He reached out to grab Song Zhou's wrist, but his hand was nowhere near as nimble as Song Zhou's. Song Zhou lightly pulled back, and instead, their hands overlapped as Song Zhou clasped them together.
Holding his hand, Song Zhou found a relatively flat boulder and spread his clothes beneath Lu Ao.
For the first time in his life, Lu Ao was out in the open beneath the sky. He was nervous and exhilarated.
At some point, his hand had been released. One arm was wrapped around Song Zhou's shoulder, while the other covered his eyes, muffling the unbearable sounds beneath the roar of the waves.
Lu Ao had originally planned to go into the sea around eleven, but he had unexpectedly been delayed until after two.
He lay on the boulder, completely unwilling to move.
Song Zhou held him. "You lie here. I'll go down and take a look?"
"I'm going too." After speaking, Lu Ao added in a muffled voice, "I'll rest for a while first."
The low muttering lent him an unusually soft air.
Seeing him like this, Song Zhou could not resist lowering his head to kiss him.
Lu Ao raised a hand, directly blocking the space between them and separating their lips. "Not again!" he warned in a muffled voice.
Song Zhou rubbed his earlobe and chuckled. "I wasn't planning to do it again. I just wanted to kiss you."
"That's what you said last time too."
Lu Ao was rather shamelessly denying it now.
He sat up with his waist bent, looking out at the sea before him.
Song Zhou ruffled his hair. "Are you hungry? I'll go buy something for us to eat."
"A little. Get some water too."
Song Zhou put on his clothes, reached out to ruffle his hair once more,