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"This," said Capricorn, "Is the biggest waste of time of my life."

"You're forgetting about third grade," reminded Aquairus.

"True enough," shrugged Capricorn.

It was bad enough that the bus was going to be nearly an hour late, but even worse that the school PTA meeting kicked them out of the library, and worst of all it was raining as hard as Capricorn had ever seen it. It was a miracle his backpack had a raincoat in it, he'd never have thought to bring one on his own. And why should he have? It had been a very sunny morning. It wasn't until fourth period the sky started looking gray, fifth when it first started to drizzle, sixth when they cancelled sports and activities, and seventh when they annouced flooding had caused some of the buses to take a circuitous route. How many buses? One. Whose bus? Why, Capricorn's of course. Of course.

"You look depressed," said Aquarius.

"I am depressed," said Capricorn.

"That's depressing," noted Aquarius.

Capricorn growled and pulled his raincoat tighter around himself. Raincoats really don't do as much as you think they do, he'd decided, his hands were freezing and wet, while his chest was hot and equally wet, because of how unbreathable the thing was. The back of his neck was wet too, and he had no reasonable explanation for how this was true, other than that maybe it was leaking? Condensation? Government conspiracy? Who knew. The point was, his neck was wet, clammy, and itchy.

Capricorn turned to Aquarius to complain about something, when he saw Aquarius taking off his rain jacket. "What the hell are you doing?"

"I was hot," shrugged Aquarius, his t-shirt absorbing the rain in seconds.

"You're soaked," said Capricorn.

"Yeah, but I'm not hot anymore," he pointed out.

"Put your shoes in the bathtub when you get home and you won't have to pay the water bill for months."

Aquarius snorted. "I'll be rich."

"You'll be sick in bed with pneumonia for a month."

Aquarius drew a line between himself and Capricorn on the sidewalk. "This is the pessimism line. Nothing depressing survives crossing the line. Therefore, I didn't actually hear your last remark."

"What I said was—"

"No, it's fine, thanks."

Capricorn looked down at his shoes. He'd been trying to cover them with his raincoat, but the rain was coming down at a slant, and getting them anyways. His feat were starting to feel squishy and trapped, and he hated that feeling. He turned to Aquarius. "Since you're being dumb, can I use your raincoat?"

"Sure," shrugged Aquarius, handing it over. Capricorn dumped it on his feet and Aquarius laughed out loud. "Dude, your shoes are point blank going to get wet."

"Now who's being pessimistic?" growled Capricorn.

"Touche," shrugged Aquarius.

Capricorn squinted into the rain. No sign of the bus, who knew how long it would take to get there. His mom said she could make it at four thirty, but... two hours of standing in the rain. Yikes. That bus had better get there soon. He had things to do, homework, model UN position paper, guitar practice, applying to that summer program... and he couldn't do any of that out here, his homework would be soaked and shreded, and his computer was sitting on his desk at home. Not to mention he'd be an idiot to try and use it in the rain.

"This is the biggest waste of time of my life," repeated Capricorn.

"Come on," grinned Aquarius, elbowing Capricorn in the ribs. "Let's try and look on the sunny side."

Capricorn stared at him. "Was that a frigging pun—"

"Come on, don't be such a downer," smirked Aquarius.

"I'll frigging kill you."

"I can see you're feeling a little stormy," noted Aquarius.

"I'm done with you," grumbled Capricorn.

"Hi done with you, I'm—"

"No."

"Cappy," sighed Aquarius, staring off. "I hate to see you depressed."

Capricorn didn't really know what to say to that, so he sort of grunted, and checked his watch (waterproof, thank god). 2:35. God.

"This bus had better get here," Capricorn grumbled.

Aquarius turned to him again. "I know what the problem is. Take off your raincoat."

Capricorn stared at him. "Is your stupidity a disease? Is it contagious?"

"Yeah, but don't worry they cover it in your flu vaccine," waved off Aquarius. "Look, the reason you're so miserable is you're trying to stay dry. You're wearing a damp, hot raincoat over your damp hot sweaty t-shirt, and you have my damp hot raincoat draped over your soaked squishy shoes. Meanwhile, I'm sitting over here, not even wearing a raincoat, soaked to the bone, and overall feeling pretty good about life. This is because I have already let go of the idea of staying dry, so now I can really enjoy being in the rain."

