MEANWHILE!!!
"You all ready for your first swimming lessons?!" said Fruitie excitedly as he cannonballed into the pool of chlorine infested water.
"Well, I've got my specially made goggles that the Professor made for me." Said Scott as he adjusted his swimming goggles that looked just like his sunglasses except they were goggles. But DUH!!
"You're actually going in?" said Kitty.
"Yeah." Said Scott. "Why wouldn't I? It's hot. You're telling me YOU'RE not?"
"Well, you wouldn't either if you were wearing THIS bathing suit!" Kitty said, pointing out her bathing suit that was pink with little jewels and Barbie on it and a frilly skirt and shoulder frills and all those other nauseating things that you would picture on a small female child.
"As a man, I would never wear that anyway." Scott said, trying not to look.
"You ARE the one who's wearing the Ninja Turtle bathing suit." Said Lance who was wearing just a plain orange bathing suit with drawstrings and pockets.
"I watched the show when I was younger and wearing it makes me feel nostalgic." Said Scott, looking mortally offended.
"Yeah whatever." Said Lance. "That wasn't what you said while you were putting them on."
"COME ON GUYS!!!" said Fruitie excitedly but everyone ignored him.
"Oh?" said Scott.
"Yeah." Said Lance. "If I remember correctly, it went kinda like this: 'Ninja Turtles?! OH BOY!! I LOVE NINJA TURTLES!!'"
"That never happened." Said Scott stoically.
"Yes it did." Said Lance, more to Kitty than to Scott.
"Where's Kurt anyway?" said Scott, trying to change the subject as he scouted the area for Kurt. At that exact moment, Kurt rounded the corner draped in a towel. He was wearing a BLUE bathing suit!! YAY!!
"It's harder than it looks to be me." He sighed. "I don't think my watch is water proof."
"Just take it off then." Said Lance.
"I don't think so." Said Kurt.
"Why not?" asked Lance.
"Lance…this is my WATCH we're talking about." Kurt said, pointing to his image inducer.
"What…was it expensive or something?" Lance said, utterly confused.
"Lance, just shut up." Said Kitty.
"All right all of you, if you don't come in the water right now then I'll have to come over there and get you!" Fruitie declared as he swam over to the edge of the pool and pulled himself out. "Kitty, I LOVE your bathing suit!"
"I hate it." Said Kitty in a grumpy tone.
"Don't say that!" said Fruitie. "Barbie is so SWELL!!"
"Yeah…" said Kitty, rolling her eyes. Just then, Tootie and The Carrots rounded the corner all clad in their bathing suits. For some reason, Remy wasn't there!! OH DEAR!!
"Kurt!" said Fruitie. "How do you say, 'Welcome Carrots!' in German?"
"It's the same!" said Kurt. "Isn't that incredible?!"
"Very much so!" Fruitie said, turning to Tootie. "Now, why are you all late?"
"We had a bit of an accident with the tie-dye." Tootie explained, discretely gesturing towards St. John who was ever so red. Luckily, he was not wearing a red bathing suit or else he would have looked even more silly than he does. He was actually wearing a black bathing suit with elaborate flames on it. This bathing suit… however… looked slightly too big for him.
"Ahh…" said Fruitie, nodding his head.
"I didn't have an accident with the tie-dye." Said Wanda who was dressed in a pink bathing suit with the skirt of course. Up on the chest, her name was written in pretty cursivey blue lettering. Pietro was wearing a blue bathing suit with his name lovingly written on one of the legs except it was in PINK lettering!!
"I never said you did." Said Tootie.
"You implied it." Wanda replied.
"No I didn't." Tootie said, sounding as cheerful as ever.
Wanda crossed her arms and looked as though she wasn't going to retort but at the last second, right before Tootie stopped listening/caring, Wanda threw in a scornful, 'Yes you did.'
Just then, Remy rounded the corner as well fully clothed while caring a lime green bathing suit. "St. John, you took Remy's bathing suit, didn't you?!" he demanded.
"No!" said St. John as he grabbed the drawstring and pulled it tight.
