![]() ![]() Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. For a second I wished Jeremiah and Steven were still there. He still held on to my foot, and I was trying to stay afloat. There was this weird stillness between us all of a sudden. His white T-shirt was soaked through, and I could see the pinky gold of his skin. "I thought I was too slow," he said, treading water closer to me. "Let go," I gasped, still laughing.Ĭonrad shook his head. Which made me laugh, which made me slow to swim away, and Conrad caught my foot. Jeremiah and Steven, who were headed back to the house, said, "Polo!" "Too slow!"Įvery time he came close, I swam -away. He was smiling but in a threatening kind of way. I worried he might be mad, but he wasn't, not completely. I think maybe all of Cousins Beach heard us laughing.Ĭonrad's head bobbed up quickly, and he swam over to me in about two strokes. I think I laughed harder right then than I've laughed in my whole life. He stumbled, fell forward, and landed in the pool with a splash even bigger than mine. Then I gripped tight and pulled his arm as hard as I could. He squatted and gave me his hand, which I took. "I'm pretty sure you'll live," he said, smirking. ![]() Then I said, "I think you twisted my ankle, Conrad." I pretended to have trouble swimming over to them. His smuggy face made me want to splash him and soak him and his precious Hugo Boss sunglasses that he worked for three weeks to pay for.
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