Somewhat surprising, but not much given that he does have a health gift and as long James is enjoying himself.  Smooch. Petting. 

He's definitely enjoying himself, yes.

They can just keep snuggling and kissing? He doesn't really want to do anything else, though he'll go along with it if Franklyn does. 

Franklyn is entirely content with that. Snuggling and kissing a cute boy is great. Bonus for being naked in a pool.

The skinny dipping does add to the experience, yeah. 

The flight ritual will wear off eventually, right? He might not even notice when it does, given that he's otherwise occupied, though. 

They are very distracted, but their buoyancy is not entirely caused by water and eventually they sink a bit. "Oops. The ritual wore off." Kiss.

-yes this is noticeable actually. "Oh." (Kiss!) He's too happy right now to be very sad about the flight wearing off. 

"...Should we go back inside?" He wonders. He is supposed to be getting to know the whole family. Not just one of them. 

"If you want to? You need to dry off, but we keep towns near the pool. You don't need to get dressed, I don't think."

"Mm, I think I'll put on pants at least."

...Whenever that happens, anyway. He's not in a hurry. The sun is shining, the water is cool, and there's no good reason for them to stop snuggling right this minute. These are facts.

Alex steps out of the door connecting the pool deck to the house, pausing when he sees what they're up to.

"...Well, I should have predicted that," he comments to the air and whoever else happens to be listening. 

"Oh, hi?" Franklyn says, and then he looks at Alex's face. "Is everything alright?"

"I'm... fine. Just learned how we're related to you, and about a few more surprise relations on top of that."

Jamie focuses more attention on Alex.

"...Surprise relations?" 

"Yeah." He glances over at Franklyn, shrugs. Not like it's a secret.

"We've got a living father. And two older siblings. And their mom might not be happy to learn we exist." 

"Oh."

He's silent, processing that for a long moment. 

"I know I am wet and naked, but would you like a hug too?" Franklyn asks Alexei.

"Uh."

"He'd like a hug, yeah. Multiple hugs." The more hug the better. 

Jamie paddles to the edge and pulls himself out of the pool. 

He backs off a bit, "You'll get my shirt wet, Jay-"

Hug.

...Sigh. He only brought one change of clothes. 

...He does relax into it pretty quick, though.

Franklyn (who can fly under his own power) just lifts off the pool. After a pause he makes a detour to get some towels and then hug.

Jamie will take a towel and quickly dry his hair and upper body off before tying it around his waist. And then back to hug.

Hug. He folds a bit in their arms, pressing his face against Jamie's shoulder, and definitely doesn't cry even a little bit. 

Franklyn will also join the hug, if the twins don't mind.

They don't mind, no. Jamie will lean on him, so Alex does too. 

(Jamie's pretty much fine. He's curious, but won't be devastated if their blood siblings and father don't want them. If that's the case, well, it'll suck, but nothing gained or lost, really. He'll still have Alex at the end of it, at the least. And maybe they'll have the Graywards, too.)