// pool.

/bumps/

@jiwon Your shout forces me to twitch and also shut my one eye as I still want to make sure that you don't slip out of my embrace. And yeah, your loud voice isn't that scary so hiding behind my eyelids would just show how much I am. And I'm not. I don't have anything in common with . I don't even like milk.
"Sharks don't eat bunnies. We prefer other fishes and trashes, ya know."
Knowing that I ed this up at the beginning I don't really feel like letting you go now. It's too deep here so leaving here someone who doesn't know how to save his life in this unfavorable circumstances would be the stupidest thing I would've ever done in my life. And believe me - maybe I don't give this vibe but I'm a truly dumb kiddo.
"Me and swim ring. Well, now it's only me but you will meet your other saviour in a minute", I say and then look at you, having my eyebrow raised, not knowing what you plan to do as you release you hold on me. But I decide not to stop you so you have a chance to see what you have to do with.
Seeing that you quickly get in new trouble, I join you under the water. Since I have my gills, I don't have any problem with breathing but instead of showing my ability off, I grab you under your armpits and pull you above the surface.
"Are you masochist or what? A minute ago you were yelling at me for trying to assassinate you and now you're trying to fix my failture? You're harder to understand than a woman", I keep talking and at the same time I slowly swim with you closer to the swim ring because really, it has been a long time since the last time I had to resuscitate someone.

@hanbin Maybe you should warn me to catch the air before pulling my body in this big puddle? I swallow the air like in last time, hearing your lame apologizes. I don't think you were planning to kill me, but you could be more caring, this is true.
" You can drown me and then just eat my breathless body" I shouted finally, still feeling light chlorine taste on my tongue. The ring doesn't look so childish and useless anymore, but it gone in the middle of the pool. Too bad. I try to cough all the water in my throat, holding you tightly and not even realizing how close we are right now. "My life depends only of you, my dear fiend, i don't have any choice but trust you" I said, looking at the pool's bottom. Not really much, probably i can stand here. I release your neck, trying to catch as much air as i can before pulling my body down. Crap. it's too high for me and i can't feel the ground.
Probably i shouldn't let you go. I open my eyes, looking for you and yelp happily cathching your legs. Unfortunately the air is not enough for me and i desperately try to catch it again.

@jiwon I haven't really planned to kill you today, I kinda get used to sharing room with you and probably I wouldn't be too happy to get a new roommate who wouldn't probably like Marvel, wouldn't be able to mind his business and wouldn't know when to shut up. Maybe I'm a natural predator but it's not my dream to end in the jail in that young age. I mean, they don't have pools there, right?
What is for you like an eternity, for me it doesn't even last two seconds before I move your body up, now your head and shoulders above the surface so you can easly catch a breath. I keep my one arm around you, my other one helps me to keep us up.
"Sorry", I whisper, maybe a little too quiet, you may not hear me because of those coughing. "If you smother me with your passionate hug, I don't know who will save you", I say and chuckle softly as I look at your face. You look just like you were about to die. And I kinda feel bad. "I'm here so don't worry. If I wanted to kill you, I would use more sophisticated methods. I'm a shark, killing you in the water would be too suspicious."
Yes, maybe I suddenly started blabbering but it's only because I feel like you need some kind of destraction. Of course my sense of humour isn't the best one but I don't want to be the reason of your fear of water increase.

@hanbin The ring is really cute. And it floats so cute, this plastic bag full of your lungs air. ANd i'm not scared. Not at all. "Nah, i'm okay with both" I said, trying to give you impression of moveless countenance. But then you just took me around my waist and then it was so fast that i didn't managed take some air. The water is cold and has chlorine taste. It burst into my lungs, making me want to grab air, but unfortunately i'm, under the water and all i have in my mouth is a water. Too much water around. I want to ask a help but i can't. Instead of this i can feel how my chest is burning. Seems like my mama was right, rabbits can do nothing in the water. I tried to come to the surface but i can't no matter how hard i tried to lift my body up.
Then i realized your hands are still around me and clinged to your body, hoping it will help.
In fact it's really helps, i've managed to turn my body vertically and water didn't choked me anymore. I tried to take some helping air but just cough helplessly, realizing that i'm holding you tight, my hands squeezes you around the neck and my legs just wrapped your waist.
I thought i'll spit all my lungs, so hard i've cough at this moment.

