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“You’re a childhood best friend. She outgrew you,” I toss over my shoulder.
Jan and I hop into our tubes, each holding a beer, and we float along. I tap my toes into the water and point my chin to the sky.
“You really like him, don’t you?” Jan’s question surprises me. “I mean, I figured you’d be attracted to him, but I didn’t see him being your type.”
“Why?”
“For one, he’s available. He’s steady and reliable. Very clean and wholesome.” My eyes about pop out of my head at that. Cruz Bryce is by far my naughtiest sexual partner yet. “I guess I also kind of always expected you to fall for a woman. Those relationships lasted longer.”
I laugh. “You’re the longest-lasting relationship I’ve had with a woman.”
“You know what I mean. He isn’t some rocker or partier. I figured Cruz would be too tame and boring for you.”
Jan takes a sip of her beer, so I use this as my opening to explain myself. “I really do like him. We met under the strangest circumstances, but to be fair, most of my dates are customers from the guitar store. Makes sense that most of them have been musicians, or their assistants, or their kids, or somehow connected to that lifestyle. But I think I owe you for me falling for Cruz.”
“It’s because I told you he was forbidden, isn’t it?”
“No. But you forced me to slow down. We got to know each other over the last year with no chance of being intimate. And… I don’t know. Even when we first met there was something there, and every time we’re together something just clicks.”
“They say opposites attract.”
I hold my bottle out toward hers and say, “Look at us.”
She clinks her bottle to mine and agrees. “I’ll drink to that.” Jan smiles at me for a while, and when she takes her lower lip under her teeth, I begin to get nervous. She looks behind her and calls out, “You know what, Cruz? I would like to have my husband back.”
“What are you doing?” I ask and grab the rope to pull her tube back toward me. “Do not get out of that tube, Jan!” Too late. Jan rolls off her tube and swims toward Ben and Cruz. I turn my head forward and wait for Cruz to arrive. However, instead of taking Jan’s tube like he’s supposed to, my tube is lifted into the air. My beer and I go flying into the water.
“You’re wasting beer!” someone shouts.
“Don’t leave your bottle! It’s littering,” another person shouts. Yet nobody asks if I’m okay. I come up spitting and spewing droplets of water as I huff and puff for air. Some water went up my nose since I wasn’t expecting to go for a swim.
Cruz’s laughter has me narrowing my eyes. As he tries to climb into his tube, I grab his trunks to pull him back into the water, but instead, only his trunks come down. Cruz’s extremely pale, glorious globes of an ass are on full display. His mother screams while Jan’s mother laughs hysterically. I hurry and try to slide them up. “I’m so sorry. So, so sorry.”
To my surprise, Cruz pushes the shorts back down and throws them at his brother who is laughing the loudest. He then dives back in. Knowing I’ve really messed up, I do what any coward would do and swim away. With determination in his eyes, he uses his powerful strokes to push through the water and toward me.
I try to swim faster and faster, but I’m no match. He quickly catches up to me and snakes his arm around my waist, hoisting me to him. “Where are you going?”
“Away.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re out for revenge.”
I feel his hand playing with the tie of my bikini bottom. “Why would I be upset that you can’t resist me? You’re so enthralled with me that you’re ripping my clothes off.”
“Let’s go with that and join the rest of the group.”
“But fair is fair. Shouldn’t we remove your bottoms?”
“No, no, no. We really shouldn’t. Please, Cruz. Please.” I try to wiggle free but it’s useless.
“Christopher! Get your trunks on immediately! Have you no shame?” his mother yells.
“Yes, Christopher,” I tell him.
His dark laugh is full of unspoken promises. Cruz releases me, and as he swims back to his tube he stops to flip his brother and Jan over along the way. I’m shocked when I see his mother laughing, and she actually keeps her smile in place when she looks at me.
Well, that’s progress.
