The members of New Directions raced up to their rooms to change. On the way, they passed Shelby and Emma.
"Going swimming!" Mercedes yelled as they passed the two ladies.
"What? Swimming?" Emma asked. "At the hotel pool?"
"Yeah. Kaylee invited us" Santana said. "We're going to change now."
"Are you sure? It's late" Shelby sighed.
"It's our last night here. We gotta make the best of it!" Rachel smiled. "Please?"
"Well, alright" Emma shrugged. "But be safe and don't cause any issues."
"We won't" Quinn promised. The teens raced off again.
Twenty minutes later, they were all ready and hurrying back to the main floor. When they arrived at the pool, the smell of chlorine was obvious. The pool's door was locked and Phat Lady was already inside and swimming. Finn rapped on the door and at the sound, Kaylee climbed out of the pool, walked to the door and let them in.
"Hey!" She said.
"Hello" they all greeted.
"This pool's huge" Sugar gasped when they all stepped into the muggy and damp pool area and the door was shut behind them.
"Thanks" Kaylee said, like she owned the pool.
"Come on in!" Jess yelled.
New Directions smiled and dropped their bags on the plastic chairs and tables and took off their clothes that were over their bathing suits. The adults had made them wear clothes overtop their bathing suits for the trip down to the pool because they were not about to let them run downstairs in bikinis and swim trunks.
New Directions got into the pool.
"It's so warm!" Blaine said, once he got in.
"Sorry!" Puck cackled.
"Dude" Mike shook his head. "Not cool."
"Relax, I'm joking. I'm not that stupid" Puck laughed because all the girls had believed him and screamed.
Kaylee rolled her eyes as Cam highfived Puck. "It's warm because I cranked up the heat. I hate a freezing pool."
"Great. Me too" Rachel said.
"Yo, if you want a hot pool, go in a hot tub" Artie said, floating on his raft.
"I don't want a hot pool. I want a warm pool" Rachel huffed.
"Okay, let's play a game" Rory said.
"Hide and Seek!" Brittany shouted and splashed around.
"Where are we supposed to hide?" Finn asked. "We are in a pool."
"We can hide underwater" Brittany said.
Quinn sighed. "Sometimes it's best to just smile and nod" she said to Jess.
"Let's play the Colour Game" Kaylee suggested.
"What's that?" Kurt asked.
"Oh yeah! Let's play!" Sophie agreed.
"What is it?" Finn asked. "Colour game? Sounds lame."
"No! It's really fun" Kaylee said.
"I know how to play" Sam said. "It's not bad."
"How do you know it?" Blaine asked.
"Younger siblings, remember?" Sam smiled.
"Well, someone's gotta explain the rules to me, then" Mercedes said.
"Same" Kurt said.
"It's simple" Cam smiled and dove into the pool.
"Here's how it goes" Sam began. "One person is It. They stand up here by the deep end and face the wall. Everyone else lines up here and they keep their arms on the edge. Everyone's has to think of a colour and the It person has to call out colours. If your colour is called, you have to swim to the shallow end and touch the wall before the It person touches you. The It person can call out colours and as soon as he hears splashing or signs of swimming, he can turn around. And if he sees someone on the move, he must jump in the pool and catch them. If you're caught, you're It."
"Sounds fun" Mercedes said.
"I guess" Santana shrugged.
"Okay let's play!" Finn shouted.
"Woah, woah, woah" Mike said loudly, holding his arms up. "There's gotta be some rules here."
"What do you mean?" Kaylee looked at him.
"I mean that there are many colours in the universe. We should put some limit on what colours we use."
"I agree" Rachel said. "There is like the normal rainbow of colours, then there are mixes like teal and turquoise."
"What's the difference between those two?" Rory asked.
"Um, well teal is a greenish-blue and turquoise is a bit more blue than greenish-blue. Kinda like blueish-green, but they're both really similar" Kurt said.
"And then there could be reddish-purple and so on and so forth. The options are endless" Rachel said.
"Heliotrope! That's a colour too!" Quinn said.
"Is that like helium? Because that stuff is funny to breath in!" Puck laughed.
"Remember that time in freshman year when you dared me to carry around those helium balloons and use them to talk to all my teachers with the helium voice?" Finn asked Puck with a laugh.
