AN: New character this episode
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The seven of them met down by the cars and they all got into Leo's truck.
Leo sat in the driver's seat and Klaus took shotgun. Caroline sat behind Klaus, Grace sat behind Leo's seat and Barry sat in between them. Kara and Mon el gathered in the back, perfectly content with being cooped up together.
"Someone get the GPS up," Leo ordered.
"Why do you need a GPS are you like 60?" Grace scoffed.
"Over a thousand, actually."
"Don't be a wise ass. Klaus pull it up on your phone," Grace answered. Klaus nodded and opened his phone, pulling up google maps and putting in the address Caroline told him.
They winded down the peaceful roads of Aruba and were thankful that the rain had stopped for their day of fun and dream relief.
"It's up there on your right," Grace pointed, leaning over the seat. Everyone got out of the car when Leo pulled into the first available spot.
"This place is awesome," Barry awed as he looked at his surroundings. They walked up the ramp that led to where the boardwalk and waterpark was located on and stepped onto the wooden boards that lined their path. There were strips of shops to their left and the beautiful beach to their right. Also on the right, there was the large pier that was jetting out towards the ocean. People rode by on skateboards, bikes, and more. Various smells hit them all at once, the small Japanese place a few stores down, the boardwalk pizza place, dunkin donuts and more. They could taste the salty wind on their lips as it whipped at their hair. They could hear the distant screams of the people on the rides, the big rollercoaster that winded through the pier, the swings and all other things they could not wait to try.
They walked towards the pier and could see the slides of the waterpark.
"There it is!" Caroline pointed.
"Ah it looks even cooler in person!" Grace started running.
"Hey I'm coming!" Caroline used vamp speed to get in front of her.
"HEY I DON'T HAVE SPEED!" Kara pouted as she started running, her pink flip flops, the ones Mon el had wore the night before, slapped the floor. "Well I do but I would have to fly and that might cause a lot more attention!"
All four boys looked at each other and shrugged. Barry grabbed Mon el and the running Kara's hand and sped them to the front before anyone got there.
"Leo, you know anyone could've seen that right?" Klaus said to his brother.
"Oh yeah, definitely."
They sped off as well, not caring at this point.
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"Hey that's cheating!" Caroline pouted.
"What were we even playing?" Leo asked.
"Everything's a competition with her," Klaus mumbled.
"Hey, I heard that."
"You know I think friends last night rubbed off on everyone, I see Chandler in Leo and Monica in Caroline with crazy OCD-ness," Mon el concluded.
"I have OCD too," Leo said.
"Well then you have a bit on Monica in you too," Mon el laughed. They were standing at the edge of the pier. Below them was the water park. Mon el looked back at the beach and saw an interesting setup on the sand. Since the little setup was to his right and they were in the dead center of the end of the pier he ran towards it.
"Hey where are you going mister?" Kara said as she grabbed his shirt.
"Ow seriously?" Mon el rubbed his neck because she pinched him. "I'm going over there, there is a cool thing on the beach."
Grace and Caroline grinned at each other.
"A cool thing?" Kara laughed. "Really?"
"Yeah look!" He pulled her by her hand and they ran together, everyone trailing behind loosely behind.
"Woah!" Kara awed.
Sitting there on the beach, about halfway up shore was a lovely beach cabana set up. There were four cabana beds with beautiful sheets and awnings. There was a comfy lounge chair bed type thing too. The beds were in a circular formation and there was a projector set up in the middle which would cast on the white screen a few feet in front. There was a giant fire pit in the middle.
"What I wouldn't give to stay in one of those for a night!" Kara dreamed, reaching her hand out like she was going to grab it.
"SURPRISE!" Grace and Caroline shouted on the count of three.
The rest turned around to face the two girls beaming at them.
"What did you guys do?" Mon el asked.
"Well we are vampires and we have the power of mind control soooo…"
"That's our set up! We are going to be spending the night out here under the stars, and tonight is supposed to be a Lunar Eclipse so we will be able to see a beautiful red moon casting over the water. Form what I hear, all the planets that you can see with a naked eye will be visible tonight," Caroline summarized.
"OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU!" Kara hugged the two girls.
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Everyone set their bags down at their cabana and headed back up to the park.
"I can't believe you guys did this!" Leo said still shocked.
"Well we didn't pay as much as it was supposed to be but we gave a pretty large tip of four hundred dollars," Grace smiled.
"That's nice," Mon el said.
They reached the waterpark once again. It was pretty dead, no one was really there apart from a few kids that were playing in the kid section and some adults in the lazy river.
"This place is so awesome for a boardwalk," Kara looked around.
"Good find you two," Barry complimented as he jumped into the wave pool.
"Barry!" Mon el ran in after him, not thinking of the price he was about to pay. "Crap this water is freezing!"
The rest entered at their own pace. Caroline and Grace ran in after them, only to stop when the water reached their hips because it was freezing. Klaus and Leo followed behind, filling the air with little chats.
Waves crashed at Leo and Klaus's feet, they stood by the edge.
"Come on wusses!" Caroline yelled cupping her hands around her lips to make her voice boom louder.
"Yeah come on! Its fun!" Grace yelled too, sending a waving hand in their direction.
"What are you afraid of water?" Caroline dared.
"Or allergic?! Mon el, Kara and Barry are having fun why cant you two get out of your funk?"
"We were just coming in at a slower pace geez," Leo rolled his eyes.
"YOU'RE VAMPIRES!" Both girls shouted.
"Shhhh!" Klaus and Leo hushed.
