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Lou laughed. I liked hearing him laugh.
Following the path we had months ago, we heard the water falling onto the pool before we saw it. Standing above it on the spot Lou had once jumped from, he shined the flashlight on the plants below.
“Dig deep in the bramble,” he repeated.
“Brambles are bushes with thorns, right?”
“Yeah, like…” Lou turned to me in realization.
“Like what?”
“Look for a raspberry bush. When I was a kid, my grandmother and I used to pick wild berries. She used to joke that raspberries were the brambliest bramble of them all. We made a joke about it.”
“Did you ever pick berries around here?”
“No,” Lou said confused.
Heading down, the two of us spread out searching the brush on either side of the beach that stuck out of the pool like a tongue.
“Ouch,” I said when something scratched my arm. “You said they have thorns, right?”
“Did you find one?”
I shined my phone’s light at the sea of green leaves in front of me.
“It’s a raspberry bush!” Lou declared.
“The brambliest bramble of them all. She said to dig deep. Did you two have a joke about that?”
“No. I think she just wants us to dig deep. There were never any raspberry bushes when I came here as a kid. This isn’t even the type of place bushes like this grow. I think she might have planted it here.”
“You think she buried something under it?”
“Maybe. How do we dig it up?”
I reached down getting a hand full of thorns. Moving the branches around with my shoe, I found where the stem disappeared into the dirt. Stepping on it, I bent it all back. When that didn’t release the roots, I took off my shirt. Wrapping it around my hand, I took hold of the stem and pulled.
The beam from Lou’s flashlight left the ground and shined on me. The roots were deep. I was going to have to give it my all if I was going to pull it up. So, repositioning myself over it, I squatted and pulled at it like a medicine ball at the gym. Every muscle in my body tensed.
“Wow!” Lou said under his breath.
Right after he said it, the bush let go of its grip on the earth and I fell on my ass.
“Ahhh!” I yelped when I landed on the thorns.
Lou burst out laughing.
“Are you all right.”
“I feel like Wild E. Coyote.”
“Beep beep.”
I looked up at him. He was smirking amused. Reaching out his hand, I took it. Standing up, I turned around.
“Is there anything attached to me?”
Lou slowly placed his hand on my ass and caressed it. The pain I had felt quickly turned to pleasure. He explored every inch of it squeezing a little as he did.