@jiwon What? The swim ring is fabulous. Bitten donut, isn't it fabulous? You should be happy that I didn't pick something with Hello Kitty because in the shop there were dozens of things with this little cute satanist.
Hearing your footsteps, I'm not surprised with your arrival so as soon as you get at the pool, I turn my head to look at you, swim ring's valve in between my lips as I'm finishing blowing up your lifeguard if I was too busy. When the donut is inflated, I place it down on the water surface. There are no waves so it won't move away that easly.
"Oh okay. Should we do it gently or bet everything on being dramatic?", I ask you but instead of waiting for your answer like any other normal teacher would do, I lean to you and wrap my one arm around your waist. At the same time I grab your hand and in a matter of not more than a half a second you're in water in front of me, my hand still holding yours firmly.

@hanbin Probably being in late is just a part of my lifestyle. Like someone has a habit wake up and jogging early in the morning, i always make my friends to wait. I know, I should manage my time better, but it's really hard and i'm really sorry. That one time i was late because my favourite on-line game. I just forgot about the time and rushed to the pool again, managing to wear my swim shorts fistly.
When i've run into the pool you were obviously there already. This swimming ring made me blush a little. I know it's necessary, right, but i'm not a small kid, even if i never swim before.
I sit silently near of you, pulling my legs into cold water. How people and hybrids can swim there? It seems so dangerous and... Suspicious. "So..." I start, feeling myself really nervous at this moment. I don't know why, but my fears just came back again. "I'm ready to pull my poor bunny's body inside" I huffed loudly, showing that maybe i'm lying to you.

@jiwon Sometimes you're too loud and too happy for my liking but since I don't really mind you being yourself in general, I don't mind also coming today at the pool. Well, I won't ever mind coming at the pool where I can wet my skin and feel like a really fish I was partly only, however, today I'm not here to comfortably swim from one end to another. A while ago I promised you that one day I would teach you how to swim and this day is tomorrow. You finally get some free time to do so and probably courage as well. I know that your mom freaked you out a little about this whole swimming and rabbits subject and I'm going to prove you today that there is really nothing to be afraid of.
We decided to meet at the pool and because you're still not here, I'm sitting all by myself at the edge of the pool wearing only my black swim boxers so my colourful skin is almost completely revealed. My feet and calves are in the water as I busy myself with blowing a swim ring for you. Of course it won't be neccessery but it's always better to have one.

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@minhyuk [ So sorry for the late response!! ]

Hyuna chuckled softly, running a hand through her hair as she gathered it all over to one side of her neck. "Aw, how cute," she barely grinned at the thought of a dog hybrid swimming along with the sharks. "Hanbin is very strong, isn't he?" she couldn't help but feel a little proud of her friend as she tilted her head. "He's fast, too. But maybe he should watch out or you may just end up stealing his captain position," she lightly joked, arching an eyebrow.

@hyuna Minhyuk chuckled at Hyuna staring down at his body once again. That was normal, girls would stare at him all the time, but this was usually when he had a shirt on. He picked himself up and got a towel from the nearby bench that he left it on. “I’m pretty strong, yeah. But there may be others stronger than me, of course. We’ve all got our strengths.” he answered. “The captain is strong as well, him being the only other shark in this school. I don’t know about the dog we’ve got.” he carried on, laughing quietly.

@minhyuk Hyuna walked over to him with an amused glance, subtly gazing at the muscles in his arms and back once again. Of course, she didn't really care whether she was being subtle or not in checking him out. She was sure the male got it all the time, anyways, just like she did as well. "You must be quite strong," she mused, tilting her head as her pointed ears tilted slightly as well. "Most swimmers are, let alone shark hybrids."

@hyuna Minhyuk went above the water and took off his goggles carefully. He went to the pool’s edge and pulled himself up, wiping the droplets off his body again. He sat on the edge of the pool and took many deep breaths, his gills also slightly contracting as he did so. He stretched his arms upward, his muscles lengthening and relaxing. His arms hurt a little and he massaged his bicep carefully. He wiped the water off of his face and turned to the vixen, waving for her to come closer. “I wasn’t /that/ good. It’s just my natural state. I /am/ part shark anyway.”

