"Are you guys fighting?" Nagisa asked again, this time Rin turned to face them.
"A-are we, Rin?" Makoto hoped that Rin would reply to him directly.
"Makoto didn't bite me and I didn't scream at him. No, we're not fighting." Rin said, nonchalantly. "Plus, I'm stopping by his place later."
Haruka can't help but feel worried. Makoto's expression seems out of place all the time today. "Well, me to-"
"No, you don't, Haru. Don't you have an art piece you need to work on today." Rin cut him off.
Drats. Haruka knew something is going to happen between the two. He already knew that both their feelings are mutual, but the other party didn't know. He wouldn't want anything to happen between the two. No way will Makoto, the person he just found out that he had a crush on fall onto the hands of his long-time rival, Rin. Dammit, that art piece! Why would the due date be tomorrow? He had been on break of working on the piece due to the famous artist block. He looked around for some inspiration, because once he had the idea going on, he could finish the thing in a flash. The faster he overcome the block, he could go to Makoto's and stop whatever Rin had had in mind. Even if Rin didn't go to Makoto's to work on this issue, he knew Makoto would be very bothered afterwards. Heaven knows how bothered Makoto ticked him.
That's when he saw a fountain with crystal clear water forming tiny ripples as if calling Haruka. He attempted to strip but forgot that he wasn't wearing any swimsuit underneath since he already took two dives today, all his spares already wet. Still, the water tempted him in a way that is mocking, so he ran towards it, hoping that he didn't strip by reflex.
"Haruka -senpai!" Rei ran after him to stop him from jumping into the water. "That is public property!"
When he stopped a second with an attempt to leap, a sudden splash of water stopped him from diving. A figure fell into the fountain, clothes still intact. A girl, with shoulder length raven black hair slowly stood up, wet.
"The water looks clear, but this fountain is not well managed," she said. She climbed out of the fountain, soaked and unable to be identified due to her bangs fully sticks onto her face. "It's not enjoyable."
"Mizu! There you are." Another girl ran towards her, she was slightly chubby and familiar.
"Ah, Maya-chan." Makoto exclaimed. She lives in their neighbourhood, Makoto sometimes walks by her home which he would be greeted by her mother and had small talk. She is a family friend but she went to a boarding school quite far from home. "Are you on a break?"
"Ah, Makoto-kun. Yeah, I was showing my cousin around Iwatobi, she will be attending your school this week. She might be your classmate. Nee, Mizu-" Maya turned around but her cousin was gone. Another splash is heard, her cousin jumped in another fountain not far from the first one. "I'm so sorry, I've got to go. Maybe next time. She's always like this. She had this extreme affinity for water."
"Kind of like someone we know." Rin added with a grin, which was replied by a deathly yet pokerfaced glare from Haruka that doesn't seem scary yet it brings goosebumps. Haruka turned back to see the girl with the extreme affinity towards water.
In that particular second, the girl splashed out of the water for a gasp of air.
Thump!
Oh, he will finish that art piece before Rin can do anything at Makoto's.