[SB] This Isn't Happening

[Alexandra Lawson]

This wasn't happening

Alex had only been hoping to get in some time at the pool in the early evening when most everyone else was inside eating, drinking, or both.  It was innocent enough, there was no malicious or mischievous intent.  She just liked the pool when there weren't so many people around.  When she could shut off her mind and let the soothing feel of the water against her skin consume her every thought it became the rare moment when she was able to truly relax.  Water had always been therapeutic.  It represented a place where she could feel safe from the one thing she feared the most.  Herself.

But this was not how the evening swim was supposed to go.  She'd lost herself in the calming affects of the pool and, especially when couple with the relative silence of the nearby area, hadn't noticed the loosely tied bikini bottoms she wore had somehow managed to slip off and find their way God knows where.  The tiny girl's head broke the surface of the water and swiveled about in a near panic.  The fading light helped keep her predicament hidden for the moment, but also proceeded to make it much more difficult to find her runaway clothing.

Muttering a string of heated curses under her breath, Alex swam toward the edge of the pool, eyes still turning this way and that in hopes of locating her clothing before she could attract unwanted attention.  For a moment she eyed the deck chair where her towel and small back pack she used in lieu of a purse sat and considered making a run for it.  No, that wouldn't work.  Even though the pool wasn't crowded like midday, there were still enough people around for her to not want to take the chance.

After a few agonizing minutes Alex's gaze finally settled upon a familiar article of clothing being lifted out of the pool by a curious party.  Her eyes widened as she recognized the boy.  Or rather, the pair of boys.  Alex had run across Casper & Jasper Emory before.  The boys had happened upon Alex during a particularly frightening encounter with her own power and she had to cope with being on the Academy Track team with them as well.  They were numbers three and four on her list of boys kissed which lead to no small amount of confusion for her and now, there they were, one of them eyeing the one thing she needed in order to prevent utter embarrassment.  With a long, slow breath, she started across the pool to where the boys stood.

This wasn't going to end well.  Alex just knew it.

"Hi, uh, guys."  She called once she'd drawn close enough to speak without raising her voice much.  Her bright, expressive eyes shone with hesitation and apprehension as the peered up to the twins.  God, she still couldn't tell them apart.  It wasn't as if they gave her the chance to think well enough to remember anyway.  "So, uh... those are sort of... mine."  She explained meekly, her hand coming up to rest against the edge of the pool.  "I don't suppose I could... get them back?"

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

"Oooo, look what I found." Jasper sort of sang out as he scooped up a pair of floating bikini bottoms that were floating on the surface of the pool. The siblings figured they come for a swim and get in some exercise while they were trapped on the boat heading to Mexico. Not like there was not a lot to do, but they were still trapped in the fact that they could not just get off the boat at any moment they felt like it. Not unless they wanted to end up in the ocean, and while it would be a great workout, they boys knew they could not swim forever. Longer than most, but not forever.

Not that any of that mattered now when Jasper was now holding bikini bottoms. Casper of course was with his brother and the two could both not help but to chuckle at the prize that Jasper was holding. They were already wondering what girl had lost her bottoms and if she was even still around by this point. "Think someone was getting frisky in the pool?" Casper asked his brother who was smirking now. "If they were, they are lucky." Jasper responded back to his brother. They didn't even spot Alexandra yet, too distracted with looking at the basic underwear. They were practically underwear, just made for the pool and okay to walk around in when you were at the pool.

A voice did catch their attention, a familiar one. Soon their eyes were landing on the owner of the voice. It was a girl they knew pretty well, teased her a bit, and was on one of the sports team at BA with her. When the stuttered and slow reveal of the bottoms that Jasper was holding; were revealed to be hers, the brothers were both smirking like they were up to something. They were now. "These are yours? My, my, my…what taste you have Little Alex." Jasper teased, he went even as far to make it awkward by licking his lips as he kept a good hold of her bottoms. "So you have nothing on right now?" Casper asked as he sat down on the edge of the pool, putting his legs in the water.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex's eyes drifted from the bright pink bottoms the boy had in one hand to the boy himself, and then back to the bottoms before finally settling upon Jasper for good. She was familiar with how the twins operated, well, sort of. She knew how they acted at times, but she didn't really know why or to what end. She figured most of their strange behavior could be chalked up to teenage hormones and their unorthodox upbringing. It was still kind of weird, but she could at least understand.