@soohyun Maybe sharks didn't seem to be friendly creatures at all, the true was that hybrids of human and shark weren't that bad at all. Hanbin knew that his face sometimes looked a little too serious at his age and his eyes were drilling holes in everything he looked at but he wasn't such badass to be able to hurt any random bunny on his way. His roommate was bunny too, he was still alive - when the shark boy saw him at the morning, he was safe and sound - it was telling a lot about Hanbin and his ability to hold his instincts back. And he wasn't hungry at the moment. But sharks didn't eat bunnies, you couldn't meet bunny in a sea or ocean water - Soohyun could feel secure, really. Hanbin just looked like he could kill anyone who did or told something what he didn't like, however, if you knew him better, he was just a delicious cinnamon roll.
As the bunny girl was talking, the boy slowly made his way to her, after a few seconds sitting next to her, his feet and calves meeting water again. He could take a rest like this too, right?
"Nah, it's fine, I'm fine", he said, looking at his companion. "Nice to meet you. I'm Hanbin. If you want to learn how to swim, I can teach you. It's not that hard. And I will be here with you so you can forget about drowning."

@hanbin Soohyun hadn't exactly been expecting the male to sound so calm, and she wasn't sure why she expected it, but she'd been terrified that maybe he would be aggressive and yell at her, it was just her cautious nature to assume that everyone she would meet would want to eat her or something. Sometimes, she embarrassed herself with that nature, she would act way too nervous over nothing in front of the other person, but thank God she hadn't spoken too much in this situation, and had given the other time to show that he wasn't going to be aggressive with her. Soohyun also noticed that he looked a little tired, and she wondered if it was because he'd swam too much for one session.
Bunnies can't swim. When she heard him say that, she felt her face flush with an embarrassed pinky color. It was true, of course, and Soohyun felt a bit self conscious that she did not possess such a basic skill thanks to her biological makeup. "It may be, I'm not entirely sure," She approached the poolside and kicked her shoes off sitting on the edge with her legs dangling over into the water. "I've always wanted to learn, but I've never had anyone teach me, to be honest. Plus, water is beautiful and intriguing, but also terrifying. Drowning is probably the scariest way to die, to me." Soohyun looked down into the water, shuddering, before she glanced up at him, tilting her head slightly looking at him with concerned eyes. "You didn't wear yourself out, did you? You seem pretty tired. Exhaustion is dangerous, you know." She blinked, and bit down on her lower lip, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to nag at you without even giving you my name. I'm Soohyun."

@minhyuk Hyuna watched him closely, her sharp eyes catching his every movements. She had to admit she was impressed; she could see in not only his moves but in his eyes as well how passionate he was about swimming. Twitching her ears slightly towards the noise of the water, her tail whisked from side to side in approval as she watched the male in the water. When he finally came back up, a little smile of amusement crossed her lips. "I wasn't expecting you to be that good," she stated bluntly in her naturally sensual tone, an impressed twinkle in her hazel eyes. "But that was awesome. You're a natural. But, that's only to be expected," she let out a soft chuckle, an eyebrow raised as she gave him a playful, light round of applause.

@hyuna Minhyuk tilted his head from side to side, stretching his neck muscles along with the rest of his upper body. He twisted and turned left and right, tightening his core as he did so. He ran a hand through his wet hair and then swiftly jumped into the water, the liquid engulfing his entire body. He didn’t waste time in the water, swimming as fast as he could. His body could be seen doing waves underneath the water and his gills aided him with endurance. He would rise up occasionally, taking deep breaths of air before going under once more. Once he reached the end of the pool, he kicked his way back to swim to the starting point again. He wasn’t very conscious of Hyuna, even though he knew very well that she was watching from above. Maybe it was because he was so natural under the water that no one else really mattered. The shark went from lap to lap, kicking the pool’s wall and then finally finishing after a few round, bouncing up and down in the water.

