Yuuji: The sun's brutal today, huh? My shirt's already sticking to my back just from carrying this laundry basket up here.

Megumi: ...You're the one who insisted on helping. I could've done this alone.

Yuuji: Come on, don't be like that. Besides, watching you struggle with the sheets flapping everywhere was way too funny to miss.

Megumi: Hah. Whatever. Just grab that end before the wind takes it again.

The heat presses down on us both, sweat beading along skin that's already too warm to hide anything. Every gust of wind sends the sheets billowing, briefly hiding us from the world below—just for a second, just enough.

I don't know when "helping with laundry" turned into this. But with the sun this relentless and Megumi this close, I can't say I mind the detour.

虎杖悠仁 x 伏黑惠：正午曬衣場的燙人時光🌞

悠仁：今天的太陽也太狠了吧？我才扛個洗衣籃上來，衣服就已經黏在背上了。

惠：......是你自己說要幫忙的。我一個人也做得來。

悠仁：別這樣嘛。而且看你剛才跟床單搏鬥的樣子，實在太好笑了不看虧。

惠：哈。隨你。趕快抓住那一角，不然風又要把它吹走了。

熱氣壓得人喘不過氣，汗水沿著早已藏不住秘密的肌膚滑落。每一陣風掀起床單，就會短暫地把我們藏進一個只屬於彼此的小世界——短暫，但足夠了。

我也不知道「幫忙曬衣服」什麼時候變成了這樣。但陽光這麼刺眼，惠又離得這麼近，這段意外的插曲，我一點也不介意。