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Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Today the Slip 'n Slide plastic was back, along with two card tables flipped upside down. This could only end in the clinic.

"Today we're splitting into two teams for some table surfing!" Anakin announced with the sort of enthusiasm that said he would not be participating in this insanity. "The rules are simple: one team member rides the table, two others hold the table steady and the rest of you get underneath it to move it along the Slip 'n Slides and to the end of the course!"

That sounded really painful, Anakin.

"Listen for your names!"

TEAM CROWD-SURFING NEWBIES
Summer
Tahani
Belle
Watts
Beaker
Goose
Steve R
Will

TEAM PROFESSIONAL CROWD SURFERS
Jo
Steve M
Sidon
Sakaki
Alara
Gray
Stark
Clare

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Summer probably ought to ask Travis for his side of things too, just to get the full story. Too bad she wouldn't be at the bar tonight!

"I would have thought you would have plenty. I haven't seen any. Anakin said his daughter took them, after she turned me colors."

If Travis hadn't taken a photo with a koala in a fire hat everyone was going to be very disappointed.

"I did get passed around a lot, didn't I?"

Oh, like she'd rather be self-isolating in a laboratory to avoid certain particularly paws-y squirrels and curb any uncomfortable moments of nudity in her near future? She had a whole fridge of jello shots for tonight setting in her fridge right now that would be entirely wasted!

"I mean," said Summer, "I wouldn't say a lot. It was just from Anakin to me to Travis. It's not like you were sent around the whole island, or anything."

And at least one of those steps was taken for the clear benefits from which he was currently reaping!

"But," she said, pulling out her phone and taking a moment to scroll through a lot of photos taken before now and then until she found the right one, and turned it his way to have a look. "This is the one I managed to take right before you mistook a photo op for a transfer."

Two of his friends had just given him away! He wouldn't have given them away. Well. Maybe Anakin.

"At least Anakin got hugged," he said with a small shake of his head. "That is a lot of color." He was glad it hadn't all still been there when he changed back but he wasn't sure he wanted to bring attention to the fact that he knew that Summer had seen exactly how much color had remained, and where.

Summer hadn't just given Stark away! She had plans! She was helping.

And it had worked, dammit!

Someone had to do the dirty work, apparently...

"She did not hold back," Summer agreed, and, really, she had to respect Juliet for that. She turned the phone back to scroll through to another one, that she had managed to take in a brief second when she'd successfully managed to get Stark to let go, which had been an unfortunately brief moment in time in her apartment indeed, and showed that one to him, too, before moving onto the one that had Pancakes' full-on open disapproval of whatever that rainbow colored creature that Summer had dared to bring into her home on display.

Just because it worked didn't mean he wasn't going to be sad when he realized she'd abandoned him the way she did. It might make the sadness pass more quickly though.

"Should I apologize to Pancakes for disturbing her?" he asked when he saw that last picture.

And did he need to apologize for having clung to everyone else?

So, apparently, her good intentions were just as garbage as her flowers.

"I wouldn't," Summer advised. "Then she'll know it was you."

Barry was still dumping a ton of money into appeasing that cat, even after all this time. Staying on her good side was apparently a very big deal.

As far as Stark was concerned, absolutely nothing about Summer was garbage. Not even a little bit.

"Hmm. I could just bring a gift, sometime." Catnip for Pancakes and space booze for Summer, maybe? Maybe a night of drinking without a breakdown would be a nice change.

"Please don't," Summer shook her head. "The last thing that cat needs is someone else spoiling her, too."

Of course, if Summer knew that there would be space booze for her involved in this transaction, her response would have been entirely different.

Stark was happy to bring space booze...that he would probably purchase from the store where Summer worked.

"Are you sure? I thought she might like something. Maybe I should bring Travis's dog a present?" Probie seemed to like him already but it couldn't hurt.

"I mean," said Summer, "she'd always like something, that's kind of the point of being spoiled. But actually forgot Travis had a dog. You should definitely bring Travis' dog a present at some point. And, if you need any light and pressure-free date ideas, dog walks or dog parks are a pretty solid idea. I mean, don't go in starting with that, though. You can just keep that in your back pocket if you asking him for what he'd like to do turns out pretty dry, you know?"

Maybe he could bake a doggie treat for Probie!

Let's face it. Stark needed all the date ideas he could get.

"I do like the dog. That could be a good idea. I haven't really ever been on many dates." Only with Faye. And not as many as he would have wanted.

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