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"Connie, dance with Belly," Susannah urged, her face flushed as Jereain

I didn't dare look at Conrad I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would be written onon doing the right thing then So he gave ot to o ofhis feet from side to side "One-two-three, one-two-three, rock step"

It took et it It was harder than it looked, and I was nervous "Get on the beat," Steven said froht, Belly It's a relaxed kind of dance," nore them and look only at Conrad "How did you learn this?" I asked hiht both of us," Conrad said siht me in close and positioned ether, side by side "This is called the cuddle"

The cuddle was my favorite part It was the closest I had ever been to hi to be confused

He showedit now"

He spun me around, and I felt dizzy With pure, absolute joy

Chapter thirty - one

I spent the whole next day in the ocean with Cam We packed a picnic Cam made avocado and sprout sandwiches with Susannah's hoood, too We stayed in the ocean for what felt like hours at a tian to crest, one of us would start to laugh, and then we'd get overtaken by the wave and water My eyes burned froainst the sand so many times, like I'd scrubbed my whole body with reat

After, we stu cold and wet in the ocean and then running back to the towels and letting the sun bake the sand off I could do it all day--ocean, sand, ocean, sand

I'd packed strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups, and we ate them so quickfor the last one

He snatched it away "So do I, and you already had three and I only had two," he said, peeling away the plastic sheet He grinned and dangled it above my mouth

"You have three seconds to hand it over," I warned "I don't care if you had two Fruit Roll-Ups and I had twenty It'sinto hisloudly, he said, "It's not your house It's Susannah's house"

"Shoback on my towel I was suddenly really thirsty Fruit Roll-Ups will do that Especially when you have three in about three o back to our house and get some Kool-Aid? Pretty please?"

"I don't know anyone who consu his head at uy who just ate the last Fruit Roll-Up," I countered

"Waste not, want not," he said He stood up and brushed the sand off his shorts "I'll bring you water, not Kool-Aid"