Caroline walked out of her room with Klaus following closely behind.
"You're really wearing that?" Klaus asked, referring to her choice of bathing suit.
"What?" She turned around to face him.
Her bathing suit was skimpy in his eyes. It revealed to much. "Do I really have to explain it?"
"What not skimpy enough for you?" She teased and put her hands on her hips.
"No, love, it's too skimpy to be out in public with."
"One, we're not out in public we're at our house and two, Grace and I went shopping together for them last week. She's wearing the same one just a different color."
"Well she's not my concern…" Klaus trailed off, trying to move his eyes away from her form.
"Hey, eyes up," She teased.
"Well I can say the same to you, love," He grinned his classic grin.
Caroline scoffed. They were standing in the main room by the door. The rain was still pattering at the glass and Caroline took out her phone to check the weather in San Nicolas Aruba.
"It says the rain is supposed to clear in two hours… should we just wait till then to go swim?" She asked him.
"Well, what's what fun in that sweetheart? We're going in water anyway… "
"That's true," She laughed. It was about 2:30 PM and the rain is supposed to clear around 4:30, but the weather people are wrong a lot so they shouldn't 100% count on that.
She was still kinda disappointed, though, she wanted Klaus to like her bathing suit. Klaus was wearing shorts that came to his knees and no shirt. She was used to seeing Klaus shirtless but it still always caught her off guard.
"Come on let's go," Caroline said turning away from him and nearly falling over her shoe. Damn, she hated when the front of her slides got stuck under her foot. She felt Klaus's strong arms wrap around her waist, catching her before she tumbled down. They made direct eye contact until she forced herself to peel her eyes away from his.
"Uh sorry…" She muttered standing upright.
"Not a problem love, lets go," Klaus opened the sliding glass door and the pair walked out with the rain already drenching their hair.
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Grace put on her bathing suit in the bathroom. Then they switched. Grace was wearing a bathing suit and of course Leo had to say something.
"Uhhh, that is way to skimpy," Leo commented.
"Well it is not your place to say anything is it?" Grace half teased. It's not like you're my boyfriend.
"I am looking out for you, and I don't like that on you," Leo implied.
"Caroline and I got the same one just in different color. Mine is black and her's is red," Grace replied
"I don't care what she is wearing," Leo told her almost strictly.
"Then why do you care what I am wearing?" Grace asked, getting confused by his inquiry.
He really doesn't like it? Grace thought. I really thought he would…
I really do… but I cant tell her that, Leo thought.
Leo opened his mouth but nothing came out. Grace turned around and went outside with Leo following because they were going to the same place.
Awkward.
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Outside
Everyone made their way to the pool area. The rain let up a tiny bit, but it was still drizzling. The sun was seeping through the dark storm clouds, giving them some more heat and light. Then SPLASH, Barry jumped into the pool first and foremost. One by one everyone followed in, the floor was pretty shallow, though.
Klaus sat down on the pool steps along with Leo and Mon el. The girls ducked under the water and swam over to the other side of the pool, slipping into the deep end.
"This is so refreshing!" Kara smiled, moving to lie on her back, the rain prickled down on her face feeling like a massage.
Barry was diving in the deep end over and over. He kept getting out of the pool and doing random tricks to "impress".
Caroline and Grace moved towards the boys who were sitting on the steps. SLASH Grace slashed water on Leo, soaking him from head to toe, allowing Caroline to do the same to Klaus.
"Ohh I am going to get you," Leo said diving in and chasing her around the pool. It was it their little "spat" before was history. Grace slowed down to breathe allowing Leo catch her. He tickled her and she laughed and laughed and then finally pulled away, both of them still gasping for air.
"You're so going to pay for this love!" Klaus said to Caroline. He fully emerged himself into the water now and picked Caroline up. She clung to his chest as he lifted her out of the water. She felt his heart beating under her fingertips and it vibrated through her body as if they were one.
"Put me down!" She squealed. "KLAUS!"
Klaus turned around and got out of the water, moving up the slick white steps trying not so slip and make him and Caroline tumble to the ground. He was holding her, cradling her in his arms while she clung to his neck, the cold air flowing around them since they were now out of the water.
"PUT ME DOWN!" She laughed. He was out of the pool now, the water dripping from his shorts was barely noticeable because of the rain that was still bucketing down. He walked over to the other end of the pool where Barry kept jumping in. Also at the end of the pool in the deep end there were two ledges on the sides, which is where Barry was sitting now.
