At the beautiful waterfalls

Ping walked into the forest with Tulio, being careful as always: he didn't have his lance with him, and he regret a lot to have gone out of the room without it, but what was done was done, and he was carrying a rock with him, just in case the jaguar or another feral animal wanted to pay a visit. It didn't took a lot of time before they arrived at the waterfalls...

Tulio grinned as he once again saw the waterfalls. No one was there at the moment, and the whole landscape lied naked before them, all theirs. He truely felt like a free man at that moment.
Slowly, button by button Tulio removed his shirt, revealing his bare, hard chest.
He was muscular, but he never liked to show it off. Muscles meant nothing to him. He would never intentionally start a fight with another male, he wasn't a man of violence. As he started to take his pants of as well, he nodded towards the water.
"You don't know what you're missing," he laughed.
"Sure you don't want to swim?"

Ping looked around, studying the place: for a moment he even thought to have really understood what Tulio meant with 'beautiful'. That place was really... really... beautiful, he guessed. When Tulio started to get undress he forced himself to act naturally, after all it was something that he already had to do: weirdly, he was more comfortable in that situation then in the one when Meg got undressed... Sure, Tulio had a great body, for a second the image of Tulio on him on the bed popped in his mind, but he rejected the memory with violence, and at his question nodded "Yeah, i prefer stay here."

"Your choice," he said and shrugged as he pulled off his underwear and quickly dived into the water.
It was warm and comfortable, and as he re-surfaced, wipping his hair back from his face, he gasped in pleasure and pure happiness. Nothing could beat this. It was perfect.
He looked back at Ping smiling, his wet skin gleaming in the sunlight.

Ping stared at him for some second before to deviate his glance: what was it? That sensation? He was suddenly scared to understand... Meg... Tulio... it was too much. Whatever it was, it wasn't something for him.
"having fun?" he asked approaching him from the coastline.

"More than you'll ever know," he laughed, but it was true. Ping just didn't seem to enjoy life the way Tulio did and it was sad. But he wasn't going to force his lifestyle on Ping. What he wanted to do was upto him.

His answer made him laugh a bit: it should have been a bitter laugh, but it wasn't, even if he knew that he was laughing just because his words were true and that was a bit sad
"Some people can and some others can't..." he replied quietly, sitting on the grass, still next to him

He decided to splash water over him. It might upset him, but it was only water, no harm done, and Ping really needed to loosen up a bit. No man was meant to be this stressed and uptight. Ping needed to have some fun.

"Hey!" he protested and frowned when Tulio splashed him, but after a few seconds he couldn't help but laugh. He shouldn't have been that relaxed with him, with jane he wasn't, so why was he in that moment? But he couldn't help... he was relaxed and calm

"You know," he said and winked playfully.
"Now that you're already wet, why don't you join me?" he laughed and splashed him once more before he swam further into the water, making room for Ping to jump in, even if he doubted he would.

For a moment the idea really tempted him: it seemed so funny, it smelt of freedom and it smelt good. But it was crazy, he couldn't do it. He shacked his head
"I guess i'm wet enough"

"Aawww," he said with a sad puppy face, before laughing it off. He never had been good at keeping a straight face.
He swam back and leaned back against the edge of the water, resting his arms on land as he looked up at Ping.
"Don't worry, I'll convince you to loosen up sooner or later," he said with a grin and a wink.

"I'm curious to know how you'll do" laughed again Ping. That man had a strange power on him, he had laughed so much in... probably in his whole life!

"Don't underestimate my powers kid," he said in an exaggerated voice, but cracking up once again.
"I think I've already made you loosen up quite a lot. Just a matter of time and you'll surrender to me," he said and winked at the boy. It was so weird how he could be so naive and still so strung up.

PIng laughed once again, and then he lay down on the grass, just relaxing... Tulio was right, the sensation of sun and grass was really beautiful... but he couldn't cut off the other senses, nor he could lower the guard... something was wrong: he frowned. What was it? The birds... the birds were gone...
"We should come back now" he said rasing on his feet: maybe there wasn't a beast lurked somewhere close to them, but he wasn't that curious to find it out...

"Already?" he asked, looking at Ping confused.
"But we only just got here.." he sighed before raising himself up off the water.
Naked, he made his way over to Ping and standing only half a meter from him he nudged his shoulder playfully.
"Fine," he said and laughed. "Let's get back to your girlfriend," he winked and reached for his underwear.

When Tulio protested that they were just arrived he was still too focused, searching around with the glance if an animal was arrived... only when he nudged his shoulter he jumped a bit in surprise, realizing also that he was naked right in front of him... again that sensation... that again he rejected violently... he raised, but when he payfully teased him calling meg 'his girlfriend' he couldn't help but blush a bit "she's not my girlfriend..." he mumbled in reply.

Eris eye fell on this naked men, He was bathing in the water with Ping as company. She laughed lightly. Humans are so odd sometimes. She thought as she left, On to the Falls.

She waited till the dark haired man called by the name Tulio had dressed himself. She than appeared between them. ''Hello.'' She smirked seeing pings expression.

Ping kept looking around for a while, until, suddenly, Eris appeared in front of him. He jumped a bit in surprise: he hadn't expected to find her there, and she had never shown herself to the others... well, it was stupid, she could easily do it, he just hadn't thought that she wanted...
"Eris..." he said in a laconical and tense greeting

''How are you, Ping?'' She asked smirking at him. ''I see you did make a friend.'' She said as she let her hand wander to the dark haired man.

"We were just exploring. What do you want?" he asked getting more and more tense: he didn't like Eris. At all. She was dangerous and mean. What did she want from Tulio, now?

She floated towards Ping. ''Oh now don't you lose your manners..'' She said as she laid her finger on his lips. ''You have chosen for the bad girl I see. I would love to see you with Jane though. But I guess criminals are better?'' She smirked raising her eyebrow.

"Meg's no criminal" he replied, avoiding to answer to all the rest, to the fact that, no, she wasn't his girlfriend, no, he wasn't interested in jane, no, he wasn't interested in anyone!

She grinned. ''I am sorry for the misunderstanding. But what is she otherwise? She did kill her own boyfriend.'' Eris said as she floated around him.

"A person that kill to protect himself is no assassin. She's a victim." he replied following her with the glance