Chapter 6
The ad that Vinny had read online had said to go to the lifeguard tower to inquire about the job. As he makes his way across the beach to the tower, he takes a look around. The beach has a lot of activity today. There were kids running around and making sand castles.
There were lots of people swimming out in the ocean and there were plenty of pretty girls laying under beach umbrellas having conversations and looking around at the other people.
Yep. Vinny was totally okay with this job. When Vinny reaches the lifeguard tower, he knocks on one of the legs of the tower.
"Hey," he calls up to the lifeguard, "I'm here to see about the job opening."
"Oh? Cool! Hold on a sec, I'll be right down." The lifeguard, who seems to be a guy, based on the voice, starts to climb down. When he finally is down on the ground with Vinny, Vinny is quite shocked.
The lifeguard isn't human. Half of him is a buff horse with really muscular arms and a long and flowing mane. He has a twelve pack, too His bottom him is a fish tail. He looked like some sort of... merhorse.
"Hey there," says the merhorse man. "Name's Aaron." Aaron holds out one of his hands for Vinny to shake. Vinny doesn't notice, however. He's still shocked and is left a bit frozen.
"Hey, you okay?" Aaron asks. "Oh, I know. You're staring at my muscles, aren't you? They're pretty nice, huh?" He grins and flexes, giving Vinny a wink. This snaps Vinny out of his shocked state.
"U-uh, excuse me if I'm being rude, b-but what are you. You're not..." Vinny trails off.
"Human? Nah. I'm a monster. I take it you're new in town," Aaron says, flexing. "There are monsters all over Ebott. We're all pretty nice, though. That won't be a problem, will it? You still want the job?"
"O-oh! Um, I-I guess."
Aaron looks over Vinny for a bit. After a bit, he nods.
"You look like lifeguard material. You got experience?" He flexes again.
"Oh, yeah," Vinny says. "I was a lifeguard back home. Plenty of experience. Learned everything back home."
"Cool," Aaron says. "You can come and start tomorrow. Sound good?" Vinny nods. "Nice. Oh, hold on. I almost forgot to give you your shirt." Aaron climbs back up the tower. "What size do you wear?" He calls down to Vinny.
"Uh, medium."
Once Aaron finds the right shirt, he climbs back down and hands it to Vinny. "That should be it. See you here tomorrow, dude."
Vinny nods and begins to make his way off the beach and back to his car. He hurries back home after starting his car.
He just had to tell you about this.