💦 The Pool Boy

Who plays who

• A — The Pool Boy: you are on the clock, in the sun, and thorough is the whole job description.
• B — The Owner: you are paying for a clean pool and finding reasons to stay outside.
• A leads with the work. B takes the lead once the pool is properly clean.

What you need

• A pool, a tub, a shower or a hose and a bucket — water is the only real requirement
• A skimmer net or leaf net — also the safeword prop, kept in plain sight
• Suncream, water and a towel each, because the heat is real
• Swimwear or clothes that can get genuinely wet
• A place in the shade to sit and watch

Act 1 — 🕯️ Setup

Sun on the water and a skimmer going round in slow arcs. The pool is genuinely dirty and the Pool Boy is genuinely working — for the first ten minutes the job is the job. You watch from the shade and find the afternoon has nowhere else to be. Nothing is flirted with yet; the water does all of it.

Beats

• A works the whole first stretch without looking up at the deck.
• B stays in the shade and does not offer a drink or a break.
• The skimmer stays visible the whole time, propped where both of you can see it.

Lines to say

• "I'll get the leaves first. Whatever's under them can wait."
• "Don't let me keep you from the pool." — said from the chair, doing exactly that.
• "You've missed a spot by the steps. Twice."

Act 2 — 🔥 Build

The leaves are gone and the water is clear, and now the boy works slowly and close to the deck where you are sitting. There is water on both of you and it is not a problem either of you is solving. The job turns into something the two of you are doing together. The sun is still high.

Beats

• B takes the hose or the skimmer and helps, badly, on purpose.
• A corrects the grip each time, and the hands stay on for a beat after.
• Both of you end up properly wet before the act finishes.

Lines to say

• "Hold it like this — no, like this."
• "You're standing where I need to work."
• "Am I doing it right yet?" — with an entirely straight face.

Act 3 — ⚡ Escalate

Neither of you is cleaning anything now. The skimmer is propped against the steps and the water is the only place you are standing. The pool is about to be used for something it was not hired for, and the boy's boss in the scene is right there in the water with him.

Beats

• The tools go on the deck and neither of you picks them up again.
• The Owner names what happens next and the Pool Boy agrees out loud.
• Everything happens in or beside the water, and the water stays warm.

Lines to say

• "The pool's clean. Get out of the water." — and then neither of you does.
• "You work for me today. Come here."
• "Sun's still up. Nobody's coming out here."

Act 4 — 💥 Climax

The pool is still and the sun is going down. There is nothing left of the job — just warm water, a deck neither of you has left, and a skimmer lying abandoned on it. Nobody is watching from the house.

Beats

• Keep it in and around the water — the pool is the whole location of this act.
• Use what Act 3 set up: the steps, the edge, the instruction traded over.
• Let it finish without either of you climbing out first.

Lines to say

• "Look at me. Right here."
• "Don't get out yet."

Act 5 — 🤍 Aftercare

You get out of the pool together, dripping, and the afternoon becomes a normal evening again.

Beats

• Towel each other off properly before anything else is said.
• Warm drinks, dry clothes, and somewhere out of the evening air.
• One sentence each about the afternoon, in your own voices.

Lines to say

• "Best cleaning job that pool's ever had."
• "Next week it'll be dirty again."

Aftercare

Towels first, then something warm to drink and dry clothes, then one sentence each about the afternoon in your own voices. The water was real; the job was not. Say that out loud before the evening starts.

Ground rules and consent

• The pool is our own. There is no real employer, no real client and nobody else on the property.
• The Pool Boy is on the clock only inside the scene — no real authority, no real pay, and the shift can end at any moment.
• "Skimmer" stops the whole job in one second, said by either of us, from the water or the deck.
• Water, shade and suncream come first. Heat is the game, not a reason to actually get ill.

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