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“Holy hotness,” Judith purred.
“Sign me up to help with him,” Debra added.
Katrina stayed silent as he shrugged out of his jacket revealing his lean, toned body. No sign of actual tan lines; no, this boy was naturally darker, though not by much. She watched with pure fascination as he undid his jeans and pulled them down, revealing deep blue swim trunks beneath them. Even his legs were toned. He stepped out of the jeans with ease and kicked them to the side and began his walk around the pool.
“He’s totally coming over here,” Judith half-whispered.
“He totally better not,” Emily snapped.
His eyes stayed on the water rather than trailing to the girls, three of which were watching every guarded move of his.
And then he dove in, sending droplets of water onto them.
“Hey!” Emily shook the iPhone in her hand. “Do you mind?”
“He hasn’t even come back up for air,” Judith said.
“So, he didn’t hear you,” Debra added.
“No shit.”
“Em,” Katrina said softly, “is he really that bad?”
“What I don’t want,” Emily replied, “is a bunch of friends over just to get a glimpse of him. He’s a jerk. An asshole. Doesn’t even respond when spoken to.”
Katrina’s eyes shifted to the pool where Lorenzo emerged and shook his head, sending more droplets of water spraying, though this time they were on the opposite side of the Olympic sized pool. Had she come over simply to see him? No... no, Emily was her best friend. She had come over for the annual bash, this time with rum snuck into her Pepsi. She took a sip and smiled as she watched Lorenzo emerge from the pool, water running down his legs as he grabbed his jeans and leather jacket and disappeared into the pool house.
“Really?” Emily scoffed. “He’s doing this just to piss me off.”
“Oh, honey,” Judith said with a laugh, “he can piss you off any time he pleases if we get a show like that.”
Katrina remained silent as she sipped her drink, thinking of how right Judith was.
***
“Ma’am,” a nurse saidto Katrina as she entered the room. “Visiting hours are over. I’m going to have to ask you to leave.”
Katrina’s lower lip began to tremble as she looked down at Lorenzo, so helpless as he battled to come back. “What if...” She couldn’t even finish the sentence without tears welling in her eyes.
“Then we’ll call you, I promise.”
“Pinky swear?” Katrina asked, her voice barely audible.
“Pardon?”
“It’s nothing,” she said as she stood. “I’ll be back first thing in the morning.” She’d have to call work, but she had vacation time saved up. Emily would simply have to understand that she wouldn’t be going to Cancun.
Not now.
Not when Lorenzo needed her.
“Are you going to take his belongings? Truth, they’d be safer with you than with him. Sad to say, but true. We’ve had a couple of orderlies we’ve had to let go because of—”
“Got them,” Katrina cut the nurse off. She lifted the bag with a sigh, then looked over her shoulder, pausing. She turned back around and leaned down next to Lorenzo’s ear. “I’ll be back, okay? You fight to come back to me.”
If that’s what he’d intended in the first place.
She’d been named his ‘emergency contact’ after all.
