Remember that beach day I mentioned a while ago?
Well it's finally happening!
Something I don't think I have mentioned is that the cave, and all of Happy Harbour is built on beach country. So when I say the team's having a beach day: I mean we're just going into what was practically the cave's backyard.
And come on, how awesome is that?!
"Hello Megan!" Megan exclaimed as she ran ahead of all of us, holding her beach supplies under her arm as she soaked up the sun's warm rays. I have to admit: she looked like a model in her yellow bikini, and she looked even better with her 'sunshine and rainbows' aura.
She certainly looked a lot more confident then I did, even if my white and pink one-piece, added with my long hair which was let free today, covered more skin.
"First, a moment of silence for our...absent comrade." Rob said, bowing his head.
"Poor Wally..." I muttered.
That's right Ladies and Gentlemen, our very own Wally West was at school in the middle of August and had to miss out on our lovely beach day.
"Well, no use wasting away worrying: let's do this!" Megan said joyfully as she dropped her stuff in the sand and threw herself into the water; making us all laugh.
"Shouldn't we set up camp or-" I was cut off as Superboy suddenly picked me up by the hips, and I blushed at the contact. "SUPERBOY!"
Suddenly, I find myself flying through the air before hitting the water.
I am able to unattractivly sputter my way to the surface. Shoving my mass amounts of thick, wet hair out of my face.
"Was that really necessary?" I ask, throwing sour looks at Superboy, who shrugged with the faintest hints of a smile. Rob, Megan and Kaldur were all silently laughing at my misfortune, which made me blush.
"Okay, I see how it is!"
I use my powers to pick Superboy off the ground, catching him off guard before throwing him out deeper into the water with a grunt.
He was heavy...
When he reached the surface; he whipped his head around, tossing his now wet hair from his face. He was laughing, and we all joined in.
***
We spent a long while in the water. Megan, Conner and Rob had started a water fight and originally Kaldur had also taken part, but eventually he backed out and joined me on the sidelines, while I floated in the center of an inflatable donut.
"Lost interest?" I asked.
"I was at an unfair advantage." He reasoned. "My power over hydrokinesis, added with my heightened strength and gills: I would be able to win without much effort."
"Leave it to you to back out of a winning fight." I joked in a way I wouldn't often do unless I was with someone close to me.
A moment of silence hovered over us as we watched our teammates play, before Kaldur spoke again.
"I was thinking about something, and I was wondering if you could help me." He said.
"I'll try my best." I said. "What is it?"
"What is France like?" He asked, catching me off guard.
"Pardon?" I asked.
"I have just been...thinking." He said. "I haven't seen much of the surface world, and your home country is one of the many places I have failed to visit."
"Well...I wasn't expecting that." I muttered, before shifting on the donut slightly. "France...Is like a lot of places I guess. It has its ups and downs...We're known for our history, culture and art and I guess we've earned our spot there. Our architecture is quite beautiful-the older the better-and our history, though boring to learn about in schools: is long, if bloody. Our climate's a lot like the northern USA's: hot summers and cold winters...That's basically my run down. I don't get out a whole lot."
"Do you like it?" He asked, looking at me with a tilted head.
"Of course, it's my home." I said, and I looked at Kaldur to see he had a far away look in his eyes. "What about Atlantis?"
"Pardon?" He asked, it would appear I had caught him off guard.
"Atlantis." I repeated. "I'll probably never get to go, unless I master the air bubble technique to safe from water pressure... But I guess it would be cool to go see a world that until very recently, nobody believed exsisted."
Kaldur got a faraway look in his eyes.
"It is true, Atlantis is very different from the surface world. The architecture is much more...Creative and colourful, the culture even more so. All in all, it is very beautiful. There is far more peace-not to speak ill of your world-but as you probably know, we still have our issues."
"You miss it, don't you?" I asked. "It would make sen-"
I was cut off as a beach ball flew out of nowhere and hit me in the face, knocking me off the floating donut.
When I finally came sputtering up from the water, I was met by laughter. I glared and used my powers to make the ball go flying back to Robin, who I had a sneaking suspicion was the one to attack me.
"That was rude!" I said hotly.
"Well then you and Kaldur stop being couple-y and come over here and play with us!"
Seriously, now he's doing it? Wasn't Roy enough?
Blushing, I look over at Kaldur who smiles back at me. We nod before we simultaneously pull out hands back. In a moment, we both used out powers to form a fairly large tidal wave effortlessly.
"Ah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm-"
We let the wave hit them.
***
The rest of the day was full of playing water games, volleyball, and cooking hotdogs.
When the sun started heading towards the horizon, the boys decided to have one last swim while Megan and I decided to stay up and sunbath in the last of the sun's rays of the day.
"I really like your swimsuit." Megan suddenly said, awakening me from my half-sleeping rest. "It suits you."
"Oh, thanks Megan." I said fiddling with the strap of the suit. "I kind of wish it covered more skin, but these days this is the best you can do I guess."
"No way, you look really pretty. You should wear things like that more." She said and I blushed.
"N-no thanks. I'm...Not really into showing a lot of skin. This is the most I've showed when I'm not dancing or training..." I sputtered and Megan nodded.
"So..." Megan started. "I've been meaning to ask this for a while..."
What's with people asking me questions today?
"Are you and Kaldur...together?" She asked and I felt all my blood rush to my face.
It's bad enough that Roy and now Robin do it while teasing, but Megan actually thought Kaldur and I were together-together
"Wha-NO!" I sputter, shaking my head vigorously. "We're just good friends! I swear!"
"Really?" She asked, looking confused. "You look like all the quiet couples on TV..."
I continued to shake my head vigorously.
"I swear!" I stuttered. "I mean, it's not that I don't like Kaldur, he's probably one of my bestest friend. And he's handsome and nice, and he I have no doubt he'd make a good romantic partner, but I just...I don't know, I'm not really interested in pursuing a romantic relationship I guess..."
She shrugged. "Okay, my mistake. But either way, you'd make a cute couple."
I blushed even more and I felt like plunging my head into the sand like an ostrich.
There was more silence but I still felt like my cheeks were on fire.
Suddenly however, we saw the guys getting out of the water.
"Batman's called. He needs us suited up and ready for a meeting in the cave in fifteen." Robin said, reaching for a towel.
Megan and I nodded and got up. Looks like out beach day was over.