Damn, Red - tags Anita

[Sawyer Lynn]

Decked in her one piece dark blue swimming costume, Sawyer had a quick rinse before going over to the diving boards. It had been two weeks since she first arrived at Hellmel and it was looking pretty bleak. The only upside to the whole place, it seemed, was that they didn't skimp on the diving boards. The highest was the 2.5 meter board and for the past week, Sawyer had been sneaking into the pool when nobody was around just to test it out. Being on the board reminded her of being on beam and diving off it was...well, that was a rush in and of itself.

It was a good thing the locks in this place were barely there that she could sneak in whenever she wanted.

And the place was empty, which was always good.

She went up to the diving board and looked down, grinning at how far away it was. The water was calm and oh so inviting that she almost forewent diving into it. Almost.

Walking backwards, she stopped only when she was confident it offered enough momentum for her to do the trick she had always wanted to try when she had been a gymnast.

A few steps forward, she did a two handspring somersaults before flipping off the board to execute an almost perfect triple flip before sliding into the water without a hint of a splash. Her heart beat like crazy as she took her time in the water before emerging with the hugest shit-eating grin in the world. It was really too bad nobody saw her.

[Anita Wiley]

Wrapped tightly in a fluffy, yellow, damp towel, Anita was standing glued to the wall, immobile. She had been walking towards the locker room where she'd left her clothes before doing a few laps, when she heard a door opening and closing and footsteps coming her way. She panicked as she wasn't supposed to be swimming at this time of night and sped up, hoping she hadn't been seen. She removed her flip-flops so she wouldn't make a sound and, careful not to slip, ran behind a row of lockers, hoping to have time to come up with a good excuse before she was caught. When she heard the stranger go past her and into the showers though, Annie let out the breath she'd been holding and fumbled with her clothes, but before she could even put on her pants, the other person had already come out from the showers and went back towards the pool before Annie could see who it was.

She waited to hear the door again but when the sound didn't come she tip-toed out of the locker room and peered around the corner. On one of the diving boards, instead of the janitor or an official, she saw a classmate of hers. She didn't know her, really, only that she was someone new. She didn't even know her power, which usually was the first thing Anita would be interested in. She got around the corner just in time to see the new girl do a very complicated jump off the diving board, one that involved not one, but two somersaults. Anita may be graceful in and underwater but she never managed to pull off such elegant and complicated dives no matter how much she wanted to or how many times she tried. So she watched in amazement as the girl, not satisfied with just doing somersaults, flipped three times in midair before submerging, cutting the surface of the water cleanly.

Finally, Anita emerged from her hiding place, with her hair dripping water and her golden towel still wrapped snugly around her and waited for the girl to come above the surface. When she did, she tried to strike up a conversation. "That was the most amazing dive I've seen! Just like a pro! Are you some kind of athlete?"

[Sawyer Lynn]

The shit-eating grin froze on her face before she spun around in the water to find a really good-looking almost naked redhead singing her praises. "Fucking hell." The brunette sputtered before finding her composure.

Well, at least she was in a pretty flattering one piece.

"Well, yeah. I mean I didn't win gold at the Olympics but," Sawyer shrugged 'modestly' as she swam up to the redhead, reaching one hand up for the other girl to pull.

The voice mimic clearly didn't expect anybody to be around at this ungodly hour but if it had to be anyone, she was glad it was this stunning redhead.

"What brings you out this hour of the night? Prowling for some man-meat to show off that hot bod of yours?" Sawyer shamelessly asked, not even caring how awful the words sounded coming from her.

[Anita Wiley]

She watched the girl in the water swim towards her and extend her hand. Understanding what she wanted her to do, Anita tucked a corner of her towel further in, wrapping it tighter so it wouldn't fall down. She helped the diver out of the pool, hoping she wouldn't slip on the wet floor.

The friendly smile on Annie's face froze and turned slightly into a grimace at the question the girl asked after that, as well as at her statement that her "bod" was "hot". She gave a nervous, unsure laugh and tried to compliment her back, "I could ask you the same thing, actually. Nah, sometimes I have trouble sleeping and come here to swim and tire myself out. Usually nobody's here. Nice to have some company for once. We haven't met before, have we? I don't remember you coming in for a quick healing," she rambled, hoping the girl would give info on her power.

Smiling, she extended her hand for the other girl to shake. "Anita."

[Sawyer Lynn]

Sawyer gripped the redhead's hand tight and pulled herself out of the water, staggering a little as she balanced herself on the slick floors.

When the girl flirted back, Sawyer couldn't help the grin on her face. Oh good not a prude, the voice mimic thought to herself.

"Naw, I just got here like two weeks ago. Besides, I have a feeling we'd remember each other if we met." Sawyer winked before narrowing her eyes a little at the statement. Quick healing? Did this girl deal drugs?

"Sawyer." She shook the other girl's hand and lingered for awhile before letting it go. "So Anita...I'mma call you Annie, that's alright yeah? Anyway, Annie, wanna race? Loser has to streak naked at the quad tomorrow morning."

[Anita Wiley]

After they introduced themselves, Annie snorted. "Pshyeah, only if it's like 5 AM when nobody's up. But sure, let's race! Let me just run to my locker first."

She spun on her heels and took off, energized at the prospect of a race. Something like this wouldn't normally have felt so exciting, but it had been a pretty slow and boring week and she was glad to have found someone else she could spend time with, a potential friend.

Annie returned after a few minutes dressed in a crimson swimsuit, with her hair in a low bun. "Ready to get your ass kicked?" she challenged with an excited smile.

[Sawyer Lynn]

"Dude, not fair. People have to see!" Sawyer whined a little before letting Annie change. She dropped into the water and started swimming a few laps to pump her muscles up.

