Post by Kenzie on Feb 14, 2014 15:04:00 GMT -5
Susan was really glad that they’d actually allowed this idea of hers to go through! Ever since the forest incident, Susan’s ideas had just been… brushed off by the faculty board. But this idea seemed to go over very well with the students she’d told about it, and since it was set inside of the school.
The school’s pool room was contained inside a very large glass house, with see through walls and a see through ceiling. The building had two doors. One door opened to the outside, which at the moment was very chilly and the wind was blowing the trees around very violently. That door, too, was solid glass but locked shut and rendered off limits. A very large patio rested just outside of the door, with numerous benches littering the grounds. The second door was connected to the school’s gym building, which itself was huge and solid brick. The locker and shower rooms were located in the solid building, with walls that weren’t see through.
Inside of the glass walls was where this ‘mock-summer’ party was going to be held. The pool itself was huge, but only took up about 2/3rds of the floor. The rest of the floor, which was a good 12 feet long and 30 feet wide, was home to the lawn chairs and other such things for people to relax in.
For this party, however, the lawn chairs had been reorganized to take up less space. Now there was free snacks—little finger sandwiches, things like that—for people to eat. Also included were bowls of fruit and foods that were usually very popular in summer. It was a Sunday afternoon and outside the sun shone into the glasshouse, making the incubated walls much warmer than the bitter outside air.
It really felt like summer in this warmed little room. Lunch would be provided later, with grilled food provided by the school’s cafeteria workers.
Susan wasn’t expected an astronomically huge crowd today, but as Metric was a big school, a lot of students had opted to come with their friends. A sufficient amount of people were splashing around in the pool, diving off the diving board and preforming cannonballs. Susan, once she’d grabbed a watermelon, moved herself to take a seat on a lawn chair next to a short boy with a book over his face, clearly sleeping.
Susan smiled at her brother and took a bite of her watermelon, just as the sounds of some of the teenage girls screaming because a boy had splashed them reached her ears.
Susan was wearing a two piece swimsuit in navy blue, with her long dark hair pinned back into a bun, her hair contained so it only travelled down to the base of her neck. Her brother, on the other hand, was wearing a red and black plaid shirt and blue jeans. He had zero intention of swimming.
“Do they have to scream?” Arthur grumbled. “I was trying to sleep.”
“They’re just having fun! Which you should be doing! You’re like a cat. So grumpy!” Susan teased, lifting her leg to poke her brother in the knee. He didn’t move. “You can read or nap in your room… this party is supposed to be for interaction! Why did you even come, Artie?”
In reality, Arthur was only present because the baby project allowed students attending this event to drop off their sacks o’shit at the daycare center. He didn’t want to put up with it, so he had dropped it off there and opted to come here. Didn’t mean he had to like it, though. He didn’t respond.
“Ms. Summers!” Susan looked over to see Chad Richardson, running over with a girl Susan recognized as Amy O’Neal somewhere behind him, chasing after him with a water balloon in her hands. Susan couldn’t fight the grin that formed on her face upon seeing that. Amy was in a orange onepiece and her massive curls were out of any restraint, though they were drenched and hung down at her sides as though her hair was straight. “Tell her to stop chasing me w—AUUGRH!”
Chad had been about to demand that Amy be called out for chasing him out of the pool with the water balloon, but Amy had thrown it at his back. The sudden onslaught of cool water on his back caused Chad to cringe. Susan giggled under her breath, trying to hide the action by covering her mouth with her hand.
“Try to keep the water near the pool, please.” Susan said, her command coming off halfhearted. Amy laughed and rubbed the back of her neck.
“Sorry, Ms. Summers! But Chad ran away. I had to chase him!”
“Maybe you should just call him a chicken.” Arthur commented, “And then spread a rumor about it.”
Amy frowned at the comment Arthur made, but her frown quickly turned to an eye roll as she turned away, heading back towards the water. Susan gave Arthur a look but he ignored her and pulled the book away from his face, turning the page. She looked at the person nearest to her by the snack table. “Hehe. I’m totally gonna do a cannonball soon. Have you been in the water yet?”
Todd Bennett was there as well, but he was clothed in a sky blue tee shirt and swimming trunks. He had yet to go into the water, and instead awkwardly floated around the food table. He saw Amy but she was busy with Chad, and he didn’t want to be a bother. So, he just grabbed a watermelon and ate it, looking around at the crowd, wondering if he could spot anyone he knew who was idly hanging out alone.
