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SUNSCREEN

LUKE

The sun was relentless, bearing down on me as I lounged next to the pool, my beer bottle sweating in my hand. Josh was stretched out on the other chair, scrolling through his phone, while I tried to focus on stats running through my head from practice. Laura took Jess out for a pedicure and gave the boys a day to just be boys.

Sarah was holed up in the pool house, thankfully out of sight.

I should've known peace wouldn't last.

The door to the pool house creaked open, and out she came, strutting across the yard in a bikini that left almost nothing to the imagination.

"Hey, boys," she called, a syrupy tone in her voice that immediately set me on edge. "Mind if I join you?"

Josh shrugged without looking up. "Sure. It's a free country."

I didn't say anything, just tipped my beer back and swallowed hard.

Sarah eased herself onto one of the lounge chairs, stretching out like she was posing for a magazine. I didn't glance her way, didn't give her the satisfaction. If I could just keep the conversation locked on football, maybe she'd get bored and disappear. SUNSCREEN

between us and frowned when he realized it

on his shorts. I shot him a quick.

be like five minutes max.

house. Five minutes felt

felt heavier the second he was gone. I stared at the pool, pretending she wasn't there, but it

living next to each other. Your house is beautiful, though." Sarah said, her voice

jaw and forced myself to

but you're paying for it, aren't you?" she said, smirking like she thought she had me figured

staring straight ahead. "It's Jess's house," I repeated, this time more firmly. "On her name. Not

and the silence that followed was

hurry the hell

I'll go grab some

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get up and respond. Shit. Just fucking great. I get to stay here

sitting up and grabbing something from the

said, holding out a bottle of lotion with an

the politest way to say hell no. "I-fucking hate

I 'couldn't

her a chance

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