disclaimer: not mine. i only wish
dedication: to joyy, the crazy bestfriend who (forced)inspired me to write again. we're the craziest.
note: i like writing AU, its pretty.
title: growing seasons
description: The seasons change but their love is only growing —OldRival!Shipping
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summer
"What are you doing?"
Green's head blocks the sunlight completely, casting his shadow across Blue's person. He's holding a cooler in one hand and the other is holding a towel over his shoulder. Blue frowns and sits upright, letting her hands grip the edges of the wood-planks of the dock.
"Waiting for everyone," Blue replies with the half-smile she always does when she's with him. "Where are they?"
Green sets the cooler down next to Blue's food baskets and leaves his towel nearby before sitting, cross-legged, at the corner of the pier, leaning against the corner-pole and watching Blue.
"Why are you here so early?" he asks instead.
Blue pouts, puffing up her cheeks and lower lip slightly stuck out. She flicks her bangs out of her eyes and her cheeks deflate with a puff. "Hey, Green," she sings, mischievous smile playing on her lips.
Green lets out a simple "Hm?" before he gets pulled into cold water.
Perfect.
Because only Blue would pull him into water while being fully-clothed. Green paddles himself to the surface and takes a deep gulp of air before glaring at Blue.
"What the hell what that for!" he yells at her, which sends Blue into a fit of giggles.
Green is frustrated at this point, watching Blue giggle and him trying to not sink, both of their heads bobbing up and down to the barely-there current.
"Y-your face...!" Blue manages to bite out before going into all out guffaws.
"You little..." Green takes a deep breath, control. He then swims the short distance to Blue and dunks her head underneath the water surface.
It's satisfying, and Green smiles and—
—his foot gets yanked under. Green curses in his head and grabs the girl who just broke the surface, pulling her under with him.
They wrestle under the water like that for a few moments — thrashing, kicking, hitting, hair-tugging — before they both let go and swim back to the surface.
Gulps of air later and Blue is laughing again. They're both soaked to the bone and Blue is laughing as if she had no worry for the world.
Green smiles and chuckles a bit, catching himself when he thinks, She's beautiful when she laughs.
He vehemently denies it in his head as he drags the still-giggling Blue back to the dock, where Red and Gold are making cat calls to them and Green is trying his hardest not to blush.
Nothing could be worse than Red and Gold making fun of him, Silver smiling that knowing smile and Ruby smirking as if he could read every thought Green had.
Until, of course, Blue drapes herself on Green's back and simply stopped moving. That sends Red and Gold into another round of whoops and whistles and Silver's smile turning into a frown.
Green felt the girl smirking mischievously on his back and oh how he wanted to dunk her back in the water. He groans. No one was going to let him live this down, apparently.
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autumn
"What're you doing?"
Blue is crouched, hands on her knees, looking down at Green. Green is lying on the pier, legs dangling from the edge and arms pillowing his head, eyes closed. The lack of brightness makes Green lazily open an eye to meet Blue's sparkling-mischief blue eyes.
"What do you think I'm doing?" he replies, a smile on his lips.
Blue pouts in her usual way – cheeks puffed and lower lip slightly stuck out – then turns to lay down, legs dangling over the edge of the wooden planks and head resting on Green's stomach.
"You never answer my questions, Green," she says, looking up. Blue stretches her hands to the sky and looks as if she's trying to catch the clouds.
"What are you doing, Blue?" Green asks, watching her head rise and fall to the beat of his breathing.
"Asking for snow this year," Blue replies with a smile. "Do you think we'll have snow?"
"You're not answering, Blue." Green is frustrated again. "Why are you laying on my stomach?" he reiterates.
"I think we'll have snow this year," Blue says in a mystified way, ignoring Green's questions. "We'll have lots and lots of snow. What do you think, Green?" Her arms are resting on her stomach now, and she turns to face Green with an innocent smile.
Green resists the urge to pull Blue closer and sighs. "Maybe, Blue, maybe."
