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Today was an exciting day for Fremere!

His mom had taken him and his sister to the indoor swimming pool for the day since it was obviously much too cold to go swimming outside. Both of the children were quite excited and upon arrival Seidh chose to stay in the shallow end for now with Akuja while Fremere took up more adventurous pursuits, like the springy diving board that kids could jump off of into the deep end! Minding the pool rules, Fremere walked down the length of the large pool to the small line that had formed for the spring board.

The boy didn’t mind waiting at all and got into line behind a kid that seemed to be his size. Never one to pass up the chance to make a new friend, the boy tapped the kid on the shoulder. “Hi! My name is Fremere, are you excited to jump off the springy thing too?” He asked excitedly and without hesitation.

Fremere was very delighted when the boy turned around and started to converse back at him, a grin crossing his features now as well. “That’s an awesome name! It’s nice to meet you!” The boy nodded his head in agreement to Vance’s statement. “Yeah, I haven’t seen one so long either!” The length made for a good running start that way when they reached the end the bounce was very high.

The boy moved a bit when the line shortened, but still kept eye contact with his new potential friend. “Do you come here a lot? This my third time here, I’m here with my sister and mother, are you here with anyone?” The boy questioned curiously and energetically.

“Oh really?” This was his first time here? How cool! “It’s really fun here!” When Vance mentioned that he swam at home Fremere looked quite surprised. “You have a swimming pool at your house?” He questioned in awe. How cool was that! Vance had a dad instead of a mom? That was interesting! “Neither of them wanted to swim?” Fremere asked curiously, frowning a bit. Swimming was awesome, how could anyone not like it?

The boy suddenly popped his head up when the spring board was empty, patting the boy on the shoulder. “It’s your turn Vance!” He cheered.

“That’s really cool!” Fremere exclaimed, quite impressed. It would have been really cool if he could have swum everyday! The best he could get aside from the pool was the bathtub. The boy’s lips parted in surprise at Vance’s story about his brother and at Vance’s attempted glare the boy let out an impressed sound. Wow that must have been s serious look! The only time he’d seen looks like that was when mom would do that to Freyr and when Seidh had come into his room and whapped him upside the head for sending her letter to Quint.

“Okay, see you there!” Fremere replied happily, watching Vance climb onto the spring board and when the frog boy waved the boy waved back energetically and watched excitedly as Vance made his way down the spring board and then did a canon ball into the water. Sure the splash wasn’t that big, but to Fremere it was pretty awesome and the boy clapped proudly for his new friend. Once Vance was safely out of the way Fremere climbed onto the springboard and took a moment to locate his sister and mother before he made his way down the spring board and bounced, going high into the air and then doing a spin off of the spring board and soared through the air for a few moments before landing into the water.

The boy resurfaced, grinning from ear to ear as he swam over to Vance, “Let’s go get in line again!”

Fremere gladly raised a hand to return the high five, giggling as he swam after Vance and climbed out of the pool. Being influenced by his new friend, the boy was doing a little run down the pool side too until Vance got scolded by the lifeguard to which he slowed down as well, looking a bit sheepish until they got to the spring board. He thanked the boy when he let him get in line first and then turned his attention back to him.

“Oh wow! You’re super brave!” Fremere commented. “I don’t think I’m ready for a flip yet!” He had seen Vance’s hand flip motions but he still wasn’t sure if he could do that on his own yet.

Fremere didn’t think that his friend was showing off at all, he was really brave and the stance that he took just confirmed how brave he was! The boy made an awed sound but frowned a bit seriously when Vance warned about being careful to which he gave a firm nod of his head for he would take that very seriously! He still didn’t think he was ready for flips yet.

At Vance’s statement at playing at his house Fremere gave some excited nods of his head. “That would be awesome! I’ll talk to my mom about it later! She’s over there!” He pointed to some vague direction in the pool before he watched his new friend climb onto the ladder.

Fremere returned the salute and then watched with baited breath as Vance made his way down the spring board and then launched himself forward doing a rather nice flip. The boy clapped his hands excitedly and gave the thumbs up to Vance once the boy surface. As he climbed the ladder he briefly wondered what he wanted to do before he made up his mind. The boy moved down the diving board and did a few bounces at the end before he leapt out with his hands and feet outstretched and did a belly flop.

Somewhere in the shallow end, Akuja cringed.

When Fremere surfaced though, he didn’t seem at all in pain and in fact was still grinning quite widely as he swam over to where Vance was. “That flip was super awesome Vance! You’re a flip master!”

Fremere just simply laughed when Vance called him crazy. “I hear that a lot!” He replied cheerfully (though it was a true statement). “Yeah!” He agreed upon reaching the frog boy when asked if he was awesome at flips. Pfft, yeah he was!

At the new suggestion, the boy treaded water thoughtfully as well. Huh! Well, they could always go off of the diving board many times, and they had already, so maybe now was a good time for games? He hadn’t played any water games at all yet! “Oooh tell me about the water games!” Fremere said eagerly. “If we need more people, we can get my sister, she’s over there!” Once again, the boy pointed in a vague direction towards the shallow end.

Fremere continued to tread water as he listened intently to Vance’s explanation of this game called Marco Polo. “Oh cool! This sounds really fun!” The boy did a twirl in the water in excitement and paused, perking up when Vance said his sister’s name.

“Yeah! She’s my little sister!” The boy informed the frog boy. “I’m sure she’d love to play, I’m going to go get her!” Fremere didn’t even bother waiting as he made his way to the ladder and climbed out and walked as fast as he could to the shallow end near a wall where Seidh and his mother were hanging out. The boy was speaking excitedly to his little sister, his arms waving wildly and he grinned as she climbed out of the pool and walked down with him (rather calmly) to the deeper end where Vance was.

The small girl looked a bit surprised as Fremere did a canon ball back into the water. “…Oh!...Hello Vance! How was your cake?”