Our Little Secret

“I take it that look on your face means you’ve seen that I’m right.” She said smugly.

A fierce scowl grew on the other’s face. “Nothing’s happened yet! And there’s not much time left, dear friend.”

“There’s enough, don’t you worry. We know very well what we’re doing.”

“’We’?! That’s cheating!!”

“Baah! By what rule?”

“Well, w-we-“

“We never bothered to lay any down, dear.”

“…shut up.”

***

They made the remainder of the walk in silence, managing to come into the city limits- Watanuki guessed- little past midnight. The night was unusually clear, and the damp on the air was, rather than the normal choking humidity, refreshing. Watanuki was enjoying deep lungfuls of this rare treat when Doumeki’s hand, heavy on his shoulder, drew his attention. His first glimpse of the taller man’s face worried him- was that issue from the road not resolved?- but when he opened his mouth to speak his doubts, a second hand came up and trapped the words inside.

Doumeki, seeming to read his mind, shook his head minutely.

“You asked where I got the…the dictionary…” He winced, looking off down Bricktile St. for, Watanuki somehow suspected, an excuse to evade his eyes. “No one gave it to me, it was…I found it on the counter beneath the window when you were packing for the drive, before we left. It hadn’t been there before, I knew, it just…appeared between one night and the next.”

Watanuki’s brow furrowed. He spoke through Doumeki’s hand. “But…? You said it was in the desk-”

The other man suddenly started, and dug through his pocket with his free hand- not, the puzzled mechanic noticed, the one pressed over his mouth. The appendage resurfaced after a moment, pinching a folded scrap of paper between two long fingers. Doumeki held it high, between both of their faces, and nodded at it.

“This was between the covers.”

The note said in curling, girlish letters:

Our little secret.

A shorty, sorry guys : ) We reach the Garage next chapter, and- I'm thinking, night now- there'll be a little 104 fluff.

In the meantime, if you would allow me to babble about something completely unrelated...*clears throat* Maybe a month or so ago I came across a documentary called FLOW: for love of water, about the growing scarcity of clean water and whether or not it's ethically alright to sell it. It's very interesting and inspiring, and I would like to point you, now, in two different directions:

The first is a website were you can add your name to a petition for the UN to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the Right to Water. The website is http(colon backslash backslash)article31(dot)org.

The second place is the actual documentary FLOW in the form of a video hosted by Google. That link would require so much butchering that it would be impossible to follow, so I humbly request that you note in your review as to whether or not you're interested in it.

And I promise that was not a scam for more reviews! Messaging/emailing me for it is okay too.

So, now I'm done, and thanks for reading! :D

-Oceans

(Oh yeah, all my italics got eaten when I published to chap.16, so you know. As of right now, (May 19th, 9:40 PM EST) I haven't fixed it.)