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I eyed her sarcastically.
“Ethan and I got along great,” she said, “but Cricket hated my guts.”
“Not this again,” Jonah laughed, sitting down on a nearby rock.
“What?” I asked.
“Finley had, uh, well…”
“I had a crush on Ethan in high school,” she admitted.
“Oh,” I caught on.
“Anyway, so Cricket considered me her arch nemesis.”
“She really didn’t, Fin,” Jonah corrected her.
“I know when a girl doesn’t like me,” she said, tucking her hands in the front pockets of her jeans.
Jonah shook his head.
“I know Cricket pretty well,” I said, “and I seriously doubt she’s ever hated anyone ever.”
She nodded. “You’re right. ‘Hate’ is a strong word. Let’s just say, she wasn’t a fan,” she laughed.
We all looked over at Cricket and the group of girls. “Who are they?” I asked.
“Those are a couple girls from our class,” Finley answered.
“Those five girls were the biggest troublemakers in our high school,” Jonah said, shifting a foot onto the rock and resting his arm on his knee.
“Like how?” I asked, curious.
“Besides the random times they broke the law, they broke so many hearts in the halls of our school, I was surprised the walls didn’t melt.”
“That’s hilarious,” I said.
“Fin used to hang with them a lot too.”
“Sometimes,” she said.
“Come now, Fin, you’ve broken more than your fair share of hearts.”
“Not really,” she said, staring at Ethan.
Huh.
Finley brightened all of a sudden. “You guys going swimming later?” she asked.
“Swimming?” I asked, aghast. “In this weather?”
Jonah laughed. “There are a few hot springs nearby. We like to chill in there and throw back a few.”
“Wow, hadn’t expected that little bonus. The only shorts I brought are cargo shorts.”
“You’ll be fine,” Finley said. “Trust me.”
After dinner, everyone got their suits on and I put on my cargo shorts and we headed up to the springs with a cooler and a radio. I couldn’t believe how rad it was that they had hot springs in Montana. I joined everyone a little late, and most were already in the springs, which made it all the more embarrassing because when I came strolling up with my towel, all the girls came to the edge of the pool to say hello.
