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He helped me get my top hooked then followed me out into the quickly-darkening afternoon air.

“Gonna have to go soon,” he said as he took a look around.

There weren’t many people left at all now that I was out of the tent.

There was one rather amused man that was sitting in his cabana three down from ours, though.

I blushed and looked away, finding Luca looking at me with glee lighting his face.

I rolled my eyes and walked back to the ocean.

Not only did I have sand where there most definitely shouldn’t be sand, but I also had other, more

pleasurable things leaking out of me.

With one look in his direction, I made a mad dash for the water.

“Bet you can’t catch me!”

Chapter 15

Um.

-The element of confusion

Luca

The day her friends arrived, Frankie was happy. I could see it in her face. In the way she moved

and acted.

Then she met her friends for lunch.

Or, more specifically,wemet her friends for lunch.

“Are you sure that you want me to go with you?” I asked. “I can stay…”

She shot me a panicked look. “I want you to go.”

It was then that I realized that she was scared to let me out of her sight.

It was understandable. The last time she’d done it, I hadn’t come back.

“There are going to be other spouses and significant others there,” she said, trying to cover her

panic. “In fact, it’s going to be odd if you don’t go. They will wonder why seeing as they know you came with me.”

Excitement started to slowly leech into my veins.

Why?

Because Frankie didn’t try to hide me. Didn’t try to pretend that she liked me, but then hid me

when people showed. I wasn’t her ugly secret.

“How many of your friends made the trip?” I asked, feeling like a subject change was in order.

“Six of them,” she said. “Nell, Chen, Abigail, Ashley, Jessica, and Carina. Nell, Chen, Abigail,

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