Everything had started out swimmingly. She had just been wading around in the shallow water only to dare venture into the deeper part. It seemed everyone around her was chatting with their friends and generally having a good time. Most of them were kids, some her age, but most of them younger. All of them were floating above the water in tubes, which she found a bit odd. You never see little kids sitting around in tubes when there's water to swim splash around in right under them. Deciding to ignore it, she waded around some more.
Suddenly, an obnoxiously loud bell sounded and everyone around her screamed in excitement. Her eyes were wide as she whipped her head around to see what was wrong. As she turned around and opened her mouth to ask a random swimmer what was happening, she found herself swallowing a mouthful of disgusting pool water. She was swept back as the wave covered her entirely.
Recovering and taking a deep breath of air, she tried to analyze what was happening. However, before she could blink, she was swept under water once again. In an attempt to help herself out of this predicament before she was drowned, she swam towards the shallow end of the pool only to be once again pulled under by the waves.
She came up gasping for air. The wave had pushed her to a point where she could now stand with her chest above the water. As the waters pulled, another wave came crashing down, however, this time, the dark haired girl was anticipating it, she steadied herself.
Gravity took water down once more and it simply crashed over her. She hastily turned around and made a move for the shallow end. The girl got no more than a foot away before the waves came again. She didn't bother turning around as she readied herself for the water's impact.
This time it wasn't the wave directly knocking her down, instead it was two kids in a double tube being taken by the wave. The two kids threw her apologies but she was too busy being knocked under water to hear them. As soon as she recovered, another wave took her by surprise and dragged her back under.
In desperation, she reached her hand out above the water in hopes that someone would pull her up. Where were the Life Guards when they were actually needed?
When the water cleared in anticipation of the next wave, she quickly pulled her head up, gasped for air and threw herself out of harms way. She managed to make it to the point where she was standing in water a few inches below her waist, she relaxed.
There was no way water could knock her over no-
Tubers came crashing into her as the next wave hit, as she fell, she put her arms out to protect her face from the concrete under the shallow water. She picked up her head to glare at the offender, but by the time she could, they had already floated back into the crowd.
As she looked for the horrible people who knocked her over, another wave swept her backwards.
Finally she had been pushed so far she was in ankle high water. However, her energy was zapped, so she just laid there in the water, waiting for the waves to knock into her. But to her surprise, the water had gone suspiciously calm.
"Natsuki! Natsuki! Are you alright!" A concerned voice called as hurried footsteps sounded towards the exhausted girl.
Natsuki raised her head weakly, "No."
The other girl pulled her up into a sitting position, "What happened?"
Natsuki leaned her head on the other girl's shoulder, "Horrible things..." She mumbled, trying to repress the events that just occurred. "This pool is dangerous..."
"That's because this is a wave pool, Natsuki. Only strong swimmers should be here." The other girl informed.
Natsuki ripped her head from the girl's shoulder, "Shizuru! You told me this was the swimming pool!" She exclaimed.
The brown haired girl, Shizuru, gave her an apologetic look, "I thought it was...until I read the rules posted up."
"The rules?" Natsuki sounded.
"Yes, advising only strong swimmers to be in the wave pool when the waves start..." The older girl said as she flicked a piece of rebellious, wet hair out of Natsuki's face.
There was a silence before Natsuki stood up and scoffed, "I'm a strong swimmer!" She announced indignantly.
Shizuru pointed to the younger kids in tubes who hadn't even gotten their hair wet. Natsuki rolled her eyes, "Well, I wasn't ready. They were completely expecting it, if I had known what was going on, I would've taken those waves down. Plus they had tubes, I was just swimming without one and I-"
"You're right, Natsuki. Let's go get some ice cream, what do you say?" Shizuru abruptly interrupted, holding out her hand.
The dark haired girl brightened, "Yes!" She took off running, "Last one to get there pays!" The girl shouted, already ahead.
"While I'm buying things, we'll have to invest in swimming lessons..." The brunette mumbled before she speed walked to catch up to her friend.
Yeah. Wave pools are crazy. I let the wave take me and you should see me, I'm just pushing tubers and little kids out of the way. It's great. What does Natsuki need next? Suggestions?
