As anyone living in a seasonal climate can tell you summer is hot. This is also the time to hit the beach, get tanned fur a nice swim in the ocean, and eating the eye candy strolling around the beaches in tight clothing and much clothing.
Still, lots of people coming to the beach made it crowded, and for those who prefer either quiet or activity, it was a long suffocation.
Especially on a hot cloudless day like this.
A bird would see more fur than sand between the sea and hard ground.
So to some, it was a great boon to know secret beaches.
And that's what was happing right now in a hole in the cliff wall, a place that had once been a handmade tidal pool since long forgotten but was now in use by a group of friends.
"Hazel, you are a true gift of a friend. With how hot it is today I am sure I would be a puddle of wet fur if I went away from the water. Ohh, that's a good feeling, the water between your toes." Elan said passing a iced cocktail to Hazel.
"You better not melt on me El. Till my car is fixed your my free Uber."
Hazel was a danity chestnut brown horse in a green bikini. She didn't like showing her body in public, there wasn't much to show in her opinion. She was short for a horse, even thin with barely anything on her chest.
Which was in contrast to her best friend and housemate Elan.
Elan was a gray-furred wolf in a purple one-piece with a slightly toned physique with a pair of noticeable pair of orbs. The only thing that ruined this model-like body was the concentration of holiday weight around her now pudgy waistline.
Hazel and Elan had been friends since high school splitting lunches then and housing bills now. Hazel worked as a substitute chemistry teacher at the college, whilst Elan was a curator at the art hall. The wolf was always the outgoing one and had convinced Hazel to bring some others to the secret beach.
"Cannonball!"
"Double Cannonball!"
Crys were followed by sprays of water that doused the horse and wolf in spray.
"Hey!"
"What the bloody feck!
An otter in a swimsuit and a cheeky grin broke the surface quickly followed by a petite mouse in a light pink bikini who wore a wider grin.
The Otter was Lexi "Lex", a student at the college or more accurately repeating college after falling but not before taking a year off to find herself. A fun-loving biker girl, who somehow had struck a close friendship with Hazel and Elan after getting tutored by the substitute. Dropping by for brunch was normal for these three.
"Sorry, Haz. Pardon El, but we are at the beach. You should be getting wet."
The mouse called Mina added, " Yay, only old ladies, sit on beaches afraid to get their toes wet." the two glowered at the mouse.
"Actually Mina, I think you are older than them." Said either the vixen or the rabbit.
The vixen in a dark green swimsuit was Dana who was a friend of Elan, and by extension Stella the rabbit and Mina were also friends with the wolf. All three worked in the same office building.
Mina was an unusually boisterous little mouse with a big mouth that often got her in over her head. Stella was almost the same if in a more party-on than impulsive sort of way. Dana was the eye of the storm, the mother hen. Always there to pull the two back with an even smile yet she had an adventurous side as well. Why else would she hang out with both Mina and Stella?
"True, Mina. Maybe you should learn to be as mature and respectable as those younger than you." The brown rabbit with white sprinkles across her, in a purple bikini said adding a giggle at the end.
Before Mina could counter, someone called out from beyond the tidal pool, "Hey the waves are going down, are any of you going swimming or will you say a cat was more eager for an ocean dip than all of you."
In the water up to their knees was a squirrel in a blue pattern swimsuit skirt and a black cat in a blue bikini. Irene and Samantha respectively were direct friends of Hazel.
Irene was a confident single mother of one Hazel tutors and Samantha often preferred to be called Sam, was a bold delivery truck driver who was always eager to get into the action.
How did the shy Hazel keep having such confident friends?
Lex turned to her friends, " She right. It would be an offense to my otter heritage to let a cat be the first in. Anyone else what to come."
Everyone gave a reply and variations of yes with Elan being the last rolling her shoulders before saying, "As long as I can cannonball you. I'm game."
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The light swim soon turned into a rather childish water fight after Elan got Lex and Mina with a cannonball. Everyone started making waves at each other till the top half of their bodies were as wet as their lower half.
They were having the most fun they had collectively had all summer.
"Hey, why am I tingling?" Hazel asked after splashing Irene. "Yay. I feel it too...oh that's not good," Irene moaned looking down at the water, which had turned a strange yellow, like paint dropped into a fast-flowing stream and it had engulfed everyone and they were all getting odd tingles.
"What's going on?"
"Whoa, is it..pee?
"Okay, I do not like the feeling it's giving me."
"Everyone out NOW!" Irene shout in her commanding, no question wanted mom voice.
In a quick and chaotic fashion, the group left the water, unimpeded by the strong current.
"Does anyone know what that was?" asked Lex, slightly breathless.
"Look," Dana pointed to a...
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