"Sorry!"
The two boys joined the two girls and they waited for the waves to kick on again.
"I always used to go in these when I was a kid," Mon el said. "They were a lot of fun."
"I did too! It was like my childhood. When a wave hit my friends and I would always jump it a different way. Like under the water, jump over it superman style, front flip, back flip… you know, stuff like that," Barry laughed at the memory of him and Cisco doing that when they visited Six Flags Hurricane Harbor one weekend in between problems at Star Labs. He remembered HR wearing a big hat and a Hawaiian shirt… he didn't think HR got out much on earth 19. "We had a lot of fun."
"You know what I had as a wave pool growing up…" Klaus said. "We had to go down by the river, which wasn't very clean. We left our shoes down by the hillside and then jumped in. We would jump up and down, all of us at the same time, and create waves, but waved did exist back then, or the word at least so we called them ripples. We didn't exactly live by an ocean."
"Ripples? Well I guess that works…" Caroline couldn't help but laugh.
"Actually I think it's sorta great, when you were born the world was so different. It's cool to hear about other lifestyles you had," Grace admitted honestly.
"I agree with you," Kara joined. "I always wanted to know what it was like back then."
"Well I was born back then too, the world has really changed over the centuries," Leo said. "We literally used cans to call each other once."
"Does that even work?" Kara asked.
"No and we learned the hard way."
"Oh?" Grace questioned.
"My friend and I tried every day after school for hours, we were neighbors. It really sucked when we learned that it didn't work."
Everyone jumped at the sound of a buzzer.
"THE WAVES ARE COMING!" Barry jumped like a little kid.
"What are you two?" Grace said diving after him.
Everyone had a good time, the waves came crashing every second and they all made up little games in between.
About an hour passed, and Mon el and Kara got out because they wanted to visit somewhere else.
"Mon el where do you want to go?" Kara asked him as she made her fingers intertwine around his.
Mon el looked around, something caught his eye. There was a big slide winding down into a pool. Mon el pointed to the slide and grinned.
"That's why I love you!" Kara kissed him on the lips and then pulled on his hand to lead him up the stairs.
"I seriously hate walking up stairs on water slides, granted I haven't been on many, but the ones I have I still do," Kara complained.
"As a kid I always thought these stairs were going to break beneath my feet and I would fall to my death, so I always would hold onto the railings," Mon el looked down. "Well you know, that was before I was a freaking superhero."
"True. Just now when we first started walking up here that thought popped right into my head," She laughed. "We really do have the same train thought," She patted him on his bare chest.
"I love you, so much Kara," He smiled down at her.
"I love you too, so much," She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him.
"Get a room!" The person behind them said.
"BARRY!"
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Grace and Leo put on their shoes and said bye to Klaus and Caroline who were also parting with them.
They walked around the little water park and tried to figure out what to do.
"Look over there," Grace pointed.
Leo turned around and looked at where she was pointing. Following her finger was two waterslides, racing slides. They headed over to the them and picked up two rafts, they didn't get a double because they wanted to race, unlike Kara and Mon el they had who took a double.
"This is tiring," Leo whined.
"Leo you're a vampire."
"Why are you so high on peppy energy?"
"You look hot in a bathing suit," She teased as she noticed the other girls on the stairs staring and gawking at him.
"Do I now?" He caught onto her game, fitting right into the part.
"You know, we should go out sometime."
"I would like that…"
"KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS!" The girls started chanting, big smiles filled their faces as a wave of excitement on this boring line filled the air.
Leo and Grace blushed insanely at how far their little game was going.
"We're seriously going to kiss?" She mouthed.
"I'm an actor, you know that. Listen," Leo leaned in. He pulled her hair back behind her ear and whispered something to her. His hot breath maneuvered its way through her body and made a shiver move down her spine. She giggled at what he said, which was just a bunch of gibberish. The teenage girls kept squealing like children, Grace thought it was mostly because a world famous celeb was right in front of them.
Grace put her hand on his bare chest as a joke at first, but then stopped and looked up into his eyes, for a second it felt like they were the only people in the world and not standing on the wet stairs of a water slide in Aruba. They stared at each other for a second before breaking the gaze. The moment came as fast as it went and before they knew it they were next.
"Next!" The woman working called. She paused when she saw who was up next. "Hello welcome," She shook his hand, a little bit to hard.
"Hello," He smiled.
"Can I please, please get a picture?!" She squealed.
Grace nodded at him to say yes to the woman, since she was the worker here and he was a nice person. Leo smiled and wrapped his arm around her as she got the other worker to take their picture.
"Thank you so much!" She hugged him.
"No problem," He smiled, feeling slightly uncomfortable being he was half dressed.
"Okay are you guys together?" She asked casually.
They looked at each other. "T-together?" Grace stuttered.
"Together?" Leo asked.
"Yeah… you guys okay?" She looked at them. "Oh sorry! I meant for the slide not I like— personal life."
"Oh!" Grace laughed.
"That makes more sense."
"But are you guys together in real life?" She grinned. Leo raised his eyebrows. "I'm kidding! I'm Rebekah, hey!"
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AN: So Rebekah?
She's going to be more present through the story now!
The cabana idea was sorta random but it plays a big part in something that happens in a few chapters. I dont really know if you can actually rent cabanas like this so I randomly made one up
By the way this place is real! I don't know about all of the attractions at this waterpark but I have seen it before. Its in Wildwood NJ
heres the website link
.com
house link:
vacation/all/detailpage/398/better-together
