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Steve had been, well, chilling at the pool. His brothers had decided to go their own separate ways today and the preteen was more than content to be soaking up the sun and the waves, and maybe letting Boris and Natasha splash around. His recent notice of how girls looked in bikinis, particularly tops, was completely unrelated of course. Why would that have anything to do with wanting to hang out in the water?

Presently, Steve had just noticed the somewhat ample upper portions of a girl before something small flashed in his view and he noticed Natasha waving at something. What was she - hey wait, that'd been a tentacle he'd seen! A yellow one! At that point, he realized who the top he'd been getting a look at for a sec belonged to.

"SANDY?!" the boy asked, swimming over - not too difficult with two extra paddles - and blinking up at his friend. "When did you grow- how did you- I thought only girls had- the hell are those on your chest and why did you not tell me about them?" he finally stammered out after a few moments of gaping at his friend. The hell, you think you know a guy, right?

The boy blinked, head going to the side. "Huh. Never saw that one coming." he admitted. Sandy'd always seemed like a boy to him - a sort of shy and nervous boy, but a boy. But he was a girl, sort of? What was that supposed to mean. Shaking his head, the dark haired spawn decided he honestly didn't care to try and reason that out, instead deciding to talk to the other about their growing.

"So, how's being bigger treating you?" the boy asked, offering a hand to Sandy much in the way two 'bros' might do one of their weird hand grab pull woogedy woogedy handshakes in greeting. Because really, Sandy was his best guy friend, even if he was apparently a girl too. Thaaaat was gonna get so awkward. Especially since you do not oogle the chest of your best guy friend - unless you're gay but then you wouldn't be oogling for breasts, now would you? Gah this took too much thought!

Natasha curiously poked at that ring, her googly eyes - now featuring lashes apparently - wiggling about as she did this. They didnt' move like normal eyes, of course, but them being there still gave the illusion. Boris, on the other hand, popped up to half high five the blonde's other larger tentacle and the two small ones up top. Or high one, really. Either way.

"Eeeeeeeh, not too different from before, except I can do more stuff and it's more awkward." the other boy agreed, snorting as he watched Natasha get a new piece of jewelry. "She's not allowed to keep that, E." he told his friend's tentacle, having at least memorized their names by now.

Poking Sandy's stomach after a moment, the spawn smirked, "So why aren't you in the pool proper, scared of the water?" he joked. The pair had been friends since they were small so palling around and joking like this was no problem. Hell, he didn't even mind putting a head on Sandy's knee as he said this and looked up at the other spawn from the water. The boy knew what parts to stay away from, thank you very much.

The boy stuck his tongue out at it, and Natasha wiggled at the both of them as if telling them they were being silly - or laughing. One of the two. Steve stopped trying to figure out what the tentacles were saying a while ago - if it was urgent, they'd let him know.

"You're gonna start looking like one of those MTV girls at this rate." Steve joked, shaking his head at the tanning skin, blonde hair and blue eyes of his friend. Apart from the tentacles and the male genitalia, total beach babe. Oh and the being his best friend. That too. Of course.

Steve raised a brow, "I said lookin, didn't I? Not acting. You're you. Nothin wrong with being a bit shallow in any case." he pointed out before shrugging, "Though I'm pretty shallow myself so I'm a tad biased there."

Ducking back down under the water for a sec, Steve let his hair get soaked for a few moments before popping back up. The sun beating over it always seemed to feel so hot and he needed to keep at least his head cool. Sweating at the pool was just gross.

Steve snickered, "Well one of us has to stay the same to make up for how much you've changed." he pointed out, reaching out to dunk the other spawn quickly then dart away. Not meant as a mean gesture, of course, more him being playful.

The boy grinned, moving backwards through the water at a quick pace. He'd probably have escaped pretty well if it weren't for the rope that separated the shallow and deep ends. Crap! Turning to Sandy, he tried to duck away from the other spawn's advances. "Now now, Sand, don't do anything rash." he joked.