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“Is that…?” she whispered.
“Yes. She forgets to close her window,” Amy explained.
Jessica wondered how much they’d heard of her and Jamie making love. She wasn’t exactly quiet as a mouse.
Bella dragged Jenna toward the pool. “We’ll go without her.”
They hurried down the gravel road. Jessica’s heart beat so fast with anticipation she couldn’t stop smiling. “I’ve never broken rules like this before.”
“Yes, you have,” Amy reminded her. “Thong Thursday, remember?”
“Yeah, but I didn’tknowI was breaking the rule. It’s different.”
Bella slung an arm over her shoulder. “Well, get used to it. You’re a Seaside sister now, and this is what we do.”
A Seaside sister.She wondered if she’d ever get tired of hearing that, or if it would always carry the same thrill it did now. It was almost as good as hearing someone call her Jamie’sgirlfriend.
Jenna wrestled with the lock on the fence. The thick metal chain clanked and rattled.
“Shh!” Bella grabbed the chain, glaring at Jenna.
“I’m trying. It’s stuck.” Jenna tried shoving the key in again.
“You need to caress it, not jam it,” Amy instructed.
“How would you know? The last time you caressed or jammed a long thing into a hole was a long time ago.” Jenna laughed.
Amy swatted her arm. “You’re a pig, and you have no idea how long it’s been.”
“Well, I know you and Jake didn’t do the dirty because you never came back from a date smiling like a Cheshire cat.” Jenna gritted her teeth and gave one more quick turn of the key. The lock sprang open and she bounced on her toes and beckoned them in. “Hurry. Hurry!” She closed the gate quietly behind them.
“We usually put our towels by the stairs,” Amy said as she guided Jessica toward the far end of the pool.
Jenna ran by them naked, her butt cheeks bouncing, arms crossed over her enormous breasts. “Brr.”
“Why did she run from back there?” Jessica whispered.
“She always does. It’s a Jenna thing.” Amy slipped out of her towel and walked straight past Jenna, who was shivering on the first step, and into waist-deep water, then ducked down until she was covered up to her shoulders. “It is cold, so you have to get right in.”
Jessica dropped her towel and followed Amy. Jenna grabbed Jessica’s arm as she stepped into the water.
“Let’s go in together,” Jenna whispered.
They walked down the steps, holding hands, and submerged themselves up to their shoulders, as Amy had.
“Look, I’ll never drown.” Jenna looked down at her boobs bobbing at the surface and laughed.
Amy and Bella shushed her in unison.
“Sorry,” she whispered. “Doesn’t it feel good to be naked in the water?”
“Yeah. I never knew it would feel different.” Jessica looked up at the apartment, thinking about how good it would feel to make love to Jamie in the water.
Bella dove under the water from the deep end and broke through the surface in the middle of the pool. Moonlight reflected off the water as they doggie paddled around the deep end, each taking hold of a noodle or a raft.
“Vera was so happy to see you and Jamie together again.” Bella hung with her arms over the foam noodle.
“Yes, she was,” Jessica said. “When Jamie asked her if she’d mind if we spent the night at the apartment, since I’ve paid through the end of the summer, she said we could sleep anywhere we wanted as long as we were together. Wasn’t that sweet?”
