"This is so fun!"
The pool party was in full swing by then. Kaede was in a cute frilly pink bikini that she had found in the warehouse, which actually fitted her pretty well, though she didn't realize until she marched out of the changing room until she realized that there might be a bit too much Kaede on display. Shuichi's nose was bleeding uncontrollably and Kokichi was sniggering in a way that made her a bit self conscious.
"I don't...look weird, do I, Kiyo?" she ended up asking the Ultimate Anthropologist, who seemed to be the most brutally honest fashion-conscious person left, <strike>since she had indirectly killed Rantaro</strike>.
"Oh, no, you look very nice. Why do you ask?"
"Nothing. Are you going to swim? I'm sure there are swimsuits your size."
"I'm fine, thank you. The chlorine ruins my hair, and it takes an awfully long time to get the tangles out."
Kaede glanced at Kiyo's hair enviously. Waist length and perfectly straight and smooth, like always. Unlike hers. She tried flattening her unruly cowslick once more, to no avail. She noticed that Miu and <strike>Rantaro</strike> had ahoges as well, but hers seemed the most prominent. (Compared to all the other humans, of course. K1-BO's was in another league entirely.)
"Well, I'm going in," she muttered to no one in particular, before cannonballing into the pool with a loud <em>splash</em>. The water was the perfect temperature--not too warm, not too cold. She was in the deep end of the pool, but she could breathe if she tiptoed at the bottom of the pool.
"Could you pass me a pool float, Tojo-san?" she asked the maid, who was arranging cool drinks on one of the dainty pool tables at the side of the pool, receiving a cute float in the shape of a large pink popsicle in response.
"Ah, this is the life," she sighed, leaning back and taking in the sight of her remaining classmates having fun. K1-BO isn't(can't?) swimming, just looking slightly glumly at the water while Miu teased him from the pool. Kiyo is helping Kirumi with putting up the rest of the parasols and the drinks, giving the place a real party vibe.
Just when she had a fleeting moment in which she thought she was in heaven, hell broke loose.
It started when she felt something tug at her leg, pulling her under.
She panicked for a moment(as pretty much everyone else in her position would), splashing her arms rapidly until she saw a mischievous grin hiding inside a mop of chin-length purple hair."Kokichi! It isn't funny, you know!"
"Neeheehee! You're so cute when you're scared, Akamatsu-chan!"
He swam away, probably to terrify more victims.
Kokichi was <em>really</em> annoying at times. Kaede, who always thought of herself as a very tolerating human being, was getting pretty sick of it.
Just as she had returned to her original place in the middle of the donut, she felt something slimy and long tickle to ankle. At first, she thought it was Kokichi again and ignored it, until she notices Kokichi playing water polo with Kaito on the opposite side of the pool.
