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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:51 pm
Rin simply smirked, "I'm willing to go as deep as you are."
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:13 pm
Melvin turned to look at her, opened his mouth slightly as if about to say something, but then closed it. Shaking his head, he moved forward, away from the beach. Luckily the water didn't soot down suddenly anywhere but gradually went deeper, and he soon felt the ocean floor leave him as he started to move through the water. After a moment, he dived under, disappearing for a moment.
He rose back out of the water further ahead, wiping his bangs from his hair. The puffy volume of his blonde hair was now a flat, darker blonde now that hanged down and only had a slight wave as it stuck to his neck.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:17 pm
Rin followed him out further but stopped to watch him dive under. Curiously looking ahead until she saw him emerge again. So far ahead but she dove under too and attempted to zip forward like he had. It took two tries before she got close enough to his mark to offer him a challenging smirk. She was willing to try anything he threw at her.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:22 pm
The smirk was a clear challenge that essentially said that well that wasn't so hard. If she wanted to test how well she could swim with one arm compared to someone who had been swimming most of his life, he was more than happy to push her. He said nothing, pretending this wasn't a challenge, before he dived under again.
Turning underwater, he reached out, felt around, before he rose back up and took a breath of air. It...might have been a while since he actually swam in anything other than a well lit pool. Going deep was nice, but he kept his eyes open and the salt water was a tad unforgiving. Still, he held up the shell he picked up.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:29 pm
Rin watched, uncertain what he was up to until he rose again with a shell in his custody. A clear challenge and she was not one to pass one up. After studying the shell a moment she dove under herself... and struggled further... and further... and not yet... no... almost... she was determined, but she ran out of oxygen and had to return to the surface empty handed looking moderately guilty.
That wasn't the end of it though.
As soon as she caught her breath she dove under again, determined to shoot straight down this time using purely her legs. She managed to grab something this time and pressed her feet firmly into the ground and pushed off to shoot back to the surface where she struggled to stay afloat and lift up her prize - a large and very alive starfish that coiled it's limbs around her hand and arm. She squeaked, clearly startled and flailed wildly trying to get it off.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:41 pm
Melvin watched as Rin dived, moving back just a little in case she missed her mark and bumped into him. After Marco Polo, he was giving them a extra buffer zone of space. When she rose and showed nothing, he was about to suggest something else when she dove down again. Looking down at the water, he waited till she rose back up and held -
"Oh wow." A live starfish which was clinging to it's kidnapper. "I guess he's handsy too." He said with a smile, watching as Rin flailed about. With one hand, taking something off while trying not to fall under water was pretty hard.
Moving over, he grabbed her arm before pulling off the sea star and tossing it back. His eyes glanced at his hand before quickly releasing, moving to swim a bit around the water. "You win." He told her.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:44 pm
Rin looked incredibly relieved once the creature was pried off and set free... but she wasn't sure why suddenly Melvin acted like her skin had burned his hand soon after. Catching her breath again she paddled after him. "No way, you won. Yours didn't turn on you." It was still bothering her so she had to ask, "and uh. Did it sting you or?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:55 pm
"No, your creature was bigger." He said, not looking back as he swam slowly. When she asked if he was hurt, he glanced back. "No. I'm fine." To emphasis that point, he dipped back under the water. It was a little longer than normal before he bobbed back up, breathing out and wiping his bangs out of his face. That was better.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:57 pm
"Bu-" He dove under and she held that thought until he came back up, "it's just that... you acted hurt." She looked worried but mostly confused.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:01 pm
He turned, swimming backwards just to keep moving. "Noo. I'm fine." He told Rin, passing if off as if she had just been imagining things.
Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Swimming. Swimming.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:02 pm
Rin was following, swimming.. swimming... "But then why did you pull back like that?..."
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:04 pm
He kept leaving a buffer of space the farther they swam. "I really don't know what you're talking about. I just let you go."
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:06 pm
"Yeah. As if I was made of battery acid," okay, something was definitely up. He didn't respond to boob like that but clearly something about her remaining arm bothered him. "Why?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:09 pm
Melvin kept moving. "I didn't let go of your hand as if it was made of battery acid. Stop being dramatic, Rin." His tone was sharper, annoyed by her persistence on what he was now considering a very stupid topic. "What's wrong with you?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 7:11 pm
"Nothing's wrong with me... just, something's up. I'm not stupid. My last arm creeps you out, doesn't it? Or is it because of the miss-" she got a bit garbled as she struggled to keep her head up.
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