Paine could have sworn she felt Rikku's boot brush the back of her leg. Her cheeks colored and her face grew hot, but she couldn't turn around. The entire class was right in the middle of a test. Being in AP English, they were supposed to have read parts of the Bible, of all things, during Summer Vacation. Why Paine, Rikku, and half of the other students in class never got this notice, she didn't know. It just wasn't fair.

Since when was the school allowed to quiz its students on chapters from the Bible, anyway? Who really gives a shit about David and Goliath? It just didn't seem right, having to be quizzed on a religious book in a public school. Maybe Paine was just irritated because she hadn't been given the chance to study. Or, maybe she was even more irritated because suddenly the Bible held some sort of beef with her. If she really was a lesbian, wouldn't she be condemned by that book? What for? It was just...irritating. That's all the could think.

She was going to fail her first test all because some idiot didn't send out the proper mail to every student. It wasn't right.

Rikku's boot touched the back of her leg again. Paine tried not to grin. She didn't understand why she was trying so hard to decipher her questions. It wasn't like she was going to miraculously understand the inner workings of it just by staring at it long enough. It came down to two options: fail completely, or practice her multiple choice question-picking skills. The answer was almost always the longest, and some teachers even put stupid answers in with the others to make it even easier, like "Donald Duck."

Paine watched, slightly in awe, when Rikku stood up from her desk to turn her test in. How was she already finished? Had she gotten the mail? Did she actually read the bible or something? When the blonde returned to her seat again, Paine felt a distinct poking in her side. She playfully swatted Rikku's hand away, only to find that she was being passed a crumpled up sheet of paper.

Paine unfolded it under her desk.

She couldn't believe it! It was the answers to the test. Where did Rikku get these? And more importantly, should Paine use them? It wasn't fair that they were quizzing her without warning, so why not cheat? It felt like a fair trade to her. She glanced up at Mr. Schecter, who was funnily spinning his chair around in circles, twiddling his thumbs in the process. Schecter would never notice, it wasn't like she was screwing with him. Just the idiots who decided play this game.

At the bottom of the cheat sheet, Rikku had written a question in small, curly lettering.

"Want to go out again tonight? XOXO"

Paine couldn't keep from grinning this time.

She quickly filled in the answers on her test and took it up to Schecter's desk. When she sat back down in her chair, she pulled a black pen out of her bag and a new slice of paper, figuring it would be best to dispose of the cheat sheet as quickly as possible.

"Of course," she wrote. "and thanks."

She passed it back, barely moving her body at all in the transfer. Rikku's fingers touched hers when she took the note. The brief contact sent a jolt through Paine's heart. She was entirely addicted to Rikku, and it was getting hard to keep under control.

"Meet me in the girl's bathroom," was the response Paine received. Confused, she turned slightly in her chair to look at Rikku, but Rikku had already stood up and was asking Mr. Schecter for a hall pass. He agreed a little too easily, considering they were in the middle of a test.

What was Rikku thinking? How did she think Paine was gonna be allowed to leave when Rikku was already out? That's like, one of the most top suspicious things on the list of what teachers look for during a test. Then again, they were both already finished, so it wasn't like they'd be talking about it. Right. Okay.

Paine decided to let a couple of minutes go by before getting up, too.

"Um, Mr. Schecter?"

"Hm?" Her teacher looked up from doing a crossword puzzle.

"I need to go to the bathroom."

"Hm, hm, alright...let's see. Looks like Miss Rikku is already out. I'm only supposed to let out one student at a time. I can't have my entire class running around in the halls, right?"

Paine made a note to cross her legs.

"Oh, alright. If you really need to go, then there's no stopping you. After all, there's also a rule that says we CAN'T keep a student from going. Go ahead, then." Mr. Schecter waved her away. Paine disappeared into the hallway without a word.

She slipped down the corridor quietly, hoping that Rikku was in the bathroom she was headed to. After all, why would the blonde go to any other bathroom than the one right in their hall? Why did Rikku want to meet her in the bathroom, anyway? She squeaked the door open and peered in carefully, just to make sure.

The blonde was sitting atop the bathroom sink, her legs swaying back and forth like a small child's. She was wearing her scarf again today, and a pair of light blue, destroyed jeans. Her white t-shirt read, "Why not?" Paine had never seen a shirt like that before, and wondered what it meant. Then, she realized it fit Rikku perfectly. If anyone ever told her no to something, that's probably exactly what she might say.

Rikku looked up when Paine entered, grinning from ear to ear. "Took you long enough."

"What going on? Don't like writing letters?" Paine smirked, approaching her blonde friend.

"Letters are just fine," Rikku laughed, standing up. "It's just that I can't do this in class." She placed her hands on Paine's hipbones and pulled her forward. "I can't touch you, or hold you."