@minhyuk Hyuna laughed softly at his joke, then tilted her head as she saw him get himself ready to jump in. "Of course it is," she replied smoothly, her signature naughty smirk remaining on her lips. She took the time to appreciate his body once more, only just now registering the height on him as well. Standing at 167 cm, Hyuna wasn't exactly the tallest person, and she hated when she wasn't taken seriously by those who towered over her. However, she did like men with a little power and dominance, and Minhyuk certainly seemed like he was one of them with the way he liked to show himself off and his confident air about him.

@hyuna Minhyuk smirked slightly as Hyuna indirectly complimented him while she was complimenting Hanbin on looking cool. Honestly, the team captain was a great swimmer, but he was a little ticked off that someone, a freshman even, was able to snag the captain role. The boy was lucky, Minhyuk guessed. “Thanks, the swim team tries to look cool in the water for the ladies.” he joked, chuckling as he reached the starting point at the end of the pool. “I’ll just swim a few laps to keep you entertained, is that cool with you?” he replied, getting on the little stand and getting into the position before drop-down. He got his goggles and put them on as well, taking a deep breath from his lungs.

@minhyuk Hyuna let out a soft laugh of amusement at his sarcasm. "You know what? You can just keep calling me Your Highness from now on, I like that much better," she teased with a little smirk. Her eyes flickered over his back as the male walked away from her, noticing the way his muscles flexed with his movements. She had always admired the toned, lean bodies that swimmers had, and she certainly wouldn't be lying if she said she was at least a little attracted to this one. Following him, she tilted her head. "Well, I wasn't really looking for you to begin with," she shrugged her shoulders, her orange-brown hair bouncing slightly as she strode over to him with her confident gait. "But Hanbin looks really cool when he swims, so I figured anyone else on the team would, too." She glanced at him before looking out at the pool, barely chuckling. "I am pretty bored, though...."

@hyuna “Yes, it’s Minhyuk. Kang Minhyuk.” he replied, imitating her speech pattern. The boy rolled his eyes slightly, chuckling. “Forgive me for forgetting your name, Your Highness.” he spoke sarcastically as he pulled his hand away. “I am only human after all.” he added. He then paused and glanced at her. “Well, shark-human hybrid. But still human, of course.” He turned away from her and started walking back to the starting point at the other end of the pool. He made a gesture for her to follow that made his back muscles flex slightly. “So, are you really that bored that you decided to check me out in here?”

@minhyuk Hyuna delicately put her hand in his, shaking it briefly with a little smirk before pulling it back. Raising an eyebrow, she mocked a playful expression of offense. "You forgot my name? No one forgets my name," she joked around with a facetious air of conceit, but chuckled lightly and crossed her arms over her chest. "Hyuna. Kim Hyuna. It's nice to meet you. Minhyuk, right?" The vixen had a sharp memory; she remembered even the tiniest details about people that served no purpose for her to know. While it seemed useless at times, the little skill certainly helped her when it came to schoolwork, so she didn't complain about it.

@hyuna "Are you by any chance, Sharkie?" At the sound of that, Minhyuk let out a soft, quick laugh as he instinctively rubbed on the nape of his neck, his hand grazing his gills. So it really was her. In the beginning he was totally unsure about who to expect after chatting the girl up in the chatroom, but now he’d seen her in real life. A face to the profile. The girl was beautiful, and her current state seemed to match how she was online. “Yes, vixen. I am Sharkie, nice to meet you.” he said, putting his hand out to give her a polite handshake. He didn’t want to be so forward like he was online, even if he knew he could easily get any woman he wanted to pursue. He would take it slow with this girl, she seemed like a the fun mischievous type, from his first impression. A decent friend, he hoped.

“I’m sorry, but, I can’t seem to remember your name, forgive me.” he added, gulping and turning a slight pink.

@minhyuk Hyuna's eyebrows lifted at the question, her sharp eyes catching the way he checked out her body- even if he had tried to be discreet about it. The vixen was dressed casual today, in a simple low cut v-neck along with a pair of black shorts, both enunciating her lightly toned body from dancing. She was used to boys, and even girls, checking her out, but she wasn't one to brag or boast about it. After all, she was guilty of doing it to others as well.

