Page 79 of Pomegranates and Olive

Here’s a Cliff To Toss Yourselves Off Of

If it isn’t already obvious, today isn’t going to be a corker, it’s going to be a day of testosterone-filled men trying to outdo one another. From the best way to bait a hook and catch a fish, to who can release and pull in the sail the fastest. It's like watching two children bicker over a shiny new toy.

The easiest thing for me to do is to ignore them while I lay here in the sun and get plastered with my girls. We’ve already finished the first two bottles of champagne and have quickly moved onto a bottle of delicious white wine.

Aricia leans over to me. "Luca is gorgeous."

I nod into my towel. "He's a total spunk."

"Spunk?" Aricia looks horrified. "Ew. Like jizz?"

Rosie snort-laughs before rolling over and explaining the Australian idiom. "She means he's hot."

Ginny adds with a giggle from under the t-shirt over her face. "Or sexy!"

"Oh, thank God!" Aricia settles back safe in the knowledge that I'm not talking to her about cum. "Deniz is aspunkas well. We've already witnessed first-hand the off-the-chart chemistry the two of you have."

"Which is probably why Luca punched him. He can see it; we can all see it." Ginny muses from under her t-shirt. "People really seem to enjoy punching Deniz."

Both Aricia and Kat sit up. "When? Today?"

"Yesterday."

"Oh my God, tell us!"

I shrug my shoulders at her. "It's hardly interesting."

"Be like that, Liv." Kat pokes her tongue out at me, before turning to Rosie. "You should have seen them the other night. So, there we were at a bar near the marina and Deniz swaggers over to where we were sitting like some brooding bad-boy, sexy as all hell, Adonis. He doesn't say anything. He just puts his hand out with a shit hot grin on his face. That's all he does, I swear this to you. And your sister? She stands up like she's under some kind of spell or something... which, let's be honest, I'm pretty much under Deniz's spell too... and they walk off into the night together. No words. Nothing…”

“There were words.”

“And it was sexy as hell. I tell you, the hair on my arms stood up from the pure electricity being generated by the pair of them."

I poo-pooed at Kat. "That's not what happened at all."

"I say you are bullshitting us. That's exactly how it happened and you know it!" She waves her hands in front of her face and I laugh at her. "It was all so horny that I had to take the waiter home and do the horizontalsyrtakiwith him... twice!"

Aricia throws a dirty look at her sister. "Eww."

"Jesus, Kat!"

Rosie's head snaps left and right between Kat and Aricia. "Is she talking about sex?"

"I have a very healthy sex life." Kat smiles smugly. "I'm not embarrassed. Why should you be?"

"Until right now I really thought we were talking about dancing."

"Listen, Liv has a real dilemma here and I don't think any of us are being very supportive."

"What dilemma does she have exactly?"

"She has to choose between hot or smoking hot!"

"Maybe I'll choose neither."

"Then can I take my pick?"

"You're going to have to wait in line." I glance over at my sister. "Isn't that right, Rosie?"

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