Capricorn blinked. "Does that work?"

"Only one way to find out."

Capricorn stared down at his shoes. They were getting hot and stuffy under the raincoat, and his arms and shirt were already soaked from the humidity. He started taking off his raincoat, and said "If I die from this my family is suing your pants off."

"That's a risk I'm willing to take."

Capricorn draped the raincoat over his backpack for good measure and looked up at the grey sky, squinting so he could still see. It really was a downpour. "There hasn't been any kind of storm like this in forever," Capricorn said.

"Yeah," said Aquarius, also looking up. "When you think about it, it's really kind of incredible, isn't it? Here we are, getting to experience first hand the biggest rainstorm in years."

Capricorn stopped. He really hadn't thought about it. "Yeah," he said. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

For a moment he just stood there, looking up, thinking maybe it was a little incredible.

Then, Aquarius grabbed his hand. "Come on."

Capricorn glanced up. "What? This is the bus stop."

"I know," grinned Aquarius. "We're going to go jump in some puddles."

"Oh no," chuckeld Capricorn nervously as Aquarius dragged him across the pessimism line. "Me taking off my raincoat is different than me voluntarily submitting myself to getting my shoes extremely wet and mud soaked and having to spend an hour cleaning them when I get home."

"You're bored aren't you?" challenged Aquarius.

Capricorn rolled his eyes. "Yeah, but I'm busy. I have a bunch of things I was supposed to do this afternoon."

"Oh, well, good thing it rained then," nodded Aquarius. "Now you don't have to do them. You get all of right now to do whatever you want. Puddles are this way." He walked off.

Capricorn stared. "I guess so," he said, and followed. They walked past the bus stop over to the part of the parking lot where there was a basket ball hoop and sometimes the daycare kids went out and played on the tiny plastic playground. The asphat was pretty old, and Aquarius jumped into a giant divet, splashing water everywhere. "Boom," he said, splaying his hands and making explosion noises.

Capricorn jumped back not to get hit, and poked a puddle with his foot. "I don't know, it seems kind of wet."

"I promise it isn't wet," said Aquarius, rain running through his hair and dripping in a tiny waterfall over his face.

"Alright, if you say so," Capricorn sighed dramatically, and made a small jump into the puddle. Weirdly, it wasn't that wet, at least, it didn't get him any wetter than he already was.

"My splash was bigger than yours," said Aquarius.

Capricorn looked up, his eyes lighting up. "Is that a challenge?"

"A challange? No, there is no challange as you couldn't possibly beat me."

"Oh, it is on," said Capricorn, backing up to make a running jump. "Three... two... go!" The sprinted for a pair of adjacent puddles and jumped in. Two giant splashes streamed out, soaking everything inside the blast radius and suddenly Capricorn found himself laughing his head off, staring at Aquarius, and grinning, and saying "I have absolutely no idea who won."

"Me neither," grinned Aquarius, "But I also don't really care. Want to do it again?"

"Sure," said Capricorn, and they ran.

After about a minute there were no puddles left unjumped in the entire area, and any remaining forgotten dry patches on either of them were long gone. They could barely breathe, they were laughing too hard. Capricorn didn't even know why. It must have been the rain, he figured. Maybe rain made you laugh, if you let it. He composed himself and turned to look at Aquarius, but was set off again when he saw Aquarius's usually wild mop of hair completely covering his eyes. "What?" asked Aquarius, seeming confused.

"Can you see at all?" choked out Capricorn, bracing himself against the basketball hoop for balance.

"Well, no," admitted Aquarius, and Capricorn burst out laughing again.

Aquarius cupped his hands, quickly catching a scoop of water, and tossed it at Capricorn. "Hey!" he spluttered wiping his face.

"Now you can't see either," smirked Aquarius.

Capricorn cupped his hands and dumped more water on Aquarius. "There's a thing called blinking, stupid."

"Ew, who does that?" Aquarius walked around with his arms out like a zombie, and Capricorn sneaked back over to his backpack, pulling out his water bottle. When he got back, Aquarius was trying to rub his hair out of his eyes.

"Surprise!" Capricorn unscrewed his water bottle top and dumped it on Aquarius, who actually fell backwards into the grass, spluttering.

"I have a water bottle too, you know," said Aquarius, climbing too his feet and walking over to his backpack.

