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This is for the KLAROSUMMER BINGO event on tumblr and will consist of three parts.
It's a formality, really, since everyone in Mystic Falls learns how to swim at such a young age. Most people are swimming before they learn how to crawl because everyone spends summertime at the falls, so having a lifeguard on duty is a formality.
She is there for show, and she knows it.
She does not expect to actually have to pull anyone from the water during her tenure as lifeguard. There might be a kid once in a while who tries to get around that wait after eating rule before sneaking back into the water, but most of the children know better.
What she expects is a very boring summer spent watching other people swimming. She expects to burn to a crisp and be eaten alive by mosquitos.
It's one of the worst possible jobs she could have gotten on her summer vacation, but she and Elena had gotten back late from school and been left with dreaded lifeguard slot.
She had been manning the falls for three days now, and unlike her best friend she didn't tan, so needless to say she was bored and very red. Red lobster had nothing on her skin.
She checked her watch and sighed; only three hours to go before she could go home and suffer in the A/C because she had already run out of Aloe, and so had the pharmacy.
Her eyes scanned the late afternoon crowd, a mixture of teens from the high school and their younger siblings. The sound of chatter and splashing reached her ears. Over to the left she heard a familiar shriek and saw Bonnie swing out over the water on a rope; she gritted her teeth: Bonnie didn't burn either.
The water settled as her friend's head broke the surface, but her eyes were no longer trained on the petite brunette – who she definitely was not going to talk to again until her sunburn went away – they were locked on a man near the water's edge.
She decided to let go of her vendetta against the 'sunburn challenged' and reached for her cell phone – tucked into the bag slung over the side of her tall lifeguard chair. Bonnie would have a better view, but Elena would have her phone nearby.
Through the trees… is that who I think it is?
Elena was just as bored as she was because the reply came back instantly.
Trees behind Bonnie?
Yup
She could see the brunette leaning forward in her own seat to peer through the trees, and she already knows what she sees.
What's he doing here?
Looks like he's sketching… I heard he and Cami broke up.
Why would I care about that?
She could feel Elena's eyes on her in that knowing look her friend had, so she tore her eyes away from the swimming teenagers to glare at the brunette because she most certainly did not care about his relationship status, thank you very much, but the look on Elena's face is knowing.
I bet he's sketching you.
Don't be ridiculous. He's drawing the falls.
If he wanted to draw the falls he'd come in the morning or evening when there's nobody here to block his view.
She stole glances through the trees and made note of the way he was sitting.
How do you even know they broke up?
Certain fella told me.
She really wanted to wipe that smug smile off her friend's face and maybe make her flush bright red; it wouldn't be a sunburn, but it would have been close.
Would that certain fella have been Elijah?
…Maybe…
Right… and did he say this in between kisses?
The question had the desired effect in making Elena drop the topic.
She spent the next three hours in an attempt to ignore the blue eyes she knew were locked on her by watching the swimmers more closely than she had since her first shift.