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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

to grab another beer from the cooler between us and frowned when he realized it was

brushing his hands on his shorts. I shot

waved me off. "Nah, I'll be

stride toward the house. Five

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

other. Your house

forced

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

from my beer, staring straight ahead. "It's Jess's house," I repeated, this

me, and the silence that followed was so thick it

hurry the hell

of beer, I'll go grab

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get up and respond. Shit. Just fucking

saw Sarah shift, sitting up and grabbing something from the side table. When she stood and moved closer, I already knew this wasn't going

out a bottle of lotion with an infuriatingly sweet smile. "Mind putting

to say hell no. "I-fucking hate sunscreen-the smell, everything. I don't want it on my hands. Sorry." Her smile faltered for just a second before

taking another sip of beer, but I 'couldn't sit there anymore. The

about to give her a chance to pull

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