[closed] Is there a hole in your heart?

[fintastic]

Date & Time: 8/2, around midnight
Location: A lake on the Hold's outskirts
Characters: Feferi Peixes & Eridan Ampora
Summary: Awkward teenagers doing what they do best: being awkward and possibly bickering.
Warnings: Teen drama

[ By and large, Feferi doesn't mind swimming in the lake, well over her uneasiness around small bodies of water. She would prefer Alternia's oceans, but since she isn't going to be living in the lake, it's a nice way to get away for an hour or two and unwind. It's relaxing to just do laps around the lake, slow circles mostly, but sometimes fast, sometimes seeing how fast she could go. Sometimes she just sits at the deepest part and gathers all the lake fish to her. Even if they aren't as delightfully colorful as the cuttlefish that inhabit her hive, or the other aquatic fauna she's used to, she still loves them and cares for them when she thinks they're sick.

Not only is it relaxing, but there's no one down here to disrupt her train of thought. Even if she's abnormally social by both troll and human standards, sometimes it's nice to not have those distractions. If there's someone around for her to talk to, then she'll gladly do that instead. Down here she can think about herself, and all the Solluxes she's known, and what she's going to do after this.

Tonight, she's taken to floating along in some of the shallower water towards the north end of the lake, making faces at a playful young catfish, very much oblivious to anything else around her. ]

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[caligulas_aquarium]

[Eridan wasn't here for the water or anything, having less of an affinity for it than the other more aquatically inclined seadweller here at Exsilium. He simply leaves the hold on his little excursions to get away from certain things, more often than not his blockmates when he can't stand them anymore, though it's ultimately a waste of time since all he ever does is focus on how much he can't stand them anyway.

Once he comes across the lake, he figures staying here for a while might be a good idea, but then spots Feferi; the idea of how slim the chances are of the two being here at the exact same time is lost on him, instead deciding to step to the edge of the lake and see if he can get her attention by calling out.]

Wwhat're you doin'?

[fintastic]

[ Mere seconds before, Feferi had looked perfectly happy. Now she frowns a little as she hears someone calling her from the shore and surfaces a little, just to see Eridan there. Ugh. The catfish swims off, leaving Feferi alone with him. She can't quite make out the words, but she gets the idea. She could just swim off to the other side of the lake, but her better nature brings her up to the surface, poking her head up as she treats water. ]

What?

1/3

[caligulas_aquarium]

...nothin'. Just...nothin'.

[He huffs, crouching down by the lakeside.]

So do you come here often, or-

[caligulas_aquarium]

-wwait, shit, that came out wwrong.

I didn't mean it like...

[caligulas_aquarium]

...

All I mean is wwhat're you doin' out here.

[fintastic]

I'm swimming. [ She cocks her head to one side, tossed up between whether she should be curious or flat out suspicious. But then, even if she doesn't trust him, it seems unlikely that he would come looking for her out here just to cause trouble. Maybe if Sollux was here, but not her alone, so when she finds herself floating backwards a little out of habit, she leans forward and continues to tread water. ] Is there something you need?

[caligulas_aquarium]

Not really. I didn't ewen know you were out here, I'll hawe you know.

[He gives a little shrug, watching her float along.]

So...I figured I should say somethin' once I realized you were there is all.

[fintastic]

Oh, okay.

[ This is getting more and more awkward by the second. What to do about it? She still wishes she could just swim off. ]

You should go for a swim while you're here. The water's nice.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Oh, uh. Sure.

[Still taking off the cape and the scarf before he does though, they are such a hassle to wear when wet on dry land.

Then he just ungraciously dives right in.]

[fintastic]

[ Oh.

She wasn't expecting him to accept.

Abort abort abort! She waits until he surfaces again to do or say anything, though. ]

When was the last time you went swimming?

[caligulas_aquarium]

[He hasn't gone swimming in so long he figures that giving it a shot isn't exactly ridiculous...after all, he's got nothing better to do.

So eventually, after having surfaced...]

Uh...before Sgrub. Way, way before Sgrub.

[fintastic]

Then come on!

[ She takes off at a fast pace, but then thinking better of it, slows herself down so that he can actually keep up, assuming he might have trouble being as out of practice as he is. She could probably lap him a few times if she really wanted to, but... ]