Night Swim

Summary
Satoru texts Rin “What are you doing tonight?” She responds that she's just studying for the upcoming test in his class. He replies “Oh, don't worry abouot that, I'll let you make that up next class. Are you doing anything else?”

She replies, “what is this about?”

He texts: “I’ll pick you up in an hour? Bring swimsuit!!”

“What...the fuck?” She mutters out loud. She texts back: “why”

He texts: “trust me!”

Rin’s both anxious and intrigued, but decides not to reply back. She thinks if he comes around in an hour to get her, she’ll be ready. If he doesn’t, oh well. Even without replying to his text, sure enough an hour and 15 minutes later she hears a knock at the door. Rin’s face starts to flush as she peeks through her bedroom window. Sure enough, there's Satoru standing on her porch, looking at his shoes. She picks up her bag with a set of extra clothes and a towel in it and walks down the hall to her front door. She opens the door.

“Ready?” Satoru asks.

“Yes, but where are we going?”

“It’s a surprise. You have your swim suit?”

“It’s under my clothes. I have a 9am tomorrow, so don’t bring me home late.”

“I have to be on campus at 7 anyway, so that won’t be a problem. Alrighty then, let’s get to it.” He has pep in his step as he walks back to his car. It’s a red 1997 Toyota Camry.

Satoru opens the door for her and she steps inside.

Surprisingly clean this time. She thinks. He turns on the engine.

“Mind if I play some tunes?”

“Only if they’re good.”

“Ha, that’s fair. What kind of music are you into?”

“Hm, contemporary classical I guess?”

“Alright, let me check my playlist.” He turns the audio on and Cage the Elephant’s Tokyo Smoke comes on.

“Wait, don’t change it. Is this Cage the Elephant?”

Satoru smiles. “Hell yeah, Tokyo Smoke.”

“This is good, too.”

“Glad to hear it. Let’s ride!” He revs the engine and heads off.

As they near their destination, Rin notices they’re taking the road she walks to school. “We’re going to the school?”

“We sure are,” he pulls off to the side of the road and parks the car right outside of campus, but not in the parking lot. “Alright, let’s go.”

“I thought they lock the campus after 10pm?”

He jangles a set of keys. “They do, so we have to be careful.”

“Satoru, isn’t this like- illegal?”

“Do you want to go back?”

“I…” She looks up at him. “I trust you.”

Satoru smiles warmly. “Thank you. Alright, follow me.”

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They enter the locker room, talking, smiling, and drying off, when Satoru hears footsteps. [Rin drying her hair with her towel, on her right shoulder. Satoru looks down at her from her left side, his towel draped over his shoulders.] He stops and so does Rin.

“Someone’s here.” Satoru whispers to Rin, concerned. He takes off his towel and holds out a hand to Rin. She looks at his hand and goes to hold it, but then she sees his towel in his hand and gets the idea. He grabs her towel from her and throws it along with his own off to the side with their bags, then jumps in an empty locker and pulls Rin in too, just in time. It’s an extra large six foot locker, specifically for diving gear. In order for them both to fit, he had to lean over her and bend one of his legs. She stood in between his thighs, her butt directly on his swim shorts. He looks down at her, and she turns around to look at where her butt is in comparison to him, and then up to look at him. He starts blushing and gets a boner. Rin gets startled and is about to exclaim in surprise, but he covers her mouth with his hand as the security guard walks by. When they hear his footsteps exit the locker room she tries to squirm out, but he quietly shushes her and leans into her ear and whispers “We need to wait until he’s out of the building.” They stay like that for about a minute more until they hear the exit door open and slam shut. Satoru releases his hand and Rin scrambles to get out of the locker and takes off running.

“Rin. Wait, Rin!” He calls out. He doesn't want to scare her further, so he doesn't follow her out. Rin's home was only a few blocks away anyway, so Satoru wasn't worried about her getting lost, at least. When Rin arrives home, she swings open the door, realizes she's dripping, wrings out her bathing suit, then gets in the house and slams the door shut, locking it behind her, in case he came after her.

Meanwhile, Satoru starts to text “are you okay?” but deletes it and types “let me know when you get home safe”. He deletes that and types “I’m sorry.” As he's about to send it, he spots her bag on the ground with her phone in it. He deletes his message altogether and grabs her bag to bring it home to her.

As Satoru pulls up to her house, he sees the pile of water on the porch and sighs in relief. He leaves her bag on the porch, knocks lightly, and heads home. Rin watches him through the blinds and when he’s gone she fetches her bag and goes back to her room, emotionally distressed. Rin drifts off to sleep, blushing over the feeling she felt trapped in that locker with him. How he whispered in her ear, how she wasn't able to escape. That helplessness made Rin feel so icky, and yet for some reason, aroused.

Satoru feels bad, and doesn’t try to contact Rin because he’s afraid of making her feel uncomfortable. As Satoru lays in bed that night, he thinks of how he must have made her felt, forcing her into a situation like that. How scared she looked, how she ran, and how it was because of his irresponsibility getting them into that situation in the first place. Andwith his status as her professor, he has to worry about any legal charges. No, Rin's not the type to make a legal fuss about this... right? He sighs and tries to ward off the thought and get some sleep. Satoru's mind wanders a bit and he remembers how it felt to have Rin pressed up against him like that in the locker. He groans loudly and covers his face at the thought.

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