"He's going to throw you in!" Kara yelled.
He started to swing her in his arms, daring to throw her into the water. Grace moved out of the way to let him throw Caroline in.
She squealed as she flew through the air. Laughter filled the air as she splatted into the cold water. She came up and treaded at it, moving over to the other ledge that Barry wasn't occupying.
She was dying of laughter, at this point everyone was. Klaus was about to go back over to Mon el and Leo on the stairs when Caroline halted him. She grabbed his ankle to get his attention so he stopped and looked down at her, eyebrows raised, intrigued at her next move. She then got on her knees and pulled on his hand, letting go of his ankle, causing him to fall in the water with a big splash. He came back up and wiped his eyes.
"Seriously?!" Caroline still held her smiled and shrugged with pride.
"This means war," Barry shouted over the laughter. He got out of the pool and grabbed water guns.
"Where the hell did you get that?" Mon el asked as Barry jumped back into the pool.
"I brought it," Barry stated, distributing the seven guns to the seven people in the pool.
"How were you allowed on the plane with those?" Kara asked. "I mean they are very high on security these days."
"I wasn't. I ran them here."
"Wait so you were here before us?" Caroline asked.
"Caroline, I came here a week ago and put them in that closet."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah why do you think my room was already settled into to?"
"It was?" Grace asked.
"Well, everything was hidden in the closet, but yeah I only brought my suitcase with me on the plane," Barry started to load his gun, water gun. "No backpacks."
Barry then squirted the gun into Caroline's face.
"That went right in my mouth!" She screeched, spitting the water out over the side.
"That what she said," Barry and Klaus said in sync. They looked each other in the eyes and then in unison squirted each other with the water guns with equally wide grins.
"I wanna join!" Grace giggled rushing over to the deep end of the pool followed by Mon el and Leo. Everyone kept shooting water at each other. Caroline stood on the ledge and got onto Klaus's shoulders. He was unaware at first but then he knew what she was planning.
Chicken fights were about to go down.
"Omg I love this game!" Kara cheered. "Mon el lets battle them!" Mon el nodded and Kara jumped up onto his shoulders, getting support from the ledge.
"We call winner!" Leo said pointing between him and Grace who were leaning against the wall halfway between the deep and shallow end.
"I'll just be here squirting you," Barry said shooting Caroline and Kara.
"Because that won't get annoying!" Caroline rolled her eyes sarcastically. Klaus grabbed onto her ankles and she clenched his hair.
This was giving Klaus and Caroline major Office vibes. There was an episode where the CEO of the company had a pool party because someone in the office suggested it. In the pool, Dwight and Erin decided to do a chicken fight so Erin could make Andy, the boy she likes and used to date, jealous.
Klaus moved closer to Mon el while Kara and Caroline started to fight up top. Klaus was keeping Caroline steady on his shoulders, she wasn't moving at all. Caroline managed to push Kara down but she didn't fall off of Mon el. She popped back up out of the water and rebalanced herself back onto Mon el's shoulders.
"Woah!" Caroline awed. "Never seen that before in a chicken fight!"
"Well, we're first timers," Mon el grinned proudly.
"Well you guys are really good." Caroline said.
"Nice hair flip Kara," Grace chimed in from the sides.
"I know right!"
They continued on with the chicken fights until Caroline managed to knock Kara off of Mon el's shoulders. But in the next round, Kara knocked Caroline off of Klaus's shoulders.
It ended with a tie.
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"I have a game idea," Kara suggested after things cooled down.
"What is it?" Grace asked.
Kara hopped out of the pool and grabbed two rafts that were in the storage closet. She put one raft at the one end of the pool and the other at the other end. She grabbed something else out of the closet, then jumped back into the pool.
"Okay so when I was younger, this is what I played with my family," She dumped the bag out into the water. A water football and a few water balls came out. "So what we do is divide into two teams, one team goes to one side of the pool by their net, and the other team goes to the other side of the pool by the other net. We each get an even number of balls…"
Caroline got on her tippy toes and whispered something into Klaus's ear, "That's what she said."
Klaus couldn't help but chuckle, along with Grace and Leo because they used vampire hearing to listen in. They quelled their laughter quickly before anyone heard.
