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He pullsin the hot tub too, and own is soaked now but I don’t care I don’t care about anything I never knew kissing could be this good

My arms are at my sides so the jets won’tme “Are you okay?” he whispers His voice is different: it’s ragged and urgent and vulnerable somehow He doesn’t sound like the Peter I know; he is not sht now, I knoould do anything I asked, and that’s a strange and powerful feeling

I wind my arms around his neck I like the smell of chlorine on his skin He smells like pool, and summer, and vacations It’s not like in the ain,” I tell him, and the corners of his mouth turn up

I lean into hih ht It’s better than getting my hair washed at the salon Ihis spine, and he shivers and pulls irl’s back—more muscular, more solid somehow

In between kisses he says, “It’s past curfew We should go back inside”

“I don’t want to,” I say All I want is to stay and be here, with Peter, in this et in trouble,” Peter says He looks worried, which is so sweet

Softly, I touch his cheek with the back of my hand It’s smooth I could look at his face for hours, it’s so beautiful

Then I stand up, and i the water out of ets his tohich he wraps around ivess I sit down to put on ht in

Then we run back inside the lodge Before he goes to the boys’ side and I go to the girls’ side, I kiss hi

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WHEN I SEE PETER AT the bus the nextaround with all his lacrosse friends, and at first I feel shy and nervous, but then he sees rin “C’o to him and he throwswith ht?”

I nod

As we make our way onto the bus, so at us, and at first I think it’s just ht at me and whisper to Emily Nussbau at me,” I whisper to Peter

“It’s because you’re so adorably quirky,” he says, and he rests his hands on et all about Genevieve

Peter and I sit in the uys I wave to Chris so she’ll sit with us, but she’s cozy with Charlie Blanchard I haven’t had a chance to tell her about last night When I got back to the roo, we both overslept and there wasn’t time I’ll tell her all about it later But, for now, it’s kind of nice that Peter and I are the only ones who know about it