Page 56 of Fate
“Hey, if she bites, I’m not gonna feel it. But I’m not playing that game with your little dog,” Liberty claimed. “Keeping my hands on the wheel while little Glory hound tells her quaint little story.”
“Wow,” Glory retorted with a snort. “Someone’s pouting.”
“Ok, go on, Glory,” Briget urged. “What was red?”
“Red?” Glory paused then she laughed. “Oh, yeah. Well, the Baskin girls talked the Walker Twins into something they would never normally do.”
“And that was?” Belle asked.
“Skinny dipping,” I butted in and admitted it outright. “They said we could all skinny dip at midnight after the other girls went to sleep.”
“Ohhh.” Briget slowly nodded her head at me.
“Ohhh, is right,” Liberty grumbled.
“It was too perfect!” Glory said as she laughed. “Those two hounds came out eagerly while truly believing these girls were gonna swim in the nude with them and who knows what else they expected. The boys were wearing towels, you know wrapped around their hips like guys do. The girls flirted with them andteased them until they were finally able to yank the towels off the brothers.”
“It was supposed to be all four of us that were nude,” Liberty complained. “I mean that is how skinny dipping works, ya know?”
“They knew that,” I added “And we didn’t know any better because they had robes on when they arrived.”
“Yes, you poor babies, they took advantage of you, didn’t they?” Glory teased them. “They had no idea that they had PJ short sets under there. So when the girls got their towels, they tossed them into the pool so the boys couldn’t get them back. Then patio lights came on. Well, I turned them on.” She snickered. “And whaddaya know? The Walker boys were butt ass naked.”
“Oh, wow!” Briget laughed.
“In front of a dozen teen girls,” Glory added as she hooted with laughter. “They were covering their um, junk with their hands, but their behinds were in the wind, baby!” She sounded breathless with laughter.
With a burst of laughter, Briget turned her head to look at me.
“Yeah, we were red all over, I imagine.” I nodded at her. “The girls all got pictures on their phones and we had to run into the house with our asses literally hanging out.”
“Oooh!” Scarlet exclaimed over the speaker.
“Those images were all over high school for weeks,” Liberty snapped.
“Oh, man,” Legend commented.
“There were even posters hanging on telephone poles,” I added. “They were rated X, so the city kept taking them down, but the damage had already been done. People would see usout and about, then point at us and laugh. Even old ladies recognized us when we were in town. They would give us flirty smiles and bat their eyes at us. It was sickening.” I shuddered in repulsion.
Everyone laughed loudly.
“Humble pie, Dad had called it,” Liberty said.
“And it was,” I said. “Swallowed with shame. Then we knew it would come back to haunt us somehow in the future, so we bribed Glory to never tell.”
“And as you can see, she is not an honest person,” Liberty scoffed.
“I was so,” she argued. “You do not remember the small print though, do you?”
“The small…” I shook my head and asked, “What the hell are you talking about?”
“Justice,” Glory said over the speaker. “Tell them.”
We could all hear our lawyer brother sigh as he informed us of the truth, “The agreement said, she would never tell as long as you two were single.”
My jaw dropped as I was stunned to hear this. I never remembered this so-called clause, but we were like all of seventeen years old at that time and never would have even noticed the supposed ‘small print.’
“And when Fate made it clear that he wanted to…be with Briget and we all know him well enough to see that this is not just a casual thing for him…well, the deal was off then boys.” Glory chuckled.
