreed, when Leviosa suggested that, more than willing to save the biggest slide for later, if they weren't all ready for it right off the mark. This was a group activity and staying together to enjoy the park as a bonding experience was the plan, after all. They all wanted to have fun today, not push anyone past their boundaries. "But I'm definitely excited about your slide from the challenge! And, whoa, those rapids look awesome, Piper!" he added, pointing at the not-so-lazy river. "I definitely want to try that, too! Maybe start with the pairs slide," he pointed at one of the enclosed slides that was pretty close to where they were standing, that had two person rafts piled up next to it, waiting for riders. "then try the rapids?"
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Cole Pierce
Definitely looking forward to some floating!
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