"I am," she smirked lightly, her eyes flickering with amusement. "Are you by any chance, Sharkie?" she teased with a playful confidence, almost positive that this was indeed Minhyuk before her. Even though they had only been talking for a few minutes, he already seemed to match up perfectly to what Hyuna had pictured him as when they had talked online. She was sure there was more to him she had yet to find out, but the sharp vixen caught on to things quite quickly, so she wasn't too worried about the possibilities.

@hyuna Minhyuk smirked a little as he walked towards the female dog-wolf-fox-hybrid. He wasn’t sure of what she was exactly, but she looked familiar. And he could also tell from afar that she was checking him out. He could see it in her eyes; she was doing the one-up that most women would do to him whenever he would come out of the pool. He knew this, but decided not to react. He reached her, almost chuckling at her struggle to keep an innocent face one. Right, he was just in his speedo. A heavy temptation for women to defeat, but he just went along. He watched her movements, the slight twitching of her ears as he moved, the swaying of her tail behind her. Even her playing with her hair.

“Oh, Hanbin. You’re the captain’s friend.” he replied, nodding in understanding. Well, Minhyuk couldn’t go against the captain if he wanted his friend to be here. But it seemed like she was here at the wrong time, wasn’t she? This was his practice time, not Hanbin’s. He slowly ran a hand through his wet hair, shaking it slightly so that it becomes semi-dry. Minhyuk looked at the female from top to bottom, as discreetly as he could. She was surely bless in… some places. But her animal is what got him curious. He could vaguely remember chatting — and slightly flirting, with a vixen on the school chatroom, but her name escaped him. He couldn’t remember it. It started with an ‘h’ or something. Minhyuk coughed into his fist and fixed his gaze at the female. “Hey… are you by any chance, a fox?” he asked politely, feeling a bit stupid that he had to ask her in the first place.

@minhyuk The vixen watched as he climbed out of the pool, simply chuckling at his question. As he walked over to her, she took a few seconds to scan over him briefly with her sharp eyes, unable to help but admire his toned body. She decided not to let her eyes wander down to the Speedo he was wearing, knowing it would only make her lips curl up into a smirk at the sight. She mustered her best innocent expression as she looked up at him, although there was a certain gleam of mischief in her hazel eyes, as there always was. Her tail swayed gently behind her in a casual manner, her pointed ears twitched slightly towards the sound of his footsteps as he approached her.

"Forgive me," her silky voice was as smooth as honey as she locked her gaze onto his. "I decided I wanted to explore, and I had never been here before. My friend's on the team, I'm sure you know Hanbin?" she questioned innocently, tilting her head slightly and barely playing around with one of her orange-brown locks. He was the captain of the team, after all, and although Hyuna was somewhat using him to her advantage right now, she was using this time to try and figure out if the male before her was indeed Minhyuk. His dorsal fin indicated that he was indeed a shark, so the vixen decided it was highly likely this was the same boy she had talked to just the other night. Wiggling her ears slightly, she took her eyes away from his body to look back at him, wondering if he would come to the realization as well.

@hyuna Minhyuk was at the pool again, as usual. The water was his second home, really. He wanted to fill in some empty time on his schedule with swimming practice, mostly because he wanted to work on his speed. Since his endurance underneath the water was close to perfect with the help of his gills. In terms of his speed, his dorsal fin was both a help and a nuisance. This was because he wasn’t a full shark or full human, so he’s not as streamlined as a whole as he’d like to be. He entered the pool area early and ran to the changing rooms. He changed to his dark grey speedo, matching with the color of his back and walked out, only carrying his towel and goggles with him.

The athletic pool was a large space and most of the time he had this area for himself. He and the other shark, the team captain, never seemed to meet eachother there for practice unless it was a scheduled one. Maybe their academic schedules never allowed them the time to congregate. Minhyuk, after putting on his goggles, dived straight into the water and raced through the lane as fast as he could. He didn’t even take that deep of a breath but kept going, a few times back and forth along the lane. On the fourth or fifth round, he had lost count, he went above the water, pulling himself up at the ledge. Breathing heavily, he wiped the water off of his face after taking off his goggles. Droplets coated his muscular upper body and soaked his speedo. Looking up, that’s when he saw a figure at the other end of the swimming pool. He squinted and noticed that the figure had pointy orange ears atop her head. He knew there were no females on the swim team, so maybe she was lost. Or purposely breaking the rules, since this place was the swim team’s turf.

