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Otto tried to back up as he saw her gather water, but it was a futile escape. A garbled groan came from the blonde soon after, wiping his face yet again. "Gawdammit.." The escaping girl would not be let go so soon, though. Otto dove after her, getting close enough to sweep an arm across the water in her direction.

Ah yes, the feeble act of making an already soaked partner more soaked while submerged in water. Fun, nonetheless.

Give an Eva water, and ye shalt be splashed.

Otto scoffed, crossing his arms and eyeing her with narrow eyes. "Like I ever expect you to behave anyway." He retorted, "Don't matter where I take ya, yer gunna cause me trouble."

Now it seemed like she was really trying to get him to blush again, but Otto was wise to her ways now. "Yeah right, like a little splash fight will knock off yer top." Maybe somewhere deep down he kind of wanted to test that out, but Otto was a better man than that. Maybe. "Now if a tidal wave came rollin' in, that might do the trick. Like that time one of my cousins got knocked off his board and lost his shorts."

Oh man... he forgot about that..

Otto snorted despite himself. That had been way too funny. Apparently Otto did have some good family memories to speak of. He couldn't help it, and started to laugh. "He seriously couldn't find them and refused to come out of the water till we brought him a towel."

Otto grinned again, "Damn straight. That a** was showboating before he went and got his shorts ate by the ocean. I eventually went out with a towel after he promised to give me 30 bucks. I was like.. 10 at the time so that was a ton of money for me. I wasted it all on candy, though." He smirked lightly and shrugged. "Naturally we held it over his head the rest of the week. I only ever got to see my cousins once a year, so that's a years worth of backed up cousin bugging." Then again Otto was usually on the bugged end of the relationship since he was so much younger. He kept that part silent for now.

"Ever been surfing? Its fun but way harder than it looks. I thought it'd be just like skateboarding but I totally sucked balls at it."

"He tried to bribe me with ten but I managed to get him up to the thirty by pretending I was gunna walk away like the others did." Bad cousin Otto was a little s**t. Was.. and is.

Otto snorted, looking at the woman like she was silly. "Uh, yea, no. You'd suck way worse than I did. I ain't even been on a board SINCE then." He sassed with confidence. Otto liked the water but he wasn't particularly good at boarding or swimming. About enough to tread water for a short while, but not much more. And yet he still decided he'd be better at boarding than Eva.

Otto stood firm as she leaned in, keeping his poker face as unfaltering as he could muster. Within his mind he repeated a mantra over and over again; Don't call his bluff. Don't call his bluff. Don't call his bluff. Don't call his bluff--

Dammit.

"Uh..." His eyes slid to the line of huts and cabanas further up shore, praying nothing was available. Luck was not on Otto's side, as the nearest one did have boards for rent.

Gulping softly, he turned to Eva, poker face still carrying on strong. "Yeah.. looks like there is. Fine. Let's settle this."

Otto shook his head, linking arms with Eva and pressing forward. "You seriously think you can beat someone who has more surfing experience than you?" Even if that experience added up to a whopping 2 or 3 tries on a board. "You ain't even gunna ask for some pointers?"

Now that he thought of it, he wondered if the guy running the hut might have some pointers for him too...

Otto had to make sure to do better than Eva. His manly pride depended on it. Plus Eva was being super smug, so she needed to be shown how awesome he was. The blonde paid for his board, and held it under his arm, rather accustomed to large and cumbersome objects thanks to Tenya.

"Ready. Don't hurt yurself." He taunted with a haughty expression.