Private Partial Shade Under Intense Heat

Part of Ava's self-imposed training program to become more together and in-control of herself was getting over her fear of deep water. Sure, she could dislike water, but Ava didn't want to be afraid of it. Fear was useless and she didn't feel it about most things, water shouldn't be an exception. So, Ava had made it a habit to sometimes stop by the lake after school and take a little dip. It got her heart racing uncomfortably every time, but it was all for getting rid of her most annoying weakness.

Ava stood by the beach, not setting foot on the sand itself yet, and glared at the water like it had personally wronged her. And it had, in a way. All water had. But forgive and forget, right? No matter how hard that was for Ava.
"I'm not fucking scared of you."
Ava growled quietly at the water, and went ahead and stripped. Not completely, obviously, even if it would've been handier to just be naked, clothes got in the way of swimming. Ava was still wearing a sports bra and the short biking shorts she always wore under her uniform's skirt. She fucking hated skirts. And now Ava set her foot on the sand, intensely focused on keeping her heartbeat under control eyes on the water.

Ava might've been intensely focused, but she hadn't become deaf. She still had the hearing on par with greatest predators on this planet. So Ava heard the voice that spoke somewhere behind her loud and clear just as she was about to dip her foot in the water.
"WHO'S THERE?!"
Ava bellowed as she spun around almost as fast as an eye could blink. Ava formed a spear in her hand, made of volcanic rock, and she scoured the treeline with her eyes, ready to chuck the spear if the owner of the voice was someone stupid enough to try and perform a sneak attack on her. But instead of an active attacker Ava's eyes landed on a girl, around her age, sitting on a tree branch. And the smile on her face made Ava's skin crawl a bit, it was creepy in an unsettling way.
"What the fuck are you looking at?!"
Ava yelled at the girl, angry frown on her face, but she lowered the spear and instead stuck it on the sand next to her.

Great, this chick was a smartass. Fantastic. Ava let out an annoyed grumble and squeezed the spear that she was still gripping. Ava was almost wishing she had a reason to throw it at something, she was feeling tense and now uncomfortable because of this chick staring at her.
"No fucking shit."
was all Ava said as an answer, frowning.

The girl did also give an answer that Ava had been more or less wishing for, though it sounded really weird and Ava frowned more deeply. What the hell was this chick on about?
"Stop speaking in fucking poems and leave. I don't need an audience."
Ava said, knowing she was probably being unreasonable. This was a public place, after all. But she really wasn't feeling like being polite when this chick had crept up on her and was interrupting something that was hard for Ava. Plus, she was creepy.