The water never lies.

It strips away everything — the silence I hide behind, the words I never say, the distance I keep between myself and everyone else. Underwater, there is no noise. No crowd. No past.

Just him.

He always pushes me. Always shows up where I least expect it — in the lane beside me, in the space beneath the surface, against my skin before I can think to pull away. I've never been good at wanting things out loud.

But the water knows. It always has.

And tonight, in the dark of the pool — with his hands on me and my breath dissolving into nothing — I think I finally stopped pretending I didn't want this.

七瀨遙 × 松岡凜：水知道的事 🌊

水從不說謊。

它剝去一切——我藏在沉默裡的東西，那些我從來說不出口的話，還有我習慣在自己和所有人之間拉開的距離。

水下沒有聲音。沒有人群。沒有過去。

只有他。

他總是逼著我。總是出現在我最意想不到的地方——在我隔壁的泳道裡，在水面以下的空間裡，在我來不及退縮之前就已經貼上來了。

我向來不擅長大聲說出自己想要什麼。

但水知道。它一直都知道。

今晚，在泳池深處的黑暗裡——他的手放在我身上，我的呼吸一點一點消散成氣泡——我想，我終於不再假裝自己不想要這些了。