"So you're saying dat you got packed TWO bathing suits and one of dem somehow got into Remy's bag?" Remy said, displaying the tag for the whole world to see. Sure enough, it said 'Allerdyce'.
"Johnny…" said Tootie, sounding disappointed. "Each camper is only allowed ONE bathing suit."
"THIS one is mine!" said St. John.
Tootie leaned over and looked at the tag that said 'LeBeau'.
"Hey!" said St. John. "You have just invaded my personal space!"
"That's NOT your bathing suit." Said Tootie.
"Yes but that WAS my butt you just looked at!!" St. John said in a very betrayed tone.
"I didn't look at that, I looked at the tag!" Tootie said.
"No, you looked down the back of my pants!" St. John said. "How am I supposed to know what you looked at and what you didn't look at?!"
"Why does it even matter to you?" Tootie said with a raised eyebrow.
"It DOES!!" St. John said.
"Can Remy have his bathing suit now?" Remy asked.
"Johnny, go into the bathroom and trade with Remy." Tootie instructed. "While you two are trading, Fruitie and I will begin the lessons."
"Uh…RIGHT!" said Fruitie as he emerged from his secluded bubble in the corner.
"This is becoming a ritual for us." Said Remy as he pushed the door open to the bathroom.
"What, bathroom conversation scenes?" St. John asked.
"Yes." Said Remy as the two went in separate stalls.
"I am just scarred for life!" said St. John as he tossed the bathing suit under the little wall thing that separated the two and received the horrible lime green one. "Tootie is probably my age and she just…looked down my pants! And acted as though it was nothing!"
"Well you are three or something." Remy said as he began putting on the black bathing suit.
"I think I'm older than that." St. John said as he, very reluctantly, put the green one on. "Like in the five, six, seven range."
They both emerged from the stalls and looked at each other.
"You look like a watermelon." Remy said.
Meanwhile, out with the swimmers…
"Come on!" Tootie tried to coax everyone as she attempted to get them closer to the edge of the water as Fruitie beckoned from the water. "Into the water! It'll be fun!"
"I WANT to go in, but I don't want to be the only one." Said Scott.
"I'm gonna get a running start!!!" Pietro declared. And then there was a ZING!! And then there was another ZING!! And then there was a SPLASH!!! Then Pietro rose up out of the water paddling around and looking as though he just had the greatest fun known to mankind and going back over to the shallow end where it was three feet deep so he could touch the ground.
"What does this kid eat?" Fruitie said in an amazed tone to Tootie.
"Well, you can go in now Scott!" said Tootie since she was used to Pietro being a ridiculously fast child.
"Okay…" said Scott nervously because he didn't want anyone to talk about him behind his back. He civilly slid into the water until he was ready to go deeper.
"Now for the rest of you!" Tootie said to the remaining kids just as Remy and St. John returned from their bathroom excursion. "I'm glad you two decided to join us! No fights, I hope?"
"No." said Remy. "Surprisingly, Remy didn't have to say a word for St. John to surrender da bathing suit."
"Okay." Said Tootie. "Now in you go!"
Remy looked at the water. "Remy don't swim." He said but you could tell he definitely made that up right then and there.
"Aw…do you need floaties?" Tootie said as she whipped out numerous floaties that you apply to your arms from behind her back.
"I WANT FLOATIES!!" Pietro called from the water.
"You don't need them." Tootie said to Pietro.
"I WANT THEM ANYWAY!!!" Pietro yelled.
There was a long drawn out silence until Tootie innocently gave each kid a boot and kicked them all into the water.
"Time to teach you all how to swim!" said Fruitie as some of the more discombobulated and less coordinated kids flailed around in the water, attempting to make it over to the shallow end. "See?! Swimming can be fun! There's no reason to be afraid of the water!"
"I've had enough of this!" Wanda declared as she reached shallow water and looked as though she was going to kill both Tootie and Fruitie but then had the dilemma on which one she wanted to kill first so that delayed her for a whole two seconds and when she finally decided on Tootie, she went to zap her but was knocked over by Pietro.
"WATER MONSTER!!!" he yelled as he pushed her under the water. "The Water Monster has claimed his first victim!! Who will be next?! MWA HA HA HA!"
