Redo of a Romanceless Author’s Life Devoid of Love; Another Chance at Youth

Chapter 132.

Chapter 132. Rosa’s Birthday (5/10)

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“We’re back~” Alicia was the first to call out when she entered the room. I’d been forcefully brought back to reality.

Haaaaaah. How do I always end up on these long-winded internal monologues of mine? I always lose track of time like this?

I checked my phone and confirmed it was 5:40 PM.

“Welcome back,” I greeted when the duo appeared around the corner.

“You’ve been watching TV this entire time?” Alicia inquired.

“Not really. I’ve just been relaxing with the TV playing in the background.”

“Since you’re not doing anything productive how about we all head to the pool now?”

“Sure.”

The two of them retrieved their swimsuits and entered the bathroom together to change.

I quickly changed into my swimming trunks in the room. It only took fifteen seconds. I waited for five minutes, but they were really taking their time.

I didn’t feel like waiting so headed to the exit. On the way past the bathroom, I told them, “I’m heading to the elevator now since you’re so slow. Bring a towel for me too.”

“Okay, sure, we’ll catch up.”

I exited the room and walked down the hallway with my key card in hand. The swimming pool in this hotel was on the rooftop. From what I read online, it was supposed to be pretty nice. That was why I felt slightly eager to take a look at it for myself. There weren’t any images available, and nobody described the pool in detail. It felt like a small mystery, if it’s so nice, why would nobody describe it or show a picture?

Were they all paid by the hotel to say so? Or was it that words, pictures, or videos didn’t do the pool justice? I’d never been to this hotel before so I was naturally curious. What if this entire time in this dead city there was a nice hideaway nobody spoke of because they wanted to keep it to themselves?

With my imagination running wild it was only natural I’d feel a tinge of excitement.

While I waited impatiently for the elevator to arrive, the two girls caught up to me. When the doors opened up I stepped inside eagerly. Come on, elevator, hurry and go up already. I want to see what is so great about this pool that people say is ‘pretty nice,’ yet fail to describe it in detail.

The two of them followed me into the elevator just expecting to see a simple pool. They weren’t anywhere near as anxious as me about solving the strange mystery I’d unexpectedly come across online.

‘It’s better to see the pool in person,’ was what some other random commenter said. Well, I’m finally here to see it. It better be well worth the money. I’ve seen my fair share of pools in hotels and they’ve all pretty much been the same.

The elevator finally reached the top floor and the doors opened up in front of us revealing the… beautiful… scenery... I expected to see. 

My eyes dimmed as I died a little on the inside when all I was met with was a bloody wall. I want a refund, this failure of a grand reveal had completely shattered all my expectations. How dare you go and kill someone’s excitement with a godforsaken wall in such a fashion? I’d built myself up so high, all for it to come crashing down. It was a buzzkill that brought me back down to earth.

I let out an internal sigh, dejected because of the stupid wall that slowly killed me on the inside.

Up until now, I hadn’t taken a good look at the duo to my sides in their swimsuits. I’d been the first out of the room and in the lead the entire way, eager to see the swimming pool, but now that we were here, the two of them rushed past me out of the elevator and up the stairs right around the corner.

I followed directly behind them and when I made it up the stairs, the two-faced opposite directions as they looked around curiously. Despite my anticipation for the pool itself, as they weren’t looking at me, I took the opportunity to size them up.

Rosa had on a double-string bikini bottom. The exterior of it was colored red. The second string a few centimeters above the red one on her hips was second gray. It looked like a gray triangle pointed down beneath the red portion on the exterior. The red exterior portion had two triangular slits pointed down side by side that formed a glasses shape by her groin region. The gray triangular piece of fabric under the red one obstructed a portion of her bare skin revealed from the triangular cutouts in the red exterior. 

Her bare skin could still be seen in the intersection where the gray fabric between the triangular cutouts in the red fabric didn’t overlap. It was… to say the least, quite revealing, a very daring bikini bottom. Exactly the type of thing I’d expect to see Rosa wear. As for the top portion of her bikini, it was all red. There were two similar triangular cutouts on her bikini top that pointed away from her between her inner cleavage on each side.

