Pool Fools

"Quick! The stairs!" Steven shouted as they ran.

"Are you crazy?! We'll be back at square one!" Mary shot back, "Let's go to the amphitheater!"

"There's no where to hide out there!" Steven replied as they looked to one another, knowing that left one option left.

"The pool!" They said in unison as they ran through the doors of the pool room. The Security Guard hadn't caught up with them yet, but they knew it was only a matter of time.

"I, uh..." Mary began as she caught her breath. "I want to thank you for saving me back there. You didn't have to do that."

"The hell I didn't!" Steven replied as he looked Mary in the eyes. "I'm not letting you take the fall for some stupid prank my ex-roommate pulled!"

Mary and Steven stared into each other's eyes, their cheeks flushing as they felt their hearts racing and their stomaches tightening. The two felt their mouths grow dry and their palms get sweaty.

... And then they remembered their predicament, shaking their heads as they blushed and looked away from the other simultaneously.

Steven cleared his throat. "A-anyway," he stammered, "it was nothing."

"Yeah..." Mary chuckled, playing with her hair a bit.

"I think they went this way!"

"Crap!" Steven and Mary whispered simultaneously as they looked around for a place to hide.

"The locker rooms! Quick!" Steven hissed.

"No way! That's literally the first place they'll look!" Mary retorted.

"Well, where else are we gonna hide? The pool?!"

"There's a sauna over there!" Mary suggested, pointing towards the door in question. "We can hide there! And the back door leads to a garden outside, there's plenty of places we can hide out there!"

"Well, we better choose a hiding place soon and hope for the best!" Steven said.