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Who: Errybody
What: HOT SPRINGS: HOT SPRINGS EDITION
Where: Hot springs. Different hot springs. Not the hot springs that turned everyone into six year olds.
When: March 25th - March 29th
Warnings: Cursed springs. Sex swapping.

Right outside the resort is the main attraction, a collection of natural hot springs, separated by gender with a co-ed spring in the middle. Despite it being late March, there's still a dusting of snow on the ground, making the warm springs all the more inviting.

If the main resort area is too crowded for you, there are whispers of a secluded, private spring down a secret path. It's supposed to be very nice--if you can find it.

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All they'd wanted was some private time. And that was hard to get in co-ed springs. Voile wasn't particularly keen on advertising her relationship with Marie and it didn't take much observance to know that he felt precisely the same way. Consequently, if they were going to do anything together, they had to do so away from prying eyes and ears. And if that secret spring was anything the way whispers were making it out to be... it must have been pretty darn secret.

Donned in a flowery robe of pastel shades, Voile had wound an arm around Marie's and was gently tugging him along, not thinking it impossible that he probably would have been happier being left alone in one of the resort rooms. But he was humouring her, just as he frequently did, and it made her want to burst with some form of foreign joy.

"Thank you for coming along," she reassured him with a reserved smile. "I'm happy that we get to do at least something together."

If it had been left up to Marie, he probably would have spent most of the trip alone in his room, leaving only to explore the hot springs when the sun had gone down and most people had retreated to their own rooms. But Voile had definitely caught his attention when she mentioned there being a secret spring. Maybe he could spend most of his time there instead.

As Voile led him in whatever direction she thought they were supposed to go, Marie seemed uncharacteristically content. The usual tension in his expression wasn't quite as noticeable. He didn't even seem to mind the way she held his arm with her own as they walked. And he might have been looking at her and met her smile with a halfway smile of his own.

"Yeah," he replied quietly. Maintaining his halfway smile and raising his eyebrows almost as if he were relieved about something, he continued, "It's cool you found some place out-of-the-way or, like, whatever."

Voile nodded in agreement when she heard him. Looking over her shoulder to him, her pace slowed, since she wasn't in any sort of haste and she didn't want him thinking that she was. "Yeah... I went and visited the co-ed springs and even the all-girls springs too, but it was... a little awkward, I guess. I've never been to hot springs before and it was nice to spend time with some of my friends, but I'm not sure how I feel about being in springs with everyone."

Looking ahead of them again in the direction that she'd heard was well on the way to the private and well-hidden springs, she drew in a deep breath. "I imagined you probably wouldn't want to join everyone. It didn't seem like your kind of... thing. I thought it might make you uncomfortable, so I didn't want to take you with me. Not to the co-ed springs, I mean." Then her expression softened, "But something private I thought would be perfect."

As she continued, she stammered minutely, unable to hide the way her cheeks coloured, "B-besides, it's just nice to be with you like this. It's hard for us to be together when everyone else is around, right?"

When Voile looked back at him, Marie allowed a second of eye contact before shyly glancing away again. His near-smile didn't fade, rather it just more closely matched his shy disposition. Every so often he'd steal another glance, just barely long enough to catch a glimpse of the look on her face or the adorable way her cheeks seemed to redden the more she talked. He nodded along with her, silently reassuring her that he was listening.

"Yeah... I like it better when we can be alone," he said without much thought. A beat passed and he wished he would have phrased it differently. Quickly, he added, "'cause, like, I don't like being around a lot of people all at once like that."

Which was pretty much what Voile had already said. Marie shrugged, more at himself than for any other reason.

He was being cute. ... Okay. He was being himself. She didn't dare say it, though, for fear that he might possibly stop. The thought in itself a bit funny because Marie not being Marie was absolutely impossible. She only ever wanted him to be himself, flaws and everything (though to be fair, Voile had never really noticed much about him that constituted as a 'flaw').

His words found her ears and a brief pause in her step, she gave him a sidelong glance, longer than the others. If she'd not been blushing already, she knew very well she would have been after such brazen words, even if they'd not come out as he'd intended them to. In fact, she was positive that was the case because while Marie was occasionally bold, he was never so direct with her.

As he covered himself, she found herself smiling a... knowing smile, as if she'd figured him out. "Well... I like being alone with you simply for the sake of being alone, too." A mild confession that she thought was safe to share with him.

It was safe, provided Voile didn't mind the way Marie nervously glanced away. He laughed very quietly, trying to ease his being flustered. With an unsteady exhale, Marie looked back at Voile with a sideways smile.

"I... yeah," was really all Marie could manage at the moment. "Me too..."

The air was getting warmer, the further Voile guided Marie down the path. They were definitely getting closer to the hidden spring. Marie walked just ever-so-slightly ahead of Voile, looking back at her once he saw the spring. Thankfully, it was completely vacant.

Oh, really?

A brief moment of surprise that relaxed into not so much knowing as it was acceptance. It was something else for Marie even say something akin to honesty of such magnitudes. What else could she do but accept it and appreciate it? For that reason alone, it was hard for her not to always wear a smile around the wartortle.

"I think I see it," she said as she stayed behind him, loosening her grasp on him all the same. "I'm a little excited. All the way out here, private and secluded." She moved a hand over her heart and felt her cheeks grow hot.

I wonder why I'm getting so nervous, though. There's nothing for me to be nervous about.

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Secret Spring - [At Some Discernible Point] - Voilarie [Closed]

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