A singular red strap formed a cross over her chest and wrapped around her neck holding the bikini up. A second strap was wrapped under her arms and connected behind her back. She also had a red pool scrubby on her left arm.

Honestly… it was hard to look away from her. She looked too good in it and it felt like it would be a waste to not admire her feminine charms.

There was also Alicia with her back to her who didn’t lose out to Rosa in the slightest. If Rosa was a seductive blooming rose basking under the moonlight; though it was currently night, Alicia would be a blinding ephemeral sunflower reflecting the sun’s rays. 

Similar to Rosa, Alicia had a bikini on as well. Hers was purely yellow in color. On both sides of her hips, the ends of the fabric were tied into yellow bows. 

As for her chest, which immediately drew my eyes as if magnetized… well, the fabric at the very center of her chest under her bust was tied into a big yellow ribbon. I squinted my eyes and seriously contemplated how the physics of her bikini top worked out here. Surely some laws of physics were borderline about to break. Physics, do your best. I believe in you. I couldn’t help but secretly root physics on in such a manner.

Honestly, as Alicia always had her school uniform on or clothes that hid her bombshell figure, I’d never realized just how stacked she was. She… surpassed her mother for sure… I even thought Rosa’s mother wouldn’t be a match either. They were no doubt, a size up from coconuts. 

I wasn’t particularly keen on oversized and exaggerated ones, but her bust was probably at the very limit of what I considered attractive. Any more and they’d just look weird. The size and shape were by no means bad, her proportions might even be considered ideal by many.

This girl was only halfway through her second year of high school though, right? Wasn’t this a bit too unbalanced?

I mean, Rosa’s figure appealed greatly all the same, and I didn’t think she lost out at all to Alicia. Her curvaceous legs were especially the case and what made her figure shine the most. Her legs always made me think someone had taken meticulous care to sculpt them to perfection.

No, no, no. What am I even thinking about right now? My thoughts are wandering way too much just because of two scantily clad women revealing a bit of skin.

It was only now that I realized I’d gotten far too obsessed over things that never once entered my mind in the past. This was very unlike me, uncharacteristically so. I’ve really got to stop ogling and sizing them up like this.

As such, I turned my attention to the scenery I’d highly anticipated to distract myself, the deep blue-in-color pool behind the duo. The stairs we walked up put us at the center of the longer edge of the rectangular pool. It was quite the view when I focused on it. The ceiling above the pool was dome-shaped made out of strong, reinforced glass panels. It was already dark outside. 

The dome was angled in such a way snow wouldn’t stick to it easily, it would slide off on its own. The glass also appeared to be heated as there were trails of liquid water visible on it. It was also a bit fogged up, the moon was a bit blurry and indistinct, though still visible. It wasn’t cloudy and even with us being in the city, with us so high up, several bright stars could still be seen. 

The illumination in the pool area was rather dim, there were only a few dim small white lights in the ground that created a conical beam of light up to the ceiling. A few of the same light sources were also integrated into the ceiling’s concrete structure that surrounded and supported the large glass dome overhead. All of these lights illuminated spots on the ground the same way spotlights worked. When added together, they provided just enough illumination to see.

Around the pool, a few concrete pillars rose up and supported the concrete part of the ceiling that enclosed the glass dome overhead.

On the surface of the still tranquil water inside the pool, you could see the moon's image reflected in addition to several stars. As a direct result of the fogged-up glass they shone through, these additional light sources were given a strange glow effect when reflected atop the surface of the water. 

I couldn’t help but hold my breath and marvel at the architect that designed this place. Honestly, I was captivated, completely enthralled as the atmosphere enveloped me. I felt a great sense of inspiration from the view when I took it all in together with the two girls in front of me. I’d definitely write about it later on. Definitely. I was strangely excited. Giddy even.

As it was winter, the hotel wasn’t very packed and not many people cared to go to a pool in winter. Especially not when school was in session and it was the middle of the workweek. So it was just the three of us here on this lovely winter night. It was lucky, too lucky in fact. 

Just this scenery made me feel like the money I spent was completely worth it. Forget the room, this view was more than enough to justify the price in my mind. In fact, I even felt what I paid was too cheap. I had to be careful though or I might really get suckered into becoming a return customer and blow all my savings before I realize it.