rubber duckie...you're the one.

Sighing, Aven Silver leaned back in the warm water, resting his head on the edge of the tub and closing his eyes, smiling lightly, relaxed.

He opened his eyes suddenly, eyes filling up with mischief. He breathed in a deep breath and ducked under the water, pushing all the air out of his lungs in enormous bubbles that rose around his head, making his hair float above his head.

Aven pushed off the bottom of the tub and broke through the surface of the water, inhaling deeply, pushing his sopping hair out of his eyes and rubbing the excess water out of them. He let his arms fall to his naked sides, into the steaming water.

He replaced his rear on the ceramic seat in the warm water, running his hands through the water and splashing it out of the tub onto the deck.

Pure happiness.

Charlie walked out of the old-school locker rooms (I'm not sure what they used before modern locker rooms x]), already in her towel. She was a bit disappointed to see that someone was already in the bath house, since she planned on meeting Rowan here and they barely got any time alone anymore, but she was also happy that it was Aven, since they got along so well. Plus, it was a pretty nice sight seeing him in the steamy bath.

'Charlie!' Mae said, though the bird couldn't even keep her eyes off of him. Charlie just replied with a silent laugh and walked over.

"Hey there," she said to him, standing on the edge of the bath. She was a bit nervous at the idea of getting in the bath with him possibly peeking, since she was still sixteen and immature. She figured she'd hopefully make small talk until someone else got there (hopefully Rowan, but anyone would do). "Nice seeing you again."

Cray was hiding, she would have gotten into the bath earlier, but there was already a dude in there. Eventually, a girl joined the boy. They seemed to have known each other. Sighing a sigh of relief, knowing that now there was a girl in the bath, Cray got up from her hiding place, and with a towel wrapped titghtly around her, she got into the bath, smiling at the other two clio's shyly.

By the time Rowan got to the bathhouse the entire room was filled with steam. Clutching a towel around his waist he made his way to the water, noticing that three other clio were there. Sigh...once again, it seemed like getting to be alone with Charlie was only wishful thinking.

At least one of them was Charlie, he noted. He didn't pay too much attention to the other two, mostly because he had become momentarily distracted by the sight of Charlie wearing nothing but a towel. Finally he tore his eyes away from her and saw that the other two were Aven and Cray (who also looked appealing in a towel, not that Rowan would ever admit to thinking it.) Well at least they were clio he knew and was kind of friends with.

"Um...hi everyone," he said awkwardly. He didn't really want to just...get completely naked in front of everyone, so he decided to wait until it was so steamy no one could see before getting in the water.

To be completely honest, Aven wasn't at all distracted by the two girls wearing only towels. He wasn't the type to be physically attracted in a sexual way. He was just very friendly. It was also unjust to consider him aware that the people he'd hit on were acutally being hit on by him. He just did things.

He smiled at Charlie, "Hi!" He stood up on the ceramic seat to be closer to her, not even considering the fact that he'd lost his towel hours ago judging by the prunes on the pads of his fingers and toes. He shivered, his naked self entirely exposed to the cold and sunk back down in the warm water. He noticed Cray peer out and smile. He waved at her, but was distracted fully by Rowan come in with a towel. He smiled at him and let his head fall back below the water, so just his face was exposed, his dark hair floating, framing his grinning face.

Charlie was thankful that a girl came out and towards them, and was even happier when Rowan came too. Fortunately when Aven stood up to get close to her, she happened to be gazing at Rowan's really hot body. Damn, she had hot friends / a hot boyfriend. By the time she looked back over Aven, he had gone back in the water and was sort of...looking at Rowan. Charlie had pretty much forgotten that Aven was attracted to Rowan, but the way he was looking at him was an obvious reminder. Oh well, it was true. Rowan was pretty hot.

So anyways, she looked to the girl who had gone into the bath with her towel (weird, but a good way of getting in without getting naked) and thought of introducing herself, but she was distracted by the fact that Rowan had walked right over to her. Yummeh.

Cray found a good spot to sit, and sat. She saw Rowan aproach the water, and for the first time ever, relized how attractive he was. Then she looked towards the other boy in the bath, and watched him stand up and move, getting an "accidental" glance at his unmentionables. She covered her mouth and giggled. She focused then on the other boys face, he, was quite attractive.

"Hey," Rowan said to Charlie, smiling and trying hard to keep his eyes level with hers. He had to remember that there were others there, others that weren't allowed to know about them.

He was pretty sure Cray and Charlie had never met, so he figured he could introduce them, since they didn't seem to be introducing themselves anytime soon. "Oh. Charlie, this is Cray. She's my friend from Dian. Cray, this is Charlie, another Overloridian." He wondered if he should include Aven. Charlie knew him, but Cray didn't seem to. "And I don't know if you've met, but that's Aven."