Puck snickered. "Yeah! Good times!"
"Heliotrope is a purple-blue colour" Quinn informed them with an eye roll. She had been dating Finn when that dare occurred and as his girlfriend, she had her share of laughs aimed at her for association. It was quite annoying.
"Okay here are the rules" Kaylee said loudly. "ROY G BIV is allowed-"
"That's my neighbor's name!" Brittany interrupted proudly.
Kaylee blinked at Brittany.
"Just continue" Kurt advised with a hand wave.
Kaylee nodded and watched Brittany out of the corner of her eyes as she proceeded to tell Tina how nice her neighbor is. "Okay, uh, so the normal rainbow colours are allowed and also gold, silver, pink, grey, brown, black and white."
"Technically black and white are shades" Blaine pointed out.
"So?" Finn asked, splashing him.
"I'm just saying" Blaine muttered.
"I understand that they're shades but it's okay" Kaylee said to Blaine.
Sam put his hand up. "I got a question!"
"Yeah?" Cam asked.
"Is purple allowed?"
"Yeah" Kaylee said. "It's a rainbow colour."
"Uh, last I checked, there was no 'P' in ROY G BIV" Santana snapped.
"Well, indigo and violet are shades of purple" Kaylee replied.
"So is purple allowed or not?" Sam asked.
"Yes. And so is violet and indigo" Kaylee said firmly.
"If violet is just a lighter shade of purple than can't we just use rose too, which is a lighter shade of red or pink?" Sugar asked.
"No" Rachel simply said.
Mercedes sighed loudly. "Ten minutes later and we're arguing over if we should use rose or if it's okay to use white even if it's a shade. Can we just play the game already?"
"I agree" Quinn said. "Here are the okay colours, listen good because I'm only saying it once. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, indigo, violet, silver, gold, pink, black, white, grey and brown."
Jess clapped her hands once. "Okay! Who's gonna be It?"
"Not me!" Kurt said.
"I will" Sam smiled.
"Okay let's play!" Puck yelled and they all swam to the deep end. Sam climbed out of the pool and padded to the other end so he backed on to the deep end. He shivered, being out of the water.
"Everyone put your arms on the edge. It's gotta be fair" Rachel said. They all did.
Sam shivered again. "Does everyone have their colour?" he asked loudly.
"Yes!" They shouted back.
Sam nodded. "Okay, here goes. Uh...red, blue, yellow, green, pink..." Sam paused and listened. He heard the lapping of moving water hit the sides of the pool. That meant someone was moving. Sam smiled and spun around. He saw four people swimming away. He couldn't make them out but only two of them were doing a good job at moving quietly. Sam hurriedly jumped into the pool, jumping over the others, who still had their arms up on the edge. He landed in the pool with a large splash and right away swam after his first target. As he got closer, he recognized Sugar's bright yellow bathing suit. He swam ahead but wasn't fast enough because she, along with Blaine and two other Phat Lady members, had successfully gotten to the other side.
"Made it!" Blaine cheered.
Sam sighed and got out of the pool. "Okay, let's keep going."
Blaine, Sugar and the two others sat on the edge of the pool, with their feet in the shallow end. Sam started calling out colours again, not caring if he repeated ones.
"Blue, green, purple..." he stopped and listened. Then he heard a loud splash. He smiled to himself and whipped around. One person was halfway down the pool. They were sneaky and a quiet swimmer, swimming along the bottom of the pool in a stealthy way. Sam wasted no time in jumping in the pool after them. He swam after the person and as he got closer, he saw it was Kaylee. He pushed himself forward in the water. Finally, he reached out and hit her leg. Kaylee felt the tap and stood up. By now, she could stand up in the water.
Kaylee brushed the mop of wet black hair out of her face and glared at Sam.
"How the heck did you hear me? I didn't make a sound at all!" She demanded, her old sass returning.
"I heard a splash" Sam answered honestly, backing away a bit because she still sorta scared him.
Kaylee's eyes flashed around the pool, looking from the large group at the deep end to the four safe people sitting in the shallow end pool's edge. When her dark eyes landed on the four of them, it became quite obvious. They held in a laugh and awkwardly avoided eye contact.
