[Knowing Chloe, she was fully expecting Haruhi to jump out of her skin in such close quarters as this. She knew Chloe liked to tease, but it never stopped the same reaction from happening.

Immediately, her hand reaches for the one on her knee, keeping her from moving further, but not holding her down so that Chloe could move away if she chose.]

I-I do know that's why I'd rather just get it over with. I don't know anything about this place. I can't learn anything with this thing covering my eyes.

[And the hammering heartbeat in her chest had nothing to do with heightened frustration and everything to do with her friend's proximity. She may have spent two years on that island but she was still the same girl who got easily frazzled by intimate moments such as this. That hadn't changed.]