.Uncool.

[D E M O N //]

Standing in the water Dose kept thrashing around to get out, he clearly did not feel comfortable. Without hesitating Daniel took a step closer to the stallion and began to stroke his neck while speaking comfortingly to him. If he had been any more aware of his own safety he wouldnt have gotten that close to the thoroughbreds stompign hooves, paticularly not in bare feet. But, Daniel wasnt known for precausions about his own well being. It was common knowledge that he cared about his horses health and safety more then his own.

After a while the stallion calmed down and resigned to stand in the water, though clearly not enjoying it to much. Sighing, Daniel led him back onto the sand and walked up the beach and left him munching on the greens just a little bit away from Glow. That should keep him preoccupied for a while, he figured. And he didnt think the bay would go to far, after all, he clearly did not like moving on the sand.

He ran back to the ocean where Estee was and splashed far enough into the water before doing a shallow racing dive. He went just deep enough to not hit his head on the sandy bottom before standing back up on his feet. He was now past his waist in water, not quite up to his chest. He shook out his black hair in a way that might have reminded anyone around him of a dog. His hair was logner then usual multiplying the messy affect by tenfold. He smiled at Estee and waited to see if she would join him.

[DJ]

Of course the teenager would have joined him. She smiled, wading out a bit farther. Her arms extended to the side a bit. The faint current towards the shore tested her balance as she continued into the deeper water. Walking in water was hard enough, but adding the extra few pounds of force, wasn't making anything easier. At all. But as she was up to her waist, she halted on the sandy bottom, staring at the boy in front of her.

"Now what?" she mused, tilting her head to the side a bit. Her stringy, still wet hair hung loosely and her bangs fell over her eyes. Her lips curled into a smirk and she glanced over at the still-entertained horses. She focused back on Daniel as she saw they were happily tearing at the foliage. Pale fingers reached up and pushed her dark bangs away from her eye before the female tipped forward, dipping her hands into the water. She rose an eyebrow and her smirk grew as the teenagers hands rose quickly, scooping a fair amount of water with them and splashing it towards the boy.

[D E M O N //]

Daniel knew that the greenery would keep the horses reocupied for quite sometime, and by the time they really needed to go get them there kin would probably already begin to prune. He noticed Dose start to paw at the ground like he usually did to cause a scene but stoped at the feeling of the sand. He clearly didnt like the footing, which was rather entertaining since a good portion of arenas were full of sand. It explained why he loved trails so much.

Daniel smirked as he felt water hit him. Surprisingly he had expected that. It really was quite surprising since he really had no idea about people, but somehow, Estee seemed different. It was like everyones mind read html but his was programed in php, but Estee could decode it. It seemed odd. Maybe they were both programed differently. Daniel had a hanit of making comparisons like that sometimes since he liked the turn things into such forms that he could understand. And though he was quite an inteligent well read student, one thing that escaped his grasp was the human mind. He had no idea how it worked, or how it was supposed t process information. He knew his, he spent a lot of time in it, more then most people. ut that didn't see to help with the majority of the population.

He positioned his arm so it was half submerged in water before pushing it away from him causing a wall of watter to splashed in the direction of his fellow. This was not a situation that he had ever been in before. Was this what friendship was? Was a friend someone you culd do pointless things like splash water at eachother? Because he had never had someone to share the time with before.

[DJ]

Another grin spread over Estee's face. She was almost worried at first for catching the boy off guard, but as he turned with a smile, her heart fluttered. His smile was wonderful. Of course, the only proper response to a wall of water in his direction, was of course, a wall of water in her direction. Of course, she wasn't caught off guard. The splash was expected. She'd most likely have been more caught off guard if he hadn't splashed her. And she'd have been worried at that point. Was that was the phrase "fight fire with fire" meant? Well, okay, maybe that's not what they meant but it seemed to be a good phrase at this time. Oh well. The teenager had gotten the response she wanted and that created a cheerful feeling.

The female simply plugged her nose and tipped backwards into the waist deep water swimming out farther. Daniel followed and Estee stopped paddling to allow herself to sink into the deeper water and as her head was covered, she spun onto her stomach, placing her arms in front of her, propelling herself in one long stroke closer to Daniel. She reached back towards the surface, behind Daniel and placed her hands on his shoulders, pushing down and attepmting to sink him.

[D E M O N //]

As Estee headed into deeper water Daniel followed her. Daniel loved to swim, but he had not actually gone swimming in quite some time. He was always at the barn and it was not like he was just about to go somewhere and go swimming by himself. But in middle school he had been on the swim team for a year or two, but got annoyed by all the other kids so he ended up giving it up. It was a great way to keep in shape and was a surprisingly strenuous sport. He might not have a 'swimmers body' but he was still pretty strong.

Which meant as he felt Estee's weight on his shoulders he could easily have kept himself above water and did for a second until his devious little mind kicked into gear. Daniel allowed himself to be pushed under water before grabbing Estee's ankle and pulling her down with him.

