A small gasp left her lips. Although she knew the contact was coming, still it gained her surprise. While holding her, wasn’t something she wanted him to do anymore, she allowed him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and as tightly as he held her, she held onto him. Her attention stayed on him, while the water is what she should have been focusing on. The cold water she was about to endure. Yet, while she was once again in his arms, it was practically impossible for her to tear her eyes away from him. This embrace, was different from the first. Mainly, because he had almost obtained his naked hug. Also because this time, the voice that had told her to pull away the first time, had receded into the back of her mind so far, she could barely hear the warnings it would give.
Her eyes and attention only turned to the water when he first laughed, then spoke. She’d been in the lake many times before, but today? Today it looked unbearably cold. Maybe going swimming today was a bad idea. Fun, because she got to see him without most clothing. Even though she would never admit it, it was an extremely nice sight to see. But swimming, in the cold, cold lake, didn’t seem so nice. She opened her mouth to protest, only to shut it just before the water engulfed them both.
As he had said, and as she could plainly see, the water was cold. Beyond cold, it was freezing. Her body screamed at her to scramble out and away from the water as quickly as it could. But for the brief time beneath the water, she ignored the thought and her arms stayed wrapped firmly around his neck. Not only did they stay wrapped around him under the water, but there they stayed when her head came back above the water. Another gasp left her lips as the air filled her lungs back up and she gave Jerome her deadliest glare. Far from actually deadly, but the point would get across.
