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"I a a thumb over rabbed his hand and kissed it and then went off to join Lily as enjoying the water She and I hung out together and chatted and eventually Drew ca around with us for a little while and then went off to swilanced up at Braden and smiled

He and Adam were involved in some kind of animated discussion The two of them really did make a nice contrast aesthetically Braden was all blonde beach boy and Ada, but he was built pretty nicely too He was about six two himself and he obviously worked out I wouldn’t bla told me that deep down she was

"So as that with Ada my attention to her

"What hat?" she asked innocently

"Hi that if he helped you research, your books would be authentic? That almost sounded like an offer" She looked away and turned a little red

"It sounded like his usual brand of arrogance toto ad was probably mutual

"Where does all this anirew up together but did he pull your braids or steal your bike or soh he did lockwith a bunch of other girls And then we all got older and they eventually started giggling and flirting when he did it I, on the other hand, eventually started giving it right back to him He just doesn’t knohat to do with a woround he walks on"

"Well, I could see how that ht that it could also be rather intriguing for hi

"There was one incident that really see out with, and feeling up, Shari Edelstein at his Bar Mitzvah"

"Who?"

"Shari was the popular girl who all the guys wanted When I walked in and caught theether in the stairwell, she slapped hi lowered froas style review he put on at the party"

"Oh‘I Did It My Way’ Co that"

I looked around more carefully at the others Mark, Carossed in so Bruno lots of love and tossing his ball to hi to Ada me hat looked like a combination of amuselances at Lily, as looking very good in her hot pink bikini Wait – did she say showgirls?

Eventually the rest of them decided to join us in the pool and Drew and Braden set up a net so that we could play water volleyball Let’s just say none of us is ready for serious water volleyball competition It quickly became a contact sport, the e played it