[DJ]

As Estee rose and Daniel went down, she bit her lip, making an attempt to hold back her smile. Of course, she failed, but she gasped as her ankle was grabbed and she was pulled down into the water as well. A wall of bubbles appeared in front of her face as she blew the air in her lungs out of her nose in a laugh of sorts, she wasn't even sure if it was technically a laugh, but that helped her sink a bit faster. Because the lake was fairly clean, and of course, not salty, she was able to open her eyes and as the bubbles passed she saw Daniel.

He looked quite triumphant as though pulling her down was his mission that'd he'd successfully completed, although Estee assumed almost anyone could have done it because she didn't weigh enough to fight back against the pull. But she moved toward him under the water, sharing a smile before holding up a finger as a "hold on." It didn't take her long, but her arms alone brought her to the surface and she took another breath before sinking back down. Never swimming often, she was able to, but didn't have the ability to hold her breath for very long periods of time.

Back in front of Daniel, her lips seemed to be frozen in the smile she was wearing and her arms lifted, wrapping around his neck and folding onto each other as their faces were only a few inches away.

[D E M O N //]

Daniel watched Estee go up to the surface not wanting to follow her. Of course he needed oxygen, but there was something about being underwater that he found odly comforting. It was always so quite, all the sounds of the world were totally gone. So instead of following her to the surface he let himself sink down to the sandy bottom of the lake.

As Daniel felt her arms around his neck he manovered his around her waist. It would have been the perfect oppertunity for a kiss had they not been completely submerges in water. He brushed her hair out of her face letting his brown eyes meet both of hers for a change. There he stayed waiting till his lungs felt like they were on fire before pushing off the ground and propelling the both of them to the surface with the added propultion of the stream of water that followed ehind him as he kisked his legs till the two of tem broke he surface allowing his body to replenish itself with much neded oxygen.

[DJ]

Oh course it would have been a perfect opportunity for a kiss, but knowing the breathless feeling it left her with, when she gasped for air like a fish out of water, it was safer not to. Considering they were under the water and Estee's breath-holding abilities were the worst she'd ever seen.

She was glad Daniel went up when he did. She was due for clean oxygen and it would have been embarrassing to need to go up twice when Daniel had the ability to hold his breath that long. At least embarrassing in Estee's mind. But she was pulled up next to Daniel, without needing to kick her legs. Her chest expanded, taking in the needed oxygen with ease.

Her bare skin on her stomach against him was another somewhat awkward feeling. But it didn't bother her as much as she'd imagined. Actually, she was surprised she thought as little of it as she did. And now would have been a better kiss opportunity, but the teenager was never one to start anything, so she glanced at his face and forced herself to stop thinking about it. About all of it. And yet it didn't seem to want to leave her brain...

[D E M O N //]

It took Daniel a moment to catch his breath, after all, he had been underwater for quite sometime before coming up for air. The human body was not meant to go without oxygen for any legnth of time. Daniel tread watrer easily supporting not only his weight, but some of Estee's as well from the position they were in holding onto eachother.

After a minute of planing Daniel quickly pulled all of her weight into his arms before throwing her into the deeper water and taking off at a decent paced front crawl. He heard a splash behind him as he swam away, not to shore but off to the side of where they had been.

It was really odd hanging out with someone who didnt hate him. But he wasnt really sure how to react in the situation. But she had splashed him and then pushed him under water, she did have to instiate something, right?

[DJ]

The teenager's arms stayed firm around Daniel's neck as one arm moved to her back and his other moved behind her folded knees. "Oh god." As soon as she figured out what actually happening, her arms released from around his neck, only keeping one there as the other moved to plug her nose. Her eyes squeezed shut as she felt him sink a bit into his knees before rising and easily propelling Estee towards the deeper water.

She hit the surface with a loud splash, surprised with how far she actually went and at the pure strength behind the toss. She sunk fast; her feet finally touched the bottom and she pushed herself back to the surface, treading water and staying in place. "Daniel, where are you going?" she called with a smirk as he seemed to be heading in the direction they'd come from earlier.

"You're supposed to come and get me," she laughed, raising her arms straight above her head and sinking back into the water. It was such a perfect temperature. The water was so comfortable. Unfortunately, the air felt freezing whenever you were out of the water, so under the water was the perfect place to be.

[D E M O N //]

The two horses had moved loser together durring their grazing, and Dose cearly did not appretiate this. Even if it was primarily his doing. Pinning his ears back he took a snap at Glow who retaliated. Noticing what happened let out a rather loud growl that Dose obviously heard because he stepped back keeping his ears back and kicked out with his hooves, but went on to leave the older horse alone.

To bad the horses couldnt seem to get along as well as their owners. Who were getting along swimmingly. But Daniel didnt think that Overdose was going to e getting along with anyone anytime soon. Maybe as he got older he would mellow down a bit, but he wasnt entirely sure.

an evil smile slid onto Daniels face as she said he was supposed to come get her. He obliged, just not in the way that she probably intended.diving under water with a deep breath he sae past her before doing a U turn so thta he was swimming right at he, from te back. Without coming up for air he managed to make it to her without making a sound and tackled her in a giant bar hug under water.

