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[Alex Grayson]

Alex wasn't really one for swimming, but watching the water had always been calming. The adjustment to boarding school was going to be tough- he could tell. But, he'd have to deal with it the best he could, and just keep on going. Frankie would have told him to ignore those who may get him down, and try to live a little, but Alex wasn't too sure. His brother was a smart guy, but he didn't really understand metahumans, probably because he wasn't one. To Alex, San Francisco didn't seem like it had too many metas, unlike Pilot Ridge. It seemed like a nice enough town.

Rubbing his forehead(it was one of his better days, Alex was currently migraine free), he stared into the water. There were a few people swimming, but Alex certainly didn't feel up to joining them.

Already, he was feeling like an outsider- he still hadn't met any precognition students yet. Some of the kids seemed nice enough, like Kevin, but he wasn't so sure if he'd fit in here. He was different- but probably too different for a place like this.

Sighing, Alex peeled off his shoes and socks, rolled up his jeans, and stuck his toe in the water, watching the ripple it created.

[Joshua Ortega]

The pool, one of Josh's favorite places at Hammel. It was very possible that the boy spent more time at the pool than he did in class,just not more than he did in detention. Lucky for him though, it was one of those rare occasions where the trouble making teleporter was not in any kind of trouble and was free to do as he pleased, which was swimming of course.

Teleporting to the pool was always a little nerve racking. Not because he didn't think he could, because he could easily make it to the pool, the only issue was making sure he arrived there with his trunks still on. He'd appear out of thin air with nothing but a towel draped over his shoulder... again.

Arriving at the pool with his dark blue trunks still around his waist, Josh examined the area. It wasn't as crowded as he usually liked it to be, Josh loved to have an audience, but it would have to do. Josh let his towel slip of his shoulder and slide down to what he thought was going to be the damp floor. He hadn't noticed that he had teleported right beside someone, and his towel was headed down towards the kid's head.

[Alex Grayson]

Alex didn't notice the other teenager or the towel until it was too late. The towel hit his head, which was slightly startling. After sliding down his head, the towel landed in his lap. Alex looked at the towel, slightly perplexed. It wasn't that often that a towel just slipped out of nowhere, was it? It certainly wasn't logical for a towel to appear out of nowhere, unless someone had appeared with the towel, and dropped said towel on what they thought was the ground.

Sure enough, Alex looked up and studied the teleporter. He didn't seem that much older than him, really. Curious, Alex took his feet out of the water and stood up, handing the towel back to Josh.

"I believe you dropped this," Alex stated clearly.

[Joshua Ortega]

Josh was more than ready to throw himself into the pool. He didn’t and wouldn’t have even noticed the boy he dropped his towel on if he hadn’t addressed Josh first.Josh gave him a puzzled looked wondering why someone was handing him his towel after he had just discarded it. He took it back from the boy and tossed it to the other side. “Yeah I dropped it, I’m not gonna take it in the pool with me.” Josh explained laughing as he did so. He was completely unaware that he had rudely dropped his towel onto the other boy.

Josh didn’t know the kid that strangely recovered his towel for him. He wondered if he was new to hammel considering Josh recognized most of the people who visited the pool frequently and Alex was not one of them. “ You new here? You going swimming? Where’s your trunks?” That was Josh, abrasively bombarding a new person he just met with questions and wanting them to join him in whatever activity he was about to take part in. If a person could be considered to sociable, Josh was that person.

[Alex Grayson]

Alex continued to stare at the boy. So the didn't realize that he'd dropped his towel on him, Alex thought. Oh well. There wasn't any point in explaining it, anyways. So Alex simply bent down, placing the towel back on the ground. He looked back up at the other person, placing his hands into his pockets. The other kid was laughing at this- did that mean that the other person thought he was weird or something? Alex continued to stare at the other person in silence, but he listened to what he had to say.

"Yeah, I'm brand new," he said quickly. He hoped that older Hammel students didn't have traditions of throwing newer ones into the pool or anything... he really didn't want to get his clothes wet. "No. I'm not really one for swimming. I just wanted to... just sit around," Alex reasoned. "My trunks are back in my room. I think I know where they are..." Though, Alex had pretty much forgotten how he'd unpacked, but he figured he'd rearrange as time went on.

[Aaron Kremzen]

Aaron got up in the morning, feeling tired. Not really an atypical feeling for him nowadays, honestly. Considering his power, one could say that it was, in fact, a justified emotion. What the boy really needed to do was go and talk to Dr.Neville, but at the moment, he didn't really feel like it.

So, Aaron decided to go swimming in the pool to wake himself up from the half-awake state he was currently in. He forced himself up and out of his bed with his tail, being careful not to touch his bedsheets, as he didn't want to ruin them by accident with his claws. Aaron put on a few of the clothes that were currently lying around in the mess that was his room and exited, heading towards his main objective, the pool.

