Ensign Caro
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 3:20:36 GMT -5
The pool had been found. The mystery solved. "Well that's good" she smiled as she walked over to his side of the room. Akiva started to slip in through the door past Red. Boy she hadn't been swimming in some time. Once inside she walked to the opposite side of the room that held the pool.
Pulling a hairband off of her arm she proceeded to put her hair up. After slipping out of her shoes and socks, she removed the top half of her uniform, before unzipping and sliding down the skirt half. Just as quickly as she'd stripped out of her uniform, she dove into the water. "You gonna come in?" she asked with a smile as she resurfaced up near the edge by the door. Her arms rested on the side of the pool as she looked up at him.
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 3:41:49 GMT -5
"Its very good." He grinned as she slipped past, Red soon following her in and shutting the door behind them. Red stopped for a moment to take in the view, the pool was absolutely amazing. It was huge, a large pool filled with clear blue water, a few diving boards lining the large area. "I cant want to..." His eyes narrowed in shock as he saw Akiva taking off her top and then her skirt to dive into the cool water. He had never expected her to do that, stripping down suddenly and then leaping in. She actually had a pretty nice body, though it was pretty much hidden by her uniform.
Red grinned as she looked up to him, asking if he was gonna join. The young medical officer quickly pulled his shirt up over his head and tossed it aside. Shoes were kicked off and his pants soon followed. As he stood there in his undies he faced a dilema. Red did not want his underwear to get wet but wouldn't it be strange to skinny dip with this girl he just met? "Uh...turn around!" He motioned a spinning gesture with his hand. Eying Akiva for a moment he quickly added his boxers to the pile and dove into the pool, going under for a split second. Rising to the surface he shook the water from his hair and wiped his face, "Wow, this feels great." The man made sure to keep his distance.
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Ensign Caro
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 3:50:30 GMT -5
The speed in which he started to remove his shirt caused Akiva to giggle a little, not too loud, but it was amusing. He motioned for her to turn around and she did so, there was only one thing going through her mind as to why he wanted her to do this. It was the same reason the boy who lived down the street had wanted her to do so when she was 14.
"Doesn't it" she smiled as he surfaced up from his dive in. She looked around. They were in the pool, but now what? Akiva looked to him to see if he had any ideas about what to do now, as she was pretty stumped about it.
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 4:03:57 GMT -5
Hey, what was wrong with not wanting a girl to see your stuff? Different situation, maybe, but at this point it seemed like it'd be weird. He swam about the water around Akiva, his legs doing all of the work as he kept his arms still. It had been a long while since Red had actually gotten a chance to feel himself moving through water. So they had come looking for the pool, found it, and then dove in without any real plans for what to do. How old were they again, because that was a pretty childish thing to do.
"The best thing about swimming is you can take your time. There's nothing specific that you need to do, just float around and keep from going under." Red spoke as he playfully splashed water at the female swimming with him. "Hm, we could race," He looked around as they were both alone once again, "Or, y'know, we could just finish talking...now that we're comfortable."
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 4:10:26 GMT -5
She swam a little bit as he started, but stopped when she felt water being splashed on her. That was his game, well two could play, and so she splashed playfully back. Race. She thought about that for a moment, it was kind of tempting, but she wasn't sure if she was exactly in that mood just yet. "Maybe we could finish talking and then race" she suggested not sure if he would like the idea or not.
They'd managed to move towards the middle where it sloped off to the deep end, and Akiva's legs were moving under her to keep herself from going under. How she hated her height at times. It was something that restricted her from doing things, got her overlooked, and even tripped over a few times.
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 4:18:56 GMT -5
Red laughed as the cool water met his face and dripped off, it felt great to have the water on his skin. "Talk now, race later. Fine with me." Actually anything she'd suggest probably would have been fine with him, Red was enjoying talking with her. He floated along the pool as he made small waves with his hands, slipping over into the deep end where his feet had to continually kick. He was taller than Akiva, but they were in an area where neither of them could touch the bottom of the pool and keep their heads over the water.
He drifted slightly closer but turned himself in the water, moving clamly as he glanced over at the brunette. Time to think up a topic. "How long do you plan to be here? I mean, what do you have planned for after moving up from an Ensign?" He was curious about her, she had stated that she was interested in engineering and avoiding a cliche just wasn't a good enough excuse to him for why she'd go with being a record organizer.
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 4:26:21 GMT -5
What was she planning on doing after being moved up? She bit her lip as she thought about the question "I really don't know" she finally said with a laugh "I didn't plan that far ahead. I didn't even plan up to this point" Plans weren't something AKiva followed to often, and Starfleet would be no different
"I don't know how much use I'd be up here without the records. I mean there's plenty of engineers and doctors, even those people who want to be pilots. I just don't know if I'd be needed if I didn't do what I do"
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 4:40:23 GMT -5
As to not be a distraction Red held himself in one place and avoided drifting as he listened to her. His eyes were focus tightly on her as he listened, he didn't really have a plan either. Sure he talked about becoming captain and all of that, but Red had no plans on how he'd actually get to that point. All talk. "I dunno, you shouldn't sell yourself short. Yeah there's a lot of post people around, but there's always someone better. That someone could be you." He nudged her with his elbow as he grinned, she sounded like she felt down.