There, now everyone knew each others' names. That would help things get less awkward, at least a little bit. It felt kind of weird to introduce everyone, but no one was talking so it kind of seemed necessary.

Aven lifted his head from the water and smiled. "Yeah, I'm Aven," he poked his thumb into his chest and looked over at Cray. "Hello!" Aven waved energetically at her. He noticed she was smiling, so he looked around and then at himself. "What's funny?" He asked, wading over to Cray.

Charlie smiled and nodded at Cray. "Nice to meet you," she said, but she quickly noticed that Cray had better things to look at (like the gorgeous naked man wading over to her), and she figured this was a good time to get into the bath, or else she might not ever be able to. She looked at Rowan, smiling a bit out of nervousness, since neither of them had seen the other naked (and now they were finally going to...with two other clio with them). She looked down to the water and slipped off her towel, slipping into the water as quickly as possible, Rowan going in next to her. She wanted to hold his hand underwater...but she thought it would look really suspicious...since they were naked and all.

Charlie was such a dirty girl. x]

After Rowan introduced the two unknown clio as Aven and Charlie, she smiled and waved at both of them. Then, relizing that Aven was wading over to her, she blushed a deep red, and hid her whole body under the water so just her head stuck out.

"Oh God, oh God, oh God." she thought in her head.

As Rowan and Charlie got in the water together [NAKED] Rowan couldn't help but think about how much more sensual this would be if Cray and Aven weren't there. Was is so much to ask to be alone with her?

"So..." he began, unsure of what to say. He wanted to talk to Charlie but it was hard because they couldn't seem too flirty or anything. At the same time he didn't want to resort to small talk. He noticed that that dick Wesley wasn't anywhere to be seen. "No bodyguard today?"

Aven's face clouded. He looked down at his body again. "I asked you what was funny." He frowned for a moment, then broke into a smile. "Why are you hiding? Is there something wrong with me? Am I bleeding blue from somewhere?" He wasn't kidding; all of a sudden, it was urgent that Aven find out what was wrong with the way he looked, and he wasn't smiling anymore.

Until a thought crossed his mind. "Oh," he laughed, putting his hands over his chest. "You can see my flat chest." He sunk into the water so his knees scraped the bottom. "Better?"

Charlie shook her head at Rowan. "Nope, no Wes tonight. We all had a pretty good agreement that it would be better if my bodyguard didn't see me naked," she said, smiling. Damn, she'd brought up being naked again. Shit. Probably not the best subject to talk about right now. I mean, it was obvious that they were all naked...everyone knew. xD

Charlie, not being the best at starting conversations in awkward situations, ended up just talking about more perverted things...but in a less conspicuous way. "So...yeah...it's getting pretty hot and steamy in here, huh?" she said, nudging Rowan with her elbow.

Cray felt bad for making the beautiful clio stop smiling, and as he sank under the water, onto his knees, Cray babbled out, "Oh, no, no! It's not your chest! It's not you at all! In fact I rather enjoy looking at your chest! Er..."

"Stupid, Cray, you're so stupid!" she she thought, and then mentally hit herself.

"I'm just, well, sorta naked is all..." Cray said, her face almost as red as a tomato.

Rowan laughed a little at Charlie's comment. She was so damned cute...in a kind of perverted way. He reached out under water and took her hand, holding it in his. It was getting so steamy it was almost hard to see. Rowan could barely make out the silhouettes of Aven and Cray, who were about ten feet away. He could hear them talking though, but didn't eavesdrop. They sounded like they were getting along.

'Say something flirty back,' Nym advised from outside the tub. She didn't like water all that much, so she stayed out of it. She'd actually been quiet the entire time they'd been there, up until now. 'C'mon, do it.'

Feeling kind of stupid, Rowan took Nym's advice and replied, quiet enough so that the other two wouldn't hear, "The bath isn't the only thing that's hot."

Now he felt REALLY stupid. Oh well.

"Oh! Me too!" Aven laughed, relieved that it wasn't his body making her act weird. Well it was. But it was positive, and that he could deal with. He grinned and stood up. "You are in a bath tub..." He grinned, sliding over to her and sitting on the ceramic. "It's what it's for."

He crossed his legs and sat on the ceramic Indian style, looking over at her and smiling. "In fact, I'm always naked when I take baths," he said matter of factly, as if it was strange that he did so.

Akia walked in the room with a robe around her. She looked around and noticed others already in the water. She blushed and peered around. She was unsure if she wanted to leave or get in. On the other hand leaving now would make her look like an idiot. She decided she might as well just get in at this point. She slowly unrobed facing the wall than walked toward a pool of water and placed her foot in than slowly slid the rest of her body in untill she was submerged to her shoulders.