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[Aaaaand suddenly the mud is not interesting at all and Luke has no idea what he even saw in it.

If Luke didn't realize his neck and ears were sensitive thanks to that odd experiment where he was engaged to Xion, he sure knew it now. His breath automatically hitches, his head tilts to the side just slightly, and the shoulder closest to her leans back on its own. It's certainly not out of discomfort that he does these things, either.

God, it's as if his entire body is red or one fire or something, even though it was the same color as always. He gives her another glance, this one lingering.]

Spuh... specific?

[ .... that reaction ....

Another rush rolls through her -- this time she can't tell what it is. But it's warm and it's real and it's reacting to him, reacting to her.

For a moment she just meets his gaze, lips oh so slightly parted.

... do either of them even care what they were talking about just now anymore? What were they even talking about? It's not important -- it's definitely not important now, because she's leaned forward to kiss him and shut them both up.

If she were in her right mind, she'd be flailing internally over, for the second time, being the one bold enough to initiate a kiss. But all she's thinking about right now is the taste of salt on his skin and the way his breath hitched in his throat. ]

[This kiss was different from the others they shared, Luke could tell. It was like that one experiment, when their kisses started to get more and more fierce - passionate, even, and it's starting to feel like this too.

Were he of the right state of mind, he would also flail internally and maybe break away and hide himself in the water forever. But every other rational thought is thrown inside, and instead he leans into the kiss, parting his lips to deepen it and winding an arm around her waist to pull her closer to him, turning to face her as he does so.

And if Luke had any coherent thoughts left, they were tossed out with the rational ones as her bare skin comes into contact with his.]

[ Oh.

There is something impossible to resist about all of this. It's quiet, and the ocean rushes around their bodies, and he's holding her so, so close, and his mouth is--

He's warm, and she can feel his skin against hers, and that's not anything she's ever felt before. And it's completely distracting.

She lets herself get pulled, slipping an arm around his neck to help him with that whole "eliminate any last bit of air remaining between us" thing. Her other hand snakes its way up between their bodies -- her fingertips coming to rest, lightly, on his jawline, encouraging.

Even if asked, she still could not really explain why she wants this so much, what she likes so much about it. She could not be said to fully understand it, even now. All she really knows is that there's this incredible fizz under her skin, especially where he's touching her, and the wet slide of their mouths against each other--

Well. Luke's grown up a bit on his own terms. Xion's born from memories of a fourteen year old -- and is herself now sixteen, in that regard. They're teenagers -- what would you expect? ]

[Not to mention that, whether it's a blessing or a curse, Luke has the body of a teenager, and the hormones that come with it. They're practically pressed against each other, and it's a wonder that Xion's hand managed to side to his jawline, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that it felt as if jolts of electricity spread through his body everywhere she touched him, and in response he leans forward a little, because - because somehow, he feels like this might be easier if they're both lying down and not worried about gravity or whatever there is to worry about when sitting up.

He explores both her mouth and her body - his free hand moves up just beside her breast, lingering on the strap, before it slides down her side to her hip and then to her thigh. And every contour and curve makes a pleasant yet almost painful sensation coil in his abdomen, and he can't explain just what drives him forward, what makes him want to explore even further and - and he doesn't know what. He wouldn't be able to say what even if asked. He just follows what his body is telling him to do, because it's so strong right now...]

[In fact, it's so strong that his sense of hearing fails to hear the rumble of a very big, very heavy wave as it rumbles closer and closer to them. He doesn't even realize it's coming until it crashes into them, forcing him apart from Xion and making him yell out in surprise as the cold water sweeps over him and sends him rolling further up the shore.

His luck. It's horrible.]

[ Well. It was nice while it lasted. Especially when Luke shifted them around so he was more or less lying on top of her. For just a moment when his hand had slipped up to linger beside the strap of her top, it felt like fire seared its way up her spine. She'd started -- maybe, almost, for the tiniest of moments -- to shift her body, to arch up oh, oh so slightly into his touch, while the hand on his jaw slipped down to rest on his bare chest...

Of course. Then comes the wave, and Luke is the lucky one, being on on top like he was -- he just gets knocked off. Xion nearly gets DROWNED for her troubles.

Okay, not quite. But she gets sea water up her nose and it hurts a lot, plus she has no idea what's where as the ocean tumbles her. She's left in a heap, sideways, on the sand once it withdraws, coughing and blowing air out her nose, trying to get rid of the sting in her nose and her throat and her eyes.