He went trudging around in the water to chase after someone. Of course, he didn't have super human speed under the water because…well… it's the water. Have you ever tried running in the water? Thought so.
When Wanda resurfaced…well, she was heapum big angry. "All right… Tootie can be second…" she said angrily but then she put her hand on her mouth and spit something into her palm. She gasped. "I lost a tooth!" she said as a stream of blood trickled from her mouth.
"You can put that under your pillow and get something from The Tooth Fairy!" Tootie explained as she hopped into the water as well. "Until then, though, we need to clean you up!"
"What kind of stuff will the Tooth Fairy give me?" Wanda asked as Tootie guided her out of the water.
"Oh I don't know!" Tootie said. "A dollar maybe!"
"What about…MORE than a dollar?" asked Wanda as Tootie handed her a tissue to wipe her mouth.
"Maybe!" Tootie said enthusiastically. "Do you want me to hold onto it until it's time to go to bed?" Wanda handed the tooth to Tootie and she pocketed it. Tootie's death could wait until AFTER the Tooth Fairy came. And Wanda knew how much Tootie adored her stupid twin brother and Wanda couldn't very well go and make Tootie sad after she had just given her this wonderful piece of advice about the Tooth Fairy…so Pietro could live. For now…
She then rejoined everyone else in the water! HURRAY!!
"Say…where did Kurt go?" said Fruitie all of a sudden. "He always seems to be disappearing into thin air, wouldn't you say?"
The group let out a nervous chuckle and agreed.
"He's probably in the bathroom…" Fruitie assured himself. "Let's just begin the lesson!"
Just then, there was the sound of a bell ringing.
"Oh dear!" said Fruitie, slapping his cheeks. "We spent so long doing other stuff and getting into the water, that we wasted all our time with swimming and now it's time to get changed and go down to lunch!"
There wasn't too many arguments as the kids climbed out of the pool and grabbed their towels. However, Pietro refused to get out of the pool for a while so both Tootie and Fruitie had to chase him around in the water and finally wrestle with him to get him out.
"Hey…dat's Remy's shirt." Said Remy as St. John pulled a shirt over his head.
"YOU HAVE OTHERS!!!" St. John yelled defensively.
"Why are you always trying to take Remy's stuff?" Remy said.
"Because." Said St. John.
"I'm glad to finally be out of that horrible bathing suit!" said Kitty as she strutted out of the girl's bathroom wearing a pink Barbie shirt.
"Uh…never mind." Said Lance who had already finished changing.
Remy turned away from the momentary distraction. "Remy's serious." He said. "Give him his shirt back."
"Oh look at the sky." Said St. John.
Remy gave an exasperated sigh. "Tootie…St. John took my shir~~~irt." He tattled in that annoying tone that kids use when they're tattling.
Tootie walked over. "Aww…that's so cute!" she exclaimed. "I think he admires you because you're older than he is!"
"Remy just thinks he likes Remy's stuff…" Remy said as he picked up and glanced over the Bob the Builder shirt. "Since his is kind of…" he paused, searching for the right words and just restrained himself from saying 'literate'. "Stupid."
"I SO do not admire him." Said St. John. "But I'm not wearing that Bob the Builder shirt either!!"
"You'll either wear YOUR shirt or you won't have lunch." Tootie said. "You'll sit on time out."
"You can't do that!" St. John said.
"Oh yes I can." Said Tootie. "If that'll teach you to stop stealing Remy's clothes."
"He's stolen Remy's pajamas, bathing suit and now his shirt…" Remy rambled off as he counted on his fingers.
"Yes, I know." Said Tootie.
"Just makin' sure." Said Remy. "No one steals from a masta t'ief."
"FINE!" said St. John as he took it off and threw it at Remy. "I didn't want to wear it anyway!! Tootie, you just hate me because I'm LOUD and RED and OBNOXIOUS!!"
"You think I HATE you?" Tootie gasped, putting her hand on her heart.
"Uh…I'll take everyone down to lunch…" Fruitie said quietly as he hurried everyone else along so only St. John and Tootie remained.
