Written as part of Kris 'n' Good Books' 'choose your own m/m story' challenge. This is now hosted by Goodreads' M/M Romance Group. The story prompts for the author were:

1. part of the setting ~ a public swimming pool in a small country town
2. some background to one of the main protags ~ one of them is a wereoctopus
3. another character/s ~ an amateur private detective who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes
4. a conflict ~ soap
5. an object/phrase to be mentioned in the story somewhere ~ 'It's not easy being a twink' sung to Kermit's 'It's not easy being green'