Swimming with Ace

Mira is already awake before Ace, so she jumps with force onto her bed to wake her up.

Good morning. What are we doing today?

It's her first day at this place.

I already have something planned myself, which I didn't get to yesterday.

You said you would like to go outside with me.
Can we already do that now?

It's not what I had in mind, but if you want, I'd also be happy to do that.

I'm ready!

Are you always up this early?
I didn't expect that from you.

Usually not. But today there's a lot I want to do.

Ace realizes that Mira needs some distraction, so she wants to support her.

I still need to get ready.
If you want you can look for Resa.
She always needs some help.

Sure, I can do that.

She's probably in her wroking room.

Okay, I'm sure I'll find her.

So Mira looks for Resa and finds her in some messy room.

Oh, here you are!

Resa seems to be working on something.
And paper is lying around everywhere.

Oh, hi Mira.
Sorry, I don't have time for you right now.
I think I'm busy myself.

I just wanted to help you.

I doubt you'd be a help for me.
It's very complicated right now.
Explaining you the basics already takes hours, I guess.
But you like reading, so it might-

Okay, maybe another time.
But could you at least tell me what your project is about?

It's related to the differences between boys and girls.
And it's about creating people.
I'll tell you more, soon.

Thanks!
So I'll be outside with Ace then. See you!

Okay, bye.

Resa turns back to some paper, as if Mira wasn't even there.

She goes back to Ace.

Hey, are you ready?

You were quick! But I think we can already go.

Nice, let's go then!

Mira already runs ahead.
Ace slowly follows her outside.

There they start walking.

Where do we even want to go?

Oh, let's just keep walking.
We'll soon reach some place.

Okay, I'm already excited!

After walking for a while, they reach some lake.

Oh, nice! A lake!
Shall we go swimming right away?

How? We don't have any swimming clothes with us?

Even if Mira doesn't like being naked in public, she really wants to see Ace naked, so she doesn't care that much.

Just get naked and then immediately jump the water.
Nobody will see you.
Or don't you dare?

Yes, I can do it!

You first?

If you want to, I can also go first.
But don't get scared and back off.

Why would I?

Because I'm a boy. You'll soon see.

Ace quickly undresses while Mira looks at her intensly.

Don't look at me like this.

Oh, but what you have down there looks pretty strange.
And it's not even that big.

Why not big? You don't have a reference. I'm the only boy.

Mine is bigger at least.

What do you mean?
You're a girl.
A big hole, or what?

You want to see?

I'm not sure if I even want to know. Let's get in the water already.

Alright.

Ace goes ahead as planned and jumps into the water.
When Mira is naked, she jumps into the watre, too, following Ace.

And what are you going to do now?

Well, swimming, right?

Yeah, good plan.

They swim for a quite a while, but soon Mira gets a little bored.

Let's go back to the shore, where the water is not so deep, and play something.

Alright. We can do that too. Any ideas yet?

Yes, but I'll tell you in a minute.

So they swim back to shore.

Look, can you do that too?

She's lying on her back on the water.

Sure, it's no problem.

Ace now has to look at her tube.
Ace definitely has something different down there, but what Mira has also looks untypical for a girl.

But Ace isn't even sure about that. She has only seen Resa naked before.

Ace isn't sure about other girls, but some of the girls she met outside the valley must have been naked, too.
Ace didn't look too closely, but they definitely didn't have such a tube.

What's wrong, show me.

You just want to take another look at my tube, and then make fun of me.

Probably.

Mira continues to swim normally now.
But they are already close enough to the shore again, so Ace just starts walking.

Oh, now it's bigger.

Ace hides her tube with her hands and quickly leaves the water.

Mira follows her to some nice spot behind a small hill.

You won't be able to hide properly here.
We probably have to stay like this until we're dry.

I shouldn't have agreed to this.
I knew you would only make fun of me.

Can I see it just once more?
It's larger than mine now.

Fine, whatever...

Ace just sits down normally, not hiding his tube anymore.

Oh, I think it actually looks a little different.
And you also have something funny below.

Yeah, let's just not talk about it.

So may I touch instead?

Ace doesn't agree. But she also doesn't deny it.

So Mira just touches the hard tube and the squishy thing below and plays with it a little.
It's kind of funny and intriguing.

Ace likes these cute little hands touching her there.
She even touches the tube and slit of her friend herself.

But it's also weird to do this in public.
Even if they are behind a hill and nobody seems to be watching, somebody could notice anytime.

I think that's enough.
But maybe let's do this at home soon.

Okay. Let's do it another time. But I think it's fun.

Yeah, it is.
But for now let's just get dry and go home again.

Yeah, sure.

So they keep sitting in the grass, watching each others bodies.

This kind of reminds me of some nice day with Elena.
Sadly she's gone now.

Mira starts to sob.

So Ace decides to hug her.

No need to worry. I'm there for you now.

Yeah, thanks. I'm glad I met you.
Sometimes you just have to give up things, right?

I guess you're right.
If she wouldn't have left, you would just have stayed with her all the time. And in a few years, I probably won't be at this place anymore, and you would have missed me.

Ace lets go of her, but then Mira snuggles up to Ace on her own.

I think we're dry enough.
Let's go back home now.

Let's just stay a little longer...

Ace can't resist.
Despite her age, she acts pretty immature.
But Ace just has to learn to deal with this.