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I grab my buoy, loop it around my shoulder and wade out into the water. Once it’s deep enough, I dive in and swim out a ways. It’s a calm day and the water is nice and glassy. When I’m far enough out, I turn parallel to the beach and start to swim back and forth between the jetties.
By the time I get back to shore, there are a few more people on the beach and two in the water. I slow-mo jog up and Mollie is laughing at me. After I towel off and reapply sunscreen, I hop up and join her.
“Nice swim?”
“So nice, the water is delicious.”
“It looks tasty today.”
“You kissed me.”
“You kissed me.”
“I did and I want to do it again.” I tell her and I mean it.
CHAPTER 10
INSEPARABLE AND GROSS
MOLLIE THEN
“So, is this kissing thing going to be like a hookup or…” I start to say. I’ve been working up the nerve to ask him this all morning and I was ready then he bent over and went for a swim and was glorious and dripping wet when he ran up to me. Call me flustered.
“Nope,” he interrupts me in a good way. “We are not just hooking up. I want to date you. Is that okay or are you just using me for sex?”
My cheeks warm and I can feel my whole body heat up. “A date sounds good,” I say avoiding the sex part.
He chugs some water and sits back on the chair, one arm around the back and the other on his knee, looking at the shoreline then back at me. Suddenly, I’m very very hot.
I jump down from the chair and grab my buoy and head for my own swim. The water is clear today and as I wade to get to deeper water, I see schools of minnows and a few crabs. It’s a perfect day. Smiling to myself about a possible date, I do a few laps of freestyle, thinking about Owen and us taking the next step.
Some would say we are being stupid, working together all day and then dating, but I can’t help but feel excitement. I’ve never felt this way about a boy and it just feels so right with him. I just hope he feels the same, and so far, he seems to really like me. I know one part of him definitely likes me since I felt it on my leg last night.
I have no idea what came over me when I wiggled on his lap. It was like I was some experienced sex lady person. My high school boyfriend told me he was waiting for marriage when I asked him to have sex. That was a blow to my ego for sure. We definitely fooled around a lot but he refused to put his p in my v.
It was extra disappointing because I really didn’t want to go to college without having sex and I’m not really one for casual hookups. He was a nice guy but definitely not the one for me so I broke up with him after prom. My dad said that made me a badass, but I just felt bad about the whole thing. Turns out he was a big fat liar because I heard he had sex with Liz Hess after we broke up. Luckily, I left a week later to come down here so I could avoid any drama with that situation.
The swim makes me feel calmer and less like I’m going to say something weird. Owen returns the favor when I also do a slow-mo run out of the water. His eyes travel up and down my body checking me out and I’m on fire again.
“Are we just checking each other out now?” I ask repeating his question.
“Nah, you’re just noticing it now. I’ve been doing it since the day we met.”
“Hmm, except Dirk’s party last week,” I tease him hopping back up to sit under the umbrella, grabbing my coffee and taking a long drink.
“I’m never living that down, am I?”
“Maybe, I haven’t decided if you’ve been tortured enough for it.” He has, I’m not mad and wasn’t really, just a little hurt. I pinch him just above the waistband of his shorts. It’s nearly impossible to grab any skin because he’s in such good shape.
“Hey, now that torture I can get behind,” he says waggling his eyebrows.
I feel a hundred times better now that I’ve almost finished my coffee and had a swim. I reach for the bag and find that he ate one of the donuts, I turn to him with a look of shock.
“What? Oh, did you think both of those were for you?”
I shake my head and take a huge bite of donut, dropping powdered sugar everywhere and not caring. Both of us are doing our usual scan of the beach and all is calm.
Fortunately, the rest of the day flies by and when we get back to my house, Owen follows me into the outdoor shower.