By the time Annie came back, Sawyer was on her fifth lap and she came back swimming to the redhead, snorting at the challenge. "Eat my bubbles, Red." Sawyer got out of the water and stood beside the redhead. "Damn it, you're a little distracting in red, aren't you?" Sawyer whistled as she blatantly checked Annie out.

"Okay ready, go!" Sawyer jumped as far as she could and dove into the water, propelling herself forward with the butterfly stroke, cutting through the water effortlessly.

[Anita Wiley]

Annie cracked her neck as she listened to Sawyer taunt her. She was becoming suspicious of the girl's sexual orientation and she felt just a little uncomfortable as the remarks about her looks poured out of Sawyer, but she brushed it off and told herself not to jump to conclusions. After all, a new friend isn't something you normally pull away from and Sawyer seemed like a fun one.

She pushed herself off the edge of the pool at "Go!". They hadn't set rules about swimming styles so she went with the one she worked best with - the front crawl stroke. She didn't have water goggles or a nose plug but, since she was a kid, she loved swimming underwater pretending she was Ariel, so she didn't have issues with water getting into her eyes or nose.

Assuming the race involved getting to the other side of the pool and back, Annie reached the opposite wall and turned around underwater. As she reached the starting point and completed, she raised her head out of the water, but with strands of her hair plastered to her face she couldn't see a thing, couldn't see who won.

[Sawyer Lynn]

If Sawyer realised how uncomfortable she was making the redhead feel, she definitely wasn't showing it. Of course, Sawyer rarely understood what discomfort meant. She never actually felt it before.

Once her lap was over, she looked around and saw that Annie was close but she had won. Just by a hair, really.

"What what." Sawyer pouted and threw her hand up in what she deemed her 'gangsta way' and splashed some water in Annie's way.

"Alrightie then! You're streaking naked tomorrow morning before first period!"

[Anita Wiley]

When she finally got rid of the wet hair on her eyes, Annie saw with dismay that Sawyer was already done, and was doing some sort of celebratory gesture. She burst out laughing but was promptly shut up by a splash of water sent from Sawyer directly in her open mouth, making her gasp and cough.

Not long after she calmed down, she started coughing again when she was reminded that she had to do the bet. She pulled herself out of the water and sat on the edge of the pool.

"Yeaah, but we're not really doing that are we? You were only joking... There's no WAY I'm streaking naked in front of everybody!" she said with disbelief. "At least not sober.."

[Sawyer Lynn]

Sawyer winced a little when Annie started coughing but it was a brief and rare moment nobody thankfully saw. "Get a grip, Red." Sawyer reached over to the other girl and patted her on the back roughly.

"Oh no...no no no no I wasn't joking, Anniekins." The voice mimic smirked before her eyebrow raised a few inches at the redhead's last statement. "Well, if that was a challenge..." the brunette moved out of the water and reached a hand down to her new companion.

"I can definitely change that." Sawyer gestured to Annie to grab her hand.

[Anita Wiley]

sorry for the shortness of it 

Annie grabbed Sawyer's hand and let her pull her out of the water, stumbling a little. She cracked her knuckles and neck as she listened to her opponent basically proposing they get drunk.

"What, at this hour? I'm not going out, my muscles are starting to protest," she said, stretching. "So, unless you've got booze hidden around campus somewhere..." she wiggled her eyebrows, giving a crooked smile.

[Sawyer Lynn]

Annie's whining did nothing to get Sawyer to back down on what she already thought was an excellent idea. She was definitely not going to back out on letting people enjoy the redhead's body. Who could?

Sawyer snorted and gave out short barks of laughter. "Me? Booze? On campus?" She interjected between her laughter before she rolled her eyes and gestured for the redhead to follow her to the lockers. Clearly swimming was no longer on her mind.

"Please, if I didn't have it, I'd be out of here in a split second, see that I don't." The voice mimic said before switching on the shower head to rinse herself off of the chlorine from the water.

Stepping out, she walked into the lockers to grab her gym bag that had her towel and started drying off. "So what are you in here for?"

[Anita Wiley]

Annie went after Sawyer into the locker room, getting excited at the prospect of booze. She followed suit and rinsed herself, paying special attention to her hair.

When the girls finished showering, they moved their conversation down the hall at the lockers, so they could dry off. Anita grabbed her golden towel but, since it was still damp she set it down and began hopping and trying to shake off the droplets of water.

"Uh, I heal. Well, technically it's called biological manipulation, buy yeah, basically it's healing. What about you?" she asked, trying not to sound too curious.

She was indeed very curious, since this topic was one of her favourites. However, it recently got trumped by the prospect of getting drunk. Up until a year or so, she'd been way quieter than this. That was before she discovered the joys of partying and alcohol, though.

[Sawyer Lynn]

Sawyer could sense the excitement coming off Annie and she too got a little excited. Getting booze had been an easy task. Who knew her knockers would come in handy? She had always thought they were the biggest hindrance in gymnastics. Stupid puberty. And then, silver lining!

She chuckled as she looked at the redhead hopping about. She tried not to stare too much at the upper half of the other girl's body but really, she was only human.

"Righteous! So like...if I started bleeding from my head, you could totally fix me up?" Sawyer asked with a grin. This could be a potentially beneficial partnership right here.

"Me..." she cleared her throat and immediately mimicked the redhead's voice, inflections and all. "Kinda speaks for itself, doesn't it?" She grinned wickedly.

"Come on, the booze isn't going to drink itself." She reverted to her own voice, grabbing her bag and draping the towel over her shoulder.

"Where are you from, by the way?" Sawyer asked as they made their way over to Sawyer's dorm.