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With her arms stretched over her head, Emily dives in

Emily

MY MUSCLES MELT into the wood of the warm dock With my eyes closed, I flip over onto my stomach Even with the sunscreen and the afternoon shade of the oak tree, odds are I’ll burn Oz and I have spent toolazy has been fun

Won’t lie--I also enjoy having won the race

A huge breeze slaainst the dock I pop up ontoa foot fro A severe stor"

Not a fan of storotta be, what? Five o’clock?"

"Seven-thirty," Oz answers

My head whips toward him "Seven-thirty?"

He slowly sits up and rests his arms on his bent knees "You dozed for a few hours"

I blink Rapidly Yeah, I fell asleep, but I didn’t think it was for that long "You should have woken me"

"Why? You were under shade and we don’t have anywhere to be"

My pulse pounds rapidly as I take in the fading light The thick woods surrounding us have lost their friendly glow and now possess a foreboding shadow

It’s toward the end of June The sun will set late Between eight and nine and it’s already seven-thirty It only took a few et here, but I still need to hunt down the tree Dang it, how could I forget this? It’s the whole reason I’m here

I fuain, my hands shake We’ll make it We’ll definitely reach Olivia’s before the sunset and I won’t be left behind, s Sure enough,daylight faster and I scramble to my feet

"We have time before the storulfs me, I can’t help but notice how the muscles in Oz’s abdomen ripple as he stands "The time surprised me"