"You! Your guys made splashes to get me out!" She yelled, her voice rising higher.
Sugar giggled. "Prove it."
Cam, on the other side of the pool, sensed Kaylee's temper rising. "Kay, it was just a joke" he said, and laughed to prove his point.
"It's actually quite clever" Jess said. "We've played this so many times and we've never tried to get each other out."
"Well, that's us" Rachel said. "Always trying to stab each other in the back." She laughed at the irony. It was really quite true.
Kaylee sighed, silently admitting defeat. "New rule" she said firmly. "You have to be silent at all times. No cheating."
They all nodded, secretly relived that she didn't get too mad.
"Well" Sam said, smiling. "You're still out."
Kaylee smiled too and then snapped her fingers at the four people who were safe. "I'm It now so y'all are back in the game. I gotta warn you New Direction people, I've been playing this for a while, so your chances of being safe are so much lower now."
"Ooohhh!" Phat Lady's members said, to scare New Directions.
Finn rolled his eyes. "Bring it!" he yelled to them as Kaylee climbed out of the pool.
"What time is it?" Tina asked. They had played many, many, many rounds of the Colour game. So many that they all had a turn to be It at least once. After that they had had a handstand contest and other minor but fun and competitive games.
"It's almost two in the morning" Artie answered. He was still in his raft and had was able to participate in the Colour game with them and he judged the mini competitions.
"I'm tired" Kurt said.
"Me too" Sophie sighed and floated on her back, closing her eyes.
"Want to leave?" Quinn asked the New Direction girls. "Because I'm fine with that."
"Yeah" Rachel nodded. "We don't want anyone drowning due to fatigue."
"So I guess it's over now?" Cam asked as they all slowly got out of the pool.
Blaine nodded. "The swim? Yeah. I'm so tired. It doesn't help that the water is warm."
They all grabbed fresh towels from the stack in the corner.
"Ooh, these are so soft" Brittany smiled.
"Picture time!" Mercedes announced, pulling out her camera from her bag. She set up the camera on a stack of towels and set the timer. The group arranged so everyone could be seen. Mercedes pressed the button and raced to the group. The light flashed and made a click sound.
"Yay" Sophie said as they walked for the door.
"Well" Kaylee said as they all left the pool area. She locked the door behind them as Finn put a finger to his lips to signal them to be quiet. "This was fun. I'm glad you guys could come for a dip."
"Yeah. Thanks for inviting us" Sam nodded.
"You guys leave tomorrow, right?" Cam asked.
"Sadly, yes" Kurt said as they all nodded.
"Too bad" Cam sighed.
"Yeah..." Rachel nodded.
Quinn yawned and leaned on Rory's shoulder. "Not to be rude, but can we go? I'm so tired, it's not even funny."
They all laughed and walked quietly into the lobby.
"See you guys tomorrow" Finn said and the two groups parted.
"I assume Kaylee lives in the hotel, but what about the rest of them?" Blaine asked as they walked up the stairs.
"Huh...I dunno. I never really thought about it" Santana said with a shrug.
"Maybe they live here too?" Kurt said.
"Maybe..." Blaine repeated.
In the hallway, they looked at each other for a moment before Quinn yawned yet again, causing Puck to yawn too.
"What? What is this? Puck doesn't yawn!" Puck said, yawning.
"Why does Puck talk in third person?" Tina asked him with a smile.
Finn yawned followed by Mike, Artie, Mercedes and Rachel.
"Okay, it's official. We're all tired" Kurt said. He spun on his heels and turned to his door. "Goodnight."
They chuckled and went to their rooms, mumbling phrases of 'good night' and 'bye' and 'see you tommorrow'.
A/N
Hello Gleeks! :) I must admit, I'm not 100% happy with this chapter...I dunno why, I just didn't feel it...but if YOU did, that's great! Thanks to some of your reviews, I have some interesting ideas for the last day and the plane ride home... Not to spoil anything, but you be meeting an old 'friend'. Hahahahahahahah I feel so evil. Expect 4 more chapters for sure and probs more too.
OMG WHO'S EXCITED FOR THE 2 HOUR GLEE EPISODE? Cuz I soooo am! AHHHHHHH! :D