She is, perhaps mercifully, momentarily distracted from thinking about what they were just doing. ]

Edited 2011-06-19 08:33 (UTC)

[Luke got more sea water in his mouth than up his nose, which was still enough of a shock to render him lying on his back and coughing once the wave retreated, as if it was laughing at them.

Even more so when Luke pushes himself up on one elbow, still coughing, though he's starting to recover, and reaches up to push his hair back... only to feel something hard in his hair.

Hard and moving.]

What the-?! [That's enough to send him flailing backwards as he rakes both hands through his hair to get whatever that thing is out of it, but the sucker's holding on tightly enough to a couple of locks that he can't get it out. Instead he just lets out a quiet, though growing sound of pain, because his scalp is pretty sensitive.

Thankfully this, as well as the fact that the ocean was cold, is a very good distraction from thinking about what he was doing just a little earlier.]

Edited 2011-06-19 08:51 (UTC)

Lu-- [ coughing fit. she tried!

But she pulls herself up when she hears him -- and that noise of pain -- and scrambles to her feet to make her way up the beach to him. Man, that hurt and she still feels a little dizzy from getting tossed around...

... is that a crab in his hair?

Oh, jeez.

Carefully she settles down beside him and reaches out, very carefully trying to untangle crab from red hair -- when the crab isn't especially happy to be there, either, and keeps trying to clip at her fingers. ]

Jeez, that was awful... [ Her voice is a little scratchy, even. ]

Gah - What's that thing - owww - doing to my hair?!

[... Yup, right now that's the only thing on his mind. Unsurprising, since his hair is quite important to him.

But he lifts his hands away to allow her to work, though his fingers curl slightly as he cringes. None of this felt good at all.]

It's a crab! I guess it just got stuck...

[ Carefully, carefully... a minute's more work and she's got the thing free, holding it up by one of its legs as it continues to twitch, claws twitching open and closed. She just sorta lobs it back into the ocean (what else do you do with a crab?!) and turns to look at Luke, a little concerned. ]

You okay?

[Luke stares at the crab gets thrown back into the ocean. Just staaares for a second. And then:]

That wasn't a crab! Crabs are way bigger than that! [And usually try to kill you in some way.]

... they are? [ looks back at the water. ] I thought they were supposed to be kinda small...

[ She sits back on her heels, breathing out low and slow, trying to keep from coughing again. ............ perhaps she is starting to recall what was happening just a most ago, but ... she's trying very hard to pretend she isn't!!!! ]

Not in Auldrant they're not.

[... Yeah, Luke's recalling what happened, too. Hence why he grips his ankles and looks away, trying to hide that awkward frown, and blush, on his face. And now there's a sort of thick tension in the air, too...]

[ ... she falls silent then. Mostly because he withdrew like that -- it suddenly increases the awkward quotient by about six hundred percent. She blushes and looks away, her fingers balling into fists on her thighs.

This ... this is weird. They sometimes have awkward moments, but ... never as bad as this. What ... what was that? That was... really different from their other kisses. It felt so...

She doesn't even know what that was. What that meant. Why her body reacted that way. Though from what memories remain from that experiment... she can formulate something of a guess. And that thought makes her blush harder, and duck her head. Is that... is that what they were--?

Oh jeez. This is painfully embarrassing. ]

[Luke knows full well what he was feeling, and why his body was reacting like that. He might not have lived for very long, but with a body that grew from ten years old to seventeen, he's certainly felt things like that before. Not to such an extent, of course, as he's never even kissed anyone on the lips until Xion, but there were still stirrings. And he felt those very same things just a few minutes ago.

The ocean and the crab managed to break him out of it, of course. He can't help feeling disappointed... and thus came the rush of awkward. It... It was weird! And awkward! So why was he reacting like this?! It's not like he wanted to... keep going... did he?!]

Uh... [Let's break this silence somehow!!]

[ Her eyes dart up when he tries -- and fails -- to say something, hoping he would, but ... she just laughs, a little awkwardly, when "uh" is all he can manage. She'll just go ahead and climb to her feet, wishing she could hide her flushed cheeks as she brushes sand off her shins. ]

Um ... weren't you saying there were other things you wanted to do?

[Luke blinks out of it and stares up at her, a little blankly at first. Wanted to do...?

... Oh. OH, that's right. He widens his eyes a bit in understanding and stands as well, brushing sand off of his own legs.]

Oh, yeah, uh... Kairi said there's a bunch of stuff to do here, like... making sand castles and looking for sea shells and things like that.

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