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Cabins Gym area, late Sunday morning

After finally figuring out what was going on, Momoko had rushed back to the dorms to check on her room on Saturday. She was very happy to discover that this year her remote-controlled colouring bug had not come to life and coloured all over her walls again.

While in her room, she'd grabbed the swimsuit she'd somehow forgotten to pack and today tried to sneak from her cabin down to the beach for a nice relaxing day in the sun and surf.

Which didn't happen, because a certain blonde sempai had been lying in wait and Momoko was stuck in the camp gym doing katas instead of swimming. At least Dinah had let her put clothes on over the swimsuit; that would have been just too embarrassing.

"Are you suuuuuure we can't just skip and go to the beach today? It's too hot to exercise! Ooh! Or we can exercise on the beach! That's perfect!"

[for one, but the cabin gym area is open for any]

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"I'm ready!" Dinah claimed, then huffed even as she stood still. "That sneak. Older than me! Two or three days older! April 21st, or 20th? We so have to get him back for that!"

"I know, right?" Momoko's leg was aimed straight for Dinah.

"The 21st. We totally have to think of something to do."

Dinah brought her arm down and across, taking the kick on the outside of her arm and letting it slide off, downward, redirected and harmless. "Like that. Or you can do Helena's trick... we do. Ooo. Maybe when we visit his family?"

Oh, he was so in for it after that, though.

Momoko let her leg fall and frowned at the easy block. "So I had the right idea, just I moved and lost balance?"

"He so won't be expecting it if we surprise him at home!" And Momoko made another mental note to warn Milagro about her visit. "I ordered his present online so it should be here by then."

"Yup. You can't let your weight fall backward, it's got to be evenly distributed," Dinah counseled. "Try it again, and I'll show you Helena's trick." Except without the part of slamming Momoko face-first into the mat.

"He won't," she said in complete satisfaction. "Ooo. Now I have to think of something." She frowned. "Hmmm. Ideas, ideas, need ideas...."

"Okay," Momoko fell back into position to kick again. "But if I end up face down on the ground, I am totally getting you back."

She swing her leg again. "What kind of gift are you wanting to get him?"

Dinah grabbed her leg at ankle and knee, and held it there, twisting it just a little. "If you see this coming at you fast enough, you can grab it. You're strong enough to pull this off. And then twist, and they end up off their feet, on the mat. Got it?" She grinned, then the grin faded a little into thoughtfulness.

"I don't know. Something... personal," she said, sounding a little shy. "Since I won't be here for Christmas, or anything else after that, probably." To remember her by. "Special."

Momoko nodded. "I can totally see how that would work. Basically flipping them by using their leg? Thank you for not actually doing it!"

She pulled back and reached for her water again, grinning as she tossed a cold bottle to Dinah. "So you're not going to come back and visit ever again? Cutting your high school ties and leaving us all behind? So mean!" Like Momoko would let her escape.

"Something personal. Hmm. Maybe something he can wear? Or something that would remind him of something you enjoy doing together?"

Dinah caught the water bottle, and grinned. "You're welcome. Maybe we should get Kaoru and Helena to fight each other?" Heh. And she'd sell tickets.

She looked down at the water bottle and popped the top, taking a long drink. "I'll come back. I don't know how often, but I will. Maybe once a month. Or more. I'll miss you guys..." Which reminded her of what she'd tried to get Jaime to agree to, when they were talking over the break-up.

Forty days.

"...Maybe?" Jaime wasn't much for jewelry, but. Something he could hang up, and look at, and think of her? That wasn't too sappy, right?

Even Momoko had to admit that would be a fight she'd want to see.

"You won't have a chance to miss us," Momoko assured her with a laugh. "Not if Ms Barbara has any influence on your class schedule. What about something he can take apart and put back together? He likes doing that."

"Maybe?" It wasn't personal enough, really. But maybe that was better? Maybe it wasn't a good idea to give something... souveniry? Remembrance-ish? Dinah sighed, frowned, and shook her head. "I'll think of something. Somehow."

Some gifts he wouldn't accept, of course. Alas.

Momoko leaned in. "We could always go shopping! Maybe take Jaime along and not tell him why we're shopping, then note anything he likes? It could sort of be a punishment, making him carry our bags and hang out while we try stuff on."

Dinah started cackling. "The only part he *might* complain about, if we were trying on the right stuff, would be the bag-carrying." She grinned. "But yeah, that's perfect camouflage! He'd never guess we were checking what he liked too!"

"In that case," Momoko waggled her eyebrows. "We totally need to go and buy really big and ugly purses, and take them with us and make him carry them!"

"Plan!" Dinah bounced, settled down again, and said, "Okay! Another round of sparring. Then the beach. And planning for more Jaime-torture."

"Beeeeeach!" Momoko threw up her hands and cheered, bouncing in a circle.

She grinned and fell into her stance. "Still going slow, right?" She sent her fist towards Dinah.

"But speeding up!" Dinah said, knocking the fist up, leaving Momoko's stomach open, and sending a faster fist toward the side of her head. "Then beeeeach!"

"Waah! Warn me! Warn me!" Momoko raised her arm to block, pushing Dinah's fist aside and turning to try to sweep Dinah's leg. "I want a tan, not bruises!"

Dinah jumped, snickering, and not throwing punches hard enough to bruise anyway. "Four... Three... C'mon, block--" Another kick toward Momoko's knee, which the kata kick should block. "And c'mon, a few bruises? Pfftt."

"Normally! But they'll totally clash with my swimsuit today!" Momoko managed a clumsy block of the kick, but landed in a good position to aim another punch at Dinah. "And I want to look cute in case anyone else is there!"

"Reeeeally?" Dinah perked up, blocking a little clumsily, then grinning. "Anyone in particular?"

No more punchy. This was important!

Momoko was more than willing to have no more punchy! It was hot out.

She stood back up and grinned. "No, no one in particular. At least not right now. Unlike some people, I'm still looking; I haven't even been on a real date in forever!"

Dinah made a face, then grinned. "We should make a plan. You should ask someone out! You'd have fun even if you decided a guy wasn't boyfriendly material."

"I'd have no problem asking someone out!" Momoko laughed. "But here, the boys are totally different from the boys I knew back home."

Meaning it seemed like they were all after one thing. And totally weren't going to get it from her. She grabbed her water bottle again, grinning.

"Why did you make that face just now, anyway? I went on those three-minute dates at Caritas. And with Priestly to that club!" Which was sort of a date. Kind of. "I'm not hiding or anything."

"I know. I'm teasing. Or ... displacing. Or something." Dinah sighed, then TK'd her own water bottle to her. "I just don't look forward to having to start over dating again. Some time. Maybe after New Year's." Depressing bummer downer. "All the uncertainty, all the secret-keeping...."

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