Chapter 5: Swimming Fool

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The Greens enter a room wearing swimsuits

Cricket: Wow...

Baraka: Wowza!

Tilly: Oh, it's beautiful.

Bill: An indoor pool! Now I've seen everything.

They goes up to the pool

Cricket: This is the biggest swimmin' hole We've ever seen! We can't wait to swim into the...

They notices the diving board at the end of the room which goes all the way up to the ceiling

Cricket: Whoa...

They stares at it in a trance

Accused Diving Ring Boy: Wahoo!

He jumps in

The splash causes an enormous wave to soak Cricket and Baraka; some of it gets all over his eyes, turning them red and veiny and start to tear up

Baraka: We don't know if We're overcome with wonder or if it's the chemicals in the water, but that's the most incredible thing We've ever seen -- AGH!! It's the chemicals!

They rubs eyes

Baraka: Tilly, we have to jump off that high dive pronto!

She arrives wearing makeshift scuba gear

Tilly: No can do, brothers. There's treasure in this water, and I aim to find it.

Bill: All right, you kids all set?

Cricket, Baraka, Tilly: Yup./Yes./Yuh-huh.

Bill: Good, 'cause I will be taking this opportunity to relax in the "hot tub". Never tried one before, but I hear it's very soothing. Maybe I'll do some deep breathin', y'know?

He inhales, only to suck in an aroma of something and cough; the kids cough as well as the aroma floods and clears to reveal Gramma with a rather improbable hairstyle and using hairspray

Gramma: Cut the chatter and listen up! I just got my hair did, and it looks gorgeous. But if one drop of water gets on there and ruins it,

She holds her hairspray at them; they shriek

Gramma: I'll have all your hinies!

Bill: Don't worry, Ma. We'll splash in the other direction.

Gramma: HA!

She holds hairspray out

Bill: I mean, we won't splash at all.

Gramma: Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be soakin' my pigs.

Cricket: I don't get it, Gramma. What's the point of soakin' your toes if you got a wooden leg?

He knocks her prosthetic leg

Gramma: 'Cause I do what I want!

She pokes him with her cane

Cricket: Ah! Ah!

Gramma: Now go have fun.

Baraka: Yaaaaaay!

Tilly: Okay.

Cricket and Baraka POV

Baraka: Move aside! Move aside! Makin' our way to the high dive!

Shows a group of kids

(???): Yeah, my dad said I couldn't, but then I totally did it anyway. I didn't even care.

Other kids: Whoa!/Wow!

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