notfaking_it | [Eden]

[Eden]

While trying to come up with something that she and Eden could do together, Lily had a moment like the one in the bar. On the island it wouldn't be difficult to find something to slip into a drink, easier than finding something in New York and she'd done just fine there, but the consideration lasted barely a moment. There was a reason Eden didn't drink and whatever it was, Lily doubted it had anything to do with her inability to loosen up.

She would leave that alone.

Instead she'd instructed Eden to meet her at the smaller of the two waterfalls near dusk and to wear a bathing suit. It wasn't the most original of evenings, something she'd done plenty of times already and she was sure Eden had, too, but no one could deny that it was relaxing. She'd brought a bag with drinks -- both alcoholic and non-alcoholic -- and food, more than enough to mean they didn't have to go anywhere else unless they wanted to.

And for the time being, there was no one else around. The waterfalls weren't a well kept secret, she knew that, and it was just luck that there was no one swimming yet.

In the fading sunlight, Lily set the bag and her towel down by a tree, then rose up on her toes, stretching absently as she waited for Eden to join her.

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Eden leaned forward, laughing, kicking up water. "Those are incredible," she said. "We not using either of those ever." In fact, the more she thought about it, the more she thought she was wrong. "Or maybe it doesn't need a name. Maybe we'll just be all mysterious and nameless and word of mouth."

That it was impossible not to say that word without automatically glancing to Lily's was potentially problematic, but she couldn't help it. Lily had an amazing mouth, a gorgeous smile. Looking up again, Eden raised her brow, pleased with herself anyway. No name was the simplest solution, really.

"I like that even more," Lily said as she leaned her head on her folded arms, looking up at Eden. "You're officially creative director of whatever we do together. You're the one with all the good ideas." And Lily would just come along for the ride, which she was sure would be fun, no matter what they did.

"And I can be the word of mouth," she added, smirking just slightly before she wet her lips. "I'm very good at that."

"So I hear," deadpanned Eden, slipping down to rest her arms on her thighs. Try though she might not to be obvious, it was impossible not to follow a motion like that with her eyes. The trick was trying to pretend she wasn't doing so. "You know, we might want some women at the club, too, just to keep things even. Not that I doubt your ability to take on flirtation duties with every man in the room."

"I can bring in some women, too," Lily pointed out, giving Eden a look, even as she grinned. There was Nina, but Lily wasn't sure how the other woman would feel if she went around telling people about the night they'd spent together. Instead, she said, "I managed to make Jeff Winger forget that he was sad about being turned into a woman for the weekend."

And that was an accomplishment. He'd been fairly grumpy when she'd first run into him and she also didn't think he'd have a problem with her talking about it with Eden.

Though Eden wasn't exactly acquainted with Jeff, she'd seen him around enough to know who Lily meant, and she could only imagine he'd been equally as hot as a woman. "Sounds like quite a feat," she teased, feet flexing under the water as she considered slipping back in, trying not to actively think about what Lily was saying. "As long as you plan on saving a dance for me."

"I won't have to save a dance," Lily answered, then pushed back from the wall of the pool and began to tread water a few feet away. "You'll get the first one, of course." If they were in this together, then they had to be in this together, all the way, and Lily was sure anyone else who might want a dance or anything else would be okay with waiting.

"Come on," she said with a grin. "We live on an island with nothing to do, I have all the time in the world to spend with the people I like."

With Lily slipping away, Eden couldn't help following, sliding back into the water to inch after her, pulled by her tide. She was the kind of girl anyone could get caught up in, Eden was sure. For a girl like her who'd lost so much of her own old confidence, Lily's was irresistible. "I'm honored," she says lightly, moving closer. "First on the list. Well, that's all the incentive I need, let's get started."

"With dancing?" Lily asked, though she was sure Eden was talking about the club. The opening was there, she couldn't resist taking it, even if that wasn't what Eden meant at all. Even if she was completely off base, even if she was shut down, she was sure it wouldn't affect their friendship one way or the other. That was what made it so easy. "Right here in the water? Without music?" There was a playful lilt to her voice, though, making it clear that if Eden wanted to do the equivalent of dancing in the water, she would be more than happy to oblige.

As willfully ignorant as Eden could play, it was impossible to miss the cues with Lily. The question was only ever if this was routine teasing or something she would regret not acting on. But life was short, and if anyone knew that, it was her. Maybe it was time to play right back, to push and see what happened. It wasn't like she could pretend Lily wasn't devastatingly attractive, or she wasn't attracted to her, though it had been ages since she'd been interested in another girl. Moving closer without fully closing the distance, she circled Lily with a sly smile. "Who needs music?"

"We don't," Lily answered with a slow smile before she closed the distance between them. Under the water, she could feel her leg brush against Eden's, the warmth of her skin, and her smile grew as she reached out to trail her fingers along the inside of Eden's arm. It would surprise no one, she was sure, to discover she was such a tactile person, that she relished in touching people and learning the lines and planes of their body.

"We have great rhythm," she continued, her voice low. "We don't need music."

Eden couldn't say she was caught off guard, exactly, given how flirtatious she knew Lily could be, but it still surprised her a little to find it turned unmistakably on herself. Not reacting was out of the question at a time like this, hands reaching for Lily's waist before she could tell herself not to. "We do at that," she said musingly. "Natural rhythm. Although you are undoubtedly the superior dancer."

"Even in the water?" Lily asked with a teasing smile, both her hands now sliding up Eden's arms, her fingers dancing lightly over Eden's skin. At this point she was talking just to talk, most of her focus on the feel of Eden's skin under her fingertips, distracted by the warmth.

