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going to be beach in the winter wasn’t an activity he had entertained before . after all , during winter , why not visit wintry slopes or resorts tucked into snow-capped mountains to best observe the season ? though , the activity had been mentioned by everyone’s favorite natural type offhandedly shortly after club activities had come to an end one summer afternoon , and so , the mission to collectively visit the beach during winter break was set . only now , had it been successfully accomplished .
along with the notion of beach-going during the winter , the notion of swash chasing hadn’t graced his mind either . though , that may have been due to the simple fact that he hadn’t known of the game until now . it’s a simple game . all you had to do is follow the the receding water on the edge of the sea shore and quickly run out of their way before the tides could catch you in their watery grasp . one didn’t even need to spend money to participate ! truly , commoner ingenuity at work !! despite not knowing of the existence of said game until now , it isn’t long before they fall into motions of the game . like a couple of children without a care in the world , they hop , skip , and jump out of the way of the echoes of crashing waves on the sea shore .
however , the picture of perfect coordination : haruhi fuji.oka is most certainly not . so , their slip and tumble , face first into the sandy shores , shouldn’t have come as a surprise . despite this , his mind still races as he skids to a stop . then , a snort resounds from the sand ! in an instant , his mind makes leaps and bounds to put reasoning for such a sound , however outlandish these conclusions may be . perhaps , they had breathed in sand ! perhaps , that snort had been a swan song ( however uncouth ) before they succumbed to the sand wet sand !! they could be drowning in sand at this very minute !!!
before he can reach down to try to offer assistance , they turn , and where he had feared finding pain or annoyance in their expression , he finds joy ( bright and unbridled ) shining instead . with eyes shut , laughter spills from their lips . for a moment , he can only stare ; for the longer he looked the more he found . its almost as if their smile held every happy thing they could possibly conjure — the excitement sparked by the news of a flash sale , the complete earnestness that met every situation they deemed worthy of it , the notion of fancy tuna . a breath releases his worries’ grip on his heart , instead it makes way for something more fulfilling . in an instant and entirely without his knowledge , he falls all too fast and all too helplessly into love , into enchantment , into all those happy things in that smile of theirs .
surprise and delight take on the form of giggles that bubble and brim past his lips , ringing in tandem with theirs . giggles bloom into full blown laughter . an hand pushes back golden locks as his laughter proves uncontrollable but entirely welcome . in this haze of unbridled laughter , the water’s edge rushes forward and licks at his ankles and washes over their legs . it seems they’ve both lost . no matter , a little water never hurt anyone , after all .
