Chapter 3

Finally, after a long drive filled with Lexi teasing her brother through the window, they pulled up to the beach parking lot.

“Come on, Arnold,” said George. “Let’s go to the showers so you can wash off.”

“I’ll take the car up to the hotel to get us checked in while your at it” said Mindy.

“Lexi, do you want to come with me or stay with the boys?” asked her mom.

Lexi smirked. “I think I want to stay with the boys,” she said.

Lexi smiled as they walked to the showers. “you are covered in mud and I’m not, nanananana” she sang as she skipped.

Arnold just kept his head down, trying to ignore his sister.

“Alright, showers up ahead” said George.

Arnold didn’t know what he was expecting. But he figured there might be some kind of locker room with a private shower and a place to change clothing.

Instead all he saw was a small stone platform, raised about a foor off the ground with and a shower head attached to some kind of hose. No shower curtin or and privacy to speak off.

Akwardly, Arnold stepped up to the platform

“Alright buddy, here you go” said George as he grabbed the hose and turned it on full blast as he aimed it at his son.

“Ahhh stop it, that’s too strong!” Arnold screamed.

George turned off the hose and gave a hearty chuckle “what? The big mud monster can’t take some water?”

Lexi smirked.

“No, just not too har ... ahh” Arnold started to say but was interrupted by his father spraying him again. Lexi started laughing merrily.

“Come on dad, not so hard!” Arnold screamed. “Ok, ok, my bad” said George as he turned off the hose again. “Come closer I promise not to be so hard this time”

“Ok” said Arnold, as he walked up to the hose. Just before Geroge turned it on again he gave Lexi a little wink

“Ahhh!!!!” Arnold screamed as his father hosed him once more full blast.

He started to run away but his father kept following him with the hose. All the while Lexi was laughing.

“Stop, it’s ok I’m clean now” Arnold tried to say

“But your crotch area is not” said George as he sprayed right at Arnold’s groin.

“Ah! No, that hurts!” Arnold yelped, which made Lexi laugh even harder than she was doing before.

After a good ten minutes of spraying Arnold while Lexi laughed, George decided his son was finally clean.

“Alright ok, that was fun. But I guess your clean now”

“Yes. I agree, no need to keep spraying me” Arnold replied.

“Ya, no need ... But no need not to” his father teased as he made eye contact with Lexi.

“Wait ... now...”Arnold started

“Hahaha” said Geroge as he sprayed his son one more time for good measure. Lexi grinned “I’m just playing” said George. “You’re good, let’s go back to the hotel”

And so George and Lexi started walking back. “Wait, guys” said Arnold, soaking wet “can’t I have a towel to dry off?”

“Oh, shit right your mom took the car with all the stuff back to the hotel, we should have thought to get one out of the car before she left, oh well” he shrugged “I guess you’ll have to walk back like this”

Lexi chuckled at how causally her father dismissed his brother’s concern.

“But ... I ... I don’t want to walk back all wet, it’s embarrassing ... look at that gift shop over there, maybe they sell towels”

“Ugh, fine” said George “but your going to have to pay me back once you get your wallet from the car.”

So George, Lexi and Arnold went into the gift shop.

“Uggh, I wish this place sold some clothes too” said Arnold. “I really want to change”

“They do sell clothes,” replied Lexi. “Like, look at these pink leotards over here.”

Arnold turned arround to where Lexi was pointed. Under a sign that said “Little Girl’s Swimwear” was a stack of pink leotards with flowery designs.

“Ya, I’m not going to buy one of those,” said Arnold.

“So what?” asked George “You’re going to dry your wet body while still wearing your wet clothes? That won’t work, you need to take off your clothes to dry yourself”

“Fine” said Arnold “Then I’ll just walk back like this, forget the towel”

“Alright, fine. Let’s go, you can change back in the hotel”

George and Arnold started leaving the shop, but Lexi took another look at those leotards and decided she couldn’t let this opportunity pass.

“I don’t think you should walk back like that all wet” Lexi said with a sly grin.

“Why not?” asked Arnold “You didn’t mind it when I had to walk over 2 miles covered in mud, thank you for that by the way.”

Lexi chuckled.

But Arnold did have a good point. Lexi could think of no good reason why Arnold should be forced to buy and change into an embarrassing pink leotard that would deffinitly not fit him and be super uncomfortable.

Fortunately for Lexi though, her father loved her so very much so it was really easy for her to get whatever she wanted no matter how unreasonable.

Lexi shrugged. “Well we had to make you walk for miles, otherwise you’d get the car wet. But now if you don’t change out of your wet clothes, and dry off, you’ll get the hotel lobby wet. You wouldn’t want us to be kicked out of the hotel for being bad guests”

“Besides” added George “it was your idea to come to this gift shop in the first place”

“Ya, but I don’t think...”Arnold started.

“You want to buy this leotard?” the attractive shop girl with red hair asked, interrupting Arnold “I’ll give you a discount, 20% off”

“Well now you have to buy it,” said George.

“But ... but...” Arnold started to protest but George was already at the counter paying, making sure to keep the recept so he could take the money out of Arnold’s wallet latter.

...

“Lexi and her father were sitting on a stone ledge next to a porta potty in which Arnold was changing.