Splish Splash: Taking a Bath

[Melanie Grundlebaum]

Weird. Melanie didn't know that someone could be so overdramatic and yet incredibly lame at the same time. It was another example of that guys weird behaviour, cursing his own housemates like that. He was such a Mary-Sue sometimes, Melanie had gone out of her way to avoid him since her time at school, but lately he just seemed to be cropping up everywhere. He acted as though he were so superior, and yet there was a mere two years difference between the two, not much in the Wizarding world.

As the water cracked, Melanie began to slowly dog paddle again. Knowing that he was definately gone, she spoke, as there was no chance of him overhearing.

"That guy is SUCH a tosser. Honestly Mariana, I don't even know why you waste your time on him, what a jerk" Rastan had well and truly spoiled their fun, but she didn't really expect anything less from him, it was typical behaviour.

She looked around at Shane and Alex, wondering what their take on it was. Everybody else had been very quiet during their little confrontation, but she could handle her own. If Jay Rastan had thought he'd done something clever like teach her a lesson, he was most certainly mistaken.

What had started out as friendly banter had turned into something slightly more sinister, and Melanie had seen a side of this boy that she did not particularly like. To have cursed a housemate, let alone three, was disgusting to a Saphricorn and Melanie decided that he had most definately pulled the wrong sword.

"Come on," she said to the others, drifting to the side of the pool, "Let's get this cow out"

[Mariana Torrenne]

Mariana busied herself with pulling spikes of ice from her hair, careful to not let any of her own hair snap off. She didn’t say anything to her friend who clearly decided to write off Jay Rastan in her books. Mariana was upset to say the very least. She didn’t think he would have gone as far as to curse them all while they were in the water.

Worse still, if the cow was not upset before, it clearly would be now, having been frozen. Mariana thought about Jay and how something as simple as believing he was perhaps a little to keen on Ruberagon’s had turned into something like Jay trying to be one of them. She didn’t understand it, before she was a little hurt, but now she was very close to writing him off as well.

“Sure thing,” was all she could say when her friend asked her to assist in getting the cow out. She moved through the water which was becoming warmer and warmer by the moment thinking about what had transpired. She wondered if Jay could ever come back from this. Or had he gone too far. Like tasting the forbidden fruit was he now so like a Ruberagon that he would never be able to come back, “I don’t know…” she mistakenly said out loud.

[Melanie Grundlebaum]

"You don't know what?" Melanie asked, her thin eyebrow raised. It was a curious habit that Mariana sometimes had, finishing thoughts that she had, outloud. It always made Melanie curious as to what Mariana had actually been thinking about.

The water was definately back to it's normal temperature now, though it felt like a hot bath compared to the ice she'd felt previously. She just knew they were all going to be sick the next day.

Finally reaching the cow, she touched it gently and began to guide it out of the pool. It would be a tricky task, as she didn't think the cow would really take to climbing the stairs at the end of the pool. Melanie pulled her wand out and waved it over the stairs, waiting a moment until they turned into a long ramp out of the pool. That would make it easier for them to get the beast out.

[Shane Moonraker]

“I don’t know about you guys, but I am out of here,” Shane said as he clambered out of the pool, he had no more interest in anymore escapade’s that night. Things had gotten pretty serious and all because Jay was a little uptight and a couple of girls did not know how to keep level heads. He didn’t really want anymore to do with any of it.

He grasped hold of the rope he had tied around the cows head earlier and with the assistance Melanie was already providing him with, he guided it up the steps and out of the pool completely, if the cow wasn’t ill tomorrow he would be surprised. Never mind how he was the next day; things had gotten out of hand in the stupidest way.

”I’ll finish this, you girls go dry up,” he said before leading the cow away, he wasn’t sure how he was going to get it up the stairs but he was not interested in having any help from some hard headed girls who would probably start on him next, “Coming Alex?” he called to his Emerindyl friend over his shoulder before continuing away from the girls as quickly as he could without upsetting the cow.