The camera guy didn’t say anything else, but both he and his colleague marched unceremoniously back up the sand.
“Did you just make that up?” Cameron asked, surprised.
“Yeah. Am I in trouble?”
“Hell, no. That was awesome.” She laughed. “Want to go in?”
Cameron nodded toward the ocean, and Lacey looked down at her body first and then toward the water. Cameron watched as she bit her lip, and her arms moved to cover her stomach.
“Hey, Lace?”
“Yeah?”
“You’re beautiful,” Cameron said.
She knew she’d say that to any woman who was uncomfortable how Lacey was right now, but that didn’t stop the guilt from hitting her.
“Thank you,” Lacey replied.
“We can sit here. We don’t have to go in.”
“You wanted to swim.”
“I can swim whenever I want. We have a pool.”
“That’s not the ocean,” Lacey pointed out.
“No, but it’s heated, and I’m not great with cold water. I was just too stubborn to say anything in there.”
Lacey looked toward the ocean and pulled off her shirt, which Cameron hadn’t expected. Her eyes went instantly to Lacey’s bikini-clad breasts, and she averted her gaze before Lacey noticed, but then, Lacey was kicking off her shorts, andCameron’s eyes found their way to the place they should not be looking at, so she lowered them immediately to the sand.
“It’s just that you’re you,” Lacey said. “That’s all.”
“Sorry?”
She looked up and met Lacey’s eyes.
“You’re you. You’re Cameron Levine. I mean, look at you.” Lacey motioned to her. “Your abs are…”
“Oh.” Cameron looked down. “I have to work out for my job. I’m thinking when I retire from acting, I’ll never go to the gym again and eat whatever I want.”
“You don’t already eat whatever you want?”
“This weekend, I have been, but not normally, no. I relax when I’m not filming or getting ready to film, so I’ve been a little more chill recently.”
“I should probably pay more attention to what I eat.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t have abs like that.”
“Do you need them?”
“No, but they–” Lacey looked down at the sand. “They look good, and I eat a lot of crap. We order in a lot, and it’s mostly fast food.”
“Do you like it?” Cameron asked.
“Fast food?”
