#anywhere

Txt: Have to wait and see I guess. But you might want to bring that suit you bought. You in? When? I can pick you up.

Txt: Screw this english paper. wanna go now?

Txt Hell yes! On the way. Bikini under warm clothes. I will have the rest.

And in due course, Adam knocks on the Wayburton door.

Piper answers, and is duly bundled up - rather unduly, as it's around 40°, but that hasn't stopped her from adding hat and scarf to the wintry attire. "Hey you!" She gives Adam a grin. "So you're really not gonna give me a clue? Not even ooooone?" She leans up to give him a quick kiss on the cheek in greeting.

He leans forward for the kiss. His energy practically has him vibrating. "Naw." Big grin "Come on...." he will take her hand if she lets him and once in the car, off they go.

((Assume Adam has called, texted, and seen her at school regularly? Attentive but not claustrophobicly so?))

((Confirmed!)) She takes his hand, letting their fingers intertwine, until they reach the car at least and he needs that hand to drive. "Is it far? Should I have packed a picnic lunch?"

"Nah, 30 minutes? And no, I brought some stuff." Smug, excited grin.

She bounces in the seat, impatient, and fiddles with the radio before settling on some pop music to hum along to as she rides along.

30 minutes later they are parked and he has a backpack, leading her into .... the woods?

.. ...Okay.....

"Oh. Cool! Nature is cool." She gives him a smile, though she's a bit unsure why she brought a swim suit, and reclaims his hand once he's out of the car.

Hand in hand they take a middling walk. He ducks them under and through some branches and the air is tainted with a faintly sulfurous smell. They reach a mossy, rocky clearing that holds a generous pond. The surface steams slightly in the moonlight.

It's a hot spring, there are some rocks ...and chimerical fumes wave and dance more visibly the closer they get.

Adam grins and moves behind her so she has a full view.

She sniffs the air and gives him a sidelong glance, a hint of a smile as she seems about to make a slightly off-color joke, when they turn around a bend in the path and the hot spring is visible in all of it's glory. "Ooooooooh....." She exhales in awe, looking up at Adam with wide eyes as soon as she can tear them away from the spring. "But... how? Has this always been here?!"

"I don't think so." Beaming "I think, maybe when the Dragon died....?"

For some reason, the mention of the dragon makes her blush slightly and grin, as though at a private joke. "Well that's lucky for you.... because if I found out you knew about this all along and were holding out on me..." The "threat", if that's what it was, loses a lot of it's impact both coming from a small and slender bit of a girl, and also that she is currently hopping up and down on one foot in her eagerness to yank her boots off.

"Oh, no way I would hold out on you....." and he starts stripping too.

She laughs and finally plops onto the ground to untie her boots, and quickly follows them by coat, zip-up jacket, sweater - oh, she's wearing her suit underneath her clothes. Not that there's a whole lot of it. The sky-blue swimsuit that Adam helped her pick out is tasteful, if a bit revealing - after all, it's not like she needs a ton of fabric to hold in her modest chest.

"I can't wait to test out the waters - are they as warm as they look?"

"Oh, yeah...... hot......" he breathes, transfixed, long John shirt gathered up over his abs in the act of pulling it over his head..... and there's a chance that is the answer to her question.

She moves past him to dip a hoof into the water, reaching out to trail her fingers across the revealed abs as she slides by. "Oooooh. That's good."

Adam gets the rest of his clothes off quick... Except for his bathing suit, which is under his clothes. He follows her into the water

She sits at the edge of the pool, legs dangling in, and waits for him to join her before she slides in the rest of the way - a quick inhalation at the sudden heat enveloping her, which then has her bobbing up out of the water. "Eeep!" A rather undignifiied squeak, and she plops back down, giving him a bit of a splash.

Adam hisses as he enters the water behind her. " pretty good, huh?"

"I swear, it's so nice I felt like I was floating for a moment there..."

He grins, and breathes in, holding his breath. Slowly..... He begins to rise out of the water. Floating.

She is sinking down into the water, eyes closed and practically purring in heated bliss... but when she reaches over towards him and finds empty air, her eyes crack open and her mouth falls open, before recovering into a sly grin. "Now THAT is interesting..."

He exhales slowly, gradually returning to the water to dunk. " cool, huh? You try it. Just breathe in, hold your breath... And when you're ready to come down exhale slowly."

She lets her arms drift out to float on the surface and sloooowly inhales, filling up her lungs in a long, deliberate breath that rises her body from the water, unveiling in by inch.

She catches a soft sigh from Adam as he watches.

She is short enough that she can almost get her tippy-hooves out of the water, before she has to exhale and comes back down. He does catch a glimpse of her furry tail peeking out from her bikini bottom before she is back in the spring's embrace. "Adam... it's... this is wonderful. Thank you so much for bringing me here."

"I am really, -really- glad you like it, Piper." Sincerely. "I thought of you the instant I saw it."

Piper bobs a little closer to him and then suddenly, she disappears under the water for a moment, diving smoothly as a fish - or as he might imagine a selkie! A ripple behind him, and her arms wraps around his torso from behind, as she lightly presses against him, her breath warm against his bare back. "Really?" Her voice lightly teasing. "Not another pretty girl who might also be at home in the water?"

He sighs at the touch, longingly. "Really. You."

He doesn't struggle against being held, either.

He really is nicely muscled; an athlete. And tall.

She lets her hands lightly explore over chest and stomach, letting herself float behind him and holding herself off the floor of the pond with her touch, buoyed up by the waters and vapors.

"I like how that feels." He whispers.

"Mmmm-hmmm... you ever thought of taking up swimming? Similar muscle tone to a lot of ballers..." Her hand traces over one of his arms. "Good biceps... ...shoulders..." Fingers lightly following her voice. "Well-defined back... abs..."

He shivers under her touch despite the relative warmth. "No. Can't swim."

Her hands drop away for a second in sheer astonishment, and she swirls around to face him. "You WHAT?"

He spins, startled. "What?" He shoots back even as his arms circle her waist. "I never learned."

She laughs and gives him a playful squeeze. "You're gonna take me to the beach, huh? Lucky I have lifeguard training - I'll give you mouth to mouth if the waves try to steal you away."

"You already take my breath away...." a murmur as he bends close to her.

She tilts her head back, awaiting his lips to reach hers - and then slips away at the last moment, just barely letting their lips brush. A spritely laugh. "Don't you know the rules? If you want a nymph, you have to catch her first." An inhalation, and she bounces up into the air - it looks like she was attempting to turn it into a dive, but the buoyancy of the fumes is still new to her and she shoots up further than expected, and splashes down a little ways away. Still, she laughs aloud as she moves towards the deeper end of the pool, shooting an enticing glance back at Adam.

A groan of disappointment as she escapes and he wades after her up to his waist.

((The water bottoms put at 8 feet, IIRC.))

(Which is nearly 3 feet over her head! 😄 )