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“Have fun!” Val called after Velvette as she ran off to the pools and slides.
“Hot tub?” Vox proposed.
“Hot tub.”
Vox and Val found a hot tub and Vox sent away the few people who tried to intrude on the space they’d chosen as theirs (so rude, really!) with a swirl of his hypnotic eye.
It was better if people couldn’t splash them, between the TV head and the moth wings. Vox sat on one of the steps leading in, keeping his head and neck well above water, and Val just dipped his feet in, wings held back far from the edge of the hot tub.
They all got let in for free in exchange for some promotional material for this kind of thing, but really, that was all Velvette. She ran the social media, and she was the one who got to enjoy the whole experience this time anyway since it was a water park.
The Vees were just a package deal.
“No splashing,” Vox said with his back to Val’s feet.
“No splashing,” agreed Val, partially for his own sake, with a playful poke of his foot into Vox’s back.
“Fuck, I wish I could lean back in the hot tub like before,” Vox said absently to himself after a while.
Val pulled him against his legs and leaned him back against them.
They didn’t say anything about it. They didn’t say anything about Val starting to rub his shoulders, which carried a lot of tension, either.
“There’s Velvette,” Vox said with a nod towards her as she came shooting out of a water slide a ways off.
“She’s having the time of her life, isn’t she?”
“Time of her afterlife, I’d say so.”
They might’ve waved if there were any chance she’d notice.
After a while Velvette rocked up with each of their favorite smoothies and slid into the hot tub where she sat opposite Vox, sitting in it the way most people are supposed to, up to her shoulders.
“You boys having fun?”
“Mmm,” Vox hummed agreeably under Val’s hands. “You?” he thought to ask after a second.
“Yeah. Time of my life.”
“Knew it,” Vox said to Val. “You looked like it.”
“Yeah, this place’s slides are great. They’ve really gone all out.” She figured there was no harm in asking “You sure I can’t get you to even do a lazy river with me?”
“We’re sure,” Val answered.
“Vox?” Val was a more obvious no with the wings.
“I’m sure.”
“Suit yourselves. I’m just taking a food break, figured I might as well hang out.”
Vox and Val shrugged. If she wanted to.
They finished their smoothies and Velvette told them about all her favorite attractions so far while the boys nodded along. After she figured she’d had enough of a break she climbed out the hot tub, opposite the boys, to avoid splashing them or fogging up Vox’s screen any more than it had to be.
“Later losers!” she called out cheerfully as she walked off.
A little while later the fries Vox had asked Velvette to have sent over to them arrived.
“This could be worse,” Vox said after finishing a fry Val had fed him with one of his free arms.
“Mm. It could be worse.”
They might bitch about it a little bit on the way home, acting like Velvette was the only one who’d had a nice time, but really, it could be worse.