Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 29, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Good morning, everyone!" Anakin yelled through his megaphone. There were four inflatable kiddie pools spread throughout the area with folding chairs around them. "Today we will be Toe Fishing!"

Beaker made extremely alarmed meeping sounds.

"With your toes, not for toes," Anakin explained quickly. "Each pool has objects sunk to the bottom! Whichever team recovers them all in the fastest time wins! You may only use your toes, so hopefully everyone has those."

He didn't know your lives, okay.

"Listen for your names and come get your t-shirts!"

TEAM RAY OF LIME JUICE
Kitty
Amaya
Summer
Barry

TEAM RUNNY NOSE HUNT
Sabine
Mae
Prompto
Freya

TEAM SUMMER SUNSHINE
Tahani
Shunsui
Eleanor
Rey

TEAM DAYTONA SUNTAN
Alexis
Steve M
Duke
Astrid

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Re: Ray of Lime Juice

[somethingwithturquoise]

"And teach!" Summer chirped happily. "I teach, too! Mostly cooking classes and...we, space adventures, I guess you could call it. I...like to keep busy."

It was a good thing for everyone if Summer kept busy.

"What about you?" she asked. "What do you do around here except..." She took a moment to recall when she'd heard (or mostly reported) on radio, while also biting her lip as she tried to concentrate on hooking something with her toes, getting a grip on it, "perform totally legal experiments, work at Kathy's sex shop, and subject yourself to sadistic summertime camp activities?"

She then flicked her foot almost like a soccer move to throw it up out of the water to catch...even if she missed and it popped right back in.

But she tried!

Re: Ray of Lime Juice

[badassprodigy]

“That about sums it up,” Barry said his ears turning red at the mention of the shop. “I work at Dite’s because Kathy didn’t want me spending the entire summer in the warehouse. So between that and my research I plan on teaching in the fall. Kind of give back to the school that taught me.”

He paused for a moment. “So you do space adventures too? You’re a fucking astronaut?”

Re: Ray of Lime Juice

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer never really thought of teaching as something to give back to the school before; it was just kind of a fun thing to do, but that was kind of sweet.

But astronaut made her snort a little, finally managing to pull of her catch and kick and catch manuever.

"Not, like, NASA, or anything," she said. "All homegrown. I don't think NASA could handle me."

Okay, now she was just straight up flexing.

"But I've got a ship. I park it in the scrap yard, where me and a friend built up this real junker from scraps. I could definitely show you sometime...if you're into the sort of thing..."

Re: Ray of Lime Juice

[badassprodigy]

Okay. Now Barry was genuinely impressed with Summer.

“NASA is a bunch of fucking amateurs,” He said with an eye roll. “And fuck yeah, I’d like to see your spaceship. Shit, I’ve got three back home that I built and a submarine I built here when I was a fucking student. It’s no small feat building that kind of shit and not atomizing yourself in the atmosphere. That’s pretty fucking great.”

Re: Ray of Lime Juice

[somethingwithturquoise]

And now it was Summer's turn to be totally impressed. And blushingly flattered. And kinda fucking intimidated all of a sudden.

"Well now I'm almost a little nervous to show you!" she said, laughing it off, and then reminding herself that, hell no, she wasn't, she shouldn't be, her ship was the best. Dammit.

"But I will. Not nearly enough people even ask to see my spaceship."

Which was WEIRD, who didn't like seeing people's spaceship?

But, to help get the conversation for fertilizing the seed of a crippling insecurity about the badassness of her spaceship, she ventured elsewhere, into possibly less intimidating common ground.

"So when did you go to school here? I'm class of 2018, myself..."

Re: Ray of Lime Juice

[badassprodigy]

And seeing Summer flustered, well Barry had no idea why but Barry is fucking clueless at social situations. “I graduated in 2015 but that was ten years ago for me,” he replied. “And hey if you have a ducking spaceship that works then you shouldn’t be fucking intimidated by anything.”