Just Keep Swimming | Chapter 3
As this new person called out, you saw a head shoot up from across the large pool in front of you. A man in a sun hat that covered most of his face was crouched down by some of the pool equipment. He seemed rather skittish and the sudden shout of his name didn’t help at all. He seemed to poke his head up and then quickly back down.
“Daichi, look man, they cool. After this, you can go back to the garden. Just help me out here, pal!”
Trita called out to the guy hiding behind a rack of pool noodles. Slowly he approached, hiding most his face behind the large sun hat.
“Cool. Cool. Thanks pal. Ok, students, pals? Students are too formal. I’m no teacher. Can’t teach you nothing here. So Yuudai was gonna help but we were informed too what happened so he’s gonna chill for awhile on some of the floors above us but we wanted to do our best to make you guys comfortable, yeah? See, this is what we thought. Well, Daichi brought it up, right pal?”
The sun hat seemed to move as he nodded his head. A quiet “yes” was uttered but hard to make out.
“Yeah, he thought of it. We wanted to throw a party. I don’t really care about murder y’all. I just want you guys to chill and have fun. You seem like a bunch of good kids. Boss man don’t need to test you guys. So here’s what we got! We got Yuudai to bring down some fun beach themed treats and snacks. Not to mention, Daichi helped decorate with cool flowers! We got you guys swim suits. They’re in the locker room in the back. I ain’t one to talk but we do only have two locker rooms, a girl and a boy. Lame. I recommend using whichever one fits you. I’m not going to call you creepers or anythin’ dumb like that if a girl in the boy’s or vice versa. You do you man. Daichi tell ‘em about the other floor!”
At that, Daichi seemed to perk up. His eyes were a bit more visible, behind the sun hat and his tone much more audible.
“Uh… yeah. Well, below this level is the green house, or garden. I’m mostly there. The pool has a filter so we kinda use this water to water the plants. It’s a large garden and we have pretty much any flower you could think of and some that people don’t know yet… I’m still working on those names. You’re welcome to come down anytime… just don’t destroy any of the plants… I worked really hard on them… I’ll be really sad if you hurt them, ok?”
Trita let out a laugh and patted Daichi on the head.
“Yeah, this fellow here is Daichi. He can be a bit skittish but if you wanna talk plants and stuff, he won’t shut up. He’s a cool guy. Just takes a bit to break him in. But yeah, you cool kids, make yourself at home and go try on them bathing suits!”
