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She doesn’t disappoint me.
“Wow.” Her eyes are wide with wonder and her whole face has lit up.
“You like it?”
She shakes her head. “No. I love it. I had no idea this was even here!”
“Not many people know about it.”
“Can we go in? Is it safe to swim?”
“You want to swim in the lake?” I shoot her a disbelieving look.
“Yeah.”
“I thought you liked the sea.”
“The ocean owns my soul,” she replies without pause. “But any body of water just…calls to me. That sounds cr— silly, doesn’t it?”
“Not at all. I may not surf that much, but I love water too.”
“Thank you for bringing me here. This is perfect.”
“Well, I didn’t just bring you here to appreciate the view,” I tell her with a grin. “Though I definitely didn’t plan on swimming. But we could. If you wanted to.”
She smirks at me. “No? Why else did you drag me out into the woods, with no one around, so early in the morning?”
She’sdefinitelyflirting. My dick is hard as she bats her eyelashes at me. Fuck. Usually when chicks do that shit, it’s a turn off or it has zero effect on me. But with Malia. God. I’ve got it bad. She doesn’t even seem to realise she’s doing it.
“You’re planning on doing…stuff to me?”
I groan and step closer to her. “I don’t know if you mean good stuff or bad stuff right now,” I confess, desperately wanting to kiss her.
“True.” She turns away, leaving me wanting. Is she teasing me? “How deep is the lake? It looks like a pretty good place to kill someone.”
As soon as the words leave her lips she gasps and claps a hand over her mouth, spinning back to gaze at me in horror.
“Shit! I’m sorry. That was a horrible thing to say,” she cries from behind her fingers. I mean, it comes out pretty muffled, but I can make out the gist.
“Don’t be. I was thinking the same thing. And now this is suddenly a terrible place for a breakfast picnic that is absolutely, definitely, not a date.”
Her fingers fall from her lips and she stares at me a beat too long. Then blinks. “You planned this as a date?”
“Maybe. Do you want it to be a date?”
“Maybe…”
I grin at her and pull the backpack off my shoulder. Resting it on the floor, I unzip it, pull out the blanket on the top and spread it out over the grass. I gesture for Malia to take a seat and she does, kicking off her shoes as she sits.
“It’s so peaceful out here.”
“You’re right. It would probably be a terrible place to kill someone. I bet their screams would travel right across campus.”
She giggles before schooling her features. “We probably shouldn’t be joking about this stuff. If someone were listening in, they might get the wrong idea.”
“It’s just me and you out here, I promise. You gotta have a sense of humour about these things. Otherwise—”
“You’d go crazy?” She finishes, straight faced.