[DJ]

Glow's ears pinned and his nostrils flared as he shot the stallion a dirty look, but being passive, he stepped away from the bay who clearly did not want to be polite. Estee hadn't seen the interaction, as she'd been under the water.Her eyes stayed shut tight. Hopefully Daniel was coming... She thought she'd felt an extra wave of pressure as though something were next to her and her eyes shot open, not seeing anything in the dark greenish color from the sun reflecting off of the top of the water. The thought of a fish or other creature caused her to look to the left, and right of herself frantically, now almost frightened of being under the water alone. She certainly didn't believe anything was about to get her, but a small panic attack, was about ready to kick in.

Strong arms wrapped around her waist and she tensed, panicking for a moment before her brain actually figured out it was Daniel. She eased as her body was constricted and as the arms loosened a bit she spun to face him. It was only a moment before her lungs started to ache. She needed a breath, and Daniel seemed to recognize her face, lifting his weight, and some of hers to the surface.

They'd traveled a bit farther to shore as it seemed as they were both able to stand with their heads above water, even though Estee was on her tippy-toes. Her pale arms again, folded around his neck, and her feet strained as she got every bit of extra height she was able to. She pressed her lips to his.

As their lips touched, this time, Estee was curious on how far she should go. How far would he let her go? They were still continuing closed-lip kisses. What if one of them did something different. Estee was still unsure if she was ready to go farther. Oh what was she saying, she'd most likely be willing for anything. And if she was ready, as well as Daniel being, Estee didn’t exactly want to be the one to make the first move. She was really bad with that, and just continued Daniel’s actions. He knew what he was doing. Well. Maybe. If he didn’t, it seemed like he did.

[D E M O N //]

Daniel felt her tense as he reached her and was worried that he scared her. he awas about to release her when he felt her muscls relax He pushed back to the surface seriously needing air. He had swam a fair distance underwater and had not yet taken a breath. The pain in his lungs disappeared as they filled themselves with oxygen. And the rest of his muscles relaxed also having been deprived of the important gas.

Daniel wasn't sure how they had gotten closer to shore. But one second they were ver their head and the next he could stand. Of course, this meant that Estee still neede to stay up on her tip toes as he was a full head taller then she was standing over six foot himself.

As Estees lips reached his all other thoughts let his mind. With a mind of its own Daniels tongue traced Estee's lips finally ending a tentative nervous kiss. As soon as he realized what he was doing Daniel pulled away unsure f what he was doing. Were they ready for this? When was ready? What was he doing? "Sorry," he mumbled inaubly under his breath unsure of what to do now. He had such a grat friend, but as things went he had to totally blow it like he just did.

[DJ]

Her breathing stopped, as usual, as soon as their lips touched, this time before Daniel's tongue smoothed over her lips. Her lips began to part as soon as his tongue darted from his mouth, but he pulled away to soon and Estee glanced out at the lake, not at him, not down, not at the horses who were now farther away from each other, still happily gobbling at the leafage.

"It's okay," she murmured, struggling to keep the disappointment out of her voice. Her smile had subsided, but certainly not left completely. The corners of her lips were still twisted upward, but it didn't follow to her eyes.

She certainly wasn't disappointed about the kiss. It was after the kiss she disliked. When the boy had ended it. But her arms stayed around his neck, her feet screaming to go flat again, to not support all of her weight on the balls of them, almost all directly on her toes at the way she was standing.

“I love you," she whispered. That was the first time the words were spoken. But they felt so right at this moment in time. Her face stayed low and at first she wasn't even sure he'd heard her. But he must have...

[D E M O N //]

Daniel was not to good at reading people, but he could tell that Estee seemed disappointed. It seemed that he had pushed it a little too far, and now he felt awful about it. Estee was pretty much the only person that he had ever felt comfortable around, and now he had screwed it all up. Which was really terrible. It took every fiber of his being to stop himself from hoping onto Dose leaving his stuff and taking off back to the barn. That seemed to be what Daniel did when it appeared he screwed up.

Or maybe he was just a really bad kisser.

After all, she had kissed him back, which seemed like she was ready for it. So maybe he was just a terrible kisser. What seventeen year old had never kissed anyone before? Him. It didn't see, like there waas anything that he oculd do about it now, but he wished that he could go back in time and take it all back, but unfortunately he did not haver that ability. He was just an ordinary boy in an extraordinary worldd.

Daniels heart stopped as he heard the words that were whispered. At first he felt that he must have heard it and that e must seriously be going crazy. But looking at Estee he did not feel that that was the case. His heart kicked back into motion way faster then he was sure was healthy. "Estee, I..." he tried to say it, but he couldn't. He was so confsed by all these emotions and experiances that he had never before had, and he didnt know how to respond to them. Daniel was never one for saying things that he wasn't a hundred percent sure were true. He alway need to be sure befoe he acted, and now he wasn't. "I-I-I I really care about you, I've never felt about anyway this way." he admitted, "And I just don't know what to do with these feelings."