“Hey, what are you doing here?!” he shouted from across the room. He started walking to the female figure, not realizing that she was the one he spoke to in the school chatroom. He was wiping droplets off his arms and chest as he walked to her.

@minhyuk As the vixen aimlessly walked inside the building of the athletic pool, she wondered if she should even be there. It was only meant for the swimmers who were on the team, but then again, Hyuna liked to break rules every now and then. She hadn't even planned on showing up, in all honesty, but had found herself nearby as she was walking around and clearing her mind from the stressful day she had, and decided to go inside and explore. She had always wished she could swim as fast and graceful as the boys on the team, who made it seem like they were practically gliding. Granted, a majority of the team consisted of shark hybrids. But even then, Hyuna was envious.

She suddenly remembered the male she had spoken to on the school chatroom just a day or two earlier. Her sharp memory remembered his name- Minhyuk. He had mentioned that he was a swimmer, and a shark as well. Hyuna's eyes lit up with a newly found interest as she wandered near the pool area, seeing it was mainly empty. There wasn't a scheduled practice right now, but she noticed someone in the water, probably using the free time to practice on her own. Tilting her head with interest, she watched him swim down the lane rapidly with amazement.

@soohyun In this school there were many students who resembled various type of animals so Hanbin wasn't feeling uncomfortable or uncertainly when he looked at the girl and felt her stare on his weirdly coloured body. He had been a swimmer since a very long time already so he got used to showing his body to others, probably a little too much and too often than any other human being, but it was the main rule which he had to respect if he wanted to swim and achive any successes.
Wiping the last remains of water off his neck, he slough off the towel on his shoulder, not moving from his spot even a little. Maybe because he didn't want to scare the bunny girl more because it was quite obvious that she was ready to run away while screaming for some mercy or he himself was actually taken aback by her unexpected appearance, however, he tried not to show it.
"It's fine, I guess", he started, his voice calm but the way he was talking gave away his tiredness. Silence fell and awkwardness was burning his inside before he remembered something his roommate mention to him. "Bunnies can't swim. Is that why you're interested in it?"

@hanbin She didn't know how long she'd been standing there, watching him swim, but it felt like only a few seconds. However, she was positive it was longer than that, but she was just so intrigued that it seemed way shorter. Soohyun was sure she could've stayed there and watched him forever. It was something about the way that he moved in the water, it looked so natural, as if the water was his nirvana. He just seemed so comfortable, and Soohyun envied that. She'd always wanted to learn to swim, but water frightened her, made her anxious. In her eyes, water was a bubbling death trap, and one wrong move she could be its next victim. The male emerged from the pool, and he only sparked more interest inside of Soohyun. She felt her heart skip a beat at the half- sight, her face barely heating up as a blush rose on her cheeks. Sure, she'd seen boys in swimming trunks before, and she'd seen them shirtless before. However, this sopping wet image of this mystery boy felt more sinful and tempting than any other she'd ever seen. More than that, it was his strange colorings on his skin that made her stare. She stared at his back for what seemed like an eternity, admiring the navy color of his flesh. It was then that she realized she was in the presence of a predator, but not just any predator. She was with a shark. The thought made her fingertips tingle, and she was suddenly a little worried when she realized she'd be spotted.

She wasn't wrong. As soon as the male turned and saw her, Soohyun felt her entire body freeze up. Not only was she embarrassed, but she was also a little nervous that maybe the boy would take offense to her staring. Would he be angry with her? "O-oh! Uh, hi-" It was a shaky start, and she quickly caught herself as and hugged herself with her arms in an attempt to feel a bit more secure. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sneak in, I hope I wasn't intruding on anything. I just... I-I'm really interested in watching people swim." Soohyun rubbed the back of her neck, her face bright red as her soft brown curls shook slightly.