Summary: Teddy and the gang's trip to the water park
Stories That Must Be Read Before Reading This One-Shot: preferably Teddy's Adulthood but can be read as standalone

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Teddy's POV

"I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE HERE!" shrieks Hazel, rushing through the gate.

"Slow down!" I call.

"She doesn't mind that she's coming with her big brother and his friends?" Piper asks.

We watch as Hazel dives straight into the pool with the wave machine.

"Nope," I say.

"I want to go on Jungle Mayhem," Nick says, perching on Piper's shoulder.

"You really want to go on something with "mayhem" in the title?" says Lennie incredulously. "After that whole maze thing?"

"I'm focusing on the "jungle" part," Nick confesses. "It's supposed to be a really fast ride."

Piper consults the map. "Jungle Mayhem," she reads. "An epic adventure of a water slide. Start lying down and get launched up and down over trees and jungle animals."

"Sounds fun," Lennie comments.

"I personally can't wait to go on the River Monorail with Piper," I say, linking hands with my mate.

"And I am outta here." Nick takes off from Piper's shoulder. "I'm off to Jungle Mayhem."

Lennie follows, calling, "I'll come with you."

Hazel comes running back to us, soaking wet. "They have a wave machine!" she yells. "It's so fun!"

"You don't need to yell, Hazel, we're two feet in front of you."

"This place is awesome!" Hazel shouts, ignoring me. "Teddy, I need you to come on this ride with me."

"Why?" I ask.

"Because it looks awesome but I'm too small so I need an adult with me."

"How do you know I don't want to go with Piper?"

Hazel takes my hand. "Because this ride's too fast for her, now come on!"

She starts dragging me towards a ride called Wipeout. "That's a good sign," I mutter.

However, it turns out to be quite enjoyable. It's fast but bearably so, and it doesn't spin people round, which is my pet peeve with water slides. I find out that the reason it's called Wipeout is because you're dumped rather unceremoniously into a pool of water at the end. It's dark and it has a lot of hidden dips but overall it is very fun. Hazel and I go on it again, then Piper comes on with us. Turns out that Hazel thinks Piper prefers tamer rides but Piper actually likes medium rides.

After that, Piper and I go on the River Monorail. It's like a train monorail except instead of cars, it's little tubs of water that you sit in and get carried along a track above everybody's heads. We sat with our arms around each other and looked at the scenery. The Otto H. Adjacent Water Park is basically in the middle of nowhere, so on one side of the park you can see miles of open deserts, and on the other side you can see the lights and buildings of Danville and the Tri-State Area. It's beautiful.

Next, all five of us go on Jungle Mayhem. It's a bit too extreme for me but I gladly watch our bags while everybody else goes on it again.

Then we all go on an open slide called Rainbow, so named because there are seven slides and they are all—yep, you guessed it—coloured each with a colour of the rainbow. We sit on rubber tubes and fly down a slide.

Before lunch, the five of us go on the River Rapids ride, which I have to say is my favourite ride of the day. It has the relaxing elements of the monorail but the thrill of other rides. We coast along a river in a small tub—like the tubes on Rainbow but bigger and with a floor—and go down short slides and round bends and over rapids and under waterfalls.

After that, we sit and eat lunch. Before the trip, Mom made everybody lunch, even for Piper, Lennie, and Nick. She knows us all so well; all of us have our favourite sandwich filling.

I munch my Nutella sandwich as I watch people go down a slide called Intensity, which looks terrifying. It has two slides. People start a hundred feet in the air, lying down, and slide down a near-vertical drop for forty feet before it evens out at ten feet and abruptly drops them into a pool at the other end. I can hear Lennie and Nick chatting about the slide and daring each other to go on it.

Piper and Hazel are comparing photos. Each of the girls has a camera, and they've been taking pictures throughout the day.

Lennie and Nick both decide to go on Intensity together. They've made a bet: the first one to scream on the ride loses and has to go on it again. It doesn't seem like such a big punishment to me until I realise that the slide is freaking terrifying and most likely neither Nick nor Lennie will want to go on it again. The girls and I watch them climb the stairs. I go to a good vantage point and film the event on my phone. Hazel bursts out laughing as both agents begin screaming. Piper and I soon join her in laughing as we see the chameleon and the egret flailing around wildly.

As they're dumped in the pool, we go to meet them, still laughing. Nick seems traumatised but Lennie shakes off his fur and calmly admits that he was the one who screamed first.

Now, I know that Nick is the one who lost the bet. However, I think Lennie sees that Nick won't survive another go on the slide, so the four of us are treated to Lennie going down the slide again, just as hilariously as last time.

We go on our favourite rides several more times until we're sick of them. Then for the rest of the day, we sit in the pool with the wave machine and chat while gently floating around on the waves.

It is the perfect end to a perfect day. And my favourite photo? A selfie that Piper and I took on my phone when we were up on the monorail, with the twinkling lights of Danville in the background.