Garth was lounging in his pool in the East Titans Tower. It was the middle of July and the heat was an unexpected thing. The thermometer on the wall read 105 degrees and Garth groaned. The water was cool against his skin but then again, after spending time in a pool it feels colder on the outside than it does in the water. He looked around the room he was in, wondering where everyone else was momentarily before deciding to pull himself from the water. He figured he might just go down to the beach and jump in the ocean, the ocean water always being colder than his pool. As he walked towards the kitchen area, dripping water on the ground that, sadly enough, was quickly evaporating, he mentally cursed Cyborg for deciding that coming over NEXT week was a better idea to fix their broken air conditioner. Garth was just about to get something cold from the freezer when he realized it was open already and someone was rummaging through it. It wasn't that hard to recognize him, the height and bright orange hair giving away the identity easily.
"Roy?" Garth asked as he pulled his long black hair into a high ponytail to try and keep himself even a bit cooler. Roy, on the other hand, was searching for something frozen to eat, or just press against his sweating face, but wasn't expecting the calling of his name and therefore jumped, bumping his head on the freezer shelf and cursing under his breath. When he looked up and saw Garth standing there, hair tied up, which never happened, and dripping wet from being in the pool, he froze again.
"Uhh… what?" Roy asked smartly, slowly coming out of the freezer that was quickly starting to warm up.
"You're standing in the freezer…" Garth pointed out, just now noticing that all Roy was wearing was some very short shorts, he was even sans-mask!
"Uhm… yeah… I just… hot and… cold… face…" Roy couldn't stop trailing the water droplets that cascaded down Garth's chest with his eyes.
"What?" Garth asked, a slight blush coming to his cheeks at actually being able to see Roy's eyes traveling over his body. They had had sexual tension between them for the past six months or so now and it looked like the heat might just be the breaking point.
"Ah… it's hot and I mean I was just trying to get something cold to, ya know, press against my face or something."
"Oh… right… good idea…" Garth couldn't help but notice every detail of Roy's sculpted chest, fully admiring the sun glistening off of the sweat beading down the teens body. Garth swallowed the lump that was in his throat. "Uhm I was, gunna go down to the beach, go swim since the ocean's colder than my pool… did… did you wanna come to?" Roy closed the freezer and looked at Garth for a moment, not letting it get past him that Garth was sans his normal uniform and in just a pair of swim trunks. Roy's face heated at the request from Garth. It had been a well known fact that Roy couldn't swim, and Garth was inviting him down to the beach? Roy couldn't tell if his face was red from the closeness of his crush or the embarrassment of his lack of knowing how to swim.
"Ican'tswim…" Roy mumbles, averting his dark green eyes from Garth's deep purple ones.
"What?" Garth asked, blinking a bit.
"I. Can't. Swim." Roy repeated, now knowing his face was red because of the embarrassment.
"Oh… right… well you know, I could always teach you…" Garth's face was slightly red as well for forgetting that his teammate couldn't swim. Roy thought about this, having Garth close and holding up in the cold water so that he wouldn't slip under… and if he did slip under, having Garth give him CPR to get the water out of his lungs, their mouths pressed together. Roy's face got a bit redder.
"Sure. Let's do it." Roy was determined. He was going to make Garth his. Period. They were going to do things his way, no highway option.