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winter
"What'cha doin' today?"
Green is sitting on the couch in the boarding house living room, reading. Blue is standing in front of him, clad in a thick green sweater (Green thinks its really his thick green sweater, but makes no mention of it; was she digging in his closet again?) and dark blue snow boots.
"What are you up to this time?" Green asks, sighing.
Blue pouts – why did she always pout like that? – and crosses her arms. "That wasn't an answer, Green! I asked what you're doing today."
"And I asked you what scheme you're up to again," Green replies, continuing his reading.
"Everyone's out sledding already," Blue fumes. "You have to go!"
Green recalls earlier in the morning, when Red and Gold had almost successfully shoved him out the door. Almost. "I already told them no."
"But Green," Blue whines. "I can't leave without you, and I really, really want to go!" She's hopping from foot to foot and stamping like a little child throwing a tantrum.
But Green won't budge.
And this ticks Blue off even more. She grabs the book from his hands and flings it in a random direction, pleased at the 'thump' of the book landing. Her hand is clamped around Green's wrist and she's squeezing tight.
"You. Have. To. Go," Blue hisses, her face so close to Green's that their noses are brushing against each others'.
"Fine," Green replies hotly. Blue had already taken his book from him and she was very intent on making him leave. Might as well please the darn girl.
Blue's eyes shine and she plants a kiss on Green's cheek before happily skipping away, dancing and humming around the room like Yellow did when she was excited for something.
Sometimes Green thinks Yellow was rubbing onto Blue a little too much. But Green just smiles, tugs on his snow boots and grabs his black jacket before Blue, impatient girl as she was, seizes him by the arm and flies out the door.
They break into a run through snow, dodging tree branches and Blue tumbling onto Green whenever she runs into a patch of deeper snow.
Blue is laughing as she runs and Green eventually takes the lead, dragging the crazy girl along with him because all the things she does will make him crazy, one day.
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spring
"What are you up to?"
Green is fishing on the dock, a thin green fishing rod in his hands. His legs are dangling over the edge, pants rolled up and feet bare, skidding the water's surface.
Blue sits down next to him, the brim of her hat brushing his hair. She swings her legs back and forth, toes barely grazing the water and her fingers wrapped around the edge of the dock.
"Oh, nothing," Blue replies wistfully, looking upwards.
"Stop, Blue. You're scaring away the fish," Green says, putting a hand on her knee to stop the motion.
It doesn't work.
"Green, you aren't going to catch any fish," Blue says matter-of-factly, continuing to swing her legs. "Look at everyone else."
Green sighs and removes his hand. He stares across the lake to where Red and Gold are riding their jet skiis around, tailed by Silver's speedboat (somehow Ruby was controlling it) dragging around Crystal and Sapphire on water skiis, Sapphire whooping and Crystal yelling to go faster.
Blue's hand is resting on his thigh, her finger drawing circles around his knee.
"Blue, what are you up to?" Green asks, taking her hand and putting it on her lap.
"Nothing," Blue sings, resting her hand once again on Green's thigh.
Green takes her hand and sets it back in her lap. Blue puts her hand back on Green's thigh. He takes her hand and puts it down on the dock. Blue puts her hand back. Green removes her hand. Blue rests her hand again on Green's thigh.
They continue this another few times before Green gives up. "Stop, Blue." He sets Blue's hand down on the dock and keeps his hands on top to keep her from moving them.
"Fine," Blue pouts. She stays still and watches her friends across the lake, yelling and whooping and splashing in the water. The quiet between her and Green is too much though, and Blue begins to fidget with her other hand.
Green notices and asks, "What are you doing here, Blue? Shouldn't you be over there?" He motions with his head towards their friends.
Blue shakes her head and looks at him, serious. "You looked lonely, Green," she says softly.
Green sighs but smiles. "Not anymore, Blue."
Blue turns her hand so that her palms are touching Green's. Their fingers entwine and they stay like that.
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note2: i don't know. i just write. don't question me.
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