"Yes. They're mine." She repeated, nodding as she peered up to the boys. At the mention of what she was wearing beneath the water line her face flushed a deep crimson that could be plainly seen even in the dim overhead lighting of the pool area. She looked very much a scared, tiny mouse at the mercy of a pair of hungry (and mischievous) cats. "Yes." She said warily, slowly pushing away from the edge of the pool and treading water. "I don't see what that has to do with anything." She asserted, eyes narrowing as Casper moved to sit by the pool. "Can I have them back?" She asked, turning a hopeful smile at the twin who held onto her bikini bottoms. "Please?"

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The brothers could see the eye movement, since they were basically staring at the girls now. It was amazing how much focus they could put into watching someone and figuring them out when it came to the brothers. It was all for the sake to see the reaction, to practically feed off of it as if it was part of their diet. They would be gluttons for sure if it in fact worked out that way, but thankfully it did not. Alexandra knew this about them from the times they had had their fun with her at her own expense. Then again their fun tended to always comes at the expenses of others around them and they didn't really care.

Alex should have also known that the boys needed a reaction and when they didn't get one, they got bored. When they got bored they would either work harder to get a reaction or retaliate in a negative way before they would give up. Since Alex tended to always be a little fun, they were just going to take things one step further in order to get a reaction out of her. "It has to deal with everything." Casper said, as he then slipped into the water and moved a little closer towards Alex. Not too close, she didn't have bottoms on and he was not that bad of a guy. "What’s in it for us if we give them back to you? How about a kiss?" Jasper asked, mostly teasing.

They were not going to actually keep a hold of her bottoms for long. They were not stupid; it would be way too easy for them to land into trouble in this situation. They just wanted a reaction and were trying a little bit harder to get one. If they didn't get one they would be upset but they would give her the bottoms back, because even the brothers had their limits on some levels. "Aww, when she says please it’s so cute." Casper pointed out, his brother nodding in agreement.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex eyed the twin who'd slipped into the water warily. She didn't fear either of the boys, on the contrary, that she suspected they wouldn't try anything that was unwelcome was part of the problem she had. She feared one day something would be welcome and that was, for the tiny girl, an intimidating thought to have. She carefully paddled backward a bit, keeping the space between her and the twin in the pool while her eyes lifted to the one standing on the edge.

"Okay." She said quickly, nodding her head. She wasn't wholly enthusiastic about the idea, she was fairly particular on those she showed such affection to. But the stigma of the twins had already been broken. They did, after all, represent, literally, half of the number of boys she'd ever kissed and the previous two had been her boyfriend at the time. Anything, to an extent, that would get her out of this horribly embarrassing situation would be readily agreed to. It wasn't as if she hadn't enjoyed the last time they'd suddenly kissed her on some carnal level.

"Once I get those." She lifted a hand out of the water and pointed to the bottoms the boy was holding like a trophy. "Back on here." She then pointed the same hand downward toward the body of hers that was shrouded beneath the water. "I will gladly kiss you both."

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

Their eyes were on Alex, they were not going to leave from watching Alex's reactions and every movement. They practically fed off of it and she was all that mattered at the moment, their attention solely focused on getting a reaction out of her. If they were really bad, it would have been easy to have their way with her. She was small and they could tell that part of her sort of enjoyed their teasing and being physical with her. She had to at least a little bit if she was sort of willing to deal with it.

They both blinked a few times when she just agreed to their terms in order to give her the bottom back. That was easy and not as nearly fun or entertaining as they had hoped it was going to be. As a result the brothers made a face for a moment before they just accepted it. At least they were getting a kiss out of it, but part of them didn't want it anymore. Where was the fun in getting it if there was not a little fuss over it? "Where is that fire at? Not even a blush when saying it?" Jasper asked as he squatted down near the edge of the pool now. He tossed the bottoms to his brother then, who was still wading around in the water.

