To Infinity & Beyond

You make that sound like a really bad thing. This is Florida, we're in college. Be free, go wild.

Well, now I feel incredibly lazy! I should have spent the day preparing for classes, most likely. Was there anything good over at the library?

Do it the ole fashioned way: procrastinate until midnight. Um, well.. if you're into superhero comics then hell yeah. 

It’s a pleasure, Danny. I’m Dallas. So, did you spend today in bed?

Nice to meet ya. Surprisingly, I didn't. Spent it in the library reading a few of the new additions.

I don’t know who you are but I like you already. 

Danny, and I do try to be likable so thanks.

I wish we were actually on a boat, and not in these dorm rooms, patiently waiting to return to hell tomorrow.

By boat I'd hope you meant cruise because those are fun from what I've heard. Unless, you know, there's always that one drunk person who gets murdered or something and then no one can leave until it's solved and it turns out it was the daughter. Yeah, I'd rather be there, too.

I believe we're on the same boat with that one, Val. 

Late Night Swim || Danny + Carmen

Carmen pushed some hair out of her face. She could feel it drying from having not been under the water in so long, but she didn’t mind. “No, no, you didn’t ruin anything. It’s just something I come and do that’s all. I’ve just never been able to get anyone to do it with me honestly,” she told him with a shrug. She stared at him for a while, repeating what she had just said in her head. Would she feel comfortable? She wouldn’t be uncomfortable. Besides, this kid seemed relatively harmless- sweet and kind. Carmen bit her lip, smiling before she replied, “Well. I mean. I know your name. So we’re not really strangers anymore. And besides, you seem like an okay guy. So if it really does make you more comfortable, I’d be willing to, yeah.”

Danny couldn't do anything more than nod his head at her, showing that he understood just didn't know how to commentate on it was all. It was a weird thing to do, but he couldn't exactly say anything more than just that. And, he had to admit, it did seem like fun. Though he enjoyed swimming in general. He chuckled at her reasoning for why she'd be okay with not being in her clothes anymore, finding that to be the weirdest thing of all. "You're.. kind of odd, you know that, Carmen?" He said, an unfamiliar look in his eyes as a soft smile spread across his face. "But that's alright because, hell, I am too most of the time. Tell you what, I'll be your.. swim partner in crime. Or.. just partner in crime in general, so you don't have to be alone on this, and clothes are an option, but..." Danny was speaking pretty fast before getting up on his feet, hovering over the pool's edge. "Just to make it fair as of now, you know?" He said, throwing himself into the pool as he jumped, cannonball style, into the deep end. Coming up, he flipped his short hair out of the way of his eyes. "Oh! And you seem like a great girl, if I'm being honest."

Night classes? They must be on a Friday then, huh? I mean, freshmen year I had a night class on Friday and I absolutely hated it. It wasn't a bad class though.

Of course it is. It's Sunday.That's, like, the first rule of being absolutely lazy.

That's what I say everyday of my life.

What have you been doing that isn't sex? Assuming it isn't since you said and I quote, "not in a good way."

Late Night Swim || Danny + Carmen

Carmen smiled. “Nice to meet you too Danny,” she said in response, slightly embarrassed that she hadn’t said it first. She was usually so on top of things like that- her manners and such. But he was throwing her off in a big way. “Don’t worry about it. I was absorbed in what I was doing, should’ve been paying more attention. It is a public pool,” she said with a shrug. She shook her head in response to his last statement and then said, “Oh goodness no! This is just something I always do before I go home after the semester is finished. You’re more than welcome to join me. And if the clothes are making you uncomfortable, I can take them off, I don’t mind.” Wow that must’ve sounded odd- Carmen had basically just offered to take her clothes off for this stranger if it would make him more comfortable. Smooth move.

"Wow, so it's.. like a tradition? And I kind of just messed that up, didn't I?" He asked, laughing nervously as he ran his moist hand through his hair. Honestly, he knew she didn't mind him being there, or led him to believe, but he couldn't help but to feel like an intruder despite the circumstances. His brows rose hearing her last offer and he tried to stifle the laugh that threatened to leave his chest, letting his head fall into himself. "If I said that would make me feel more comfortable, would you? Because, you know, that isn't exactly um.. something you should just offer, you know?" Danny asked, laughing only to, hopefully, ease the awkwardness that was his conversational skills when meeting new people, and the fact that this new girl offered to be mostly naked, and wet. 

Then I believe that makes us friends. Stop by and see me tomorrow and we can have a… friendly chat?

I am exhausted