Nyx and Lyria (Acotar x Tog)

Chapter 5

Nyx pov

I hate being dirty,

like with a passion. After I'm done training I always take a bath right afterwards, and I have been getting sweatier and dirtier the longer this whole thing has gone on and I hate it.

So like any sane person I went to take a bath and then my traveling partner with a dirty mind creeps up on me. She walked up quietly, but then stood there for about 2 minutes not really moving... This woman is so strange.

"Are you going to take a bath or just stand there like a creep" I don't think she initially knew I knew she was there but she totally flinched and around five different branches cracked in succession. "Uh I'm gonna go" she almost sprints as she darts away. I heard her breathing quicken even after she had stopped running.

"It's nice and warm in here" I yell and she responds rather breathlessly "Um no I-I'm good" This girl would rather freeze than get in a river with me...that is a slight personal offence. "I mean okay but I am so nice and warm ahh" I moan and sink into the warmed water more, I hear her heart beat quicken again.

Around fivish minutes later she slowly walks back, and I am still listening to her heartbeat and it quickens even more. "Turn around" she says and shockingly her voice is quite calm. "Fine"

I turn and end up staring at a tree, the tree is a very typical tree, tall and barky...I don't know it looks like a tree and personally I don't commonly stare at trees.

I hear a faint splash and then I turn around. Her back is towards me and barely her bare shoulders are above the water.

"So...what do you like to do?" her head comes up but she doesn't turn around, "why did you ask such a stupid question." I personally felt that my question was quite a normal, and not stupid, "I do not believe it was a stupid question" I say as plainly as I can. She turns around and part of me wishes she didn't because we are in quite clear water, and yes we are quite a ways away from each other but at the same time it's still extremely clear water. We're both fully unclothed...um so.

"Well I like dancing, my mom used to dance a lot before, um well a lot of stuff happened but dance..yeah... well uh what do you like doing?"

Her eyes definitely darted down and around multiple times.

"Well" I said looking very directly at her face "I like art"

"Cool..cool" she says looking back at my face. It was exceedingly awkward.