"What is to stop you from just taking them, swimming away, and not giving us a kiss?" Casper asked as he smiled a little at her. At least she had put a condition on it and was not making it too easy for them. The brother's watched where she pointed, the both of them staring into the water where she pointed to last for a moment. They were tempted to try and use their power to see if they could see through the water better, but that was probably going a bit too far. "Deal." The brothers said together after a moment. If she tried anything, well they could deal with it later. For now Casper swam extra close to Alex and held out her bottoms to her.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex's head tilted some as the boys seemed disappointed that she was so willing to give up a kiss in return for her bikini bottoms. They held all the cards in this scenario and, quite frankly, kidding either or both of them would be a welcome task if it meant she could get out of this predicament with her dignity at least somewhat intact. "Look, guys, you kind of have me by the balls here." She said using the obviously wrong gender-specific saying to prove her point. "I mean, I'm here... sort of naked and you want me to kiss you to be... not naked." Her eyes shifted between the both of them as she reached up and brushed a damp strand of hair from her face. "It you want me to put up more of a fuss, you'll have to demand something more than that."

She exhaled a visible sigh of relief as the brothers agreed to the tentative deal. Alex eyes Casper as he approached, being wary of him while moving to close the gap between them a bit faster. "I won't snatch at run." She promised, her eyes shifting up to Jasper, even though she still couldn't tell them apart. "Besides." She said with a bit of a playful smirk as she reached out to secure the article of clothing. "Since when is a a girl not putting up a fuss about kissing you a bad thing?"

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The brothers were displeased that she was just giving in so easily. Yes, they were pleased that they would be getting what they asked for but at the same time something just didn't feel right about it. Perhaps because it was their little toy Alex or that it was the situation with knowing that she didn't have any bottoms on. When she spoke up, both the brothers could not help but to snicker a little when she said balls. "Heh, balls." Jasper said, he and his brother smirking a little for a completely different reason. Yes, they were still immature when it came to a lot of things.

"Nah, its fine." Casper assured her. They had already lost interest in even getting the kiss now as Jasper tossed his brother her bottoms and Casper was offering them out for her to take. That was the Emory twins for you, quick to lose interest or change their minds about something. That didn't mean that they were done messing with their Alex however. When she promised she would not run, well the brothers both silently decided between one another that they would not be so 'mean' to her this time around.

Not that they ever thought they were actually all that mean to their little Alex, they just had a different way of interacting with people was all. She asked a question that had the brothers looking at one another, stumped. They didn't actually have an answer for her, and that made Casper move over to the edge of the pool, climbing out and sitting on the edge as his brother joined sitting down beside him. "We don't know." The brother said in unison as they looked at her confused. They really didn't know why they had a problem with it...not the slightest clue.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex couldn't help but study the twins for a moment as they seemed to suddenly come down with some sort of existential crisis. She didn't know if she should be offended or relieved that they had obviously lost a great deal of interest in her the moment they realized she wasn't going to put up much of a fight when it came to the terms of their agreement. What did they expect? That a girl they'd already kissed who suddenly found herself in a very compromising situation in public would rather be humiliated than kiss them again? It was all so very strange.

"You know..." She said, glancing down to peer through the water the best she could while she wrapped her bikini bottoms back where they belonged with no small amount of relief showing on her face. "I'm not sure if it's healthy that you're only interested in a girl if she's, like, not into it." There was a pause as she tied the strings that would keep her bottoms in place as tightly as the lazily swirling water would allow. "I don't know, don't you think that comes off as really..." Her eyes lifted to regard the boys who were both now sitting at the edge of the pool with a curious, and now very cautious look. "Rapey?"

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The Emory twins were now stuck in through as they sat on the edge of the pool. The only movement from them was them swaying their feet in the water and the occasional looks at one another. They were really trying to figure out an answer to her question and they just felt so stumped. It was weird because normally they had an explanation or a reason behind everything they did because they didn't just do things just because. There was always a reason for it no matter how small, so to not have a response to her was unsettling.

Was there something wrong with them? Where they sick? Was it because of Jasper being in a relationship? So many questions and they didn't have any answers for any of them. Now they felt like they had to go out and cause more chaos or stay in until they could give her an answer. They looked to their Alex when she spoke up, half getting distracted watching what she was doing in the water. Sadly, they could not see anything but they had the imagination for it and that alone was mostly enough for the two of them. They didn't say anything at first as she started to explain her take on it, but boy were the brothers started to turn a little red from her words.