"Then the goal is to get your ball in the other net. On each team there are defenders and throwers, sometimes everyone on your team could throw all at once, throwing off the other team. If a ball gets in the net, or in this case the mesh part of this raft, your team gets a point. It might not sound like much, but it's actually really competitive and fun."
"She is right, i've played with her and her family before," Mon el said. "They are very, very competitive."
"Alright let's play," Leo said.
The group divided up into two sides. The teams were uneven, but it still worked out. On one side was, Klaus, Mon el, Leo and Barry. The other side was Grace, Kara and Caroline.
"Were gonna lose," Caroline frowned, glaring over at the boys.
"Yeah girls vs boys isn't fair!" Grace complained.
"At least they're in the deep end," Kara pointed out the one pro to this grouping.
"But they're all tall!" Caroline said.
"Doesn't mean they're good at this, Mon el is the only one with some experience and to be honest, he wasn't great."
"Okay I know you're talking about me!" Mon el called from the other side of the pool.
Kara made a face and turned around. "How do you know that?"
"Because I can read your expression. Hey wait do you two know what she said?" Mon el asked Klaus and Leo.
"Yes," they said.
"No Mon el drop it!" Kara hushed. "Let's get ready."
"Im offended!" Mon el sarcastically pretended to be wounded by his girl.
"Well its true and Leo! Klaus! You weren't supposed to tell him!"
"Sorry!" Both boys said not-so apologetically.
"Okay lets just start oh my god!" Barry groaned.
There were 4 balls in the pool and the girls started with them since they had the disadvantage. Caroline held one in her hand and kept the smallest clenched behind her right knee. If they didn't know that she had an extra ball, they would be thrown off guard. The girls team talked up a plan. Kara would throw the volleyball high up to distract, and the other two would throw low and try to get it past the boys and directly into the raft.
"Oh and PS, the ball can bounce out and still be a point, it just has to hit the mesh part of the raft," Kara added. "Three, two, one," She mouthed to her teammates.
Kara threw the ball up and the others followed the plan. They managed to get one ball in the net, Grace's.
"That's a point!" Grace high-fived her teammates. The boys scoffed and said they were cheating, typical guy talk.
They boys got ready to shoot. Barry would throw the ball at fast speed and the others would throw it from different angles.
"And go!" Barry called. Their plan fell into perfect action, getting two in the net. Except, the fast one that Barry threw as a distraction flew out into the street.
"Oh my god Barry!" Caroline exclaimed.
"That hit a car!" Kara screeched looking over the fence.
"I'm sorry!" Barry ran his hands through his wet hair.
"Whatever just keep playing! Kara's right, this is fun!" Grace urged, moving her hands in an ongoing motion.
They kept playing the game till the score was tied at 9 to 9.
"We're going to win," Caroline said.
"No you won't," Mon el scoffed.
"I have to win, I always win," Caroline glared at the other team.
"Honestly, I agree. She always wins…" Klaus backed up, pretending to be frightened and ended the bit with a grin.
"You should be scared," She threatened, half joking, half serious.
"Winner takes all," Kara said, revving up her ball.
"Takes what?" Mon el challenged. "Wanna bet?"
"What should we bet?" Leo asked.
"Money sounds too ordinary… especially for people with the ability to compel," Caroline reasoned.
"But money's great and I cant compel…" Barry sighed.
"Well let's say this, whatever team loses has to go out to get the groceries from the store for the house," Caroline suggested.
They groaned. "At least it's not terrible," Klaus murmured.
"I didn't say I was done," The girls looked over at Caroline, knowing that she had something devilish planned. She waved her hands for them to come closer and huddle up.
"What if we make them go to the store naked!" Grace suggested.
"HELL NO!" Klaus and Leo screamed, obviously using vamp hearing.
"NO VAMP HEARING!" The girls yelled back.
"Well we can't do that, no matter how much we want to, but we can make them walk into that store with as little clothes as possible," Kara said.
"Like maybe a bathing suit?" Grace said.
"Nope," Caroline grinned daringly. "I brought them tight biker shorts."
"No you didn't," Kara smiled, excited.