Paine's heart might have exploded. Rikku's touches were angelic; they made her feel like puddling up on the floor. She put all her concentration into controlling her breathing--it threatened to become unsteady, heightened. This thing with Rikku was getting deep, just being touched by her like this made her body shiver and her heart flutter unceasingly. It seemed like too much for her to handle all at once.

She leaned into Rikku's strokes, encircling her arms around her thin waist. Rikku's green eyes probed her red ones, as if questioning everything they were feeling, as if wondering why or how this could ever happen. All Paine understood was that she needed more of whatever she was feeling. She needed to feel Rikku all around her and in her. The scent of the girl alone was intoxicating her brain. She was barely even conscious of where and when they were--all she knew was that Rikku was sliding her hands up under Paine's shirt, and the heat that was balling up between the two girls was too much to fight off, too much to argue with.

Rikku gripped Paine's sides tightly, as if doing so only to control her urge to have her way with Paine.

"Do you know how tempting it is to stare at your backside for an entire period?" Rikku asked, trailing her probing hands up and around Paine's back, drawing her nails softly over her skin. Paine shivered lightly, cursing Rikku inwardly for doing these things to her in a place where they couldn't go any further than just this. Wait...any further? Paine forced her mind out of the gutter. But it was proving difficult, as Rikku was now tracing her fingers around Paine's front again. She curled her fingers around Paine's belt loops and pulled the red-eyed girl further in still, until their bodies touched completely and their lips grazed against one another temptingly.

Paine growled, frustrated. "You're making me want to ditch."

Rikku's eyes brightened. "Really?"

"We can't."

"Why not? It's only the second day," Rikku pointed out in a convincingly sweet voice.

"You're a bad girl. You know that, right?"

"Only because of your influence," Rikku kidded, flicking her damp tongue at Paine's bottom lip. She was clearly trying to instigate some very bad behavior.

"What if someone comes in?" Paine looked up at the door. "And we've been gone for a while. Exactly how long does it take to go to the bathroom? Not this long."

"Stop worrying," Rikku cooed. She took Paine's wrist and dragged her across the bathroom into one of the stalls, thankful that it was still early enough in the day for them to be clean. Before Paine could protest any further, she was being locked inside of the stall and pushed against the door. Rikku's lips were pressed against hers before anything else could come out of her mouth, and as much as she wanted to, she couldn't fight off the blonde. She gave in faster than she though she would, closing her eyes and letting Rikku pin her body even harder against the door. She was completely trapped, and she loved it.

It was the heat again. The damn heat that made irresponsible, unimaginably intolerable things seem perfectly acceptable--like letting Rikku put her hands all over her body in the middle of what was supposed to be class time. And even if it wasn't class time...what Rikku was beginning to do had dove so far into "unacceptable" that Paine's eyes had sprung back open.

Rikku had pinned each of her hands to the door above her head and was pressing her thigh right in between Paine's legs. Paine gasped and clenched her teeth, half from wanting to tell Rikku not to, half from wanting to tell her to keep going. Two sides of her brain were battling furiously with one another, but soon both sides lost and gave in to what her body said, what her body wanted. And even more than that, what her heart wanted. All of her thoughts died as her mind when numb in comparison to the rising heat going on in the lower region of her body.

Rikku held both of Paine's hands in one of hers, letting her other hand explore Paine's tight abdomen again. She didn't know what had come over her. It was unbelievable--but one look at Paine told her the dark girl was definitely enjoying it, so she didn't let up, refused to stop. She couldn't stop. It was like her whole body and mind was drunk from just feeling Paine. She drove her thigh against Paine even more, rocking it slightly into her, letting her other hand sneak its way down to join it.

"Rikku," Paine warned.

"Sorry."

"You're very bad."

"Who was it that could think of a million things worse than me straddling you on the sidewalk?"

Paine frowned. "And your memory is too good. Still, that doesn't mean we SHOULD."

Rikku smirked.

"No, really. I mean it."

"Awh," Rikku pouted. "Well stop temping me, then."

Paine gasped in mock indignation. "Exactly how am I tempting you? Hm?"

"Um, you exist?" Rikku offered.

Paine was about to speak again when the bathroom door squeaked open. She rotated positions with Rikku and stood up on the seat of the toilet carefully. She mouthed for Rikku to just try sitting down but Rikku mouthed back that she wasn't going to sit on the filthy toilet seat.

Whatever, Paine mouthed once more. Instead, Rikku peered through the crack in the door. It was just some girl putting on eye liner. How irritating. How were they supposed to escape?

Paine pointed in the general direction of English class, and mouthed for Rikku to go back first, and that she'd catch up later. Rikku playfully blew at kiss at her Paine, then turned to open the stall door. Paine grabbed her by the back of her jeans, holding a finger up to wait.

She flushed the toilet, then gave a thumbs up. Now, she was faced with two options: wait until the eye liner girl leaves and hope she doesn't decide to visit her stall, or crawl under the stall to the next one over. Decisions, decisions.