"As far as plans go, I don't technically have one either. Its easy to make statements and claims, but its a lot harder to follow through." Red glanced around as he bit the inside of his cheek, thinking that he really should be trying to think of a way to reach that goal he'd been dreaming of for so long. Bringing himself back to reality he glanced back at Akiva, his eyes dropping for a moment to try and steal a look at her distorted body beneath the pool surface. "Anyway...did I tell you that you're pretty cool? You're easy to talk to, and trust me, I don't like talking to strangers much." A laugh echoed through the pool room as Red began to move through the water again, moving closer to her and then away repeatedly.
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 4:48:35 GMT -5
Feeling the elbow she managed to give him a grin back. How could it be that a simple elbow nudge could make her smile. Maybe it was the cheesy line beforehand combined with the nudge that had done it. As he talked about not technically having a plan of his own, it made her feel a bit better about her lack of one.
"Really? Well you'd probably have to thank my brothers for that. I didn't really have a lot of friends that were girls growing up because of them, so I tend to talk more to boys because of that. Not, not saying you're a boy. You're more of a - a man, a -" she started speaking a little rapidly, getting slightly flustered.
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 17:30:13 GMT -5
He liked to see her smile, she looked like she should smile a lot, but for some reason she really hadn't been doing so since they met in the mess hall. It was good to see a full out smile on her face. Red moved a wet hand through his soaked hair, trying to find something to do with himself as he floated in place once more. His eyebrows went up slightly as he grinned with his mouth open, Akiva was pretty much telling him that she was a tomboy. It wasn't too hard to piece together with how much she spoke of loving to be with her brothers and her interest in engineering. She wasn't the girly girl type, which wasn't at all a bad thing.
Red had to look down for a moment to keep himself from smiling too wide or laughing at Akiva's quickened words. She was getting flustered and tongue tying herself. He looked up at smiled as he saw her cheeks were turning rosey, it was cute. "Thanks for noticing," His voice was in a joking tone, just teasing her a little for her slip up. "I'll be sure to thank your brothers, and tell them they have a very pretty sister while I'm at it." Who said he couldn't make her a little more flustered? And it wasn't like it wasn't the truth anyway.
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 17:41:49 GMT -5
"Wha-what?" she hadn't expected that last part to come out. It wasn't something she was used to hearing, so it shocked her quite a bit. "You - umm -" Red had managed to fluster her just a little more with the comment.
Akiva stood there trying to find what to say, to un-fluster herself, but found that there was nothing. Closing her eyes she dropped down under the water in embarrassment. This wasn't normal for her, to get so flustered around someone, even someone she'd just met. Then again it wasn't normal for someone to say something like that to her and she wasn't quite sure how to react around it.
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 18:52:19 GMT -5
He grinned again as he succeeded in what he wanted to do, fluster her all the more. Did that make him a jerk to tease her like that? No, it was all in good fun, its not like she'd be mad or anything. "It's fine, don't wor-" Red stopped himself as Akiva suddenly dunked herself underwater. He must have had her really embarrassed she didn't even want to be seen.
For a seond he just laughed at her antics, but then he remembered something. He wasn't wearing anything under there! "hey!" He called out in surprise before taking in a breath and plunging himself down into the pool as well. With his eyes open he glanced around before finding the young lady, reaching for her arm to pull her up. He wanted to tell to relax and that he was only messing around, but that was a little difficult with the both of them underwater.
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 19:25:48 GMT -5
She opened her eyes as she felt the water stirring around her, and he came plunging into the water. His hand reached out for her arm and she allowed him to grab it and pull her back up to the surface of the water. "I-I'm sorry." she wiped some water off of her face "I'm not used to someone saying like that, I just, I didn't know how to -" she stopped, looking away and taking in a deep breath
"Can we just forget that ever happened?" she asked as she turned to look back at him. Inside she was hoping that he would say yes to this request and they would forget about that and start up some other type of conversation
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Post by Ensign Zilla on May 22, 2009 20:07:36 GMT -5
Red began to breath through his nose as they came back to the surface, quickly wiping his eyes of any water before looking at Akiva. Now that they were both up he cloud let go of her arm, he'd held onto her just a few seconds longer than needed. Blowing through his lips he got rid of more water, watching Akiva with a confused face. He was only teasing her, he didn't expect her to attempt a run away because of that. But it was pretty funny, even if he couldn't laugh at it just yet. At some point they'd look back and laugh though.
"You don't need to apologize," She really didn't, he was the one who'd started it. "I'm sorry for messing with you like that." Akiva had already laid it out for him that she was a tomboy, meaning most likely that she hadn't heard anything like that before. But it was cool to see her react like, because even if she was a tomboy he could by her reaction that she liked males. Red grinned as he wiped her face of water and pushed a few strands of hair from her forhead. "Not a chance." He joked in his response to her not wanting this to be remember, "But I promise not to mention it." Just to avoid flustering her again.
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Post by Ensign Caro on May 22, 2009 20:28:23 GMT -5
When they rose back up she noticed that his hand didn't automatically let go of hers. She didn't say anything about it, only watched him as he watched her. She'd seemed to confuse him with apologizing. Maybe it wasn't needed, but she felt she needed to justify her actions a little.
She smiled a little, letting out a stifled laugh at his response. If it hadn't been for the joking tone in his voice she would've gotten flustered once again. "That's good. Just like I promise not to mention you don't have any bottoms on" she said with a slightly teasing tone in her voice. He'd flustered her with his comment and she wondered if her last one would get him up in a fluster. It really didn't matter to her if it did or not, but it'd be fun if it did.
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