Romance Movie AU
“Whose genius idea was this, anyways?” Jess grumbled, neck deep in murky pond water, her head pressed up against Lupe’s underneath an overturned picnic basket, the only parts of their bodies above the water.
Around their heads, a few thousand angry bees swarmed.
“Yours,” Lupe responded, dryly. Frankly, if anyone had a right to be pissed about the predicament they’d found themselves in, it was her. Their whole picnic was ruined, for one.
Jess hmphed.
“You’re the one who said you knew how to get honey out of that tree,” Lupe reminded her. She grimaced as her feet sunk deeper into the pond floor. Silt was leaking into the ankles of her shoes, a sensation she found uniquely unpleasant.
“I said I knew that there was honey in the tree,” Jess argued. A fish knocked into her hip, then sped away. She jumped, just a little, in a very cool and manly sort of way. “You’re the one who wanted to prove she was Fast Hands García.”
Lupe scoffed.
“I would’ve gotten it too, if you hadn’t distracted me.”
“It was ancient melismatic chanting! It was soothing!”
“It was something,” Lupe muttered. “Get that sting by my eyebrow, would you?”
Jess obliged, rotating her face to scratch at the raised bump with her nose.
“Better?” she asked.
“A little,” Lupe replied. “How long do you think until they get bored and leave us alone?”
Jess ran some calculations.
“An hour?” she guessed.
“Alright,” Lupe sighed. “You better figure out a way to keep me entertained, then.”