No Longer Normal

[Kira Cadau]

Kira had decided she would be eternally grateful she hadn't left her swimsuit, goggles, and swim cap at home when she'd been dragged off to...well, wherever this was. Bellefonte Academy, Home of the Freaks. School of Mutants. Yay.

Clad in her blue fire-patterened swimsuit, Kira slipped out of the girl's changing rooms, tying her long black hair back in a braid, then swirling the braid up into a bun before snapping the black-and-blue swim cap over her head, and then putting on her black goggles. Back home, she and her friends had often joked about buying a skin-colored swim cap and looking like a bald person. Naturally, nobody ever had, as funny as it would have been.

Diving in at the deep end of the lanes, Kira took immense comfort in the soothing feel of the water sliding past her skin. Dolphin kicking five or six times, she swam freestyle the rest of the way once she broke the water, breathing every five strokes or so. At the end, she pushed down with both arms, curled into an underwater flip, and pushed off the wall with her feet on her back. Just before she broke the surface, she flipped over onto her stomach and continued to swim. She did that about five more times before taking a break, sitting on the edge of the pool as she adjusted her swim cap, cleared her goggles, and considered what she needed work on. Kicking. 100-yard sprints. Butterfly. Slowly, the hour of swimming came together in her head, keeping in mind her busted hand. Thankfully, she could technically swim in the cast - it went from her hand to just below the elbow.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The boys had signed up to join the swimming club when they arrived at the school, remembering someone back at the circus telling them to be active as they could and try out the different clubs and sports. They had signed up for a lot of sports and a few clubs already. The only problem was that they actually never went to a normal school before so didn't full know how the whole team thing worked. They didn't think there would be a problem with the whole working as a team, since they were used to doing that with their circus family, but these were now people around their age groups. The training would end up more than likely be different of course, but the boys had never actually been in a school pool before. This was why they had decided to pay the school's pool a visit instead of going to one of their classes. The two of them still a bit nervous about even going to class still and more or less avoided it. They had a stern talking to and knew they would end up going to class at one point or another, just for now there was swimming to be had at.

A pool that had someone in it already and who clearly was a pretty good swimmer at that as the girl was doing all sorts of things the boys didn't even know what to call. They were more or less both wearing a pair of black matching swimming trucks as they had entered the swimming area, standing back and watching the girl for a moment. "Wow, she is pretty good. Think she is a life guard?" Jasper asked as he rested his arm on his brother’s shoulder and watched the girl. "Don't they wear red?" Casper asked back, pretty sure about that fact, but not one hundred percent sure about it. Either way the boys stood back and watched until she climbed out of the pool and seemed like she was all done her little swimming thing. Having not noticed that they were watching, her but that were not really standing that entire close to the side of the pool or anything and she had been focused so it was understandable.

"Very nice." The bothers said together as they clapped for the girl, feeling like she had more or less given them a performance. It was important to clap for someone when they gave a performance. The boys knew that very well after all. Plus if you didn't clap after someone showed you something, that was just rude and not recognizing what they could do. Granted they didn't even know this girl and it was not like she had asked to show them what she could do in a pool.

[Kira Cadau]

Kira had just decided on a routine - 50 freestyle, 2 100's of streamline butterfly kick on her back (oh, she must hate herself), 50 butterfly, 4 100-yard sprints in IM order, 50 butterfly, 2 IMs, and a 100 cooldown - and was about to slide back into the pool when she heard applause from behind her, as well as two voices in perfect harmony. "Very nice."

 Surprised, she turned around to see two boys - brothers, almost definitely twins - standing there clapping. Kira smiled and got to her feet. "Thanks, uh..." she trained off awkwardly, not knowing their names. "Sorry." She apologized. "I'm new, haven't met a lot of people yet."

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The girl smiled, which was better than a scream but the boys sort of wanted to hear her let out a scream. They should have moved to be behind her before clapping and congratulating her on her swimming skills. Bit too late for it now, and it didn't matter all that much so it was just one of those happy day dreams they both had for a moment. She thanked them, but her voice trailed off as if she didn't know what else to say to the two of them. There was not much to say. Well not much unless she wanted to ask them questions like who they were, why they were watching her, what were they doing here, and such other questions. In fact there was a lot that could have been said to the boys from the girl they were not thinking of tagging her as Pool Toy. Instead they just got information that she was new here and had not met a lot of people yet.

They were new too and didn't really know that many people at all since they had been mainly sticking to themselves and in places where they figure not too many people would be. Granted it was getting to be summer time and hot outside so the pool would more than likely start to fill up with more people as time went on. For now it just seemed to be her and them. "I'm Jasper Emory." Jasper said as he pointed to himself and then pointed at his brother. "This is Casper Emory, but more than likely you will get us confused as soon as we move so don't worry about telling the difference yet." Jasper added as he and his brother did move towards the girl, purposely alternating sides with one another as they walked over to be a little more closer to the girl. "What is your name?" Casper asked, since it was only fair to give your name in return to people who introduced themselves, correct? Plus if she didn't tell them, well she would not be a very well off girl.