"It's not like that!" The brothers quickly said in unison at her last words. Did people actually think they would do such a thing or were into that? Were they into that? Now they were starting to feel even more worried and just...devastated about the matter. "It's not like we only want it if they don't want it...it’s more like uh..." Jasper said, looking to his brother to help him out. "It’s more like that...like if they are not really resisting. Like when a person says no but they really mean yes." Casper said. The two of them were still trying to work it out.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex studied the twins sitting at the edge of the pool for a moment and then started swimming toward the nearest steps. She emerged from the water, pausing only long enough to ensure the ties on her swimsuit were securely in place, and moved to sit beside the boys. She wasn't afraid of them but she did make sure she was just out of arm's reach of them when she sat. Not that it'd matter. They were both far bigger, stronger and faster than she was. If they wanted to get their hands on her there wasn't a hell of a lot she could do.

"I didn't mean it like that, really." She said with a frown. The affect her words had was unexpected, to say the least. Their responses weren't the most understanding and fitting Alex could think of, though, and her frown only deepened. "Look, I'm sorry. It might just be because I'm a girl but I don't think there's any situation where someone says 'no' when they don't really mean 'no'." She said sternly. She'd thankfully not been subjected to such a thing, but that didn't mean she didn't have strong opinions about it. "Just because you can convince someone to do something doesn't mean they really want to." She was explaining it the best she could. "I think you guys need to think about that."

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The brothers were not pleased, they were not angry, but they no longer where in the chipper and teasing mood that they had been when they came over. Who thought that messing around with someone’s swimming bottoms and asking for a kiss for them back would turn out like this? They didn't, and they didn't like it at all when things didn't go a way they had wanted them to. They played with their toys a certain way to get a desired outcome, so when things like this happened it didn't feel good. It was no longer fun and they wanted to do something else.

Yet for now the two of them remained on the edge of the pool and thought about it, not even noticing Alex get out of the pool and come over to them until she sat down. It was very true that if they wanted to get a hold of her, there was little she could do to stop them but they didn't feel like doing anything now. Especially because of what she said and now they were wondering if she felt that way about the things they did to her. No fun. She said she didn't mean it like that, and would get almost puppy dog looks with a mix of anger from the boys when they looked at her.

"Now that is just unfair." Jasper said as he crossed his arms over his chest at Alex's next point, just making their moods drops even more. "If someone is laughing or play hitting and saying no, then that does not mean no and if it does then they are doing an awful job at communicating it. We are good at reading body language and if someone really does not want to do something, we are not going to make them do it." Casper said, his arms crossing over his chest too. It was not fair to say that no always meant no, because some cases it did not. At least in the boys mind and when they thought on it from experience. "Still not fair." Jasper muttered, looking away from Alex now and Casper kicking his feet a little in the water.

"Have we ever made you feel that way? Have you done something with us that you really didn't want to do?" Casper asked. He felt the times they had bothered her there had been times when it was close but she always seemed to be okay with it deep down. Maybe that was a lie?

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex, quite frankly, had very little experience in dealing with such things. She wasn't prom queen, head cheerleader, or the girl most guys were watching from the other side of the classroom. She had a difficult time imagining herself as anyone's 'dream girl' and certainly didn't feel she made hearts flutter when she walked by. Alex, for the most part, was perfectly fine with this. She didn't just not vie for attention, she actively avoided it. She liked being largely anonymous. She liked her life being simple and clean. The fact remained there was something very alluring about the attention she received from the twins. It wasn't wholly bad and it was, in a way, very cute. She hadn't intended for her words to have the affect they did.

"Unfair or not, it doesn't matter." Alex insisted. In spite of everything this was something she wouldn't back down on. It was only marginally strange that the boys acted like she was telling them something they'd never heard. These were all messages that were seen in magazine ad campaigns and public service announcement spots on TV. It wasn't as if sexual assault was a small deal and the whole 'no means no' thing was something Alex had coined herself. "Unless you know the person really well you're going to risk forcing someone into something they don't want to do. Laughing doesn't mean anything." But she needed an example to enforce her point. "I hate being tickled." Her eyes shifted to watch the boys warily in case they got any idea. "But if you tickle me I'm going to laugh." He eyes rolled a little and she sighed as she spoke. "I get all red-faced and get to the point where I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard." The boys knew. They'd done just that to her once. "But does that make it okay?"

