Now technically, as a resident of the dorms, April had a right to use the pool whenever she wanted, but even so she felt like she was sneaking in somewhere when she stopped by the dorm pool late Friday evening. Maybe it was the fact that it was dark and there was no one around, or maybe it was just lingering trepidation from all the times she had ( Read more... )

Flick didn't often visit this place. In fact, he wasn't sure if he'd ever been there before but first time for everything, right? It was getting a little too cold to go to the beach and Flick wasn't feeling aggressive enough for the gym. So, why not the pool? Exactly why not ( Read more... )

Isabelle wasn't a big swimmer. It wasn't that she didn't know how or anything (because she did), but just that there it wasn't a very important skill for most Shadowhunters to have, and there wasn't a pool at the Institute. Also, covering up her Marks and scars with glamours to go to a public swimming pool was far too much of a hassle ( Read more... )

Alec knew what he had been expecting when he arrived at the dorm pool late this afternoon: a pool. With chairs. Maybe a towel rack. Probably without any other students swimming. But all in all, a normal pool environment ( Read more... )

Okay, hiding out in her room with the A/C cranked wasn't doing a whole lot for Gert. And taking more than one cold shower a day just felt weird. So her new plan was now to hide out in the pool and appreciate the cold water and the chance for some less-than-totally-miserable exercise ( Read more... )

Today was the first day Ender had felt remotely like himself enough to leave his room. He'd spent a good portion of the previous two days sleeping, and his muscles were starting to experience phantom aches from disuse and very real aches from being stuck in bed for too long ( Read more... )

One of the many little things Cara still wasn't used to on the island was chlorinated water, so usually when she wanted to cool off she just went to the beach, but the problem there was the weather lately meant she'd just end up hot and sticky again by the time she got back to the dorms ( Read more... )

It was warm enough to head to the beach but Percy wasn't feeling like walking all the way into town today. He still wanted to be in the water but the beach meant sand in his shoes and salt water in his eyes. Of course, chlorine wasn't much better but it was closer ( Read more... )

That morning Ender had received four phone calls from Peter.

Three had come from Fandom's Peter, and in all cases Peter had hung up before Ender managed to even answer the call. The third was from his own Peter, calling in to confirm he'd be showing up and he'd be taking Petra and Suriyawong with him ( Read more... )

Some days, you just had to crawl out of bed, take off your moping pants, and do something. Anything. Whatever. Today, Karla decided that the thing she was going to do was swim until she was exhausted. The beach being too full of memories, she headed to the pool at the dorms instead ( Read more... )