Soma Week Day 5: Night Swimming/Skinny Dipping
tumblr user makapedia's "Black*Star and Maka are adopted siblings" AU!
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Soul internally waxed poetic about how beautiful his girlfriend looked under the moonlight. He wrote sonnets and scores about the paleness of her skin against the blackness of the lake as she floated on her back. He conducted symphonies celebrating her golden hair framing her face like a halo and how the stars could only hope to shine as brightly as the emerald of her eyes.
"Oh. My. God," Maka's teeth chattered loudly, breaking his reverie. "I am freezing my boobs off here! Whose idea was it to skinny dip this late in the season?"
He sighed. So much for romance.
"Yours. You're the one who demanded we go skinny dipping in an ice cold lake in upstate New York when it's fuck below zero degrees out here."
"Why do you listen to me?" Maka shivered.
"Because you'll beat me up if I don't?"
"Hush," she laughed and splashed water at him. "My lips are cold. Kiss me?"
He leaned down to stroke her wet bangs off her face and kissed her as requested. "Your lips are actually blue. Time to get out."
"Oh, come on! We're naked in a lake! My stupid brother is finally off our backs about dating! We're supposed to be doing naughty, rebellious teenager stuff, Soul!" Maka protested and then sneezed.
Soul picked her up bridal style and waded out of the lake, ignoring her shrieks and smacks to his head. He put her down and threw a towel to her. "Dry off before you get pneumonia. Black*Star would kill me if I let anything happen to you." Black*Star, Spirit, Spirit's ridiculous girlfriend, the dog– the entire Albarn clan would be out for blood and Soul enjoyed living too much to risk it.
Maka sulked but did as she was told, muttering loudly about what a nerd dork loser Soul was. Soul quickly dried off and threw his shorts and t-shirt on, leaving his towel slung around his neck. He watched Maka struggle to get clothes on her still wet body– patience was a virtue that his girlfriend did not possess– and shook his head.
"Come here," he tugged her over and started toweling off her hair. "You're impossible."
"But you still like me a lot, right?"
Soul stopped drying her off and instead snapped the towel at her butt. Maka yelped and batted at him. "Would I put up with your crazy family if I didn't?"
Maka rubbed at her bare arms in an attempt to keep warm. "You're the one who was friends with Black*Star first. You can't blame me for all of your bad decisions."
"True," Soul agreed, and put his flannel shirt around Maka's shoulders. "Still cold?"
"No," Maka said stubbornly, though the line of goosebumps on her legs where her barely there shorts ended said otherwise.
He leaned down to kiss her cold nose and took her freezing fingertips in his hands. She was beautiful like this– long hair damp and mused, skin slick, drowning in his too large shirt. It made all of the obstacles (mostly Black*Star trying to get between them and him freezing his ass off in the middle of nowhere just to please Maka) worth it. "Let's just go back to the cabin before we die of hypothermia."
"Killjoy," she said but stood on her tiptoes to kiss him on the cheek. "You're lucky you're cute."
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"YOU WENT TO THE LAKE WITHOUT ME?!" Black*Star roared in Soul's face on Monday morning. He shook Soul by the shoulders roughly. "BETRAYAL! DECEIT! JUDAS!"
Soul rubbed his sore ears, shying away from Black*Star. It was much too early to get the third degree from his best friend/girlfriend's overprotective older brother. "Dude, come on. It wasn't a big deal. We'll all go together next time."
Black*Star pulled at Soul's shirt collar, revealing a rather large hickey. Soul swatted at him, squawking in protest. "You both need a chaperone 24-7. For shame, Broseidon. Just because I'm letting you two date doesn't mean you get a get out of jail free card when it comes to feeling up my sister, capiche?"
Soul groaned. "I got it."
"Good." Black*Star paused. "Who's 'Judas', anyway? From that Lady Gaga song or what?"
This family was definitely going to be the death of him, Soul thought.
Definitely.