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“There’s always a chance?”
I yelped and struggled to get free.“A chance?How are you this strong?”I screamed, pounding on his back until he tossed me into the cool water, muscling me out of his arms, laughing the whole way.I landed awkwardly with the way I was fighting him, one leg in the air, my face going under mid-scream.And out here, where the water was deep enough that I couldn’t touch, I could feel that cool crisp mountain lake water under the layer of warm water at the surface that had been baked by the sun.
I swam toward daylight and popped out, shaking my hair off and looking around for Aiden, who was standing nearby, grinning at me.
“Admit it, this is fun,” he said.I dove back under the water and swam toward him.If there was one thing I could do well, it was swim, which meant he was caught completely off guard when I lunged at his waist, tackling him into the water.Underwater, my hands on his thickly muscled body, his skin slick against mine, time seemed to stretch on.
It felt like I’d wanted to touch a man like Aiden all of my life, and feeling his hard body against mine sent a tingle right to where I didn’t need to be tingling right now.I burst out of the water, and he followed me, still laughing.
We stood facing each other and shook our hair out.His chiseled jaw and dark eyes shone in the bright summer sun, making his perfect body look almost ethereal.His gorgeous skin had been warm and smooth beneath my hands, and I wanted to touch him more, but couldn’t think of an excuse.A gentle electric shock ran down my spine when his fingertips touched mine under the water.He held eye contact, smiling big enough that his dimple showed.
I wanted to lick that fucking dimple as I straddled him, tickling him and making him laugh.I wanted to kiss my way down his muscled torso, tasting the salty skin, dipping my tongue into the grooves of his abs, and following his cum gutters down to the real treat.
Not that I’d ever sucked a cock before.But I wanted to.
”Now that’s what I’m talking about, Jay.”His laughing words broke through my lewd thoughts, erasing the strange, loaded moment.He grinned big, looping a muscled arm over my shoulder.
“Attempted drowning?”I asked, playing along.“Is that what you’re talking about?”
He rolled his eyes.“Fun.And don’t try giving me shit.You’re smiling.”
And I was.But probably because Aiden Yamada had an arm around my shoulder.If I was going to die in the wilderness, at least I was going to do it with the hottest guy I’d ever seen.
That night, the worry returned, but I tried not to let my nerves show as he talked me through preparing the things we’d need for the backpacking trip.We’d done a session with the campers in the afternoon, helping them pack their bags.
He put a hand on my shoulder and squeezed gently.“It’ll be okay, man.I grew up backpacking in these woods, and I’m prepared for everything.”
“Bears?Wolves?Snakebites?”
He laughed.“Everything, baby.”
And goddamn it, I really liked when he called me baby.
“Too bad the girls’ camp is closed for repairs this summer.I used to arrange with this counselor, Julia, to camp close enough to the girls that we could sneak off into the forest and fuck while everyone was asleep.”
A not so gentle reminder I needed to keep my feet on the ground and not grow too infatuated with Aiden.
Wait.“I thought you said the counselors share a tent on the trip to save on weight?”
He smirked.“Yeah, there are other places to fuck than a tent.”
“In the wilderness?”I asked, horrified.“Like with plants touching you?”
Aiden burst out laughing and ruffled my hair.“Oh, you have so much to learn.”
five
Aiden
Forallhisfaults,Jay had an uncanny ability with the campers.I didn’t think he even realized how much they liked him.He had cheered up since the kids arrived, and he had connected with several of them while debating about the DC multiverse versus the Marvel one.To be honest, I couldn’t have contributed much to that conversation, as I had no idea what any of it meant.
My father had ruined shows and movies for me, and I wasn’t sure I’d ever get that back.His strict voice reverberated each time I tried to relax and watch television, scolding me for not being as smart and driven as he had hoped.And even at my age, that weird tension was still there.So I’d never read comic books, never watched superhero movies, and had no idea how to talk about them.
Jay, on the other hand, seemed to know everything about what these kids found cool.I smiled, watching him, hoping like hell he could figure out how to get what he needed out of camp.In my experience, everyone needed something, and those who were open to it could walk away from camp more sure of who they were and who they wanted to be.
Camp had been the first place someone had ever told me I wasn’t stupid.I simply didn’t have a talent for the things my dad wanted me to excel in.The business and economics classes he wanted me to take were like Greek to me, and statistics took me ten times more effort to do well in, and even then, I still never felt like I truly had a grasp on the subject.I loved nature and biology, though, and my mother had once suggested I should study that, but she didn’t have any influence over Gideon Yamada’s ambitious dreams for his only son.I’d wondered countless times during my life why she tolerated him.
I was my father’s biggest disappointment — a continual reminder that he had once fallen for and married a white woman at a Phish concert in one of the few unruly weeks of his life.Envisioning my father smoking weed and dancing to a hippie rock band was almost inconceivable, although my mom sometimes shared stories with me of their wild youth.Back then, they must have been so different.She hadn’t become obsessed with money, and he had been rebelling against his father’s edict that he join the family business.