"I don't know, you're holding your own," she said finally, turning her gaze back to Eden's. "Besides, the water takes away most of my advantage."

Eden laughed. She had the feeling Lily was the kind of girl who always had the advantage. It didn't bother her nearly as much as she suspected it should have. Right now, at least, it was working in her favor, too, anyway. It was far too tempting just to close her eyes and bask in the feeling of someone else's hands on her and Lily's slim waist under her own. "I doubt that," she said, and then it seemed pointless to hold back any longer or really talk, so she leaned in to press a light, experimental kiss to Lily's lips.

Lily's eyes fluttered closed at the press of Eden's lips against hers and she smiled slightly. One arm slipped around Eden's waist, the warmth of her particularly obvious in the cool water and she deepened the kiss slightly, pressing forward. Though it wasn't in her nature, she could be cautious, too, she could feel things out, but she didn't think Eden was going to push her away. Even so, she wanted to make sure that nothing could go wrong here. It wouldn't affect how she felt about Eden, but she wanted to keep the other woman's friendship instead of chasing her away.

Eden had thought about it before. She'd have been lying if she pretended otherwise, and she doubted anyone could blame her when Lily was gorgeous and charismatic and sensual. Being her friend came easily, but so did being attracted to her, and it was that which had kept Eden hesitating. Lily was free with her affections, and Eden had been good at that once, but she was quicker these days to give her heart than she'd once been, and she didn't want to do anything she'd regret. With an arm around her waist and Lily's lips against hers, though, hesitations were quick to melt away, all but forgotten as Eden raised a hand to Lily's cheek. It had been a long time since she'd kissed anyone at all, and just now she had to wonder why she'd waited so long.

Tilting slightly into the hand on her cheek, Lily found it easy to completely lose herself in the kiss. That Eden had pressed forward first made her believe it wouldn't be the sort of thing that might damage their friendship and she squeezed her arm lightly, tightening her grip around Eden as she grinned slightly under her mouth.

"Still friends, right?" she asked, pulling away just enough to ask the question.

Eden laughed, startled, a little light with it. It had been a long time since she'd kissed anyone at all and Lily knew what she was doing. "Oh, definitely still friends," she said. Of all the people she knew now, her very small circle of friends, Lily had to be one of the closest. Now she was just a little closer. Kissing her again, Eden slipped her free arm over Lily's shoulder. It was strange, how sure she was of her answer, even if it was something she'd worried about before when she'd let herself think about these things. "As far as I'm concerned anyway."

"Good," Lily murmured, already forgetting that she'd asked a question at all. Usually, she wasn't worried about making sure of something like that, confident enough in her ability to keep friends that it would never occur to her, but of almost everyone here, Eden was the first she'd been friends with for a long period of time before the kissing had begun.

Lifting one hand, she threaded her fingers through Eden's damp hair and cupped the back of her head, pulling her close for another kiss.

With that settled, Eden was more than content to follow Lily's lead, slipping a hand to the small of her back to hold her close. It wasn't as simple as a question and an answer, but if Lily could manage it and if Eden had pulled it off before, then she felt relatively certain she was right to think this wouldn't screw anything up after all. With no one else around, the waterfall felt closed off from the rest of the world, nothing to think about here about what she was doing. "We should have done this sooner," she said, barely angling away before kissing her again.

There was no denying that Lily had certainly thought about it and she took Eden's remark to mean that she'd been thinking about it as well. Grinning under Eden's mouth, she made a soft noise that was both an agreement and an expression of how good things felt right now. Maybe they should have done this sooner, but Lily was enjoying it very much in the moment right now.

"Should have," she murmured in agreement. "We'll have to make up for lost time."

Eden considered herself adaptable, but it was nothing to the grace with which Lily seemed to move through life, unfazed no matter what came her way. That, her easy confidence, was as attractive as any of her physical traits, which was saying something. Whether they should have sooner or not, she was willing to take Lily up on that idea now, breaking off the kiss only to tip her head and kiss the other girl's neck instead.

A soft noise escaped Lily and her head tipped back slightly, hands roaming over Eden's skin. Normally, she was the one taking the lead, pressing people back, stripping them of their clothes, but there was something undeniably sexy about being in the water with Eden right now, relaxing, enjoying the press of Eden's mouth against her skin. Her hands slipped down under the water, over Eden's waist and then back up slowly, cupping Eden's breasts gently as she pressed against her.

Just then, Eden couldn't help wishing they were somewhere else with a little more privacy, but only because being here suddenly seemed limiting. Gasping softly against Lily's throat, she pressed into her touch, sucking at damp skin before trailing down to her collarbone. When she'd thought about the possibility of this, she'd tried to write it off sometimes as it having been so long since anyone had done anything with her, but in the moment, it felt more like it was about getting Lily to make that sound again.

In passing moments, when Lily had thought about this happening -- because it had always been a matter of when for her, the right timing, the perfect moment -- she hadn't imagined the two of them in the water, but it made Eden's skin slick and she felt warmer under Lily's fingers that she might have anywhere else. Her hands traveled up further, sliding over Eden's shoulders, fingers pushing into her hair before Lily turned her head and pressed her lips along the shell of Eden's ear, teeth trailing gently against skin as she let out another shuddering breath.

It occurs to Eden briefly that the one danger of this spot is that they might get seen by Claire (there's something embarrassing about being caught by the kid she's taking care of), but then her worry is pushed aside, all focus going to the pull that goes through at her the rasp of Lily's teeth. She lets out a moan, curling toward her, hand sliding up to cup Lily's breast. After so long, just touching someone else, tasting the mix of Lily and water on her skin, is a turn on in its own right.

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