Arcane Jungle, Part Twenty-Four*

{Nao} 

[Aaaand they're gone.] 

I watch Akari and Reina stumble out of the pool, all tangled limbs and wandering hands. It's like they forget the rest of us exist, lost in their own little world of raging hormones and sexual tension finally snapping. 

Part of me is happy for them. That shit's been building since day one, and the eye-fucking was getting old. But another part, a part I don't want to acknowledge, is jealous. 

Not of them specifically, but of what they have. That "fuck it, let's go" attitude, the freedom to just... give in.

"Looks like it's just you and me, tiger."

Haruka's voice snaps me out of my thoughts. She's grinning at me, her eyes sparkling with mischief and something else, something that makes my pulse kick up a notch.

"Yeah," I say, trying to keep my voice steady. "Guess so."

She swims closer, the water lapping at her collar bones. This close, I can see the droplets clinging to her eyelashes.