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"It’s spectacular," I agreed Sure, my muscles were on fire from the hike, but the price was sth of the valley, and ours boasted a waterfall that broke through halfway down the cliff walls that were freakishly tall on one side and terraced on the other, cocooning us in a tiny piece of heaven

Especially when Paxton stripped off his shirt and dove in Exactly as this attraction going toI could touch him, kiss him, strip him naked at my whim should have teh me when I saw him Instead it made me want to jump him Repeatedly

It made our study sessions wayIt also helped that he’d made it to all of his classes in the teeks that we’d been back on board

"Is it as deep as the reports said?" Penna, already stripped down to her tankini with boy shorts, asked from the shore that had been hollowed out by water about five feet beneath us Brooke and I waited on the ledge above her, laying out our towels

"We should be good It’s definitely a ways down We need to watch these rocks here" Paxton pointed to the shelf of boulders that lined the shore on that side "Landon?"

"Let’s test it!" Landon yelled froe about twenty feet in the air, not evenas he fell to the water below, landing with a huge splash

One by one, the Renegades took the skinny path to that ledge and ju, twisting, and landing while the cameras rolled

"Ready to head up?" Penna asked Paxton

"Up to where?" I looked down at where he stood on the strip of beach below us

"We’re ju to the top of the cliff

My eyes went up…and up "What? How tall is that?"

"About a hundred feet," he answered, shielding his eyes from the sun with his hand so he could see me

"Is that safe?" I asked as he climbed his way up to me, his feet sure on the s the so-so h before are trying it"

"And this isn’t one of your ‘let’s get Leah to do sos, is it?"