"You you don't," said Capricorn, unscrewing Aquarius's water bottle and also dumping it on him, having taken it when he went to get his own.

"I should have seen that coming."

"Well you should have, but your hair was in your face."

Aquarius snatched his water bottle and walked over to a patch of grass they sometimes played frizbee on and sat down. "I'm going to sit here and wait for my water bottle to fill up so I can dump it on you."

"Good call," said Capricorn, sitting down next to him and holding his own open. Judging by the respective levels, his was going to fill up first.

For a moment they sat there. Then Aquarius leaned back against the hill and said "The stars sure are beautiful tonight."

Capricorn snorted, also leaning back, looking at the extremely grey, wet, and by no means star-filled sky. "Yes, it's very romantic, isn't it."

"I'm surprised there aren't a bunch of other people out here taking advantage of the view," he answered.

"We're lucky it's not tourist season."

"Oh yeah, if it was there'd be all kinds of people here."

"Entry lines."

"Concession stands."

"Cotton candy."

"Souvenier magnets."

"Merchendise."

" 'My grandmother went to frisbee hill and all he got me was this stupid t-shirt' shirts."

"Now I want one of those."

"Let's make one," said Aquarius.

Capricorn glanced at him. "How?"

Aquarius shrugged. "I have no flipping idea. How about a white t-shirt and a sharpie?"

"Make it an expo, they show up better."

"Done."

Capricorn closed his eyes for a moment, letting the raindrops slide off his face. When he opened them, he noticed Aquarius looking at him and smirking. "Okay, what?"

"Nothing," smiled Aquarius. "Just, when you smile like that it's hard to imagine just how salty you can be sometimes."

"...was that a compliment or an insult?"

"Take it as you will."

Capricorn closed his eyes again. "Compliment, then."

Suddenly he didn't want the bus to come just yet. Suddenly getting his homework done and his paper done wasn't as important as being there, in the rain, lying soaked on a hill next to Aquarius. That was what mattered.

It was funny, lying there in the rain, and thinking for the first time about just how close Aquarius and he had gotten in the past few months. They barely knew each other, until a mutual acquiantance invited them both to a birthday. And then they'd talked, and after they'd say hi in the halls. They worked together on a few projects when they didn't know anyone else. They starting sitting together at lunch. They started talking, and laughing a lot, and Capricorn was suddenly thinking he couldn't ever remember liking someone this much or being this happy when he was around someone. That startled him. Sometimes these things sneak up on you. This one had.

"Hey Cap?" asked Aquarius.

"Yeah?" said Capricorn, pulling himself away from his thoughts.

"I was thinking," said Aquarius. "We should hang out more often."

"Yeah," said Capricorn, feeling like 'yeah' wasn't saying what he wanted it to say, but maybe it got close enough.

"Want to go see a movie tomorrow or something?" asked Aquarius.

"It's a date," said Capricorn, and then paused and said "Wait that came out wrong."

For a moment Aquarius didn't say anything, and then he said "Well, it could be one."

"Oh," said Capricorn. Then he said, "Sure."

For a few minutes, they just laid on the hill in the rain.

Capricorn's eyes jerked open as he heard a roar from in front of him; the bus was finally pulling into the high school's driveway. The other kids on the bus were walking out from the nooks and windows of the edge of the school that protected them from the rain.

"Bus is here," said Aquarius.

"So it is," said Capricorn.

Aquarius checked his watch. "It's 3:05 now."

"My mom's going to be here in an hour and a half," said Capricorn.

"How urgent was that homework you had?" asked Aquarius.

"Not too urgent," said Capricorn.

"Want to hang out for a bit?" asked Aquarius, leaning up, and glancing at him.

Capricorn sat up too. "Sure." They watched as the bus roared back to life, and pulled out of the driveway. He closed his eyes again, briefly, and immediately water dumped all over his face.

"Hah! Got you!" said Aquarius gleefully.

"You little shi—" Capricorn cut off as he ducked under another swing of the water bottle, and picked up his own (overflowing significantly), and dumped it on Aquarius. Aquarius jumped up, laughing, waving his bottle around frantically in an effort to catch more rain faster. This utterly backfired as Capricorn caught a lot more just standing still, and dumped it all over his head.

Then they were laughing again, and all Capricorn could think about was how much brighter everything looked in the rain.