17. Water
"Coming?"
Leo's smile was mischievous, making Reyna wary as he stood up from the Camp Half-Blood beach. They had been sitting on a blanket with a picnic basket full of food, and before she had a chance to open it Leo had set it down, kissed her quickly and ripped off his clothes before she could say a word.
She had been left sitting, blinking once, then twice, trying to catch up with what had just happened.
Because Leo was there standing completely naked in front of her.
"There's no way you are-"
Leo got on the dock and ran, yelling loudly as he did, before jumping in the air and doing a cannonball in the lake.
Reyna wondered if the naiads would be annoyed. She wondered if they would drown him. For a moment she contemplated letting them.
She sighed. She couldn't. Leo was her boyfriend after all.
"Coming?"
Leo's head was all she could see above the water and Reyna pursed her lips. They had been dating for close to two years now, Reyna had seen everything of his there was to see, but...
...but this was still at Camp, in the middle of the day and anybody could come out here and catch them.
Reyna didn't want Kitchen Duty .
"Rey?"
He said his nickname for her and she was done. The low note of his voice and the tempting view the water almost gave her was too much.
Without saying anything else Reyna stripped. Leo let out a quick whoop before she tucked her arms around herself and splashed into the water.
It was cold.
"Leo Valdez, this is freezing!" She exclaimed as she surfaced.
She let out a shriek as she realized he was right in front of her. He gave her his signature mischevious grin and Reyna's anger melted like motlen lead to pool in her stomach. "What are you going to do about it?"
Well now that he mentioned it...
Reyna placed both hands on his cheeks and swam a little forward so that they were practically nose to nose. She could physically feel where Leo's thoughts were going.
She smiled and he closed his eyes.
Right when she shoved his head under the water, dunking him, before abandoning ship and swimming away.
Reyna was laughing as he came sputtering up. "Reyna!" He complained.
"That's what you get!" She called.
He swam quickly towards her, stroking through the water, droplets shining on his thin but muscled arms as he did. "My turn."
She swallowed.
oooOOOooo
Hours later, after they'd had a water fight, gotten out to eat their food, waited a while, kissed a lot, and gone back in to swim around lazily, somebody found them.
It wasn't a fellow camper.
"Leo, Reyna."
The voice was a man's, and sounded amused.
Reyna knew who it was, and she contemplated sinking and drowning.
Leo started to talk.
"Chiron!" He said, too happily. The centaur stood on the docks with his arms crossed, frowning down at them. "How's it going?"
Chiron's tail flicked side to side and he ignored Leo's words. "I'm going to leave. You two are going to meet me in the Big House-with your clothes on."
They blushed as Chiron looked to where their picnic basket lay with bundles of their clothing.
Reyna's bra, in particular, stood out on the sand.
Without another word he turned and galloped away.
"If Chiron doesn't end up killing us, you better run for your life." Reyna said.