A few minutes later, he entered the pool room with half-open eyes. He was incredibly exhausted and just wanted to go for a cool, refreshing dip in the water to wake himself up for his first class of the week. He really didn't want to get in trouble for missing class like he had on his first day of school, so he had to get this over with quickly.

So quickly, in fact, that he had not noticed the innocent towel lying in front of his foot. He moved forward and slipped on the towel, sending him flying forward into one of the other students that he also had not noticed.

[Joshua Ortega]

A new kid. When Josh learned of the kid’s new recruit status, his next immediate thoughts were “What’s his power? “ and “I gotta show off my own.” Two thoughts that did not stay in his head for to long.Josh smiled at the boy and teleported above the water, just a few feet from where they were standing, and dropped down into the clear blue chlorinated liquid. He resurfaced seconds after diving in and pushed his wet hair out of his face. “Pretty cool huh” Josh asked with a huge grin on his face as he swam towards the edge of the pool, he loved tooting his own horn. “So what can you do?”

Josh wasn’t to pleased when he heard that Alex wasn’t much of a swimmer, but that was alright, he just have to find someone else here to boast his skills to and then challenge to some sort of pool related competition. That however, would have to wait until later, he was busy getting to know the new kid. “I’m Josh by the way, Hammel’s best teleporter. There wasn’t exactly to much truth to that statement but Josh thought it was pretty accurate.

A small commotion nearby, outside of the pool, caught Josh’s attention. He was easily distracted. Someone had slipped... on Josh’s towel. Josh looked over at the square sign that had the rules of the pool listed on them, it was hanging on the wall not to far from the mishap that had just taken place. He immediately locked onto to the rule that stated that towels were to be left in the locker room. Josh sighed and cursed his bad luck as he popped over to the boy who had fallen.... and crashed right into Alex.

He was dripping wet as he bent over to help the familar face up. “Uh, sorry, I mean uh, I didn’t mean to leave my towel there, you're ok right?” Josh really needed the angry lizard kid to be alright, angry lizard kid was how Josh remembered him, he had plans this weekend that didn’t involve detention for inadvertently injuring antoher student because he failed to follow proper pool safety rules.

[Alex Grayson]

Alex watched Josh teleport right over the water and drop right in. Alex was impressed- he'd never seen anything remotely close to it. "Wow," Alex let out, watching intently. "I...wow. I've never seen anything like it," he admitted. Then again, he'd never met another meta until he'd stumbled upon the recruiter.

"I believe that," Alex said to the bit about being Hammel's best teleporter. Then again, Alex would believe that there was a banana on the ceiling if someone told him so. "I'm Alex. Hammel's newest precognition metahuman," he introduced himself. He definitely wasn't the best, and he didn't know if he was the worst(he hadn't met any others).

When Aaron slipped, Alex was slightly startled. When Aaron collided into Alex, he was even more surprised. He stared at the other teen, not saying a word. It had definitely hurt, but it wasn't anything that Alex couldn't handle.

[Aaron Kremzen]

Aaron was helped off the floor by a familiar face. Where had he seen this boy before?

Oh yeah. He was the one who had spat out the fries trying to ask him questions at lunch the other day. That, of course, had led to the blonde kid answering his questions and then proceeding to mock Aaron about his....manifestation.

Needless to say, Aaron wasn't exactly happy to see him. Not that he was particularly angry at the kid either, he just wasn't really in the mood for human interaction. He had just woken up and he really wanted to go for a swim to get ready for class. As the kid picked him up, Aaron scowled.

Buuuutttt...... Aaron had knocked into someone when he had slipped on that towel. He was staring at Aaron now, probably wondering exactly what had just happened.

Aaron tried his best to apologize for nearly knocking him down.

"I'm sorry. I was just trying to get to the pool and I slipped, so....yeah."

[Joshua Ortega]

Josh was pleased with Alex relation to his display of teleportation. The attention whore loved that the boy did in fact believe, just like Josh did, that he was the best teleporter at Hammel. Josh grinned and felt like he liked this kid, of course Josh liked anybody who stroked his ego a bit.

Precognition.... Josh knew what that meant, it had something to do with the seeing the past, no the future! Josh couldn’t remember what exactly precognition was but he knew it was a mental power. Meta with mental powers always seem to freak josh out, just a little though, not enough for him to alienate them or anything. He just never could grasp the concept of the powers and could usually never tell when they were using their powers or not. They confused him quite a bit. “So, uh have you seen anything? Like about me?” He looked more than just a little bewildered as he asked.

Joshua hoped that Aaron scowl had more to do with the slip and fall than it did with Joshua helping him, up. Regardless, Josh stepped back and gave him a nervous smile hoping to keep things civil. He turned to help Aaron up as well, he hadn’t said much since being knocked down and Josh wondered if he was hurt. “You're okay right? This is some way to welcome you to Hammel, I’m getting you all wet after some other kid knocks you down."