"Oh I did. Before we assembled at your apartment Grace, I wrote out everyone's personalities, just to be prepared and thought of some things that I could bring to make this trip more interesting. Everyone had the sarcastic element in them, even if I didn't know Leo, Gypsy, Cisco, you or Mon el yet, I still knew that if you knew us some of our traits matched up. Plus, if you guys hung around us enough, we would rub off on on you. On the first day that I met Leo, we had a OCD competition, leading my pervious guess that we all had a little competitiveness inside of us to be true. So, I knew that we would be betting on something at least once. Before I left my apartment I grabbed some fun things that we can make bets with and I just so happened to have biker shorts."
"Okay you seriously speak another language!" Grace groaned.
"But how did you even have boys biker shorts lying around?" Kara asked.
"Um well my dad stops by a lot and he has his own closet in my house, they were unopened so I grabbed them."
"I don't know how you do it Care, but good job," Grace patted her on the back.
"Thanks, I know though," Caroline grinned.
"We'll make them look as ridiculous as possible," Kara added.
"Perfect."
The girls broke their huddle and faced the boys. They had some huddle thing going on too.
"We have a plan," Kara said.
"Well so do we, ever think of us winning?" Mon el shot back.
"No that never struck a chord with us," Caroline said, cockily twirling her wet, stringy hair around her finger.
"What will you make us do?" Klaus asked.
"No no no, oh no you don't," Caroline pointed her finger across from her to show silence. "We're not telling you."
"Then we're not telling you either," Barry said.
"Fine by us," Grace shot daggers with her eyes at the four across the pool.
"Let's finish this," Mon el clapped as a starter and dove under water to wet his hair that was drying because the rain was letting up. They could see that they only had minutes before a storm erupted, though.
The girls started with the football and volleyball and the boys started with just a water ball, only one because Barry killed the other.
The girls had discussed their game plan. They were going to fire right after they shot. The boys didn't know who had the objects. Caroline hid the tiny foot ball in her hand behind her back and Grace sat on the volleyball making her bounce in the water. Kara pretended to hold a ball but she was going to be the one deflecting the incoming shot while the other two aim for the net and hopefully get one in.
The boys didn't have much of a plan. Leo would always try to come up with something but just couldn't think clearly. The mini plan they conjured up was to throw the one ball, which Klaus has, at them when they were distracted while Barry, Leo and Mon el try something else in the moment. They relied on them to throw the first shot.
"Time out," Caroline broke and went over to her team. "Okay so they are relying on us to throw first."
"I can see that, then how bout this, Caroline you throw first and then after whoever over there has the ball throws you go while they're off guard," Kara strategize.
They nodded and broke off.
"Ready?" Klaus teased.
"Born ready," Caroline smirked competitively. Klaus and Caroline were on opposite sides of the pool, right across from each other, both daring to make a move. At the same time Klaus and Caroline chucked the ball at the net. Both collided and fell into the center of the pool. They were shocked.
"Damn!" Kara and Mon el yelled in sync.
"Great play!" Barry clapped, pointing to the collision.
When they processed they raced to the middle to shoot again. In the meantime, Graced revved up her ball, grinning at the fact that the whole boys team was following Klaus when they should be manning their own stations.
Grace stood up on the steps and took the volleyball out of the water. She angled the shot and then chucked it towards the net.
It was like it was all in slow motion. Kara was cheering for Grace and Caroline stopped fighting Klaus for the shot. When he realized the ball flying over head he tried to jump up but Caroline jumped on his back and they ducked under water. Mon el and Leo tried to stop it but they were too slow. Barry, with his speed, tried to catch up to it but he wasn't paying attention long enough. The ball plopped onto the soaked mesh of the net. After that everything seemed to speed up.
"YESS!" Kara yelled. Her and Grace hugged and laughed. Caroline rose out of the water followed by Klaus a second later.
"Damn you can really put up a fight," Klaus said trying to breath correctly.
Caroline laughed, "I try my best." She saw Kara and Grace celebrating.
"We won?!" She smiled.
"Yes!"
"YAY!" She joined the hug. The boys pouted.
"HA HA YOU GUYS LOST!" Grace mocked.
"I have to admit it, that was an amazing play," Mon el said.
"I know! I feel so accomplished." Grace laughed putting her hands on her hips. "I have awful aim too."
"Obviously not," Leo shook his head, secretly very proud of her. Grace blushed at the compliment.
"Okay so hit us with your price," Klaus sighed.
The girls grinned.
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A/N:
So they game that Kara suggested is actually a game I play at my uncles pool in the summer.
heres the house!
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