She glanced across the lake and then down to me with a smile on her beautiful lips. "Yeah. Just don't get any ideas."
"I'd respond to that, but you'd like me less if I did." I reached up and took her hand, making sure to back up a little as she jumped down into the boat. I caught her in my arms and didn't release her right away. "I wanna spout a million poetic things, but I'm not thinking you'd enjoy them much. I'd get a good tongue lashing, hmm?"
"Isn't that what you're after? A tongue lashing?" She smirked and pulled out of my arms before making her way to the front of the boat. The girls moved about, getting everything situated as my friends lay around like there was nothing going on.
"Lazy bums." I kicked at Daniel's legs to get him to move so I could go to the front of the boat. "One of you guys drive. I'm laying out with the girls. I need to work on my tan."
Cora glanced over her shoulder, and I took it as an opportunity to pull my shirt over my head. Her eyes moved across me slowly and a smile tugged at the side of her mouth. There was the look I wanted to see on her face. Why she felt the need to hide if from me was a mystery.
"I like those shorts. They're cute. My cousin has a pair." She tugged at the edge of her covering and pulled it over her head, leaving me frozen in place for a minute. She had on the perfect bathing suit for her body type.
"Your cousin?" I licked at my lips.
"Yeah. He's 10." She winked and turned around, laughing at me.
"Why am I not surprised by that?" My eyes moved down her taut back to the curve of her ass, memorizing her sexiness and trying to talk myself out of reaching out and doing something that would surely end with me getting slapped.
"Come up here with us," Dedra said as she patted the open spot between her and Cora as the two of them crawled up onto the flat tanning part of the boat and reclined.
I reached out and gripped the side of the boat as Clay hit the gas, almost sending me flying backward. "Ass."
Cora pulled her sunshades on and looked my way as I crawled up in between them.
"That swimsuit was made for you." I laid down on my back and stretched my arms above my head before turning to Dedra. "You look lovely, too, Dee."
"Dee? You already giving me a nickname?" She pushed her shoulder against mine and smiled like a tomcat. I liked her. She would be good for Daniel, but I needed to pull her aside to explain his situation a little more. He hadn't dated much, and Dedra looked very much like a confident woman who had.
"You look pretty hot yourself, white boy." She leaned her head back and let out a long sigh. "This is the life."
"Agreed." I closed my eyes and lifted my chin as I stretched. "All I need is the right woman in my bed tonight, and it will be the most perfect day ever."
"Not happening," Cora mumbled before moving up to her elbow and glancing down at me. She tugged her sun glasses off and glared a little. "Speaking of. Did you really go out with that blonde from the movie rental place the other night after you kissed me?"
"What?" I turned to face her and propped up on my elbow. There was a wicked turn up ahead that I knew would have her rolling my way. Nothing like setting up the perfect accidental situation. "Of course not. I went home with the guys after the walk you refused to go on. I couldn't go out with that girl."
"Why not?" Her expression softened a little.
"Hold on, guys!" Clay yelled.
I reached for Cora, wrapping my arm around her waist and pulling her to almost lay on top of me as I pressed my other arm to Dedra's chest and grabbed the bar on the other side of her.
"Fuck, hold on." I ground my teeth and kept the girls locked to me as they screamed.
The boat righted itself, and I half expected either of them, or really both of them to jump up and light into Clay. Instead, I got a lot of giggles.
Cora rolled off of me and laid back onto her back. "Shit. That was crazy. Why didn't you warn us?"
"I forgot about it for a minute there. Clay drives like a bat out of hell." I moved up to a sitting position and glanced over my shoulder to see him giving me the thumbs up. I flipped him off and let out a long sigh.
Cora sat up and pressed her shoulder against mine, surprising me a little. "Why not, Brody? She was cute."
"Who was cute?" I leaned back, pressing my hand just behind her rear as I extended my legs out.
"The blonde from the movie rental place."
"Oh. Yeah, she was alright." I looked up at the sky. "I'm not interested in another fling right now. It gets tiring."
"What?" She chuckled. "Are you being serious?"