um... what are you doing? [private to Sapphire]

Simon shrugged, not feeling up to doing anything at the moment. Walking like this satisfied him enough. Maybe it was just his laziness kicking in, but he knew that his body wasn't keen on doing any kind of activity that would cause him to get drenched in sweat. He had just gotten out of the water anyway, he was already wet enough. "Normally I'd say prank a few campers, but I feel too... lazy," he finished with a soft tinkering laugh as he glanced at Natalie.

The daughter of Demeter was pretty, he would admit. If it were only up to his raging hormones, he might've already made a blatant move to hit on her a few moments ago. It was only thanks to what was left of his sane mind that he managed to hold on to the thought of Haven. Immediately as her name entered his mind, her face also seemed to slide in and just the mere thought of it was enough to coax a wide smile out of him. He blinked a moment later, the image of Haven fading to be replaced by Natalie.

Simon kept on smiling and he probably looked crazy like that, smiling for no reason. Then he laughed, which made it all the more weirder. Was he going crazy? Right, he thought. Crazy in love. Snorting, Simon couldn't believe how cheesy he sounded. Was he going to get even cheesier? He sincerely hoped not.

"What do you want to do? I think it'd be fair to let the ladies decide," Simon teased, throwing the question right back at Natalie. Even if his thoughts were drifting away with Haven, he knew that he had to focus on his company right now. Besides, Natalie made good company. She seemed like she could be a great friend. But a little part of him wondered - did his earlier actions cause her to think something else? Was she thinking of other possibilities? Simon didn't really want to know the answer to that.

Simon stuck his tongue out at her in a childish and playful way. He felt the waves rolling against the soles of his feet and looked down to see that he had stepped into the shallowest parts of the sea again. Grinning mischievously, he turned to face Natalie while backing away until the water reached the back of his knees.

"Well then..." he trailed off as he ducked and splashed a fair amount of water on the daughter of Demeter, forgetting the fact that she had already showered. An ear-to-ear grin still played on his lips as he held back the laughter trapped in his throat. "Don't you just the love the coolness the water brings?" he said in a sing-song tone. He wasn't counting on Natalie getting mad and the thought really hadn't occurred to him. It was all in good fun, what he did.

Thanks to his reflexes, Simon managed to hold his barely dry shirt up in the air as water came splashing at him. After spitting out a mouthful of seawater, he grinned sloppily at Natalie before sending another attack right at her. The water rose out of the sea as if manipulated by an invisible hand and came raining down at her. Simon bit back a laugh at the little show of his powers. This was really fun, he thought. It almost made him feel younger than he actually was. Almost. Though not at all certain of what kind of consequences this kind of fun would bring him, Simon still managed to cast the thought aside. Living in the moment... that had always been his motto.

Simon had barely a split-second's notice until his back hit the shallow part of the beach. So much for keeping his shirt dry. The condition of his clothes wasn't the present issue though. It was the girl on top of him.

He swallowed back a gulp. This was definitely not good.

"Whoa, you're strong," he managed to say, trying not to get too unnerved at how close their faces were. He was going to be so screwed if someone walked in on them right now. The only things running through his mind were plans to get Natalie off him asap. It wasn't only for his own good, it was for hers too.

"...and, um, a little heavy..." Simon mumbled. An awkward grin tugged on his lips as he brought his hands up to lightly nudge her back on her arms. He really hoped she would get the hint and not do anything else to make matters worse, like suddenly kissing him for instance. Whoa, where did that come from? Guess it was only natural for that to jump in his mind with a pretty girl this close to his face.

A relieved sigh of relief left his lips as Natalie got off him and turned away. Gods, that was pretty darn close. Regaining his senses, he quickly scrambled up and scanned the area for anyone suspicious. No Aphrodite kids around, and more importantly, no Haven. Another sigh of relief. He got away for now. Simon hoped that it was the only time he needed to make a quick getaway for.

Finally getting his erratic heartbeat to slow down after that interesting incident, Simon relaxed his stance and fumbled for his dry shirt - well, not-so-dry now. Grimacing, he looked down to see the poor thing floating by his feet. Picking it up before it could get carried off by the waves, the son of Hecate held it to the sunlight and started to wring it. "Hopefully get my shirt to dry in the next few moments," he replied, watching the water drip from his tightly rolled up shirt. "Welp, looks like I'm going to walk back to the cabins shirtless now," he added with a slight chuckle as he snuck a glance at Natalie.

Simon couldn't help the grin that suddenly spread across his face. Natalie's reaction was priceless. Feeling proud all of a sudden, he let the rolled up shirt drape over his right shoulder and smirked at the daughter of Demeter. "Do I" - Simon raked his hair back with his hand, attempting to look like some kind of model - "distract you?"

Barely a moment passed when he suddenly bent over and erupted into a fit of laughter. It was too much, he thought. Simon didn't think he could hold his glee any longer. Shaking his head to himself, Simon let his hand drop to the side to hook around the waistband of his shorts. "Ah, sorry for that. Just messing around," he told her, winking.

Simon's hand went to his mouth in an effort to stifle the chuckles that kept coming in. Stop laughing, dammit. Even so, it took a fair few seconds for him to regain his composure quickly. "Alright," he said slyly, his hand lowering to hold his chin instead. "We sure are supposed to be forgetting a lot of things today, aren't we?"

He turned to wade out of the sea, trying not to get wetter than he already was. As much as the weather felt like you could fry a barbecue under it, he didn't really want to walk back to his cabin nearly naked and soaking wet. The best he could hope for was drying off before he went back and being in the water didn't help. Raking a hand through his hair, he dug his heels on the slightly cool sand and turned on his heel to look back at Natalie. "So," he began with a small smirk, "let me ask the question of the day! What do you want to do?"