Drugs
The music was loud and fast. The room crowded with bodies. I was beginning to feel whatever it was I had swallowed about half an hour ago spread its numb fingers through my mind, making it swirl in tiny frenzies. I didn't know to explain it, but it was fast and dizzying and wonderful. I was giddy with it, and I needed desperately to move but I had no one to move with.
We looked at each other and smiled shy smiles. Even with all this euphoria going in my head and in hers we were still uncomfortable with each other. In the pond we had unofficially voiced our feelings, but now there was a strange tension between us.
We had come here to have fun, but everybody was dancing like they had been previously paired off. It made us feel uncomfortable, because neither of us had planned on dancing with each other.
Well this is boring, she commented. My body itched to dance or move, my mind swirled with the lust for it.
I don't have anyone to dance with, was all I could say.
I don't want to dance. It looks silly.
No, it looks fun. I want to dance. Just a little, off to the side.
Azula shot me a glance. I stared back. Her eyes voiced her opinion. 'Do I have to?' I grabbed her hand and pulled her off to the side, away from most of the writhing mass of bodies. Against the wall.
We held each other and danced, but I desperately wanted to kiss her again. I know she did too. Azula was so shy, and not that I wasn't, but I decided that if I didn't do it she wouldn't.
And with our hands on each others bodies, swaying gently and not with the music, brains swirling with happiness, our lips locked and didn't untangle until they were numb and tingling and slick. Late in the night.