The next question that came from the boys was a double edged sword. On one hand, Alex knew the twins could come on very strong and be, in a way, intimidating. Some of their tactics to get attention were... unorthodox to say the least and quite possibly offensive. However, she'd never once truly felt in danger around them in spite of their very blunt and straight forward ways. It was sometimes eerie the way they moved about and spoke one after the other or in unison but that, in and of itself, wasn't anything that scared Alex. And, if she was forced to be honest, there was something she liked about getting their attention. "Well... No." She began with a frown. Just because she hadn't felt that way, didn't mean someone else wouldn't. Anyway, she just figured it to be because they weren't quite after the same things with her as they possibly were with others. Why would they be? She wasn't anything special. "You... guys can be intimidating." She sheepishly admitted, her gaze that was upon them softening considerably at the admission. "And... I mean, yeah." She shrugged her shoulders faintly. She didn't how how to remain honest with them and not see her entire argument come crashing down. "Did you know you were just the third and fourth guys I've ever kissed?" She blurted the words out before she realized they had even been forming. Her eyes widened at the admission and she immediately averted her gaze. Choosing, instead, to look down to the water her feet dangled in and hoping like hell she didn't start blushing.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The brothers were still getting to understand people in terms of actually understanding them in the normal kind of way. They had always done things their own way, treated people like their play things, and figured them out by their body language and words. It was how they did it when they were young and it was how they planned on to keep doing it. Why change something that worked for you? All they ever needed was one another and if the world hated them, then the world could burn. That was the way the brothers thought and that was why when it came to things like this they didn't even think about it.

It was not something that they would do so the thought didn't even cross their minds until someone else would bring it up, and that made them angry. "It does matter." Jasper quickly said back but then he left it at that. He was not going to get into it with her. He was already angry and he didn't feel like beating up their little Alex. She was not the kind of toy they could do such a thing with and it was not something they wanted to do with her. She was for fun things, like getting her to blush, being really close, and just being playful and that was how they liked it. This, this they didn't like. They were both muttering under their breath now, but they stopped when she started to give an example about how she hated being tickled.

They already knew that she didn't like being tickled and they still did it anyways because it was fun for them and she sounded cute when she laughs. She asked a question if it made it okay and the brothers just stared at her for a moment before looking at one another for another moment. "It's not rape." Jasper pointed out. "So, yes?" Casper added right after his brother. The yes came out as a question and the uncertainty could still be seen on the boy’s faces. Did it matter? They felt like it should not because the only thing that mattered was them. Well, they liked their Little Alex and they didn't want to do anything too bad to her. So...maybe it did?

They asked her a question and she was giving them an answer, a shaky one. It was not helping them fully get whatever she was trying to teach them. If she was fine with it, then why were they having this conversation again? At her last question Casper got up to sit down on the other side of her while Jasper scooted closer to her, the two of them looking at her in a serious manner. "Do you want us to stop then? Do you not want us to ask you for kisses and tease you?" The brothers asked at the same time as they looked at her. They didn't know they were the fourth and honestly that didn't matter to them. The questions that they had just asked did matter to them at the moment, but the answer was even more important than that.

[Alexandra Lawson]

It didn't look as though Alex was fully able to get through to the twins. In the end, though, she was satisfied that she'd managed to at least get their attention which was more than she had expected. She knew the twins were different, knew they weren't brought like she was so she tried to do her best to understand things from their point of view. No, she'd never felt threatened or that she was in danger around them. She supposed most of her opinions had come from the rumors and speculation that she had allowed herself to get caught up in. She would mentally scold herself for letting the unsubstantiated words of someone else influence her outlook on someone she knew later.

The brunette girl sighed and shook her head. She didn't mind being around the twins they just confused her to no end. She couldn't get a handle on them. One minute they were playful, then bored the next, then obviously growing frustrated at her inability to express what she was thinking and feeling. "Well, no. Not really." In spite of everything she had said, the fact remained that the emotions the twins evoked weren't wholly negative or unwelcome and she often found herself conflicted. "Look." She said, finally getting an idea of what to say. She offered Jasper a smile as he scooted closer to her on one side before looking to Casper. "I know you guys are good where it counts. Here." She reached out and lightly tapped a finger to the center of Casper's chest where his heart would be. "I just don't know what to think when I'm around you two." She leaned to the opposite side and went to rest her head upon Jasper's shoulder. "I'm sorry." She said, her tone lowering. "I shouldn't have said anything."