Again days passed for them before Akkarin once again saw a familiar beacon of har maing her way across the grounds to the woods. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to get her along and find out her name he feigned feeling ill and escaped with a note to go to the healers. He snuck out of the entrance hall and glided over the grounds to the edge of the woods where he masked his presence and entered following the familiar route to the clearing and pond.

He hid behind the same tree and watched her step slowly into the pool, her robes folded on the side. He smiled as she dunked her head under. He took this moment to reveal himself and sat casually on a rock on the edge of the pool waiting for her to resurface.

Her head popped up not far away and she turned. Her eyes widened as she caught sight of him sitting there watching her with a smile.

'It's a beautiful day to go swimming' He said and chuckled at her reddening face.

'H-how long have you been watching!' she said shakily.

'Not long' he said casually.
She glared at him and sank so only her head bobbed above the surface watching him.

'How did you find this place?' she asked next and earned another chuckle.

'I've known about this place a long time, me and Lorlen come here to escape sometimes and talk alone. We hid a game over in that rock there' he said pointing to his right at the rounded boulder.

'Oh…well…shouldn't you be class anyway?' she said trying to get him to leave her be.

'I wasn't feeling well, and when I saw you heading this way I couldn't help but follow. You didn't give me your name last time we met' he said and lay down with id head turned to watch her.

She glided across the water still keeping herself low in the water till she was right next to him.

'It's Elanea…What's yours?' she asked back.

'Akkarin' he replied.

She reached out her hands, 'Well Akkarin, you should know better than to watch a girl while she's bathing' she pulled on his robes and pulled him into the water then quickly glided to the far side.

Akkarin rose and smoothed his hair down and looked for her. she watched him, slightly red from the far side but a smile on her face. He laughed and then began to take his robes off throwing them in a patch of sunlight to dry before staking over to her.
She widened her eyes at his actions and attempted to dark away but he caught her waist and pulled her bad against a moss covered rock, cornering her.

'That wasn't fair, though at least the water's warm…I assume you…' he said looking at her bright eyes.
She nodded unable to say anything in this close and compromising position she had gotten herself into. He nodded with a smile, 'nicely done, you've got skill' he said and she went even redder. Akkarin shook his head at her reaction and backed away slightly still within reach to stop her leaving, he was enjoying this.

'I need to get back…' she said in the silence, rather unconvincingly and Akkarin sighed.

'Look, I think you're…very pretty' He said and watched her she, to his amazement grew even more flush and sank low in the water, just up to her chin.

'Thank you' she said quietly in response and then looked at him, she couldn't deny he too was attractive, standing so his broad shoulder peaked out of the water. His black hair, now wet was still tied back in and old fashioned way and she was smiling at her.

'Have you always had light hair?' He said reaching out and taking a strand in his fingers.

'No…only recently, well in the past year' she said and watched him twist her hair in his fingers, 'My mother was an alchemist…she wanted to see if we could change out hair with magic and well, managed to permanently change mine to this with no way to reverse it or dye it' she said in a calm voice lost in her own words.

'I like it' he said watching her lost in her memory then placed his free hand on her cheek and pulled her face to his kissing her gently. She relaxed in his grip and allowed him to move flush against her, the water around them seeming warmer suddenly. They became lost in one another, hands roaming and heavy breathing till eventually Akkarin lay on his back on his dry robes with Elanea laying against him. He looked at the sky and the passing wisps of cloud and slowly the world came back to them. She rose first and dried her hair and redressed into her robes as he too followed suit.

They walked quietly side by side through the woods, nothing left to say to each other until they reached the edge of the wood.

'Elanea…' He began but she interrupted him, 'I'll be here over the summer, I live with my father in the residences so…I'll be here again' she said hurriedly and then hesitantly took a step further.
Akkarin stopped her and pulled her close to him under the shade of the trees and places a chaste kiss on her lips, 'Okay then we'll see each other again' he smiled and let her got then left in the direction of the main entrance while she left for the Novice quarters.

R&R I know Akkarin (that we know) is probably out of character but this is a younger, more carefree student Akkarin...so i hope it works...
Also apologies if there is any ridiculous misspelling, i try my hardest.