"Thor! Look! Look!"
Thor stopped giving Loki his piggyback ride to the pool to see the slide to Poltragow Pool to see the tall slide where he could see few kids already through the gate around the pool lined up and ready to go down the slide. Thor behind to Loki who was more fascinated with the slide than Thor was. Thor doubted that Loki could down it, and Thor had to prepare himself for any chance of his adopted brother having a tantrum if he was denied to go down.
"I wanna go down the slide Thor!" Loki shouted and Thor shushed him.
"Not so loud Loki!" Thor scolded.
Thor sighed and pulled the money that he and Loki found on the train and started walking closer to the pool's entrance. Monday-Wednesday; 9:00 A.M.,-6:44 P.M., Thursday-Saturday; 9:00 A.M.,-9:00P.M. Was what was written on a chalkboard, and above the chalkboard was another with the prices per age listed. 1-3; $3.00, 4-7; $6.00, 8-11; $9.00, 12-15; $12.00, 16-19; $15.00, 20; $18.00. Thor pulled six dollars for Loki, and nine dollars for himself. He then handed it to the lady at the desk and walked in and entered the boy's changing room.
"Thor! Stop! You got sunscreen in my eyes!" Loki whined to the oldest.
While it was April, today was hot, really hot. Hot to where their skin was already a little burned from the walk to the pool.
"Sorry Loki, hold on." Thor grabbed the towel and started trying to get the sunscreen out of Loki's eyes. "There, better?"
"It still hurts a little." Loki whimpered.
"I'm sorry baby bro, I didn't mean to." Thor apologized again.
"It's okay." Loki sighed.
Once the two reached the pool area, Loki jumped in while Thor carried the yellow bag he got from home before they even started the walk to the pool, to a empty spot next to a lounge chair. Thor pulled his and Loki's towels out and laid them out and then placed their shoes on the towels. Thor walked over to where Loki was swimming and put his feet in first. Loki laughed as he swam over to Thor and smiled up at his big brother.
"Aren't you going to get in?" Loki asked and Thor nodded.
Thor pushed himself into the pool creating a little splash in the water. When he looked over at Loki, the younger splashed him.
"Hey!"
Loki laughed hysterically and swam away from Thor. Thor swam after his little brother and was continuosly splashed as he did so. Thor was surprised that no life guards weren't blowing their whistles at the two, giving a quick look around, there were no lifeguards at all. What the heck? Thor thought to himself. Thor stopped swimming and Loki turned and noticed.
"Thor? What's wrong?" Loki asked.
"There's no lifeguards." Thor responded while looking around, maybe he missed something, just one mistake like his eyes tricking him and there were actually lifeguards at their chairs.
"Thor!" Loki was having none of this, he wanted to play in the pool with Thor! "Thor! I wanna play!"
"Okay," Thor said after being pulled by the arm. "What do you want to play?"
"Marco Polo!" Came his sibling's answer. "And your it!"
"Fine." Thor covered his eyes. "Marco!"
"Polo!"
"Marco!"
"Polo!"
Hunting, something that Thor had grown to hate, but if he wanted to bring food home to Loki when Poltragow was running low on food. Thor helped with that problem, but he mostly did it for himself and Loki. Mr. Montgomery, the leader of Thor's group, which was mostly made up with seven boys and nine girls through the ages of 10-12, had given the children rules. Rules that some of the children thought that there wouldn't be no rules when it came to hunting, but there was. Number one was no guns, only knives, or just find a way to be creative. Rule number two was no taking other's kill, Mr. Montgomery does not want to deal with drama. Number three was go in a group if you have to, but that only came if the leader of Poltragow, Ms. Sharp, or Mr. Montgomery, were alertred that there were any intruders around the forest. Number five was make sure you have your own medical supplies, Poltragow is running low. And finally number six was just come safely, kill or no kill, all that mattered was Mr. Montgomery didn't have to come tell your folks that you got yourself killed while hunting. Thor was sure some of those weren't real hunting rules, but they were Poltragow's hunting rules.
"Can you bring home something else besides bunnies, brother?" Loki asked. A chuckle left Thor and he ruffled Loki's hair a bit.
"I'll try, Loki."
If Thor was honest, he was tired of only being brave enough to hunt rabbits. So maybe he could try to go out of his comfort zone and bring home a deer, or heck maybe he would find a orchard and bring some fruit home. Thor walked up to the others were standing and listened to where Mr. Montgomery tell the children to hunt.
"From the forest by Mrs. Booker's house to the orchard on the west going to Greywick!" Came the muffled order from the middle aged man as he chewed on a apple.
Most of the others headed off to the direction of the forest, not a single one of them went to the direction of the orchard, so Thor was taking his chance to go there.
"Thor!"
Thor turned to see Loki running up to him. The younger sibling hugged him like he usually did and Thor lifted Loki up so Loki could give him a kiss to Thor's forehead.
"Love you."
"I love you too!" Loki giggled while being released from Thor's arms.
"I'll try to bring some pears, apples, maybe blueberries from orchard." Thor told Loki and his baby brother cheered. "I'll see you soon."
And Thor left, hoping that he could bring home some fruit for both him and Loki, and being done eating cooked rabbits for a while.